U.S. Strike on Syria Fuels Uncertainty on the Ground and not only in Syria. Watching this morning's press interviews of public officials its incredible how the status quo of Syria as a nation state remains inviolate despite the obvious illegitimacy of the Assad regime and the hard feelings engendered. Despite Trump's 'shake it up nature' its surprising no one is suggesting a policy of allowing the territory that is now defined as Syria to break up into separate like minded nation states and tribal federations. For his Alawite tribe on the west coast there is no replacing Assad with a leader of another sect who would take vengeance on them in a manner that is very similar to Shiite Iraqis wanting vengeance against Saddam Hussein's Sunnis. So let Bashar reign over just his tribe on the west coast protecting and being protected by Putin's Russia looking to keep their only Naval Base on the Mediterranean safe. Let Kobani be the Kurdish enclave of the north east and the center and south coalesce into Sunni federations which works on eliminating ISIS with allied support.
11 April,
The kid playing with Nuclear Matchsticks is another example. Why does China not just march in there and take the kid out? It would do the PRC a ton of good to assert that they are the sheriff in town to keep the peace and allow Southeastern Asian economies to grow unhindered. If they took the kid out South Korea could then send back the THAAD missiles and relieve their tensions as well.
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