Syria as a Country

Syria is a big country bordering Mediterranean sea.

It has several motor ways.

M1 from Homs to the sea.

M 4 reaching the port.

M 5 running parallel to the sea border with all the important hubs.

Hama

Homs

Aleppo 

Damascus 

M20 running to the country side.

Damascus is situated near the south west.

Turkey has a long boundary with Syria is to the north.

Lebanon to the West 

Iraq is to the East.

Jordan to the South.

Israel to the Southeast 

Iran is well away on the East and Syria provides Iran a land corridor to the sea.

It was under France until the end of World War II.

How Russian got involved, I do not know.

Russia needs a warm port in the Mediterranean.

It has a 50 year International Pact with Syria but this is in jeapody.

Open Economy

A bright guy by the name of Kusal Perera had a YouTube presentation with Dharshana Hapangoda.

Three points I extracted out of many are as follows.

1. Open Economy is centered around the center or in the cities.

It covers roughly 30% of the population (not the Land Mass).

This is the so called, the middle class or business class.

 

70% is the Rural Community.

 

The rural community depends on the 30% in the center for their survival.

 

The Rural Community lacks the social infrastructure.

2. Open Economy is basically and inherently corrupt and there is no apparent transparency.

3. The 3rd is the most important.

 

There is no proper bondage between the two systems.

 

Those in the center use politics, race, religion and poverty to make the Rural Community , the slaves of the system.

 

There is no emancipation for the rural masses.

 

There is no system change what the people expected.

 

They become perennial (parayas) commuters in the system.

4. The fourth point (he should agree) I should add is that the present NPP has no grasp of this division having gathered more support from the rural masses.

 

Their aspiration for political, economic and social emancipation would never see the daylight.

 

The division is widening but no solution envisaged.