What I had intended to write for this week got pre-empted by what just went down in Syria this past week.
This development caught everyone in OSINT off-guard, and they weren't the only ones.
And if you need it spelled out in Black & White:
Because that's what being subjugated into a vassal state means, and as Syria will become a Turk vassal, Turkey is a (very troublesome and resentful) vassal of Globohomo.
Who loses here? Russia and Iran. Who wins here (besides Turkey)? Israel, first and foremost, followed by the United States, the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman), and then the rest of NATO (and thus the EU and associated European states).
By extension, China also loses because of the second-order consequences of Russia and Iran getting their shit pushed in.
"But how? That video isn't enough." No worries, I got you.
With media reports pronouncing the end of the Assad regime, many are wondering how the hell this happened. After all, Assad survived the chaotic events of the 2010s – what makes this time different?
— Patrick Casey (@restoreorderusa) December 8, 2024
A knowledgeable friend offers the following explanation: pic.twitter.com/S666ivYQly
This doesn't paint a prestigious or powerful picture of Bashar Assad or his government. That is unfortunate, as being one of them is required to stay in power in peacetime and both is required for wartime- and Syria's been at war for many, many years.
For many supporting him, this is not a happy time. Globohomo's proxies will certain turn their guns on each other once the Assad regime is totally eliminiated, meaning that this civil war will not end anytime soon unless and until the Imperial parties successfully yank the leashes on those proxies and bring them to heel; that is far from a certain thing in this area of the world.
Either after the second round of fighting concludes, or it is pre-empted by the Patrons reining in their Clients, what will follow will not be a rebuilding and revitalization of Syria for Syrians. It will be the imposition of a defacto Imperial occupation regime organized specifically to loot the country of its resources and the Syrian nation (what remains of it) of its wealth while building up a buffer state to use against rival Imperial powers (i.e. vs Russia, China, and India).
There is one other thing to take away from this development: this move came about because the Syrian regime got hollowed out as a direct result of sustained economic sanctions for years on end. In gaming terms, this means keeping the mob tied down with Crowd Control while loading it up with Damage Over Time effects and sustaining those DOTs over that long duration of time until it was too weak to fight back anymore.
What does this mean? This is what awaits Russia and China. Russia is much further along the Tank-and-DOT strategy, but China is already seriously weakened due to the DOTs already inflicted upon it and recent events show that this stress is forcing the Red Dynasty into a power struggle.
This is the Mithridates Strategy in action. Syria has proven that it works. It's working on Russia. It's working on China. It's working everywhere that is not already proofed against it- and nowhere is, which is why it's working. (Yes, this means that Vox Day is wrong, as are all the others saying that Russia/China/BRICS will beat Globohomo. Deal with it; the facts are what they are.)
Globohomo will not fall from without. It can only be taken from within- only by the Men of the West, who are proofing themselves against it.
So yes, this is a win for Globohomo, but every win exposes more of how Globohomo works to those with eyes to see- and more can now than before. Empire Must Fall.
