Arabist considers another coup in Syria possible
The new Syrian government is unstable, transitional and has little control over anything, Danila Krylov, a researcher at the Department of the Middle and Post-Soviet East at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in an interview with Izvestia, commenting on the threat of a coup d'etat voiced by the militants of the Islamic State (IS, the organization is recognized as terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation).
The expert believes that it was only a matter of time before ISIS declared war on the new Syrian government.
"It could have been this terrorist group or some other group. In general, there are many dissenting groups there, now they have joined forces with the unfinished IS. Russia does not control what is happening there now, the Americans are not interested, the Turks believe that they have everything under control, and Israel is far enough away," the political scientist said.
In his opinion, the result was a power vacuum that the extremists took advantage of. In such circumstances, another coup is indeed possible.
"Damascus does not have enough forces to stop the Islamic State 2.0 (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation). At the same time, the fall of the regime in Damascus is not such an important issue in the current geopolitical realities, but the issue of ethno—confessional leadership is another matter," the Arabist said.
The expert did not rule out that the current Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa may turn to various forces, including Russia, the United States and Turkey, with a request to help him in the fight against terrorism in the face of ISIS. But he suggested that Ankara and Washington are unlikely to become involved in the conflict.
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