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| 2012-05-21 |
| "With Russia and China standing firmly behind AssadÂ’s regime in Syria, it appears increasingly likely that continued violence, and potentially a prolonged civil war, will be the future condition of a country where the opposition is not strong enough to overcome the core elements of the regimeÂ’s security forces, and foreign parties lack the willpower or capacity to overthrow the rulers in Damascus. As Tony Karon explains, civil war is an accurate way to describe the ongoing descent into violence in Syria. The countryÂ’s ethnic composition and the regimeÂ’s divide-and-rule political strategy makes the specter of civil war an effective engine of consolidation for the regimeÂ’s supporters:" |
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