Inflation bringing the syrian pound from 3,000 to a single u. S. Dollar. Small businesses are closing. Imports are plumeting and those living under the poverty line at 80 are increasing in number. An average monthly salary now reportedly buys a large bag of lemons. Government corruption has tweeted weak crisis and some humanitarians are warning of a potential famine this winter. While lebanon remains mired, the rollout of the turkish lyra to a third of the population in the northwest could be the nail in the coffin for what remains of the Syrian Regimes economy. In a podcast released last week, danny mackey focuses on the internal, that igt might represent a more dangerous threat to assad than any military threat seen in recent years. And yet, as its scitizens face dire conditions, the regime has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in recent weeks on new fighter jets from russia and Armored Vehicles and its purposely burned widespreads of land in the country. Fueled by these economic