The collapse of Syria poses a huge threat to Middle Eastern stability.  Syria has been a major player in the Arab world since World War II.  It was indeed a major player among the dizzying cast of foreign powers that intervened in Lebanon’s 15-year civil war and brought that conflict to an end with an outright occupation.  And, now, Syria’s future is a bleak black hole of instability (same as Libya).

Peace talks have restarted but Bashar al-Assad and the so-called rebels are still fighting over a State that is almost beyond recognition and, therefore, beyond salvaging. Russia and the US are looking for ways to calm tensions. Another critical factor is exhaustion.

Syria’s civilians are desperate. The ranks of capable fighters are dwindling by the minute, yet none of the parties have given up hope of outright victory. Now, this war has entered an endgame but it would certainly take at least a few more years of fighting before serious negotiations would begin.  So far, none of the players took these peace talks seriously.

For now, Assad’s negotiators still consider the rebels as ‘terrorists’ while the opposition is insisting that Assad — the malignant disease that struck Syria in the heart — must step aside immediately. The State over whose fate they’re haggling, however, appears to be beyond salvaging.

The aggressive conduct in the region must be altered without further delay because, from these howls of outrage at what is happening in Syria, our beloved Europe is sure to suffer and will continue to be further disunited.

Power in enforcing new immigration laws is therefore of the utmost importance to European countries caught in this ferocious game.