that United States military presence in Syria will in any way decrease.
Lastly, it is crucial to address humanitarian aid. An executive order carried out on January 27th, 2017 has officially determined the Trump administration’s position towards Syrian refugees — namely, that they will no longer be allowed to seek safety within the United States. This is made clear by a temporary suspension of the US Refugee Admissions Programme, a suspension of all travellers from a select group of Middle Eastern countries and most shocking of all, a restriction on any refugees from Syria specifically. This being the case, it seems that United States humanitarian aid going towards Syria has a very uncertain future. In the face of an increasingly stringent refugee policy, however, sending aid is more important than ever. Those most affected by the continued conflict in Syria are ordinary neighbors, parents, and siblings being forced to survive through terrifying events, and the United States is much too powerful a player on the international stage to simply turn the other cheek to this kind of suffering.
This article is but a short and rather simplistic foray into how the vast “Syrian Problem” — as it is called by many Western media sources — may be affected by political change in the United States; this is crucial to examine, for however unpredictable the individual outcomes of these changes are, they will without question influence millions of lives across the globe, not to mention the future of foreign policy itself.