The removal of Assad from power signifies that a dramatic push from the West and Israel to enact regime-change in another long-time target may now be imminent – that target being Iran.

In spite of the brutality on display, no mainstream media descriptions of crackdowns on peaceful protesters were ascribed to the scenes in Newtownmountkennedy and Coolock earlier this year.

The burgeoning authoritarianism of Britain and Ireland aside, what was also noticeable in the aftermath of the outbreak of violence in England, was Starmer’s vocal condemnation of the “far-right”.

The government-corporate alliance is presented with a ready-made pretext to implement solutions that align with their agenda.

The admission that British policy is contributing to the current instability in the south of Ireland has garnered little controversy, in stark contrast to November 2021, when migrants gathered en-masse on the Belarus-Poland border.

The response of the Irish political and media establishment to the current protests lies in contrast to their support for Euromaidan, the Western-backed regime change operation launched in Ukraine more than a decade ago.