MOSCOW, June 09. /ITAR-TASS/. Almost 90% votes that Bashar Assad received in the presidential election was a totally predictable result of the electoral campaign in Syria — a result that cannot be called in question in any way but can only be rejected as a whole, the way the West is rejecting it.
The West’s problem, however, is that it does not steer the processes in Syria. The harshest versions of ‘color revolutions’ and direct military intervention failed to deliver the goods on Syrian soil, and there is an explanation to it.
All the revolutions that broke out in the format of the ‘Arab spring grew out of the contradictions along the divisions lines between the urban and rural areas, and modern/ultramodern. In spite of all the slogans demanding freedom and democracy, emphasis was made on awakening the most primeval and archaic motivations for crushing a new civilization of modernized Islam.
The paradox, however, is that the recipes went faulty precisely in Syria although the lines of division existing in Syrian society today are quite plausible between separate religious communities, city and village dwellers, as well as people of different nationalities living in the country,
The answer to the exclamation ‘But why?’ should be sought in Syria’s most recent history, which is linked in the most immediate way to the Assad family, which consists of talented people and unconventional statesmen.