Timothy Birdnow

Israel has launched over a hundred airstrikes and sent ground troops into Syria to clean out the remnants of terrorist groups after the fall of the Assad regime. Furthermore, it has struck at chemical weapons plants and other key military installations, and is establishing a "sterile zone" to protect itself.

so what happens next? This will leave a power vacuum that must be filled. Will the U.N. send in "peacekeepers" to shore up the country? Will Turkey move in? Israel cannot afford to allow the nation to fall into the hands of hard-core Islamists.

No doubt Iran is weighing their options. They would move in directly if they could but I doubt they can project power that way.

I don't know if most people understand the profound ramifications of the fall of Assad; the Assad family ruled Syria for fifty years and now are gone - and with them the whole political order of the region is turned upside-down. Lebanon was largely a protectorate of Syria, which stepped in during the civil war there, and it now has nobody holding it's leash. Israel would logically be the new Big Dog in the area except no Muslim will listen to Israel and they don't have the manpower to control the region.

I strongly suspect there will be a United Nations/NATO/EU coalition that will try to move in to stabilize things. Otherwise the Turks will try to annexx it, or at least to "stabilize" it with troops. The Kurds are the Turks mortal enemies and they will want to crush them now that Syria is no longer in their way.

How long before Biden mobilizes American "peacekeepers" to go into the region? I know; he said it's not our fight (and he's right) but he said he wouldn't pardon Hunter either.

This is a chaotic situation and likely to grow more chaotic as the different factions seek to grab this particular jump ball.

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