Ian Bremmer Quotes
No one in Washington has yet made a credible case that a post-Assad Syria can hold together.
Syria was in the midst of a civil war against the Assad Tyrannical government. American policy was to support non-terrorist revolutionary groups against Assad. But in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and other countries where there was a terrible dictator who was removed, there was chaos and the countries in many ways were worse off.
Ian Bremmer Quoted in Time October 16, 2916
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Assad was the autocratic ruler of Syria. In the second decade of the 21st century, a number of dissident groups started a rebellion. The Unied States and most of the EU countruies wanted to assist the rebels as Assad had been butchering his own people to put down the rebellion. Russia, in addition to having an allaince with Assad for a Navel Base in Syria, was very coincerned about the people replacing Assad if the revolution succeeded. The coalition of rebels was not at all a coalition and there was considerable fighting and hatred between them ISIS was one of the stringest groups and the Russians were worried that they might take over so they supported Assad and in 2016 actually intervened using Russian air power to support the Government troops. That turned the tide and teh rebellion was prevented from succeeding. The Russian leadership was distressed that the United States did not take their concerns seriouly enough and indeed after they were in teh fight, the United States had to deal with them about the fate of Syria, so it was a successful tactic.
The problems of Iraq regarding internecine ethnic struggles have not changed in 60 years. See {586486} for another example.
Ian Arthur Bremmer is an American political scientist and author with a focus on global political risk. He is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm with principal offices in New York City. He is also a founder of digital media firm GZERO Media.
