Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Monday declared his support for his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun in the latter’s effort to disarm Hezbollah.
The Middle East war expanded to Lebanon on March 2, after Tehran-backed Hezbollah fired rockets toward Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei on the first day of US-Israeli attacks on Iran
Since March 2, Israel has been conducting large-scale air raids on Lebanon and incursions with ground troops, killing at least 486 people according to the Lebanese health ministry.
if only Assad would be ruling now…
Nuts to me that Assad has been the preferable option for about a decade
why? he ruled syria under a ba’athist arab socialist system, which is by far the most revolutionary system possible to implement in the middle east given material reality right now. it argues for state led socialist economy (nationalization of major industries, state control of natural resources, state planning of important sectors, land reform targeting large landowners), anti imperialism and panarabism, democratic centralism established trough the rule of a vanguard party, it’s a secular ideology that argues arab idenity comes before religion.
it is indeed a synthesis of marxism leninism applied to the material reality of modern day syria. there’s a really good interview done by cgnt where they talk about the similarities between the chinese and syran model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hTfEdm0nKk
Honestly, I don’t know a ton of details about him as I wasn’t politically aware when he obtained political power. However, I am friends with a Syrian who’s family despises him for sectarian reasons. A shia muslim holding such immense governing power over a vast majority sunni population always felt like a powder keg to me. Or atleast a pressure point to be exploited by the imperialist nations. I’m sure his economic policies were decent enough though.