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Kassioun Editorial 1048: Yet, it Still Revolves!
Recently, “new” interpretations have been spreading around, which are variations on Sadat’s saying: “99% of the cards are in the America’s hand”. Things such as: “America reprieves but does not neglect” or that the whistle is still in the hands of “the American referee”, which decides the rules of the game and when it starts and ends. However, as Galileo said after being prosecuted for being heretical because he insisted that the Earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around: “And yet, it moves (revolves)”.
It is no secret that the Syrian situation has turned into one of the main international and regional conflict files between two apparent poles: Russia, China, and their allies on the one hand, and the West and its cronies on the other. Therefore, a true understanding of the nature and trends of this conflict is an irreplaceable entrance to a realistic vision of the present, and for a scientific outlook for the future in the near and medium terms.
The catastrophic realities Syrians are living, temporarily allow through the proposals of the West’s agents (especially with the support of those “internally contracted with the West”, including the region’s regimes designed to play the roles of oppression and plundering for their pockets and those of the Western center, regardless of what slogans are thrown at the people). These same facts contribute to one extent or another in diminishing hope for Syrians and amplifying their frustration and despair.
Here, it is useful to point out a few major and stubborn facts related to the international conflict, especially with China and its alliances:
• If the West has dominated over five centuries, by relying on sea routes and preventing land connection among the “Third World” countries, Beijing today – in addition to its giant project “the Belt and the Road” – owns two-thirds of the high-speed train lines in the world, while Washington does not own of them anything worth mentioning.
• For years, Beijing has excelled in the volume of real gross product measured by purchasing power, and in the weight of industry and agriculture within this product, after a quarter century of growth rates that ranged between 6-9%, while growth rates in Washington were between 2-3%.
• Real wages in China rose fourfold in a quarter of a century, lifting more than 600 million Chinese out of poverty, which reflects a policy of gradual wealth distribution from top to bottom, while real wages remained unchanged in the US during the same period, and the wealth of the oligarchs grew in the opposite direction.
• While Washington dealt with mortgage crises and successive financial crises by rescuing banks and major companies, and by printing the currency without coverage (i.e., without making more things), and thus disastrously inflating the debt bubble, China presented an opposite model through its dealings with the Evergrande Group and other companies, where those who are “on top” bear the responsibility of the crises to protect those who are “below”.
The great empires throughout history have all collapsed at the height of their aggression, expansion, and ferocity. That is not a coincidence at all; rather, it is an objective law that starts from the fact that every foreign policy is an expression of the domestic situation and policy. In this sense, the intensification of the fierceness of any empire and its aggression outside its lands, is in the end nothing but an expression of the depth of its internal crises. This is exactly the situation of the American empire these days.
The intensification and insolvability of the conflict in the Middle East in general, and in Syria in particular, stems from the fact that its outcome will constitute a crossroads within the totality of the existing international conflict, the outcome of which already seems clear.
Preserving Syria’s unity and taking it towards actual stability and towards a new system in all its dimensions, has become an indispensable step in moving towards a new world with a horizon that is wide open. All of this passes not only through the international and regional conflict, but also necessarily through a more resolute and solid struggle of the Syrian patriotic and democratic forces towards a comprehensive political solution based on UNSC Resolution 2254, and against Western interests and the interests of the controlling elites whose interest lies in keeping the country a quagmire of chaos, plundering, and destruction.
