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While my hope is that democracy will self-correct and promote exceptional leaders who will unify while preserving essential elements of American capitalism, we are at risk of devolving into something quite different.

Thailand's former Queen Sirikit, who died Friday aged 93, won global headlines for her glamour during decades alongside her husband and was seen by many as a unifying symbol as her country underwent repeated crises.

The Quad is "acting collectively to apply unified pressure on the parties to stop the fighting and allow aid to reach civilians", they added.

Other key targets in the new five-year policy blueprint included forging a unified national market, bolstering domestic consumption, improving social welfare and modernizing the armed forces.

Under the Assad regime, Arab tribes and the Kurds in the northeast were unified by their resistance to the minority Alawite regime in Damascus.