Europe’s own fault for not protecting their borders.

You don’t seem to understand the nexus between Al-Sharaa's ethnic and religious identity and what kind of man that makes him. I bet my left nut he is laughing his ass off about the CIA just like Sirajuddin Haqqani does.

Sunni Muslims perceive any external threat to their tribe as a parallel threat to Islam and a provocation to incite Jihad. Tribalism is what drives them.

The man is dangerous, because to reach his goals, it doesn’t matter if he lives or dies, only if the tribe continues, and he is very well aware of that.

It never works to let people like Al-Sharaa or Sinwar live and try to instrumentalise them for your own goals.

The Israelis thought they could handle Sinwar after releasing him from prison.

He taught them a lesson they are never going to forget, and while all the Mossad and IDF commanders’ names will never be said again five years after they are dead, people will still read up on Sinwar in hundreds of years and take the stuff that works and implement it into their own fight against insertrandomenemy here.

I am confident the man died laughing because he had already won. His survival was never a condition to reach his Goals. You can not imagine how dangerous this mindset is until you had to shoot a sixteen years old boy because he kept running at you with an explosives vest at a checkpoint.

The Americans think they can control Shaara aka Abu Mohammed al-Golani. I think they can’t. And I think we are all going to have to pay the price for it sooner or later.

It’s true, the man reinvented himself to be perceived as a charismatic leader. He looks pretty slick in his suit.

Personal reinvention, however, is not the same as institutional transformation.

The clever question to ask is, does the governing system consolidating in Damascus reflect a break from Golani’s earlier framework, or its realisation?

The evidence points clearly to continuity. Before assuming formal state authority, Golani outlined a political order grounded in religious legitimacy, hierarchical inclusion, and phased consolidation.

Today, executive authority is concentrated, religious oversight is embedded in lawmaking, and security institutions are structured around ideological alignment. Alternative centres of sovereignty are absorbed or dismantled.

Syria’s trajectory becomes clear when measured against the institutional framework its current president articulated as a jihadist years before taking office. What Golani once described as an insurgent now operates through state institutions.

The wolf has put on a sheep’s coat and is now constructing the kind of state he always wanted to construct, one where it doesn’t matter who rules it, because he embeds the same philosophy that brought war and terror to most parts of the world into the heads of the Syrian people with American money through governmental institutions.

It’s not the region that is a real fucking shame. It’s the way America produces warzones to feed young American souls into the machine the US is running on. War is a business, and the United States of America is the biggest manufacturer of war on the planet.

Syria will just be another showroom to sell other countries advanced weaponry made in the USA in 15 years.

Ahhh yes, he was just a little boy. And boys will be boys.

Even when they later go on to create terrorist organizations such as Jabhat al Nusra (Al Nusra Front). Boys will be boys.

Even when he got sent to Syria by Al Qaedas AQI (Which later became ISIS)

It baffles me that people like you justifies this man as a legitimate leader. Kurds and other minorities in Syria suffer immensely from this US and Turkish-forced government.

Why don't you tell the people of HN about the absolute massacre and manhunt of thousands of Alawites after Al-Julani came to power in Syria?

I'm speaking from first hand experience.

I returned to Syria recently and so did 2 millions in the past 2 years. The country is doing better relatively speaking. It's not a first world country but most people have food and safety, and there's aid organizations to help those in need.

There's no conflation in priorities. Every bit helps. People are trying to start businesses and rebuild the country but this tech blockade contribute to making life harder unnecessarily.

> buddies at the helm in Ira

Shows how ignorant you are of the dynamics of the region. Iranian regime belong to the Shia sect, and backed Assad in the civil war. Sharaa/Jolani's faction are Sunnis, principally backed by Turkey. Shia and Sunnis generally dislike and often fight each other.

Religious fundamentalists tend to be less corrupt than whatever your baseline for politicians and rulers is because within their in-groups they're scoring each other based on those ideals. Not to say they won't loot like every other ruling class does, but they're not gonna behave like Saddam (most obvious local comparison point for this subject IMO) and just light money on fire for their own flamboyant luxury.

Their values may be garbage, but that's tangential.