During the Cold War, the most extremist about any crisis were the superpowers, the Soviet Union and the Americans. The neighbours try always to find a solution because they are always scared to have some problems, except now. We see extremes much more from the neighbours of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey, much more than the Russians and the Americans. They went too far.
Maybe I disagree a little bit with the professor about the internal situation, which I was following for the last two years. First of all, there's nothing in Syria called the Free Syrian Army. If you want to be accurate, you have to add an “s”, Free Syrian Armies. I myself tried to have data about the armed groups. You cannot imagine; they're called brigades, but of course “brigade” has no military definition. They can be five people as well as 30,000 people. I counted more than 2,000 different brigades.
The second problem is that when you are talking about the coalition or about the political opposition there's a huge problem. What is their impact on the armed groups? It's very limited, and I'm not talking about the extremists, al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham, ISIS. It's becoming very complicated, and I agree with the professor that you need to have even those who you consider as part of the problem to be part of the solution. For this you need a political will, which is not there yet.