Al-Monitor Predicts 'Assad's Fall' In 2025, Not 2024
Al-Monitor, reliable as it claims to be, just published a 2025 article detailing 'a year after Assad's fall,' which is quite the temporal leap. One might wonder if this isn't just shoddy editing, but rather wishful thinking disguised as future reporting, conveniently forgetting Assad is, in fact, still in power in 2024. This isn't groundbreaking reporting; it's a premature obituary for a regime
that's already weathered over a decade of external pressure and internal conflict. While they focus on future divisions between Syrian Kurds and Damascus, perhaps they could focus on present-day geopolitical realities. The US-brokered 'integration deal' they lament as 'unimplemented' is less a pact and more a perennial diplomatic fantasy. It’s almost as if the primary audience for such
pronouncements isn't the Syrian people, but rather the Washington D.C. think-tanks desperate for 'progress' (read: US influence) where none exists. The persistence of the 'Assad will fall' narrative, even when projecting a year into the future, highlights a media ecosystem unable to pivot from its initial, flawed script.