Lifting sanctions on Syria seems mad, until you consider the alternative. Without a reprieve, the country will become a failed state
Posted by Sine_Fine_Belli
Lifting sanctions on Syria seems mad, until you consider the alternative. Without a reprieve, the country will become a failed state
Posted by Sine_Fine_Belli
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It doesn’t seem mad.
Free trade stabilizes democracies.
[https://www.aeaweb.org/research/can-free-trade-agreements-help-solidify-emerging-democracies](https://www.aeaweb.org/research/can-free-trade-agreements-help-solidify-emerging-democracies)
Al-sharaa seems to be saying the right things, even regarding the recent travesty that the Alawites were subjected to.
If we do offer an incentive for him to go through with the things he has said he would do, we only assure that he has to fall back on hardline islamists/authoritarians to support him.
And the thisnshitnis guaranteed to happen again and again.
I do not think it can be called a state yet.