With all the various players, proxies and protagonists, the Rubik’s Cube of the Middle East continues to confound and confuse and has again got the world on a hair trigger. Good luck trying to unscramble this omelette. You will need to watch several times, pause, rewind, watch again, pause, go back and you’ll still be none the wiser. I suspect even those central to the events have forgotten why they’re there or what they’re fighting for. Syria: A 5 minute video