The world waits with bated breath for the Syrian situation’s resolution, how precisely the ‘opposition’ forces plan to balance the medley of foreign powers and interests in creating some semblance of a unified nation. Most likely, this will not work at all, although they are giving a good early college try.

In the last big report I had talked about the vying powers, how Israel and Turkey are now bound to eschatologically come to a loggerheads over Palestine and the Levant. Erdogan hinted as much in a new speech, wherein he suddenly lamented all the territories Turkey had lost in the early 20th century

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He gives the whole game away, implanting the memories in the minds of his followers, reminding them that Syria ‘should’ truly belong to Turkey. This is the slow, gradual preparation for the things to come, of which I’ve spoken. In fact, some may recall even last year I had written that Turkey’s destiny—like that of all bygone empires—lies in pursuing irredentist reunification.

Recall that in some ways Turkey has a point—though we may dislike Erdogan, it cannot be argued that Turkey wasn’t butchered up by European powers with the Sykes Picot ordeal.

But now two strongly opposing narratives are forming. On one hand, many statements and videos testify to the HTS-controlled Syria becoming a kind of proxy of Israel, while a deluge of new evidence shows Turkey slowly fortifying its position as future hegemon of the region.

Continued here:

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/pieces-begin-slowly-falling-into