This won’t be a New York Times front page story today: Syria’s three major churches condemn the US-British-French airstrikes against the Syrian state, declaring that Assad protects Syria’s Christian minority and noting that this aggression will only encourage jihadist groups.
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/985690713697419265
It does seem that the covert aim of regime change, which some have suggested lay at the heart of US/UK intervention in Syria, would indeed destabilize a perilous balance.
Creating a power vaccum to advance geopolitical interests, and thus exposing minority groups to persecution, seems to be an untended consequence of the conspiracy to engage in regime change in Syria.
h/t AssuredlyAThrowAway