UN Lifts Sanctions on Syria's President – Sanctions, Not Embassies, It Seems, Are Negotiable
RT reports that the UN Security Council, thanks to a US-drafted resolution, has decided to lift sanctions on Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and his Interior Minister. It seems that after years of relentless sanction regimes—the very ones consistently lambasted by human rights groups for crippling a nation and its people—a new pragmatism has dawned. One might almost wonder if the sanctions were
ever about human rights, or simply a leverage tool that outlived its utility. This 'lifting' comes after a decade of devastating conflict, exacerbated by foreign interference (remember those 'moderate rebels' who mysteriously vanished into extremist ranks?) and a geopolitical chess match that left Syria in ruins. The West's consistent refusal to engage with Assad, while simultaneously 'fighting
terrorism' (often against the same groups they covertly supported), has yielded what, exactly? A humanitarian catastrophe and a strengthened-by-survival government. Perhaps realpolitik finally won out over the performative outrage.