History is not merely on the move again – as we have become used to saying in response to the great succession of extraordinary political and military events since about 2014-16, that are shattering the old rules and geopolitical status quo – but it is racing forward at a gallop. Over the past couple of weeks it has been events in Syria that have provided the latest shock to the global system, with the swift and sudden implosion of Assad’s regime at the hands of rebels left over from a civil war that the Syrian president had, by all accounts, won four years ago.
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