The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has significant implications for the Middle East and beyond. The text analyzes the potential benefits for the West, Russia, Iran, and Israel.
. There have been Christians there longer than anywhere. Antioch, located just across the Turkish border from northwest Syria, is where the disciples of Jesus were first called Christians. How much longer Syria’s Christian community can survive, after two thousand years, is in doubt.the collapse of a repressive dictatorship that ran Syria as a familial fiefdom with an iron fist for 45 years is cause for celebration.
And the geostrategic implications of Assad’s fall include several positives for the West. Regime change is a profound blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose military intervention in Syria’s civil war in 2015 bought the Assad regime almost another decade in power. Now, with Russia’s military bogged down in Ukraine, Putin had minimal aid to offer its friend in Damascus. Instead, Assad and his retinue fled to Moscow. Iran’s mullah regime took Assad’s implosion similarly hard. Syria, under the old regime, was as important a lynchpin for Tehran’s regional strategy as it was for Moscow’s. Without their Syrian bases, it will be difficult for Tehran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to maintain their proxy war against Israel. Anti-regime forces in Iran are taunting the mullahs that they will share the same fate as their protégé Assad. Israel is one big winner in Assad’s sudden demise. Certainly, there’s celebration in Israeli security circles, watching their old nemesis, the Assad dynasty, evaporate. Under the Assads, Syria fought Israel twice directly, in 1973 in the Golan and in 1982 in Lebanon, both big wins for Israel, while Assad-backed terrorists continued the fight against Israel to the regime’s end. However, it’s an open question how much Israel’s long-term security posture will be improved by removing Assad. More than most places, the Middle East abounds with devils you kno
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