The big problem that Assad represents for the rest of the world, is that he gets no sympathy as a leader struggling to put down the revolution in his own country…
Imagine if in the UK we had a situation where the Hard Left go on the rampage, because Labour win the most seats in an election, but the other parties manage to put together some “Coalition of the Losers” - and deny Labour any place whatsoever in the next government?
That scenario was averted in Holland (Geert Wilder’s Party failed to win the most seats) and Germany (AfD failed to win the most seats) - which made it far easier to deny the two parties there in question, any place in government despite their respective poll surges.
So… A rampaging Left, marches up Downing street, and demands the new “Weak Coalition” step down, and Labour will form the new government instead, but a minority one…
The new government sends in the riot squad, a riot duly starts, people start to die, and the army come in with orders to “Shoot anyone not of the government”…
Bloodbath ensues, and country descendes into civil war.
The rest of the world? Do they send in Troops to take one side or the other?
Do they offer mere platitudes, when both sides are already irreconcilible?
…Or do they stay out of it, and just pull as much money and support out of the entire region in all haste…
Divisions cause Civil War. To avert division, you need to lead those who don’t like you - NOT those that do, first and foremost.
Forget about “Uniting the Party” - Unite the POPULATION first and foremost.
Is that what May is doing, pandering to the large Remainer faction in Labour? Pumping ever more money into the NHS, to no thanks whatsoever (Leftists still hate May after all…) whilst the two main cashcows that could really unite the country - The Brussels payments (10 figures per year) and Foreign Aid Budget (10 figures per year) - are left untouched, with that money going to all sorts of daft, wrong, and sometimes outright evil causes abroad?
Corbyn cannot but pick up on all this, because we’re well past the point of “Can we afford it”. It’s all about “We can afford it IF…” from now on.
If Corbyn’s Labour can poll 40% last year without even making a committment to scrapping or completing Brexit, and reforming the overseas charity structures, to make more “Charity begin at Home” - then at any moment, he is still free in theory to pull a rabbit out of the hat, and turn over his entire front bench, thus appeasing the Blairites, and Non-Labour-Voting Public at the same time… Surely enough to surge that little bit more needed to win an outright majority government?
We cannot stay in the center any more. Not just in this county, but anywhere.
We might have wanted the politics of the Right previously, but faced too much by way of head winds.
All these factors usher in a Government of the Left, pushing back with all the force of the Right. That, all-in-all sounds rather more like “More Blair” and closer to what Russia/China/Saudi Arabia/Israel/Turkey/Iran are already up for. “Get with the programme, or be destoyed by it”.
Imagine the speed at which the population will flee the center, not wanting to be associated any longer with the “losing side”… !