This is max cope. Israel destroyed all of Syria’s military equipment and anti air defense. and did a massive land steal.
Middle East Eye showing off who their owners are (Turkey).
Yeah they literally spent zero buffer time ensuring the rebels wouldn’t be able to appropriate former military assets because a government that actually cares about the people and its sovereignty is obviously too dangerous for Israel.
The moment Assad left, they bombed every known aircraft and airfield because god forbid they even have an airforce made up of rusty 70s soviet jets.
On top of that, I’m pretty sure their land posture is like 27km from Damascus. They might as well own Syria with that leverage.
Yes, but they didn’t need to do that before, now they aren’t so certain.
Before Bashar’s indefinite vacation they just flew by and bombed whatever they though needed bombing and Bashar would just bank the right to respond, instead of actually responding or using the air defenses to stop the bombing in the first place.
They never needed to bomb Syria since Bashar took care of that. Plus his barrels had shrapnel and metal nails to cause as much bodily harm as possible to “his people”.
If they needed to get someone out of Syria and into some interrogation room they would just cross the border and grab him out of his house, just load him up and drive away.
I don’t think there are many things done to Gaza today that Bashar didn’t do to Douma, Daria, Allepo, Dar’a, Hama, Idlib, Homs, and Raqaa 10+ years ago.
Now Syria has some stability, the de facto government isn’t driving a wedge between each Syrian and their neighbor based on religion and race to keep Syrians in fear of each other, and they are actually working to improve peoples’ lives.
Before Israel could not do that. It is not like they did not want to. Greater Israel has always included Syria.
The article is quite extensive so ill try to give a short summary:
Israel wanted Assad ro remain in power to render Syria ineffective. The UAE, one of Israels closest Arab allies wanted Assad to remain in power to demotivate any popular peoples movement from challenging their autocratic leaders.
Israel and the US wanted to prop up the SDF/YPG/PKK Kurds and Israel wanted to prop up the Druze in the South of Syria to split it into three parts with the Kurds fighting Turkey and the Druze severing the Iran-Hezbollah Axis for them.
Assad was convinced the UAE and Israel would help Iran and Russia intervene on his behalf, which is why he only fled so late.
With the fall of Assad Israel quickly picked up to destroy Syrias military capabilities and invaded more of the South of Syria to prevent the formation of a self determined Syria.
I don’t know that any other nation involved in the conflict actually wanted Assad out of power. They thought the status quo would be maintained indefinitely.
Now none of them have a plan for what to do next because they didn’t plan for this eventuality.
Assad’s fall is starting to look like it has a lot in common with an Austrian motorcade…
