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I don't really feel like enaging newsbot9000 over here in the entire checkered record of the YPG, but it actually extends far beyond allying with US war criminals and utilizing their assets, triangulating with Zionists, and letting the US (illegally) harvest Syrian oil. That's just the cliff notes. But it's a lot closer to reality than your synopsis
I don't understand how you can be talking about any of this Assad nonsense when that madman Saddamn Hussein is throwing people into a human shredder!
It's 2024 and you're cheering on US backed "moderate rebels" which are as much of a plague on the Syrian population as Turkey and ISIS. Grow up. The OPCW melted down over the inability to prove that Assad gassed his own civilians just because he hates them so much (a likely story). The symptoms in the footage don't even match sarin, the mouth foaming is more characteristic of chlorine. The smear mirrors numerous other US attempts to fabricate cassus belli against a peripheral country in West Asia or Africa.
Your sweet little based Kurdish militias' permission won't factor into the removal of US bases from that territory. That is currently being conducted by the Axis of Resistance.
To return to the remarkably simply question which preceded your gibbering recitation of the Washington-approved narrative, I define illegal as in flagrant violation of international law, not what is legal in the minds of Redditors who like to fantasize about going and LARPing as a war criminal before getting interviewed by Rolling Stone.
Okay let me just say a Middle Eastern guy: This comment is an insult to the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who had to flee their homes to escape Assad's tyranny and you should feel bad for making it.
Standpoint epistemology is not an argument, babe.
Out of curiosity, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt? Saudi Arabia, even? Do go on.
Egypt, why do you ask?
Standpoint epistemology is not an argument, babe.
The existence of 5 million Syrian refugees worldwide (as opposed to 23 million living in the country) says everything that needs to be said about your point that Assad isn't actually that bad. If he wasn't people would go to his territory instead of going to fuckin Lebanon.
One of my best online friends is Egyptian, by the way. He talks about Israel's geopolitical role keeping Arab countries deindustrialized.
He talks about what worms many Egyptians are about Israel. He talks about those who aren't often change their tune after being tortured. I talk to him almost every day. So don't feel written off because you're Egyptian. Just because they've really done a number on Egypt. Samir Amin talks a lot about how its emergence was stymied by imperialists. You live in a comprador state half beaten to death, and you gloat over how many refugees there are from Syria, a country illegally occupied by US coalition. Pig. Pig!
you gloat over how many refugees there are from Syria,
Don't put words in my mouth. I never gloated about anything.
a country illegally occupied by US coalition
Huh? How does that even make sense? Syria is in a civil war that's being abused by foreign powers on all side. Nobody is occupying anything. I have literally never heard a Syrian say anything about an occupation; all of them are running from the war. I know US presence in Syria is also fucked up stares at ISIS, but that doesn't make Assad any less horrible.
Again, as an Egyptian I know as common sense that Assad is one of the worst tyrants of the 21st century (so far; we still have 75 years to go). I'd link sources, but if you believed them we'd never be having this conversation. Goodbye.
https://lemmy.ml/comment/14118090
Have a nice day and feel free to continue our conversation if you return. As you can tell I enjoy arguing. It's a good brain teaser for us.
Egypt would have been my choice if I only got one guess. You really don't know why?
these US assets are present at the express request of the Kurdish militia, which is formed by the people who actually live there who got sick and tired of the oppression of the religious fundamentalist regime
So like the Russian military units that are present at the express request of the Donetsk and Lugansk militias, which is formed by the people who actually live there [and] who got sick and tired of the oppression of the Ukrainian state?
You know, it's really telling that my comment was erased with no notification or warning or justification - a comment which contained only factual information with references and no offensive language of any kind.
The fact that this was done summarily and without discussion demonstrates exactly what this community is, and who its moderators are.
Explicitly: this is a manufactured echo chamber that suppresses voices which disagree with the intended narrative, enforced by people with a political agenda. Trust nothing that you read here.