What is happening in Syria today is no longer open to interpretation or justification. The temporary transitional authority in Damascus has proven, beyond any doubt, that it is not seeking stability or genuine national reconciliation, but rather the management of chaos through the deliberate manufacturing of internal enemies.

At one time in the Syrian coast against the Alawite community, at another in Suwayda against the Druze community, yesterday in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods against the Kurds, and today military mobilization in Deir Hafer under the slogan of “confronting the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).” The stark reality, however, is this: the targeting of the Kurds and eastern Syria under false banners and misleading slogans.

This is not the policy of a state, but a systematic policy of incitement, based on igniting societal contradictions and using sects and components as fuel to ensure the survival of an incapable authority, devoid of any inclusive national project. Whoever mobilizes today against one Syrian component will mobilize tomorrow against another, because the logic of exclusion knows no limits and stops at no threshold.

At the same time, a fundamental question cannot be ignored:
Why do the Syrian Democratic Forces always move in accordance with the rhythm of the American will?
And why are the fateful decisions concerning the Kurds and eastern Syria managed through a logic of waiting and adaptation, rather than initiative and political parity?

The truth that must be stated without evasion is that the United States needs the SDF, not the other way around.
It needs them to control the ground, to combat terrorism, and to protect its strategic interests in the region. Yet the SDF leadership persists in acting as if it were the weaker party, as though the fate of an entire people were dependent on a signal from abroad, rather than on an independent national decision.

The continuation of this approach—on the one hand, a transitional authority that fabricates conflicts and fuels divisions, and on the other, military forces lacking an independent and clear political decision—means one thing only: prolonging the Syrian crisis and exposing the Kurds and all other Syrian components to even greater dangers.

Syria does not need authorities that ignite fires to conceal their failure, nor military forces without a political compass. Syria needs a genuine national project, a courageous decision, and a definitive break with policies of incitement and dependence on foreign powers.

Any complacency from this point forward is not neutrality, but silent complicity in crime.

16 / 1 / 2026
Dr. Adnan Bouzan