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One of the two candidates officially approved to run against Dr Assad
said the overwhelming majority of Syrians would be able to vote,
downplaying the fighting that still kills around 200 people a day and
the almost three million who have fled.
“In the middle of the country the situation is perfect for election. On
the coast the situation is very good. In the southern part of Syria the
situation is getting better,” said Hassan al-Nouri, a US-educated
former minister of state.
The military respite has come at a cost. Dr Assad’s foreign Shia
supporters have often taken the lead in battle, leaving his own forces
to play a peripheral role against rebels who are themselves increasingly
directed by outside Sunni powers.
Whoever pulls the strings, though, the long term momentum is clear.
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Even though Assad is likely staying in power he will be fighting likely as long as he still is in power. This is a war that likely will never end for a variety of reasons(mostly because of Russia and Iran and Iraq and Syria on one side) and (All Sunni nations and Europe and the U.S. on the other side in this ongoing Proxy war).
I decided to calculate what 200 deaths a day equals per year and it is: 73,000 deaths per year on average. This likely will remain about like this for years and years to come with all dynamics presently in place around the world.
Sadly, this does not include the poor refugees who often starve and die in other countries where they die of water born diseases, malnutrition and hopelessness over the years in refugee camps. So, only middle class people and above who have the resources to go further to other more developed countries have a hope of a good or a better life in the future.
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