Putin Defeated. Iran Devastated

There Will Be No Reversal of Fortunes

November 26th to December 8th.

That is 13 days. Maybe 14. That is all it took for the rebels, backed by international partners, to drive Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator supported by Iran and Russia, out of Syria.

It was a confluence of factors that made this unlikely event possible. The world has taken a massive step towards stability and peace.

Let us break this down one by one.

Nobody in the Middle East likes Iran. Not the Saudis. Not the Jordanians. Not the Emirates. Certainly not the Israelis. Years of American policy have contained and constrained the Iranian regime within its borders. For whatever genius reason, the Republican administration led by George Bush toppled Saddam Hussein and turned Iraq into an ungovernable, factional region. The instability changed Iran’s calculus, as out of nowhere, a path to reach the Mediterranean Sea opened up.

It took them more than a decade to build, but multiple land corridors were created by Iran to reach the Mediterranean Sea through Syria. These were the routes through which Iranian weapons flowed into the region daily, supplying Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza. Israel was surrounded by countries destablized by Iran.