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It's crazy so many governments went into limbo in the past weeks. Korea, Germany and Romania come to mind and now Syria as well. Wild.
France too
Apple and oranges. Syria is on a different scale.
Full blown military operation Vs two votes of no confidence and a cancelled election.
Unconfirmed reports that Assad's plane has been shot down:
This is develping, so take it with a grain of salt.
Let's see what comes out of this.
It would have been better to put him on trial and execute him for crimes against humanity.
It's ok, I convened a kangaroo court similar to his here in my lounge while his plane was in freefall and we concluded we should entrust him to the care of gravity.
Saddum Hussein got the same judgement.
No love for Assad, but given all the islamist groups involved I have a bad feeling that this is going to end up even worse...
Armed rebellions rarely result in a stable regime that's less bad than what they replaced. It's just an unfortunate fact of history. What they create is an instability which often takes a generation to shake off.
We complained a lot about Obama arming Syrian Rebels, myself very much included, but it's kind of hard to argue with results I guess.
I just hope, with very little faith, that the replacement regime isn't even worse.
The replacement regime is almost always worse, or just as bad but in different ways. And then it too falls.
I don't think this group was armed by the US, it's classified as a terrorist organization. Turkey on the other hand seems to be of help to them.
Get fucked you idiot
Honestly makes me wonder why Russia has gone to this enormous trauma to secure a warm sea port. There are knock off battery powered home cinemas on AliExpress with stronger projection capabilities..
This is a re-occurring theme in russian history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War
While the russian economic model evolves with times (Tsarist feudalism, state managed economy under socialism, oligarchic capitalist plutocracy), attitudes around imperialism and governance unfortunately will not change until russians start being treated as they treat others.
I wonder what this will mean for the kurds? I am hoping that HTS remains true to their words about religious and ethnic minorities. Mazloum Abdi of the SDF at least seems hopeful for an opportunity to build a democratic and just Syria. Im not holding my breath though, it is a very rapidly changing situation and we'll just have to wait and see
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