The bad news in this regard is Russia’s skillful exploitation of the American hypocritical indifference towards the Syrian ordeal. Since 2011, the Americans hampered thrice the opposition forces’ closeness to topple Assad, due to Obama’s involvement in conducting a nuclear deal with Iran. The last operation to rescue the "dangling" Assad was made by the Russian direct physical involvement in Syria in September 2015. What pours the gasoline on fire is that John Kerry’s intention to assist the Syrian people is based upon wishful thinking and shameful begging behavior of Russia to help convince Assad relinquish his dictatorship rule!
Contrary to this American procrastination policy, the Kremlin is doing its best to convince the westerns that Assad is the best agent to combat terrorism of which they are panicking. Russia is investing in the idea that the best solution for the Syrian crisis is to enable Assad restore his control over all Syria. Therefore, the Russian diplomacy endeavors to undermine all diplomatic efforts of securing a solution for the Syrian crisis without Assad. Its latest attempt was done in Vienna meeting on May 17 which was nothing but a scum of public relations party because of the Russian manipulative and ill-intentioned attitude. On the other hand, the Russian’s gimmick was manifested at the Syrian battlefield as fierce air-raids against the Syrian opposition forces except ISIS.
Assad, at his inner ego, dreams of recapturing Syria with the help of Russia and Iran. He reiterates that "his army" will achieve victory over all his opponents whom he categorizes as terrorists. He believes, as his father did, that time is an important factor for healing the wounds of the war. He is satisfied that the passing of time would oblige the Syrians to adapt to the idea that life will go on despite the profound bad memory. The level of Assad’s insanity surpassed the boundary of logic. Reports from his inner circle reveal that throughout the past years of the crisis, he was leading normal life, without any sense of guilt for the Syrians he has been victimizing, or as if Syria were not undergoing any problem. In 2012, during one of Lakhdar Brahimi’s visit to Damascus as an envoy of UN General Secretary, he asked Assad about the heavy shooting which was taking place just a few hundred meters from the Assad’s palace where they met. Assad denied that there was any problem in Damascus, replying that the sounds of explosions audible to the meeting venue were merely routine exercises by the regime’s “army”.
Assad thinks that his dream will come true because the western countries have become convinced that the substitute options available in Syria are more horrible than the prejudice of his rule. For instance, one probable alternative scenario for the crisis is the massive victory of either the moderate opposition of Free Syrian Army or the extremist Islamic factions embodied in ISIS and al-Nusra Front. The Assad media and his Russian-Iranian friends have managed, through the tremendous fake propaganda they exercised, to convince the world that this particular option will definitely lead to a “sever civil war” in Syria or it might lead to the partition of the country and the increase of terrorism doses worldwide. This very sinister Russian argument ignores the fact that Assad is the source of current evils prevailing in Syria. Assad’s supporters do not admit that the outcome of any likelihood sectarian conflict in the transitional era, after Assad’s rule termination, will be nothing in comparison to the catastrophe made by Assad.
Repercussions of the somber scenario of Assad’s survival
Syria will continue to be both a means for the Iranian and Russian ends, and a "farm of fear" ruled by a merciless security system. Assad’s security organs will fiercely take all the precautionary measures to prevent the Syrian common citizens of repeating their uprising of 2011. In other words, Syria will be transformed to another North Korea where people live in a hell-like canton. The Alawites, in their mystic belief, will upgrade their own atheistic classification of Assad’s heavenly status from a semi-god to an incarnation of God’s essence. The criterion of this categorization is their so-called concept of his supernatural power that led to his victory over the innocent kids of Syria.
At the external level, Assad’s Syria will be consolidated as a base to extend the Russian and Iranian expansionist projects which will engulf their joint traditional rivals: Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
In case this scenario becomes true, will Assad’s oppressive policy against the Syrians be sustainable and endless? In fact, the jeopardy Assad has done to the Syrian people is neither forgettable nor forgivable. The successive generations of displaced Syrians, undergoing inhumane conditions in the refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, constitute a raw material of a futuristic "revenge project" and a "ticking bomb" that would explode against those who caused their ordeal: Assad regime and its sponsors. In case Assad remains in office, the Syrian uprising will be expected to be repeated at anytime, not only against him, but against all those who contributed in his destructive survival.
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