The Middle East and Central Asia now bound to the US by the Abrahamic Accords: Is Syria the US’ new backyard?
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The Middle East and Central Asia now bound to the US by the Abrahamic Accords: Is Syria the US’ new backyard?An overarching geopolitical question crossed my Byzantine mind as I methodically contemplated, across continents, the overlay of maps, with newly concluded treaties on the one hand, and geopolitical moves on the other: Is Syria now the new backyard for the US, a kind of mini-Central America,
geopolitically speaking? My answer is a tentative Yes. Tentative because the varsity of this geographically counterintuitive conclusion will be contingent on the implementation of many treaties and understandings, and on the speed of that implementation, principally by the US itself.
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