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In 2001, through George W. Bush, the Second Environment, or even its most consequential, extremist part, had, for the first time ever, direct control over all US american resources and used them in its global "War On Terror" against the enemies of (Greater) Israel. On an ideological/meta-political level, the idea of universal liberalism first had to articulate itself in a radical defense (instead of an offense, as it was historically used to) as an answer to pre-modern realities such as islamic terrorism. This led to the precarious situation (which was explained in detail by Peter Thiel in his essay "The Straussian Moment") that the enlightened West had to defend itself via totalitarian pre-modern means which leads to an inward contradiction that cannot be resolved and must therefore remain a secret.
The First Environment, which had used universal liberalism as a means to reproduce itself within the intellectual, political and scientific elite, could not answer the threat that this new environment posed in an effective manner; the only medium-effective response it could produce was the controlled demolition of the economy in 2008 and the "Coronavirus" situation in 2020 and its chief ideological expression in the "Great Reset" or "Fourth Industrial Revolution" paradigm that became common knowledge after 2020.
In the meantime, the "Arab Spring" created a shift in the Middle East, where only Syria and Iran remained as serious (state-actor) enemies to Israels regional hegemony. On the other hand, the First Environment, which always gave Eurasian affairs precedence over Israeli affairs, regarded the Syrian question as inextricably linked to the Ukrainian question, as they hoped that the russian intervention in Syria would weaken their aggressive response to the attempted US/CIA takeover of Ukraine in 2013.
Thus, making the conflict bilateral (with Syria and Ukraine as the nodes of russian and US collision) served as a way to strategically weaken Russia.