Through a message on his social network account X, President Gustavo Petro referred this Sunday to the arrival of rebels in Damascus and the fall of Bashar al Assad from the regime in Syria.
(Read: Bashar al Assad granted asylum in Russia, Kremlin says).
“The Baath regime in Syria was abandoned by Russia, new alliance with Trump?” wrote the Colombian head of state, hours after the arrival of the Levant Liberation Organization to the capital of the Arab country was reported.
According to the president, after the news “the Arab country is moving to the right towards fundamentalism, like Afghanistan. Iraq and Libya, Israel will grow even more, taking Syrian lands. The Palestinians and the Kurds will be even more alone. Perhaps Iran, as in Iraq, will gain more Shiite influence”.
(Here: Syria, the new combat front that Israel opened in the Middle East).
Questions
In his message, President Petro asked several questions about this new geopolitical reconfiguration, through 9 questions and added that this fact will produce “new alliances, new betrayed.”
Among the questions he raised in his comment, Petro even raised that these political changes could affect Colombia.
The Baath regime in Syria was abandoned by Russia. New alliance with Trump?
The Arab country is moving to the right towards fundamentalism, like Afghanistan. Iraq and Libya, Israel will grow even more, taking Syrian lands. The Palestinians and the Kurds will be even more alone. Maybe Iran,… https://t.co/jL8sh8mbkH
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) December 8, 2024
1. Will a land cession to Russia in Ukraine follow? Will Zelensky and Western Europe be betrayed on the right?
2. Where will the Syrian oil go?
3. Will pan-Arabism and its secular idea die?
4. Will this new political configuration knock on the doors of the Colombian border?
5. Will they abandon Cuba and will Venezuelan oil be a negotiating card?
6. Will we have other betrayals in the Caribbean?
7. Will Latin American progressivism be able to unite and win the OAS and continue shining the lighthouse of democracy on a world that turns off the lights?
8. Where will China move? Will it be able to propose a decarbonized economy that expands from the planning that arises from a dialogue of civilizations?
9. Will being the largest owner of the world’s debt lead China to paralyze the global effort to finance economic decarbonization?
Finally, President Petro insisted that the world is torn between life and greed, which, he added, “has the weapons and the power, its result is nothing more than extinction after barbarism.”
What happened in Syria?
This Sunday, rebels arrived in Damascus and overthrew the Bashar al Assad regime, who took refuge in Moscow.
(Also: Chronology of 13 years of civil war in Syria: the conflict and the fall of Al Assad).
According to figures from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), at least 910 people, including 138 civilians, have been killed in Syria since the rebels launched a lightning offensive on November 27 that culminated in the capture of Damascus and the flight of the president. Bashar al Assad.
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