you said that but if you look at their leaders a suprising amount were involved in the syrian civil war on the christofascsist side, you don't survive decades without a force trying to take revenge for that unless you have some power projection you are hiding. maybe it's now militias or stuff like that but neither the sunni or shia side was able to take power from the christian side whose demographics went down so i would not go as far as to think all their power suddenly disappeared 3 decades ago because somehow they have managed to remain in power.
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