In everyday hustle and bustle, people rarely pay attention to significant events that radically change the whole world. The battles in Syria have been going on for more than one year. Maybe because their value is erased, eludes public attention? But this war was predicted long ago. And the future of the planet depends on its outcome.
How did it all start?
In early 2011, the Arab Spring came to the country. This is what they called a whole series of popular unrest that erupted in the Middle East and demolished the current government at that time. The reasons for such activity of the population have been arguing for several years. Some say that the fighting in Syria is caused by external interference. Others point to problems accumulated by 2011. Apparently, more important is the fact that the country's leadership could not prevent a civil tragedy. In response to the speeches of the people, it used troops. The whole country was worried, but the city of Dara is considered the starting point of hostilities. Particularly powerful demonstrations took place there in March 2011. People demanded the resignation of Bashar al-Assad. The government has deployed army units. Several nearby cities were under siege. Strange, but the events in Tunisia and Egypt, countries that had previously survived the Arab revolutions, did not serve as a lesson to the Syrian leadership. But in their homeland the same scenario was realized. The people turned out to be much wiser. The soldiers flatly refused to shoot fellow citizens.
First blood
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had to take urgent measures to resolve the conflict. He began to change the top of the power structure. He dismissed the government, took up the change of governors. And in the discontented people went their own processes. The real battles in Syria were already close. People formed armed detachments, to which deserters adjoined. By summer, clashes swept the whole country. Government forces crowded. They did not enjoy the support of the population, outraged by social inequality, the arbitrariness of officials. Even at the beginning of the unrest, the government made a fatal mistake. In order to influence people, water and electricity were cut off. Such measures pushed the population to armed struggle. Moreover, there were also good sponsors providing funds for attacks on army units.
Tanks and artillery
By the end of 2011, the situation in the country became critical. The people, outraged by the decisions of the authorities, quickly united. Tanks and guns were brought to the city of Homs. Fighting in Syria began to be carried out using heavy weapons. Bashar al-Assad called the rebels conspirators, supported from the outside. What can not be called a complete misunderstanding of the situation. By this time, some Gulf states imposed sanctions against Syria. Unprecedented pressure was put on the country's president to force him to transfer power to the opposition. By 2015, Assad controlled only a small piece of the territory of the once whole and rich country. In the remaining provinces, chaos reigned. Many refugees rushed to neighboring states. The eleven million people were separated by this “revolution." Relatives became enemies, brothers killed each other.
Network war
According to experts, the Internet played a very large role in organizing the Arab Spring. It was on the network that publications quickly scattered, causing a strong response from the population. This was done, as they say, using the latest technologies for influencing people. So, a photo of the fighting in Syria was distributed in all social networks of the world. The peoples formed a strictly defined picture, the essence of which was that Assad was a tyrant and a murderer. Particular attention was paid to casualties among ordinary civilians. Photos of the corpses of children, tortured women and the elderly flew around the planet, forcing people to sympathize with the rebels, nourish (with feedback) and maintain their hatred of Assad. And the unrest itself, as experts found out, was largely organized via the Internet. Calls to start the "Syrian revolution" on the street came from social networks.
