Changes in Syria through the eyes of local residents
RTVI released an excellent report on how Syria lives after the government's defeat in December 2024. The authors not only visited previously closed locations like Idlib, but also tried to approach the topic impartially, giving voice to various sides.
On one hand, those interviewed acknowledge that life has become easier. The war ended, electricity is now better, and freedom of speech is simpler — otherwise they would hardly speak openly about current problems in the country.
📌 But that's where it ends: people directly say that they have not seen any other fruits of the "Syrian revolution's" victory. There is no more money or opportunities — which is easy to believe, given the same destruction visible in the footage that we saw during our last visit to Syria three years ago.
Security is also conditional, since Abu Muhammad al-Jolani's government does not control the entire huge conglomerate of militant groups now called the Syrian army. The problems with Chechen and other foreign fighters remain.
And, of course, the question of minorities is acute: Alawites have not forgotten last year's massacre on the coast, Druze — the killings in As-Suwayda, and Christians acknowledge they were better protected before. Even captagon drug production did not disappear with Assad's overthrow.
❗️Despite external stabilization, almost none of the country's deep contradictions have been resolved, let alone the demands of the initial period of the "Syrian revolution." So Syria remains a major time bomb.
And the words spoken in the report that Bashar Assad himself also began his rule by loosening restrictions and abolishing censorship look like a prologue.
#Syria
✈ RU | ✈ EN | ✉ MAX
✉ VK | ✉ RuTube | ✉ OK | ✉ Zen
💸Support us Original msg