A US-Israeli masterclass in how to discourage change in Syria

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US and Israeli responses to President Bashar al-Assad’s fall offer a masterclass on how to discourage change in Syria.

Rather than test and encourage Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, aka Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, US and Israeli actions seem designed to box him in and potentially set him up for failure.