Three Lessons from Nine Years of Conflict in Syria

By Michael D. Purzycki

dpatop – 04 December 2019, Great Britain, Watford: Jens Stoltenberg, Nato Secretary General, and Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, welcome US President Donald Trump to the Nato Summit before the start of the working session. The meeting of heads of state and government will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the military alliance. Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa (Photo by Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images)

“However much Americans and their leaders may want to turn away from wars and atrocities geographically far away, sooner or later they will be impacted by them, usually in a jarring and harmful way.”

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