Assad's loss is Erdogan's win
Aside from the Syrian people, no one stands to gain more from the collapse of the Assad regime than Turkey.
The swift fall of the Assad regime in Syria is the geopolitical story of December 2024 (non-Trump edition, but much more surprising). I previously talked about the impact of this on Assad’s two biggest supporters, Russia and Iran.
As if on cue, over the weekend Russia started evacuating hundreds of soldiers from Syria.
But their won’t just be losers from …
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