Engels’s saying that “war is the iron lung of capitalism” is still applicable now, except with the development that capitalism as a whole has been become a rusty iron lung. Capitalism’s main project has become war, and its only salvation is war and the continuation of war.

Kassioun’s last editorial focused on the main dangers threatening Syria, and presented an initial vision of “how do we protect Syria?” What is certain this week is that threats are increasing, and their indicators and warnings are becoming clearer.

Every additional day of the ongoing battle proves what Kassioun has repeatedly confirmed, that it is not the battle of Gaza alone, nor even the battle of Palestine or Lebanon alone. Rather, it is a battle for the entire region, and part of a major global battle, in which the main hostile party is Washington. It also proves that the greater goal of the fire burning in Palestine and Lebanon is to ignite the entire region, starting from detonating its internal contradictions.

A full year since the Al-Aqsa Flood, and the major events that followed in our region and the entire world, what are the main conclusions and conclusions?

The “Israelis”, along with the Americans, are betting that the rapid, painful, and intense strikes that have been directed at Lebanon and Hezbollah over the past two weeks, leading to the assassination of its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and a number of the party’s leaders, will be sufficient to secure protection for “Israel”, by paralyzing Hezbollah and ending the northern front, and at the very least by completely separating it from Gaza and the West Bank.

The entire Western camp, headed by Washington and the global Zionist center, has been experiencing for several years a state that can be described as being like a frog that is gradually being boiled, while relaxed, over a low fire. Even now, having realized that it is being boiled, it is not able to jump out of the pot or from its destiny.

Before looking at what must be done to get Syria out of its crisis, restore its unity and the unity of its people, and restore its sovereignty, we must look at what is actually being done on the ground and in politics.

For several weeks now, a protest movement has been emerging in some areas in northwestern Syria, trying to work against a Syrian-Turkish settlement. It has expressed itself in part by standing against the reopening of the “Abu al-Zandin” crossing, in addition to a number of other activities and events.

Official Syrian, Turkish, and Russian statements over the past week regarding the Syrian-Turkish settlement, made by the Syrian president, the Russian foreign minister, and Turkish officials, indicate that the gradual steps towards reaching a settlement, which have extended for more than two years starting with the Tehran summit of the Astana trio in July 2022, have come close to reaching a point of no return. This is represented by a meeting at the presidents’ level, which naturally will not be the end of the issue. Instead, it will form the basis for consensus that will be followed by the practical implementation of the steps of that consensus.

For years since 2011, the regime and opposition extremists have been in agreement to reject dialogue, they have now been in agreement for several years to call for dialogue. However, the most important question is: what dialogue, how, about what, and for what?