We Were Not Wrong when We Called it The Fall of Syria

In the year following the fall of the ‘regime’, and with the rapid collapse of state institutions, Syria entered an even darker phase when power was taken over by an alliance of extremist groups. Traditional ‘tyranny’ was replaced by a cross-border terrorist model, turning the country from a ‘rigid dictatorship’ into chaos led by forces that believe neither in the homeland nor in sovereignty, but in their ideological and financial interests that transcend geography.

From that moment, intensive promotion of the term ‘our liberation’ began, as if Syria had entered a new era of sovereignty, while the reality on the ground shows a completely opposite scene.
Liberation without sovereignty… and a slogan without substance.

True liberation, in its political and constitutional sense, is based on three solid pillars:

1. Full sovereignty of the state over its territories.
2. Unity of political and military decision-making.
3. A collective popular will that protects the nation’s identity.

Comparing this to the reality of Syria today, none of these elements has been achieved. There is no sovereignty, no unified decision-making, and no collective project. Yet some act as if Syria has regained its independence, while the map testifies to four actual occupations and absolute foreign influence in most areas of the country.

The map of Syria as it is… not as it is presented in celebrations:

• Northeast: United States and Kurdish separatist SDF forces
  • A region with a separate decision-making, directly linked to the Israel-controlled American strategy and the borders of a Kurdish project that does not intersect with the central authority.
• Northwest: NATO member state Turkey and its host of terrorist factions.
  • A full Turkish military and security presence makes central sovereignty nonexistent.
• South: Zionist American and Israel influence
  • Areas controlled by international red lines prevent any effective state authority.
• The Coastal region: Russian presence.
  • Russian military bases are the largest in the Eastern Mediterranean, with direct influence on political and security decisions

In this way, the talk of ‘liberation’ becomes closer to a promotional description than to a tangible reality.

Unity of the People… The Most Absent Front

There is no freedom in a nation that is internally divided. Today, Syria witnesses:

A Kurdish independence project or an independent federation.

As-Suwayda is heading towards declared self-rule.

The coast is experiencing a sense of siege and separation after massacres and ongoing bloodshed.

The ‘Sunnis’ are torn between Turkish influence, American influence, and factions with multiple loyalties.

It is not a unified state, but rather a collection of neighboring peoples, ruled by disintegrated facations each with its own foreign-influenced project, its own concerns, and battles enforced upon it.

How do people follow those who divide them?

Part of the answer lies in the fact that general political awareness completely collapsed over two decades of war.

The majority began to move behind the loudest rhetoric, not the most rational. And the aware minority became a marginal voice in a scene filled with extremism and empty slogans.

Therefore, we witness an absurd scene: crowds celebrating behind figures and groups that actually caused the country’s disintegration and sold its political decisions.

A celebration of liberation, while the land is divided, the people are split, and the decisions are hijacked..

“What pains me is seeing my children forced to participate in this fake celebration and to buy the flags with red stars — this flag whose bearers caused the death of many members of my family, the most recent just two weeks ago.”

In light of this reality, celebrating liberation becomes like celebrating a crashed plane just because it landed on the ground.
Liberation of what?
And from what?
And for whom?

Syria today faces a bitter truth, there is no liberation without sovereignty, no sovereignty without the unity of the people, and no unity without a real national project.

And unless minds are liberated before geography, all talk of ‘liberation’ will remain mere noise rising above a silently crumbling nation.

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