The Levant 2025

An interesting comment appeared under the article titled, “The Syria Carve-Up Creates a de facto Israel-Turkey Border Ensuring a Broader ME War," by Mike Whitney. The article appeared on the Unz Review site on January 6th. The commenter used the pseudonym, Armageddon, and stated:

Israel has walked into a trap designed by Iran and the Axis of Resistance. A trap that would have been obvious to any sane and rational entity. The genocidal entity is high on their own supply and cannot understand that they are marching toward their own doom the deeper they entrench themselves in Syria.

I don’t know if this gambit was ever part of Soleimani’s grand strategy, but it might as well have been, especially after Russia refused to take Idlib and compromised with Turkey. It was certainly clear to him and other Resistance leaders that Assad was not going to ever become a full member of the Axis, nor was he ever going to allow Iran to attack Israel from Syrian territory.

Most Western observers are unable to see or understand this, but Syria was a lost cause the moment Hafez Assad passed away and Bashar was selected to replace him. He never wanted the job, nor did he have any proper political education or military background. He was easily manipulated by Western forces and never heeded Iranian advice, such as when he agreed to withdraw Syrian forces from Lebanon, giving Israel and the anti-Hezbollah forces in Lebanon a gift early on.

Iran always knew Assad was a weak link, but gave him many chances and opportunities to turn against the West and join the Resistance. He refused many times to allow the IRGC to train and equip Alawite and Christian militias that would be totally loyal to the Resistance, as was done in Iraq with the PMU. He never listened when Soleimani and other Iranian leaders told him that he needed to learn from the mistakes of past leaders like Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was distant from his own subjects and allowed his government to become fully autocratic and beholden to Zionist machinations.

The irony in all this is that Iran was always his greatest ally and yet he sought to keep Iran at a distance, preferring to listen to Russia and the Persian Gulf regimes. Even at the very end, with the barbarians literally at the gates, Iran still offered to help save the Syrian Arab Republic from total destruction, but in a rare moment of lucidity he told them that there was no point, as his own military had abandoned him. He realized all too late that his perfidy against Iran with Saudi Arabia and the GCC had been a catastrophic mistake, that in his betrayal of Iran, he himself had been betrayed and sold out by the Arabs.

Iran always has contingencies and where possible, it prefers to allow its enemies to destroy themselves rather than involve itself directly in direct conflict. People are easily fooled by what turn out of be pyrrhic victories, which is the only kind of victory the United States and Israel are capable of achieving. These two terrorist entities are so blinded by their genocidal bloodlust and hegemonic delusions of grandeur that they walked right into a quagmire exactly as Iran had expected them to.

And amazingly, rather than realize their mistake, they are digging themselves in even further. They are really that stupid. Iran needs them to think they are winning, which is precisely why Hezbollah agreed to the ceasefire, to give Israel the opportunity to step into the quagmire, and why Iran has delayed responding to Israel. We are only just beginning to witness the grand strategy of the Axis of Resistance unfolding, but the godless Zionists are completely blind to what is obvious to any keen observer.

Israel is destroying itself and it is inevitable that American imperialism and terrorism in West Asia will come to an end. They have always been their own worst enemies.

Notes analysis is in full agreement with the summary. A keen observer would also note the deafening silence about the Syrian debacle form the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation, and certainly not because of a humiliating defeat. And, not a “peep” from Hezbollah either.

In addition, Bashar al-Assad had intended to remain in Syria to the bitter end. However, Russian officials had requested to evacuate al-Assad and his family for their safety. Sadly, the only people who will end up suffering are the citizens of former Syria.