Honestly, I don’t know a ton of details about him as I wasn’t politically aware when he obtained political power. However, I am friends with a Syrian who’s family despises him for sectarian reasons. A shia muslim holding such immense governing power over a vast majority sunni population always felt like a powder keg to me. Or atleast a pressure point to be exploited by the imperialist nations. I’m sure his economic policies were decent enough though.

Dirty word

4 iirc

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Nah, Iran destroyed many of our THAAD systems in West Asia and rhe US took one we had placed in South Korea to move it to that region.

Nuts to me that Assad has been the preferable option for about a decade

What? The compradore state established by the US and Israeli opposes enemies of the US and Israel?!?!

Who could have seen this coming???

Brezhnev the one true communist?

New take just dropped

Yeah

Not a bad plan at all

Okay so it was definitely us

If America starts bombing cuba I will actually do things that would get me accused of fedposting if I specified further. I genuinely wonder if I should be taking those actions already.

That’s genuinely some of the most despicable shit

I feel like there’s a difference between being cordial and acting the way customer service workers are taught to act. I don’t want to grovel either and I don’t blame the kid.

The government serves the class that controls production and right now that class is really really concerned about what everyone does when they aren’t slaving away for them.

More than likely no

No it also blocks the land based trade routes that China and Russia were establishing in the region iirc

Really depends on your field. Like if you were studying physics I wouldn’t recommend pure mathematics yk?

Great explanation comrade 10/10