President Trump ended his visit to Saudi Arabia by meeting with Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, a founding member of Al-Qaeda in Syria, who now has the title of “interim president” in Damascus.
I still can’t get over the cognitive dissonance relating to Syria rn.
Even if we take all the allegations against Bashar and say they’re true, in the “logical” liberal society you’d think people wouldn’t have issues saying both sides are bad. Yknow they say that for Israel all the time. But when it comes to jihadists who were massacring minorities just a couple weeks ago suddenly its fine cause they’re not Bashar. Fucking psychopaths the lot of them
Honestly I don’t know if I’m angry at Bashar for letting this happen or grateful for how long he managed to hold on against the endless onslaught of the west
I’m angry personally. The man was never fit to rule and it shows. The situation would nor have gotten to such a state if he had political expertise.
Still, he was dealt a horrible hand and was clearly preferable to the fundementalist scum ruling Syria at the moment.
The people that infuriate me more then anyone else are the Syrians who claim that everyone critical of the literal headchopping jihadist is an Assadist and clearly not Syrian. All it takes us being an Shia or Alawite to disprove that narrative but it’s obvious these people only care about Sunni Arab supremacy.
Almost got into an argument with a liberal I’m working with on a project, considering my father is from there, but determined it wasn’t worth the effort when we have deadlines to keep and group cohesion (being the project manager makes that more my responsibility as well).
For any normal country, he would have been a fine president, the 10 years before the war were by accounts of many Syrians, quite alright. However, seeing how things ended up, he was absolutely not capable to navigate a civil war, and was far too reliant on Russia overall, to the point his military was no longer loyal to the government, and sanctions were able to hollow out the country into collapse. Civil wars are won not just with pure military force, but also by winning over the people’s hearts and minds, which I think he failed to do.
As far as I can tell, it’s basically that liberals (the well-meaning kind, not the calculating POS strategist kind) get led around like a dog on a leash by the western imperialist media. Because some western media in the mainstream has been willing to say “it’s complicated” w/ regards to israel, some liberals adopt that take. Not sure to what extent they allowed it in mainstream after October 7th, but I know prior to that and prior to my becoming ML, I had some confusion about it. IIRC, in particular, I remember a comedian on a talk show talking about the issues there with an analogy to siblings fighting (this might have been Louis CK on Conan years back, oh how great he turned out to be lolol). But anyway, point is, if like a Last Week Tonight level of mainstream or something started saying that Syria is complicated and in endless ideological dispute between “both sides”, some liberals would probably start parroting that.
The kind of liberals in question don’t really have an ideology with more grounding than fanciful Christianity-backed wishmaking about how everybody should get along, so I think this makes it easier to lead them around with selective atrocity propaganda and the like.
I still can’t get over the cognitive dissonance relating to Syria rn.
Even if we take all the allegations against Bashar and say they’re true, in the “logical” liberal society you’d think people wouldn’t have issues saying both sides are bad. Yknow they say that for Israel all the time. But when it comes to jihadists who were massacring minorities just a couple weeks ago suddenly its fine cause they’re not Bashar. Fucking psychopaths the lot of them
Honestly I don’t know if I’m angry at Bashar for letting this happen or grateful for how long he managed to hold on against the endless onslaught of the west
I’m angry personally. The man was never fit to rule and it shows. The situation would nor have gotten to such a state if he had political expertise.
Still, he was dealt a horrible hand and was clearly preferable to the fundementalist scum ruling Syria at the moment.
The people that infuriate me more then anyone else are the Syrians who claim that everyone critical of the literal headchopping jihadist is an Assadist and clearly not Syrian. All it takes us being an Shia or Alawite to disprove that narrative but it’s obvious these people only care about Sunni Arab supremacy.
Almost got into an argument with a liberal I’m working with on a project, considering my father is from there, but determined it wasn’t worth the effort when we have deadlines to keep and group cohesion (being the project manager makes that more my responsibility as well).
For any normal country, he would have been a fine president, the 10 years before the war were by accounts of many Syrians, quite alright. However, seeing how things ended up, he was absolutely not capable to navigate a civil war, and was far too reliant on Russia overall, to the point his military was no longer loyal to the government, and sanctions were able to hollow out the country into collapse. Civil wars are won not just with pure military force, but also by winning over the people’s hearts and minds, which I think he failed to do.
As far as I can tell, it’s basically that liberals (the well-meaning kind, not the calculating POS strategist kind) get led around like a dog on a leash by the western imperialist media. Because some western media in the mainstream has been willing to say “it’s complicated” w/ regards to israel, some liberals adopt that take. Not sure to what extent they allowed it in mainstream after October 7th, but I know prior to that and prior to my becoming ML, I had some confusion about it. IIRC, in particular, I remember a comedian on a talk show talking about the issues there with an analogy to siblings fighting (this might have been Louis CK on Conan years back, oh how great he turned out to be lolol). But anyway, point is, if like a Last Week Tonight level of mainstream or something started saying that Syria is complicated and in endless ideological dispute between “both sides”, some liberals would probably start parroting that.
The kind of liberals in question don’t really have an ideology with more grounding than fanciful Christianity-backed wishmaking about how everybody should get along, so I think this makes it easier to lead them around with selective atrocity propaganda and the like.