11.01.2025, Moscow.
Moscow should have relied, instead of Bashar al-Assad, on someone who could see the decay of the state system, because we cannot fight for Syria without the Syrians themselves, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, political scientist and philosopher Sergey Kurginyan said on December 14 on the program Conversation with a Sage on radio Zvezda.
Speaking about the reasons of the Syrian events when its leader Bashar al-Assad was overthrown in days, the analyst explained that the united Syrian national state was essentially held together by an Alawite core, a small and very consolidated ultra-Shia community, on which al-Assad’s father, the previous president of Syria Hafez al-Assad, “could rely to transform it into an effective fierce authority.”
Bashar al-Assad, relying on the same minor group of the Alawites, failed to gather the country, because “it could only be done with a strong hand,” Sergey Kurginyan stressed. “His internal vegetarian approach makes everything decay,” the analyst explained how al-Assad’s policy was perceived in Syria.
The political scientist stressed that “we cannot fight for Syria without the Syrians and al-Assad themselves.”
Sergey Kurginyan stressed that after a brilliant campaign in Syria in 2015 Russia was already withdrawing its forces because al-Assad “did not want us to stay there.” “We came there upon his invitation, and we helped, and we did a very good job. We did not have the Ukraine problem then,” the political scientist explained.
In the context of the Special Military Operation, Russia needs to transform its state first, and only then it will be able to wage several conflicts at a time, the analyst noted.
“And we do not need people who repeatedly fail to see these decay processes. Did not we see what was happening to the Armenian regime before Pashinyan? Did not we see what was taking place in Ukraine under Yanukovich? Did not we see what is taking place elsewhere?” Sergey Kurginyan explained.
He reminded that the Soviet Union seeking to secure its southern borders through entering Afghanistan with its troops in 1979, “demonstrated very high performance.” However, “actual performance,” according to the analyst, began after Chairman of the KGB Vladimir Kryuchkov [in office between 1988-1991] “carried out perhaps his first really major security services operation to discover Najibullah.”
Kryuchkov said that “we must make our stake on Najibullah” [ex-president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah killed by Afghani radicals in 1996 – Rossa Primavera News Agency]. “All the others will fail. A person was found, and this person could control everything. If we had supplied him [Najibullah] just a little arms, if we had not betrayed him, he would have continued to govern in Afghanistan,” Sergey Kurginyan explained.
Russia, the analyst concludes, should have placed in Syria someone who could hold this national state together. “Instead of lisping with al-Assad sitting in his gilded chair, we should have thought about who and how. He became entangled in his relations with Iran, which he established earlier than with us, with Israel etc.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
