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Turkey, the United States, and the European Union own the perilous situation unfolding in Syria. Ankara will be tested the most. It is the most invested in a positive outcome in Syria since it hosts the highest amount of Syrian refugees.
But they don't have a tradition of wise rulership of foreign lands. In the Syrian war Turkish backed terrorist groups stole factory parts, industrial equipment, oil, and olive trees, taking them back to Turkey to sell to Europe and for use in their own industries.
This is who they are and have always been. The Ottomans were thieves and enslavers, not empire builders. Their society is plagued by too much racism and hatred for foreigners to govern others wisely. They taxed the region to death when they were in possession of it for centuries. And they didn't draw any lessons from losing it a century ago. Nothing has changed their outlook since then. They are even more barbarous today.
They took out Assad, which was a quasi political success accomplished with Western and Israeli support, but what replaced him hasn't been a stable regime. Russia and Iran are gone, which are American, Western and Israeli wins, but Syria itself hasn't seen any victory. The Syrian people still remain scattered abroad and in bondage at home.
It's hard to predict a prosperous future for the country when head choppers and rapists are in charge.
An excerpt from, "Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East" by Jonathan Parry, Princeton University Press, 2022, Pg. 205:
The question of how Syria would be governed was still the outstanding issue at the beginning of 1841. The intervention of 1840 brought the whole country to the attention of the European public. French newspapers in particular were keen to find evidence that British, Austrian, and Russian interference there had made matters worse. The intervening powers had assumed responsibility for Syria's future. How would they ensure popular rights and liberties? The Edict of Gulhane also increased expectations about the quality of future Ottoman rule. Behind all these concerns was one potentially enormous problem, now that the European public had started to think about the region. For millions of Christians all over Europe, Syria and especially Palestine were not just dry regions of limited productivity and prospects. They were the holiest lands on earth.
