If future of the Golan isn’t even up for negotiation then a Syrian govt wouldn’t be able to pull a Sadat even if they wanted to.

Thanks, Faisal! Nathan, great fan of your work. Many years ago we had a brief exchange about chartalism and Ottoman monetary history in some MMT facebook group. Happy to chat about this project.

It was evident early on that the new Syrian gov’t was attempting a balancing act by reaching out to the Saudis so as not to appear too close to Turkey. Israel’s bellicosity seems to be changing that calculus.