UN Lifts Sanctions: Syria's Sharaa Heads to White House
Al-Monitor reports the UN Security Council will lift sanctions on Syria's Sharaa, paving the way for a White House visit. This, from the same UN that, for years, oversaw an intricate web of punitive measures against the Assad regime, (of which 'Sharaa' is clearly a stand-in for) citing gross human rights violations and chemical weapons use. The irony that a leader previously demonized as a pariah
can seamlessly pivot to an esteemed Oval Office guest reveals the stunning hypocrisy inherent in global power politics. Remember when the US government spent billions funding a proxy war to overthrow the Syrian regime? Remember the constant media drumbeat about 'Assad's atrocities'? Apparently, all of that was just... prelude. The fact that the US now appears poised to embrace a leader it once
lambasted as a war criminal, without so much as a public accountability ritual, screams of political expediency over actual moral principles. One might wonder how many 'red lines' were just... suggestions.