Ares the Beast: The End of the Long War?
Introductry Note: Artun Yeres' short film about the Vietnam War is entitled "Ugly Ares". Inspired by this film, I gave this name to the title of my article. We have watched the overthrow of the long and bizarre rule of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria , which resembled a kind of dynasty. This long and ugly war is finally over.The Syrian government's sudden collapse, seemingly determined to restore unity and end the civil war , is undoubtedly the result of a broader network disintegration and the breaking of crucial links. In this case, Iran is clearly the state holding the chain, with Russia as the main power supporting it. Russia has faced such an outcome because it has made a series of important mistakes. The biggest strategic mistake was to unconditionally support an outright fundamentalist, theocratic state like Iran in the Middle East by positioning it as the main power in the south. They treated such a backward and conservative political regime as "...