Ba'athism Once Dominated the Middle East... Now It's Gone

On December the 8th, 2024, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled Damascus for Russia as rebel forces closed in on the capital. His family is 54-year-old dynasty, and with it, the last Bathurst government on Earth collapsed. When ideologies die, they usually leave something behind.

There aren't those who look fondly on the Soviet times with an nostalgia, and even fashers in nearly a century after its defeat still maintains a following in parts of the west. Today, the Bath party holds exactly one seat on Earth, a lone representative in Lebanon's parliament who very well may be the last to be elected to office.

What the moment did leave behind was devastation, Saddam's brutality against his own people, couples with a genocide against the Kurds as part of an Arabization campaign in Iraq and a Syrian regime so power hungry that it chose to level its cities and gas its people rather than step down.