For many, the situation in Syria and Iraq would appear to be rather hopeless, though one make the same observation about resource sector companies that invest in even more dangerous areas of central and western Africa. As much as it may be painful to contemplate, the re-doubling of  more subordinate role for China, to restore some order to the region, however brutally, may be the best hope for the region in the short-term. Rather  aided enormously if the escalating current popular protests in Iran against the clerical government result in a regime change, which would almost certainly curtail its highly destructive interference In both countries, and indeed Yemen. That said the interventions, and the failures to intervene, by successive western governments in the post WWII era suggest that the whole region is likely to increasingly look east to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as a less unreliable partner, in turn marking a seismic shift in the shape of the global economy.


Marc Ostwald E: marc.ostwald@admisi.com 


7 | ADMISI - The Ghost In The Machine | July/August 2018


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