> practically commonplace to say that the cataclysm in Syria reshaped the very architecture of global power. The pitiless civil war became a laboratory for 21st-century warfare and geopolitical competition, shaping every conflict since. It shattered illusions about humanitarian intervention and international law. It nurtured extremist insurgents that wreaked havoc on Syrians and mounted terrifying terrorist violence across the world. It accelerated the erosion of American hegemony, creating a vacuum into which other powers readily stepped. It tested and found wanting virtually every element of a postwar consensus that was already unraveling, its assumptions of peace and prosperity pulled apart by relentless bloodshed.
fucking ooof. Syria of all places being the actual graveyard of the American Empire.
I mean not mentioned here is Russia using Syria as a testing ground to see how much they could get away with wiping their ass with American power and convincing shitheads in western countries that he was some kind of pacifist. Mentioned earlier is the refugee crisis and it’s role in shifting the entire Western world to the right. insane.
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> practically commonplace to say that the cataclysm in Syria reshaped the very architecture of global power. The pitiless civil war became a laboratory for 21st-century warfare and geopolitical competition, shaping every conflict since. It shattered illusions about humanitarian intervention and international law. It nurtured extremist insurgents that wreaked havoc on Syrians and mounted terrifying terrorist violence across the world. It accelerated the erosion of American hegemony, creating a vacuum into which other powers readily stepped. It tested and found wanting virtually every element of a postwar consensus that was already unraveling, its assumptions of peace and prosperity pulled apart by relentless bloodshed.
fucking ooof. Syria of all places being the actual graveyard of the American Empire.
I mean not mentioned here is Russia using Syria as a testing ground to see how much they could get away with wiping their ass with American power and convincing shitheads in western countries that he was some kind of pacifist. Mentioned earlier is the refugee crisis and it’s role in shifting the entire Western world to the right. insane.