"As Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy, the collapse of autocratic regimes tends to happen gradually and then suddenly—slowly, and then all at once." https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/sudden-collapse-bashar-assad/680917/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3ztZ_XKRcZaOT8cFQEZBbLw