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The Syrian Civil War ending... and then what? from https://buffalonews.com/2018/04/17/ the-briefing-why-syria-matters/ In Syria, the battle for Idlib - until now occupied by terrorists affiliated and related to Al-Qaeda - is imminent. Other territories controlled by rebels - 'moderate' or not - are few and isolated. Kurds are negotiating with Assad and will likely see recognized part of the autonomy they ask, if Syria territorial integrity will be reconstituted. All in all, the war in Syria is coming to its conclusion - and the USA-led Coalition can't do much to hinder that, as we prefigured . So, is it almost done? Or do we have to expect other crisis and possibly escalations before we can call the conflict off? Of course, in a future perspective, one major issue will be Israel attitude - along with the ones of Saudi Arabia and Turkey on the backsides. Relationships between Israel and Syria will be difficult to normalize without finding a compromise over th...

In this series of posts we are using a human body as a similitude for a State.           Among many organs and tissues, which ones better correspond to specific State apparatuses?          Which parallelism can we draw between them? Here we will look at lungs and their counterparts in a State, first by reviewing how they are structured - anatomy - , then how they work - physiology - and eventually what happens when they get disfunctional - pathology. Anatomy - Lungs oxygenate blood like investments supplement economy with new money from http://hyperpshysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/ hbase/Biology/respir.html We already compared blood to money , specifying that blood flow is required to sustain cells as money circulation sustains people. Lungs create the conditions for blood oxygenation, thus allowing it to deliver oxygen to cells. When considering economy and society, investments act like lungs by f...