Syria ۞ Logic

﷽ Levantine Futurist, Techno-optimist.

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『Strategy is the architecture of destiny』

You're not bullish 🐂 enough on Syria 🇸🇾🚀

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

My new article ✍🏻

The Inheritors: What Idlib Taught Us About the Eternal Logic of History

🔗: https://t.co/5ZedYHz5ur

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

What a pathetic liar.

This is from 2024 in Binnish Syria 🇸🇾

🤡 😂

Assadists are so incredibly desperate... they will jump at anything to fulfill their fantasies.

Reminder: Damascus is ours until the day of judgment! ✌️

https://t.co/Bfh5OCivjQ

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

What a pathetic liar.

This is from 2024 in Binnish Syria 🇸🇾

🤡 😂

Assadists are so incredibly desperate... they will jump at anything to fulfill their fantasies.

Reminder: Damascus is ours until the day of judgment! ✌️

https://t.co/Bfh5OCivjQ

[The'Nimr'Tiger @Souria4Syrians]

In just a single day Syrians went from:

"The people want the downfall of fuel prices"

To

"The people want the downfall of energy minister"

To

"The people want the downfall of Jolani"

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

@Souria4Syrians 🔽

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

What a pathetic liar.

This is from 2024 in Binnish Syria 🇸🇾

🤡 😂

Assadists are some desperate, they will jump at anything to fulfill their fantasies.

Reminder: Damascus is ours until the day of judgment! ✌️

https://t.co/Bfh5OCivjQ

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

Some strategic understanding and to put things in perspective:

The “Valley of Tears” is a concept in the political economy of transition, associated with sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf and his 1990 book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, written as Eastern European countries were emerging from communist rule.

Dahrendorf argued that the transition from a closed system to an open one unfolds according to three very different timelines. Political change can happen relatively quickly: constitutions can be rewritten, elections held, and new institutions established within roughly six months. Economic transformation takes much longer. Liberalizing prices, restructuring state enterprises, encouraging investment, and building a functioning market economy can take around six years. Social transformation is slower still. Developing trust in institutions, new civic habits, and a culture of respect for the rule of law may take an entire generation, perhaps sixty years.

The “Valley of Tears” lies largely between the first two timelines. Political change can create an immediate sense of freedom and optimism, but economic reform often brings immediate costs while its benefits take years to materialize. Subsidies may be reduced, prices may rise, inefficient enterprises may close, and unemployment may increase. As a result, public sentiment can fall from the initial optimism of political change into a period in which many people feel that their economic situation has actually become worse.

In economics, a similar pattern is often described through the “J curve” or the “transition recession”: output and incomes initially decline before recovering and eventually rising above their starting point. Later scholarship, particularly Adam Przeworski’s Democracy and the Market (1991), highlighted the political dilemma this creates. Economic reform requires public patience, while a newly opened political system gives citizens the means to punish governments for the immediate costs of those reforms before their longer term benefits become visible. Governments therefore face a difficult choice between continuing painful reforms and retreating from them at potentially even greater long term cost.

Historical experience shows that neither the depth nor the duration of this valley is fixed. Countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic recovered relatively quickly from their initial transition downturns, while Russia and Ukraine experienced much longer and deeper economic disruptions. Research on these transitions points to several factors that can determine how difficult the period becomes: the coherence and sequencing of reforms, effective and targeted social safety nets, the quality of existing institutions, the legitimacy of the government and its ability to explain the reforms to the public, and the existence of a credible longer term objective, such as European integration, that gives people a tangible reason to endure short term hardship.

The central lesson of the “Valley of Tears” is therefore not simply that economic reform causes suffering. It is that the costs of transition tend to arrive before the benefits. The challenge for governments is to make that period as short and manageable as possible, protect the most vulnerable while reforms take effect, and maintain public confidence until the gains of the new economic system begin to become visible.

[بسام السليمان/ أبو عدنان @BassamAboAdnan]

نحن في وادي الدموع الانتقالي، نحن في المنطقة التي تعثّرت فيها أكثر من 85% من تجارب الانتقال السابقة، نعم، لنا خصوصيتنا ولكننا لسنا استثناءً.

كلامي ليس من باب التهويل والتخويف فمستوى التوتر المجتمعي اليوم ليس انفجارياً ولا زال حالةً قابلة للاحتواء رغم تجاوزه عتباتٍ ما كان يجب ان ندفع المجتمع لتجاوزها،

كلامي من باب التحذير، كلامي من باب الحث على العمل لنتجنب الوصول مستقبلاً لمستوى التوتر الانفجاري، وهذا يتطلّب منا جميهاً وقفة صادقة مع الذات، ومراجعات حقيقية على صعيد السياسات الاقتصادية والاجتماعية وأداء وسلوك العديد من مسؤولي الحكومة، ويتطلب منا الكثير من الوعي والحرص على مستقبل بلدنا.
#وادي_الدموع
#ادبيات_الانتقال

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

Getting governmental paperwork done in Syria 🇸🇾 is a more convoluted process than trying to un-cook an egg 🥚 🍳...

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

@SZade15 I didn't say to kill murder rape barrel bomb and chemical attack the citizens.

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

Syrian Ministry of Energy:

We understand that the price adjustment poses an additional burden on citizens, especially in light of the current living conditions and income levels. However, Syria today relies heavily on imports to meet its needs for oil derivatives.

Local production covers only about a third of the local market's needs.

The current global crisis is not only related to the price of Brent crude; there is a shortage of finished products, and significant pressure on refining, supply, and transportation capacities, which has led to an increase in the prices of some derivatives at a faster rate than the increase in crude oil itself.

Prices are not a one-way street, but are subject to review according to market movements, supply costs, the availability of derivatives, and other variables, both upwards and downwards.

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

One thing in common between America 🇺🇸 and Syria 🇸🇾 are that disesl prices are at an all-time high.

Citizenry are feeling the pressures of regional conflicts across the globe.

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

News about the anticipated speech by president Ahmed Al-Shara is false.

There is no speech.

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

Any Syrian who is protesting by burning 🔥 tires or blocking roads must be dealt with swiftly and accordingly.

No excuses or leniancy should be given to those who seek to harm the infrastructure and wellbeing of the Syrian Arab Republic.

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

I cry of happiness
I love my country
I love my army
I love my faith

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

I cry of happiness
I love my country
I love my army
I love my faith

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

"Truth is not known by men; know the truth, and you will know its men."

~ Imam Ali RA

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

Syrian Minister of Energy:

Syria currently produces 102,000 barrels of oil per day.

The daily oil requirement for domestic consumption is approximately 300,000 barrels.

Syria has been significantly affected by the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz.

We are planning to establish new oil refineries in several governorates.

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

Syrian Minister of Energy:

At the beginning of the liberation process, Syria's electricity production was approximately 1000 megawatts, while today, production has reached 3500 megawatts (65% of domestic demand).

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

According to sources in the Syrian People's Assembly:

The Syrian People's Assembly has scheduled a hearing for the Minister of Education, Muhammad Abdul Rahman Turk, for Monday, September 14th.

Meaning the Syrian Parliament will hold its first ever independent hearing of a government Minister.

Why this is important: Syria’s new People’s Assembly is beginning to exercise parliamentary oversight by directly questioning a government minister — something that did not occur independently under Assad’s rule.

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

According to full-year projections, if the H1 2026 growth rate continues through the rest of the year, Syria is on track to reach or surpass its pre-war (2010) maritime activity levels in 2026.

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

Syrian port traffic has aggressively surged, with 945 vessels handled at Latakia and Tartus in H1 2026 — about 425% above the 2024 figure. The two ports processed nearly 8 million tonnes of cargo, including almost 5 million tonnes at Tartus alone.

Meanwhile, DP World has delivered three new mobile harbour cranes to Tartus, expected to raise cargo-handling capacity by ~40%, as part of its $800 million, 30-year modernisation program.

~ Syrian General Authority for Borders and Customs/Ports Europe

[Syria ۞ Logic @SyriaStrategist]

#BREAKING 📰 🇸🇾

Lebanese security forces raid a drug warehouse in the Bekaa Valley and arrest Bashar al-Assad's cousin, Suleiman Hilal al-Assad

Syria has requested his extradition from Lebanon for his involvement in murder and smuggling