🧵1/ A few days after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Damascus buzzed with revolutionary euphoria. Activists gathered at the Hijaz Railway Station, dreaming of a new Syria. But alongside hope, there were ghosts—like the gaunt face of Mazen al-Hamada, a tortured activist, martyred days before victory.
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“If people truly understood what the war with Hezbollah will mean,” one officer told me this week, “everyone would be doing every possible thing in their power to find a diplomatic solution.” What would a diplomatic solution look like? I can't even imagine.