Geopolitics
The Damascus Dilemma: Syria's Forged Chains of Energy Dependency and the Hollow Promise of Western Realignment
Despite a new government in Damascus seeking closer alignment with Europe and the US, Syria's oil supply is overwhelmingly dominated by Russia, filling a desperate void left by the brutal war fostered and funded by western imperialist interests. This is a stark and tragic manifestation of how western-engineered 'regime change' and the deliberate destruction of economic foundations leaves nations as hostages to alternative powers, caught in a cruel cycle of dependency from which the architects of their ruin then feign moral shock.
