To tell you the truth, I am unfamiliar with what is happening here. Are the capitalist media whitewashing another tyrant-in-the-making again?
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It looks like Israel and Turkey decided to activate the moderate rebels in Syria to try and topple Assad. Meanwhile, Western media's been running around selling us the new Jihadi DEI program https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/03/syria-diversity-friendly-jihadists-plan-building-state/
As I understand the history, HTS is just a rebranded Al-Qaida.
I am so uneducated about Syria. I see comrades on here condemn the rebel fighters but then I come across a tiktok of a Syrian woman I follow who is crying tears of joy at the coming collapse of the government. So I’m confused as to what is going on.
this Clinton email explains everything https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/Clinton_Email_November_Release/C05794498.pdf
I mean Syrians have had to endure 14 years of war. A perceivable end to said war must be an intensely emotional thing.
That being said, the rebels are what westerners would normally call a terrorist group with links to Al Qaida/ISIS and whatever groups there are in the ME. If Libya is anything to go by, a stable but somewhat unpopular leader gets replaced by extremists and slavery gets reinstated. As long as there is no actual People's movement from Syrians themselves, US proxy terrorists can take over the country and do whatever they want and the joy people feel will be short lived.
I am also limited in my understanding but I think there is a lot of animosity towards Assad government in Syria and also other places such as Lebanon and Gaza due to his perceived and verifiable inaction assisting the resistance. Other specific reasons for animosity I'm not knowledgeable enough to speak on but I'm aware they exist so it isn't unsurprising to hear that some or many Syrian people are happy that he is gone.
I think, and really I am trying to grapple with stuff and learn about things as well so I'm not too sure, but I think biggest issue with Assad gov being toppled is that firstly and most importantly it will once again bring great instability and surely violence to the Syrian people, but will also greatly reduce the capacity for Hezbollah to be resupplied who I understand are in a pretty critical state after hot war with the Zionists. In addition to that you have factors such as Russian footholds in the region being compromised which I'm sure will be abused by US/zionist forces in ways I have not yet thought of.
It remains to be seen what HTS does and how things play out with the other factions but I do not see any way that this is a good thing. I find it hard to believe that HTS are not aligned with the americans/zionists, but hopefully at least they are reasonable with the Syrian people and as few suffer as possible.
I am not so educated about syria either, but afaik the rebels want to establish a theoratic-authoritarian state and US has invested on them. So the internet will have many things about the issue
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