{"id":21861,"date":"2024-12-19T22:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=21861"},"modified":"2024-12-19T22:30:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:30:29","slug":"syria-the-bargaining-chip-on-a-large-geopolitical-chessboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=21861","title":{"rendered":"Syria the bargaining chip on a large geopolitical chessboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The departure of Syrian President Bassar Al Assad from power marks a defining shift in the geopolitical landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The regime change reveals a well-planned power play by global actors aimed at reshaping not only Syria, but the Middle East and the world at large. The day the Syrian President fled Damascus, the planet was shaken. Syria had descended into chaos, with so many lives and resources lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consequences seemed incomprehensible. However, this kind of disruption doesn\u2019t just happen; there must be a more extensive and well-calculated plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lost Cause<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Assad and Syria, the game was over when U.S.-backed forces captured the eastern city of Raqqa in 2017. The reason Syria experienced regime change is because the United States and its allies seized the country\u2019s oil and grain-rich wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The oil fields in that region fell into the hands of the U.S.-backed SDF forces, which cut off the flow of revenue the Syrian president needed to keep his country running. Of course, Assad must have known he was almost finished, and Putin certainly did, once Syria was divided. What we are witnessing today is, for all practical purposes, \u201ca debacle in the dark.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dark, of course, is a state of the United States. The point is that we are witnessing a negotiation process on a global scale. In any case, as far as Assad was concerned, the US was the guarantor of the jihadists\u2019 security in eastern Syria through the presence of 2,000 special forces and continued air support. And although Turkey was unhappy with the situation because of the YPG Kurds, it was forced to remain neutral because of the Russian presence in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, while eastern Syria has only oil and gas, its northern part is the most productive agricultural region in the country. Combining these two facts, it is easy to see how Assad and all the other actors knew that this regime change would happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those wondering why Assad\u2019s army failed to resist, soldiers work two jobs to feed their families, which empires do not make. The retreat was inevitable. As has been said, Assad and his backers in Russia, Iran, and the region knew the upheaval was coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American hegemony knew it too. But the only real question for American, Israeli, and EU leaders was how far Putin was prepared to go to support the Syrian president\u2014until the Russian president came up with a plan from which everyone would benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin the Smartest of All<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We could analyze how the Israelis have benefited and will continue to benefit from the massacre in Syria. Greater Jerusalem is now being formed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n