Damascus is going to be the key to 2025 diplomacy

The most extraordinary thing is going on in Damascus. American diplomats chatting away with poeple considered feared terrorists not that long ago. And the most amazing thing is it's going to work. The new Syrian rulers seriously want help and it looks like they are going to get it from the US. Quite extraordinary and strangely uplifting. First of all, the big dollar bounty on the head of Muhammad al-Jolani whose real name is Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, is going to be lifted. Next will come a lifting of sanctions and finally, the US will agree to recognise the new government as legitimate. It might take a few months but it's going to happen. If it does happen, then Syria, for the first time in more than two decades, will get a chance to revive itself and be an accepted and welcomed member of the international community. The aid money will flow in. This is awesome news for the Syrian people.