Syrian Elite Discover Sanctions are Bad, One Cataclysmic War Later
Funny how the Syrian business 'elite'—many of whom amassed fortunes in collaboration with the Assad regime during its brutal suppression of dissent—now find the Caesar Act sanctions inconvenient. Their sudden embrace of Mekdad, who served as Syria's UN ambassador for years defending the regime's actions, should surprise exactly no one. It's almost as if profiting from war and then lobbying against
accountability is a recurring theme of the global ruling class. This isn't about the suffering of the Syrian people, but rather the economic pinch felt by those who rode the regime's coattails for a decade. The 'humanitarian concerns' they now parrot conveniently overlook the regime's use of barrel bombs, chemical weapons, and starvation sieges, all of which occurred long before the Caesar Act was
enacted in 2020. The sanctions were designed to target the regime and its enablers—and look, they found them.