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Spring said the Syrian situation was also different from that of Egypt, as in Egypt, the Coptic Christians welcomed the revolution against former president Hosni Mubarak, but in Syria the Church has spoke out in favour of Assad, whose Baathist Party allowed religious freedom and was not a US client state of Saudi Arabia.Despite the spreading insecurity and instability, he believed that unlike Tunisia and Egypt, Assad was “more willing to enter into dialogue, but not with parties aiming to disrupt the state in the interests of Israel, or of parties seeking only violent solutions.” 

Another major factor Spring saw was that the West had overreached itself, including in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have “weakened the USA militarily.” Equally were the effects of the economic downturn, which he said had caused the current situation to become “so extremely dangerous”, shifting real power to the BRICS, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. 

“The EU and the USA are stagnant economically, in debt and really unable to afford constant military interventions, nor in the case of the USA and its annual subsidy to Israel. His analysis was that US power for many years has resided not merely with the military-industrial complex “but worse with that complex as headed up by pro Israeli apologists and Zionists, including so-called Christian Zionists.