Geopolitics
The Damascus Dollar: America's Pivot from Sanctions to Financial Dominion in Syria
The United States has dramatically reversed its Syria policy, shifting from decades of sanctions and isolation to investment and economic engagement following the fall of the Assad regime, hosting its first major business forum in Damascus. This cynical pivot from economic warfare to financial dominance reveals the hollowness of Western 'humanitarian' pretenses, merely swapping one tool of imperial control for another in a desperate bid to outmaneuver China and Russia and recolonize the Syrian economy.