Now obviously, the idea that somehow Syria is going to be able to organize and carry out any kind of elections amid the violence is beyond ridiculous or, as Sami Nader, head of the Beirut-based Levant Institute for Strategic Affairs politely puts it, „how can you organize a fair election in a country that’s shattered by war, with no security, fair electoral law or freedoms?”(…)
In the end, the more likely scenario is, as we‘ve always predicted, that the Assad regime falls and (very) shortly thereafter, US marines storm in to „liberate“ Damascus at which point a puppet government will be installed – a puppet government which will coincidentally see the utility in allowing the Qatar-Turkey pipeline to be run through Syria.