Reddit reviews The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East
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The reasons for the 2011 rebellion were numerous and not widely disputed. The reasons for its apocalyptic escalation and the attraction of all the insane foreign powers, Iran, Turkey, US, Saudi Arabia, Russia, etc. is the theoretical problem. The book by Phillips - which does not neglect the way the great powers went about cutting up states - contains an account of this which is admired by people with widely divergent views
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It is a bit strange to belabor the conception 'colonization' here; the Levant was only briefly ruled by Western powers. The Assad family has been in power longer much longer than the French were.