Shits going down in Syria
Shits going down in Syria
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Super embarrassing when HTS militants clap your RUSF ‘advisors’ and flex the looted AK-105s tricked out with western optics on Telegram, your Frogfoots and Hinds are smoking wrecks/busy in Ukraine instead of propping up your proxy dictatorship, and SAA et al run away so fast that warehouses of ATGMs get left behind intact.
And then there’s Wagner in Mali…
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What happened?
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Old Bash doesn't seem to be ballin today
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The Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
Uh no thanks. It's hard to be sympathetic towards any official side of that war because they're all major assholes. Why do they only have socialists and islamists in those areas? Why hasn't liberalism and freedom taken root in the Near East?
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Can't imagine why the Middle East doesn't trust liberals, it's a real goddamn mystery.
Injects oil directly into his veins
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Ask iran and iraq what happend to their Democratically elected leaders. Oh yeah, the west are massive gaslighters and couped many Democraticlly elected leader over fears of "communism" aka new age colonialism style resource extraction. The militants aren't the cause their the symptom.
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Yeah, Iran's last democratically elected leader was Mohammed Mosaddegh, who upheld the most watered down and benign version of social democracy you can think of. He publicly opposed communism and really should've been an ally or at least a friend of the west.
CIA was out of their fucking minds when they fucked that one up.
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Liberalism and its "freedom" hasn't taken root because:
- Liberals fucked the whole region in the first place.
- Shareholder profits are not going to inspire the masses to take up arms and fight.
Liberalism cannot provide a better future for anyone, so the people turn towards the groups who try to provide a change.
Extremely funny you say this in this situation since there is a group here fighting for freedom and democracy but they're stinky reds, so you'll hate them.
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Extremely funny you say this in this situation since there is a group here fighting for freedom and democracy but they’re stinky reds, so you’ll hate them.
The other things you said can be accepted as opinions, but here I'll have to correct you: In this conflict, Bashar al-Assad is the socialist (Ba'athist), and the group "fighting for freedom and democracy", as you put it, is Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. They are a far-right islamist religious fundamentalist terrorist organization.
So essentially nobody in Syria is fighting for any sensible definition of democracy or freedom.
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I liked the image I saw a few days back. Conservatives will play to your base needs (food/water, shelter, family), while Liberals/Socialists expect selflessness and assume all your needs are already met, including self-fulfilment.
Especially in the poorer and war torn regions of the world, the former is magnitudes more appealing. If non-extremist groups want to have a chance, they need to cover the bases first.
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the fuck is wrong with socialism here?
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I can't speak for others, but I've seen nothing but death and hate under the banner of socialism: USSR, China, Venezuela, etc, the list goes on. What most non-crazy people seem to mean by "socialism" is liberalism with a strong social safety net and public services (e.g. Nordic countries, "Democratic socialists" like Bernie Sanders, etc), which is a separate thing altogether.
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To such a simple question I can offer a simple answer: Everything.
The real answer is not that simple of course. There's some good ideas in socialism.
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I don't think people are expressing sympathy.
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