Syria’s Wars Are Altering Power Balances in Asia

Syria has become a malignant tumor spreading steadily in various mutations throughout most of the world. Its military chaos, political collapse, perversion of religion and human suffering are infesting Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.

The world order so neatly enshrined in treaties and laws by the victorious United States (US)-led World War II allies is being battered. Donald Trump could deal the coup de grace if he implements the views he declared during his campaign on foreign policy, including the Middle East, Europe, Russia, and China.

Law and order, human kindness and moral compass are already fading under the horrors of Syria’s wars. Refugees and other economic victims fleeing the bloodshed are threatening to unravel history’s finest experiment in weaving bonds of affinity around the ideals of human rights and democratic freedoms to replace centuries of wars. The great “Never again!” experiment after World War II, best embodied by the now 28-nation European Union (EU), is shaking at the foundations. It is under onslaught from refugees, migrants and terrorists spawned by social collapse and chaos spreading partly from violent Islamic fundamentalism, of which Syria is a focal point…