> i wonder what will become of the alawites depends on whether jewish spite over being them being the power base of baathist syria since just before the yom kippur war outweighs their desire and the strategic value of cucking hts out of port access (and ideally without hezbollah or an iran-aligned actor in charge of breaking them loose). i could honestly buy anything between free latakia and the place being ethnically cleansed of non-sunnis within the span of a year.
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