With each passing day, and with every additional complication and blow to the global economy, it is becoming increasingly clearer that only the countries that have maintained and developed their production systems – particularly the real production in industry, agriculture, and others – are the ones able to be resilient and ensure the living conditions of their people considerably, and away from the corny use of slogans about resilience.

The “relative calm” in the Russian-Western conflict lasted less than a month (between May 23 and June 17), after which things went back to escalating, and at a faster and more violent rate than before.

In a press briefing by Ned Price, the US Department of State spokesperson, on June 6, one reporter asked him about the US position regarding a potential Turkish military operation in northern Syria. Price responded: “our position is one that you’ve heard… ever since this potential operation was first raised. We have emphasized that we remain deeply concerned about discussions of potential increased military activity in northern Syria, and in particular, its potential impact on the civilian population there. We have continued to call for the maintenance of existing ceasefire lines. We would condemn any escalation beyond those lines. It’s crucial for all sides to maintain and to respect those ceasefire zones to enhance stability in Syria and to work towards a political solution to the conflict”. He also added: “we expect Turkey to live up to the commitments that it made in October of 2019, including the commitment to halt offensive operations in northeast Syria. Any new escalation beyond those existing ceasefire lines could prove to be especially costly setbacks – costly setbacks to our collective efforts to counter Daesh, the efforts of the counter-ISIS coalition, but also to our efforts to promote political stability within Syria”.

The country’s decision makers continue to direct successive strikes to what has remained from the system of “social subsidies” under various pretexts and slogans that actually aim for the gradual and accelerated elimination of these subsidies.  This threatens to push millions of new Syrian citizens into hunger and poverty, and to sail fleeing from the country’s inferno.