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Kassioun Editorial 1184: Only 2254 and Nothing Else… In Its Entirety and Now!
On the outside, things appear to be stagnant in Syria in the political sense. Whether it is talking about the brakes applied against the progress of the Syrian-Turkish settlement, or about the People’s Assembly elections that passed as if they had not happened, or about the West’s formal continuation of its same policies, and other indicators that are relied upon to say that nothing has changed and nothing will change anytime soon.
In contrast to this formally stagnant image, which the opposition and regime elites express through their behavior and statements, the reality inside Syria and around the world is boiling and full of major changes, towards which “our elites” appear to be in a state of complete detachment from reality.
The regime does not see change as an urgent necessity, and it imagines that it is effectively in control of the situation, to the extent that the recent People’s Assembly elections are portrayed as an indicator of stability. Meanwhile, these elections, in terms of the form in which they took place and the size of participation, are an indicator and evidence of the extreme degree of exhaustion that Syrian society has reached.
On the “other” bank, the opposition in its current official form has lost credibility, primarily among its audience. Additionally, the opposition’s influential people are betting on the West’s collective role in the solution, the West that does not want a solution any time soon. Not to mention that the West no longer sees in UNSC Resolution 2254 a road map for a solution, after it actively started going down the step-for-step path.
Aside from what the “elites” are experiencing, it can be confirmed at the Syrian internal level the accumulation of socioeconomic tragedies and popular anger continues to grow. This is accompanied by constant threats of new explosions and security and political unrest throughout the country, which expresses its forewarnings with an incident here and an incident there, and on a daily basis.
At the global level, what we saw in the French and British elections, and what we see in the American elections, and other elections taking place around the world, as well as the successful military coups we saw in Africa, and the coups in Africa and Latin America that were supported by the Americans and failed. All these things are merely indicators of the tremendous acceleration in the process of changing the entire global system.
The essence of the ongoing process of change is that the West is continuing its retreat and decline at an acceleration that almost reaches the limits of free fall from a historical point of view. This fall expresses itself in two clear ways: on the one hand, the deepening division among Western countries and within each country individually; and on the other hand, the decline in the weight, influence, and effect of the West as a whole in various global files, including the Syrian file.
In addition to these circumstances, there is a high level of understanding and rapprochement among the rising powers, led by China and Russia, on the one hand, and among the main powers in our region: Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt. This provides the necessary objective condition for an effective solution to the Syrian crisis on the basis of UNSC Resolution 2254, to reaching implementation of the Syrian people’s right to self-determination on their unified land that is free of occupations in all their forms.
The historical opportunity exists and is strong. The solution exists and is UNSC Resolution 2254 and nothing but the 2254 in its entirety, and only 2254. What is hindering the realization of this historic opportunity until now are internal factors, that is, internal forces that are stubborn and opposed to the political solution, and ultimately rely entirely on the West or on the West as a tool in balancing the forces to maintain stagnation and the status quo.
The forces that do not realize the change in the international situation and do not seize the available historical opportunity, whether out of ignorance or intentionally, are dooming themselves to being excluded from the future of Syria, and whether they remain or not may not matter much. However, what is more important is that the obstruction operations they carry out have a cost, which is paid by the Syrian people daily, with more pain and sacrifices, for the end of which the time has come and the circumstances have become permitting, in order to reunite and revive Syria and its people.
