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History In The Making As Assad Set To Fall In Syria
A week ago Sunday, I chose "Syria to the fore" as the title for the daily mailer.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an umbrella rebel group mostly comprised of, and generally controlled by, the successor organization to al-Qaeda's Syrian arm, had just recaptured Aleppo in a lightning offensive.
The last time Syria's largest (or second-largest, depending on how you count) city was in rebel hands was 2015, when the Bashar al-Assad regime was teetering. It took the combined efforts of Qassem Soleimani, Hassa
Assad not in Damacus and may have fled to Abu Dhabi, per CNN/other reports.
Needs to go somewhere where nobody will recognize him. Kentucky maybe.
Your “Weekly” is fantastic.
So what happens to the people in the Middle East if the US increases domestic drilling/fracking, and, as a result, the global price of oil drops? It seems like the ME might become completely unhinged, living conditions will worsen and turf wars will destroy everything that isn’t already destroyed.
Any chance you would do a monthly on how oil and also narcotics (and synthetics) support various regimes throughout the world? Just something “simple that you could write in your spare time” to explain the economic and humanitarian implications of any changes to the status quo.
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The Middle East became geopolitically crucial because of oil. (In modern times, I mean.) In a post-oil world, or an overflowing-with-oil world, what happens to the ME? The money disappears, the people and conflicts remain. And the Suez Canal, but when the Arctic is ice-free, who cares? Would the ME become like Africa, if Africa had no resource wealth?
For that matter, what happens to Russia?