Chaos has erupted in Syria with the downfall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the rise of the terror group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), leaving the world guessing at what comes next.
“There are no good guys here. Bashar al-Assad, really bad guy. [HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani], really bad guy. All these other terrorist groups, really bad,” Shapiro said Sunday in a video reacting to Assad’s ouster and exile over the weekend.
“There are some people on the ground who presumably aren’t as bad; that would be, you would imagine, the Druze, the Kurds. But those are not the main forces that we’re talking about right now,” Shapiro said.
Syria is broken down into a number of factions within the country itself, as well as influenced by its neighbors vying for greater control over the region. With so many players and interests at play, the outcome of regime change in Syria is…