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Analyzing Foucault's Pendulum from the safety of the countryside.
Yeah, general licenses are not going to be sufficient. Getting buy-in for this will require cash, and that will require, at the very least, a massive scaling-down of sanctions.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Set to Allow For More Humanitarian Aid to Flow to Syria
The Biden administration is offering limited sanctions relief to Syria to boost the flow of humanitarian aid after the downfall of President Bashar al-Assad.
www.bloomberg.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I think it would have ended up as one of the "Bad Deals" (along with the ACA) that would have been stirred up by a Trump-like base in whatever reality where their candidacy is viable but his is not.

So I guess it was always going to end like this.
December 9, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Reposted by The Rusticant
The Battle for Damascus is over.

The regime of Bashar al-Assad has fallen.

Syria has been liberated.
December 8, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Alan Menken's father specifically was a dentist, one who pioneered the use of laughing gas in dental procedures.
December 5, 2024 at 4:20 PM