Gee, who could have seen this coming? From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:
The most likely scenario is that the Kristallnacht-like massacre of Alawites goes unpunished and the rebellion by some of the victims’ co-religionists is decisively defeated.
Syria was rocked by sectarian violence in recent days after the interim authorities and their foreign allies massacred members of the Alawite minority en masse in response to an armed rebellion from some of their co-religionists. It’s impossible to independently determine how many people have been killed, but social media is awash with videos showing the execution of children, women, and the elderly, which anyone can easily find if they look for them. Here are five observations about what just happened:
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1. Syria Just Suffered Its Own Kristallnacht
The interim authorities and their supporters collectively blame Alawites for every Assad-era grievance just like the Nazis blamed Jews for every grievance before, during, and after World War I. It was therefore inevitable that Syria would suffer its own Kristallnacht given the hatred that was boiling. Just like the preplanned pogrom against Jews was set into motion by the killing of a Nazi diplomat, so too was a similar pogrom against Alawites set into motion by the armed rebellion that some of them attempted.
