Political analyst Hakob Badalyan writes:
"Months ago, there was a process of preparation for the meeting between Erdogan and Assad, where Russia made a noticeable mediation effort, some of the meetings took place in Russia. However, Assad expressed a condition that Turkey should leave the territory of Syria.
When you have enough power to defend yourself, your conditions can be very harsh and merciless, but when you are under the care of someone else, when you cannot stand up to your own conditions, such behavior can become fatal and tragic.
Assad probably considered that, no matter what, Russia and Iran have no "alternative" to him, and Syria "won't surrender?" This is perhaps the most fatal attitude that can be allowed to any superpower, any power center, especially and towards a subject with a huge imperial historical-political trajectory.
Those entities have completely different benchmarks and formulas for measuring time and space, a different psychology. Countries in time and space are just squares on a big chessboard for them, conventional 64 conventional: 1.
When you consider that the superpower has no "alternative" for you, or no alternative at all, and you build your relationship with it on that "basis", you dig your own "grave", figuratively, sometimes even literally.
In this case, they might have been kinder to Assad and punished him for his indiscretion politically, not physically.
Superpowers, let alone nuclear ones, ALWAYS have an alternative as long as they exist.
Therefore, if they exist, then they have an alternative. Yes, they can choose retreat, but that's why I mention that their measurement of time and space is on a different plane. What in our eyes is their retreat, in their eyes it is "strategic patience". is an episode, minimum.
Why the minimum? Because there is another circumstance, the "reverse side of the coin", which is again a problem of the measurement formula. from responsibility.
Because we are also talking about entities that conduct geopolitics not only with public, so to speak, formal resources, but also informally.
