Shutting down #Captagon trade will leave Syria with almost no revenue
Joshua Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, says the Captagon trade was an essential and lucrative business for al-Assad’s government.
“#Syria was a failed state. The regime had become completely corrupt, and it didn’t have any money.”
“The whole country was running on fumes, with almost no electricity, and Captagon became an alternative for the al-Assad regime."
Joshua Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, says the Captagon trade was an essential and lucrative business for al-Assad’s government.
“#Syria was a failed state. The regime had become completely corrupt, and it didn’t have any money.”
“The whole country was running on fumes, with almost no electricity, and Captagon became an alternative for the al-Assad regime."
