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Reminder that America, Turkey, and Israel are occupying ~40% of Syria, including the oil fields and are stealing the oil and food from those regions, and occasionally bomb Syrian forces.
While Assad is not blameless, our actions certainly don't improve the stability of Syria.
Edit: That any of these posts are getting downvoted is mindboggling. These rebels are HTS organization, which is what fucking al-Nusra renamed itself to.
These guys beliefs and actions aren't meaningfully different from fucking ISIS.
While Russia and Iran occupy the other portion. Don’t leave them out of the party
Russia only occupies the small region of its naval base. Iran does not really occupy any part, although they do seem to have great influence on the government.
You mean the legitimate government of Syria and the militaries they invited to help them fight ISIS, Al Nusra, and other US proxies?
Iran's General Solomeni was viewed across the middle east the way Americans view General Patton for coordinating an effective opposition to ISIS while the US continued to arm them via "Free Syrian Army" factions that either joined or immediately handed their equipment to ISIS and bomb people on both sides.
Yup, those are the “legitimate” war criminals
They are certainly more legitimate than the war criminals who are also stealing the oil and food, causing further immiseration and famine.
What makes Assad’s government legitimate?
OK, legitimate is a strong term for any bourgeoisie democracy, but some amount of legitimacy comes from defending its people from HTS and all the other US armed terrorist factions, Israel, Turkey, and the US.
That will change once they're not in danger of being subjected to a worse fate by the US, but for now it's the only organization capable of resisting.
Very ml of you
Having literally any understanding of geopolitics and history is just tankie shit ig.
simp harder
Bet most Syrians would prefer the US or Kurd occupied areas over the regime/Russian/Iran ones
I'm certain they don't prefer the immiseration and famine that comes with the US and/or proxies literally stealing their harvests and oil.
The Kurds are more complicated; Turkey invades/bombs them whenever possible, sometimes the US takes measures against further Turkish aggression, sometimes they ignore it.
In 2019 the Kurds made a deal with Assad for protection and autonomy within Syria after Trump decreased support. For them, Turkey represents a far greater threat than the Syrian government.
Seems like it's the Turks who steal the olives. Are they a US proxy or independent? And apparently the Kurds are the ones benefiting from the oil production and making deals with US buyers. Seems like the Kurds are the ones stealing I suppose. Just a quick googling.
What about US-induced famine?
Yes. Turkey does things the US doesn't like, such as bombing US proxies, namely the Kurds, but at the same time, the US hold's turkey's leash.
This is correct in the same sense that the poor benefited from the trump tax cuts; the US is getting that oil for $16/barrel.
Grain has been transported out of the US occupied area into Iraq.
There's food scarcity and hunger-related disease across Syria, but it is significantly worse in the US-occupied areas.
To be clear Assad is not a good guy here, but stealing the country's resources and bombing forces fighting the former Al Nusra only makes things worse.
I immediately assumed the oligarchy (through US or Israel) had injected new life into the rebellion to stir shit up for their new never ending wars.