Over the last few days and under the slogan of “redistributing subsidies to those who deserve it”, more than half a million Syrian families, that is nearly 3 million Syrians, were decategorized as “deserving subsidies”. This was directly reflected in raising the price of a bundle of bread for these people to 1300 Syrian pounds; meaning that the cost of bread alone, if a family of five consumes two bundles per day, will reach 78000 Syrian pounds per month. That means bread alone now consumes almost the entire average salary.

As a continuation of Kassioun’s editorial 1053 about interpreting 2254 between two mentalities, which was the first part in a series of interconnected editorials, we discuss in this second part, the interpretation of the resolution between two local mindsets: the mindset of the ruling forces in the regime and that of the ruling forces in the opposition. These two mindsets ultimately deal with the resolution and the entire Syrian situation using the same logic, though from two opposite angles. Perhaps the first and most important point of overlap between the two is the “leading party” mindset that dominates the thinking and action on both sides. This is founded on exclusion, exclusivity, and claim of comprehensive and complete representation.

These days, the entire world is sleeping and waking up to the beat of the war drums in Ukraine. In addition to the wave of the West’s official statements, including about the rapid evacuation of Western diplomats from Kiev, the Western media is talking about how the world is days and perhaps hours away from the outbreak of war.

The clash between two distinct international mentalities continues in interpreting UNSC Resolution 2254, six years after the UN Security Council unanimously adopted it in December 2015.

By the end of 2021, the average cost of living for a Syrian family has reached more than 2 million Syrian pounds. This increases the huge gap between these costs and the minimum wage of the Syrian worker, which "increased" according to the last decree to reach 92,970 Syrian pounds; inadequate to meet the monthly food cost of the worker himself!

Trump’s March 2019 signing of American recognition of the occupied Syrian Golan as “part of Israel” made it clear that American and “Israeli” policy regarding the Golan and dealing with the entire Syrian issue had entered a new phase.

Recent statements by Russian Special Envoy to the Syrian crisis, Alexander Lavrentiev, and the uproar and conclusions that arose around it, occupied the general political debate space during the past two weeks.

As the new year begins, thirty years will have passed since the tragedy of the unipolar world’s emergence.

Секретарь партии «Народная воля», руководитель оппозиционной группы «Народный фронта за перемены и освобождение», председатель «московской платформы» сирийской оппозиции, Кадри Джамиль сделал 21 декабря 2021 года следующую запись в своем официальном аккаунте в Твиттере:

The Secretary of People’s Will Party, Leader in the Front for Change and Liberation, Head of Moscow Platform of the Syrian Opposition, Kadri Jamil, published a thread of tweets this evening (Tuesday, December 21, 2021) saying that: