Syria has some very difficult challenges ahead regardless of regime in power.
There is the Zionist Al-Hijri project that aims to carve out a Druze puppet state aligned/serving Zionist interests under the false disguise of "saving the Druze" from some imaginary danger.
There is the low-scale Alawite insurgency on the coast that is reigniting from time to time. Almost no matter what the Syrian government does to combat such criminal elements, we will have media reports of some imaginary slaughter of Alawites and the usual drivel of minorities massacred.
In reality I am amazed at how little revenge and violence there have been in Syria given the extremely bloody and complex 15 year old civil war.
Then there is the SDF. Which can hardly be called a Kurdish entity either given that the majority of the population are local Arabs. I stopped following developments there 10 + years ago but from what I can see it is a strange mixture of local Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians and others, a few powerful clans and families, trying to create their own fiefdom to enrich themselves under the disguise of autonomy, rights and other such nonsense.
The new Syrian government, unlike the past Ba'athi regime, has recognized the notion of Kurds, Kurdish language and has even offered the SDF autonomy. Not sure what they want other than that.
There is no religious persecution of any minority either and any community is free to do what they have always done.
Within all of this there are also factions within the government.
Simply put, a destroyed country like Syria, is not something that you fix overnight so expectations should be realistic.
More so when Syria borders Israel directly. The only other Arab state that border Syria directly are Lebanon (itself a small version of Syria - just 100 times weaker as a country), Iraq (sparsely populated Ninawa and Al-Anbar - mostly Iraqi Sunni Arab - which is a community that remains disfranchised to a large degree within Iraq itself) and Jordan which has its own problems and not a key regional state.
Had Jordan, most of it historical Arab and an extension of Northern Hijaz, including the local population, been a part of KSA (the only country blocking a direct border with Syria), things would likely have been entirely different for Syria.
Sadly there are no Syrians here on this forum but it would be interesting for the discussions here, at least, to have some around. I know most Syrian viewpoints (within Syria, the Syrian diaspora) due to Arab social media, knowing many Syrians in person and interacting with many throughout the past 15 years in both Europe, KSA, Arab world etc.
Of course Syria, no matter what anyone here claims, is in a better place than 1 year ago. But nevertheless this does not change the ground realities above or the many challenges which one should be realistic about.
We can only wish the best for our Syrian brothers and sisters and Syria as a whole. Most importantly prosperity, peace and coexistence and fruitful cooperation.
honestly like I said good riddance but like I have been saying I want to see jolani actually be a better person if he decides to stay in power instead of coming to a national agreement with all sides for the betterment of it’s people is still up in the air but our track record with Arab and “Muslim” leaders is once they get hold of power after a revolution they don’t give it up ever……does anyone believe sis is leaving anytime soon again no offense to edrogan but seems after the coup which I honestly was laughing my butt off because yeah he came out swinging like a man but afterwards it seems like he’s silencing any dissent and becoming just another guy who enjoys the power play
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