The collapse of the Assad regime as the initial step by Democratic allies in dismantling the balanced mutual-support system among authoritarian regimes

On December 8, 2024, the Syrian opposition forces captured the capital city of Damascus. This was the final stage of the opposition forces’ offensive against the Syrian Arab Army, which resulted in the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the complete collapse of the power vertical built during the Assad regime.

The fall of the Assad regime proved in practice that the institutions of a free society and their permanent self-regulation have a greater potential for preservation and adaptation to new conditions than the administrative-command model of governance typical of authoritarian regimes.

The collapse of the Syrian Arab Republic has shown that the system of organizing power and its control over society in autocracies is artificially formed and, therefore, unreliable and unstable.