Syria has roughly 23 million inhabitants. Any interim government that hopes to consolidate power must first retake the oil-rich east from Kurdish forces—an act that collides head-on with U.S. energy and geostrategic interests in the region. Israel, seeking to enlarge its security perimeter, leverages American backing to cultivate Druze militias in Syria’s southwest, carving out a pro-Israel buffer zone. Turkey, under the banner of counter-terrorism, keeps pummeling Kurdish formations to prevent their consolidation. Washington and Tel Aviv, dominant in global media, will inevitably weaponize narratives to magnify Syria’s ethnic and sectarian fault lines—Kurd, Druze, Alawite, Sunni—stoking mutual hatred, manufacturing justification for renewed civil war and perpetual external intervention, all to safeguard their own strategic gains.