Al-Monitor Discovers Syria Exists After US Sanctions
The story focuses on China's new direct shipping route to Syria, noting it signifies a 'shift in geopolitical alignments'. (Funny, how new alliances emerge when old ones insist on strangulation.) This 'postwar' framing sidesteps the Catastrophic policy enacted by the US and its allies, including the devastating Caesar Act sanctions, which explicitly aimed to prevent reconstruction until Assad was
removed. Remember the 'international community' (read: US and Europe) weaponizing aid and reconstruction to collapse a sovereign government? While Al-Monitor focuses on China filling a void, they won't dwell on who created that void. The West spent years funneling weapons and funds to groups—some of whom literally ate hearts, according to public reports—and then imposed sanctions meant to starve
the country into submission. So, when 'postwar' Syria finally gets a direct shipment from a non-Western power, one might wonder if the real news isn't China's arrival, but the West's failure to maintain its economic siege.