A point of evidence that we live in a political environment ruled by utterly corrupt narratives is that recently an Islamic terrorist group took over Syria at gunpoint to wide celebrations (mostly outside Syria) which was followed by the international community declaring that this was a very, very good thing, and recognizing the terrorists, whose credibility came entirely from seizing power, as the new Syrian government as if they had won some sort of election.

Ahmed al-Sharaa, better known as Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani, has said that elections might take four years to hold. And everyone kind of shrugged and nodded along understanding that being a terrorist leader is busy and it’s hard to schedule elections when you’ve got other things to do.

Probably better not to ask what those other things are.

Iraq managed to have its first elections in less than two years after the beginning of the Iraq War. Why can’t Syria do it? Don’t expect anyone in media or politics to ask that or most other questions like why we’ve recognized a formerly Al Qaeda-affiliated terror group as a government because they won a few battles with Turkish backing and what was obviously a lot of bribes.

The good news though is that democracy will probably work as well in Syria as it did in Iraq with ethnic and religious bloc votes dominating the country. That’s likely to mean Sunni Islamists.

But until those elections happen, Jolani’s HTS Jihadist group will be busy suppressing the Kurds, Alawites and any other minority group so that ‘democratic elections’ will work properly.