Clearly wasn't able to weather the storm. Maybe when left alone it may have been a passable movement, but this was not the kind of system that could weather decades of civil war and sanctions without crumbling. As someone who thought Ba'athism was a possible starting model for a future Pan Arab movement, I've had one hell of a reality check. Syria was hollowed out from within while being bombarded from the outside, so it was always going to implode. Ba'athism, and perhaps Pan-Arabism as a whole is well and truly dead. Maybe there will be a united and prosperous Arab state in the future, but not within my lifetime, that I feel depressingly sure of.
If the Suri and Iraqi Baathist hadn't committed minority rule and just stayed chill (one Alawi and the other Sunni), let alone allied, along with other Arab socialist states,
I'm pretty sure they could've avoided the sectarian contradictions that the West, Turkey, and Gulf compradors exploited (Idk why with the sectarian infighting)
Clearly wasn't able to weather the storm. Maybe when left alone it may have been a passable movement, but this was not the kind of system that could weather decades of civil war and sanctions without crumbling. As someone who thought Ba'athism was a possible starting model for a future Pan Arab movement, I've had one hell of a reality check. Syria was hollowed out from within while being bombarded from the outside, so it was always going to implode. Ba'athism, and perhaps Pan-Arabism as a whole is well and truly dead. Maybe there will be a united and prosperous Arab state in the future, but not within my lifetime, that I feel depressingly sure of.
If the Suri and Iraqi Baathist hadn't committed minority rule and just stayed chill (one Alawi and the other Sunni), let alone allied, along with other Arab socialist states,
I'm pretty sure they could've avoided the sectarian contradictions that the West, Turkey, and Gulf compradors exploited (Idk why with the sectarian infighting)