I still do not get how the two Assads was able to keep 85% Sunni Syrians “hostage” before Iran and Russia ever turned up?
Maybe the Sunnis were ok with this arrangement as they knew the Alawites were educated, modern and competent to hold the top positions.
Which is why history matters. Alawites were trained and weaponized. Ultimate and classical colonizer MO!
French raised Druze and Alawites and provided most of the recruits for during French mandate. In fact the French charted their path, name and trajectory.
Top brass in military were minorities and politically Arab nationalism was stoked. Michel Aflak, an Eastern Orthodox, educated in France delving into communism charted their way into Ba'athism. Political control allows that... control of thought and who controls and runs the bureaucratic machine. Where everyone is just appropriated by the paycheck.
Might makes right!
Which is why only those with the means will rule. It is and was always, might!
The de facto presence of zion... it isn't moral... it is moralized! Word salad for public consumption only follows their weapons.
The group that was going to emerge and take power was always going to come with the power of sword. Not through word smithing! It knocks out one important pillar of control and deception. Political space is granted by the victor to ones of its choice... which is why those championing democracy, peddle a lie, a deception that either they have consumed or wish it on others.
I can hyphenate "free" with anything and people will gulp it right up as long as I have Political power over them... That is the power of persuasion once you have surrendered militarily. Just like Arab or Muslim soldiers of zion or any of the historic colonized people who'd join in with the colonizer. They reconciled with their subjugation.
So yes the new group brings new dynamic but the closest thing to change ... just because of the chaos and flux. It may just sit the right way...
It is why everyone is jostling for a spot in the new power structure. Pitting to install their guy... right from the very top guy himself.
That does not and will never mean what was their was an answer.