The latest incident of brutality from the Assad regime. They have begun a slowly accelerating Friday-Saturday cycle of deaths, funerals and more deaths – a pattern which, over months, helped undo the Shah’s regime. There are still elements of support for the Assads – “always keep ahold of nurse for fear of finding something worse“. But what legitimacy they once had is crumbling fast. Does that matter? How does it change things?
We might look to Iran today for an answer. It is not pretty. But it is not stable either.
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