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Let’s agree to disagree between who’s worse between two nightmare scenarios.
Fair enough, you weren’t surprised. Point stands, though, that Kurds are on the defensive largely because of a lack of support and powerful enemies. Hillary didn’t have recent events to contend with at the time, and her intended actions likely or at least plausibly would have stopped them from needing to behave that way. Erdogan made his move the literal moment Trump announced no more support, US involvement clearly prevented this up to that point.
Honestly, Al-Sharaa has been a great thing so far if stability is the real goal. This will be tested, though, once he tells a single big nation with economic interests in the region, “no” or if Trump/Putin can find something to extort them for.
Honestly, Al-Sharaa has been a great thing so far if stability is the real goal.
The stability of the HTS regime has been pretty good so far, although I was actually surprised by the more recent events actually. I didn’t expect things to heat up a bit as they did as I stated here: https://lemmy.world/post/26434168/15500733
This will be tested, though, once he tells a single big nation with economic interests in the region, “no” or if Trump/Putin can find something to extort them for.
My main concern about the new regime is that al-Julani seems to be having massive problems with controlling his own people, I mean he had to instruct his own troops to stop recording arrests or executions (poorly translated sorry) alongside with the massacres against the Alawites and it is difficult to trust someone who was not only former Al Qaeda but also former ISIS.
I do however believe that Assad’s crimes is still worse as of now than that of the HTS regime,* I mean Assad had a literal death camp not like the torture chambers that Saddam had but I mean full on extermination camps, namely in the form of Sednaya Prison where 30,000 were killed in.
Edit: *As of right now, but I now have a feeling that things can get worse with the HTS opening all of Syria’s prisons completely (something similar happened to Iraq in 2003 resulting in total collapse of order) and the total disregard for the lives of Alawites, Christians, minority women, etc.
Lemmy has no edit history, so the only honest way to edit something after a reply has been made is to contain all new text after Edit: or at least add ()* if it’s to fix typos or reword. This should make people feel less like they’re arguing with a bag of water.
Let’s agree to disagree between who’s worse between two nightmare scenarios.
Fair enough, you weren’t surprised. Point stands, though, that Kurds are on the defensive largely because of a lack of support and powerful enemies. Hillary didn’t have recent events to contend with at the time, and her intended actions likely or at least plausibly would have stopped them from needing to behave that way. Erdogan made his move the literal moment Trump announced no more support, US involvement clearly prevented this up to that point.
Honestly, Al-Sharaa has been a great thing so far if stability is the real goal. This will be tested, though, once he tells a single big nation with economic interests in the region, “no” or if Trump/Putin can find something to extort them for.
The stability of the HTS regime has been pretty good so far, although I was actually surprised by the more recent events actually. I didn’t expect things to heat up a bit as they did as I stated here: https://lemmy.world/post/26434168/15500733
My main concern about the new regime is that al-Julani seems to be having massive problems with controlling his own people, I mean he had to instruct his own troops to stop recording arrests or executions (poorly translated sorry) alongside with the massacres against the Alawites and it is difficult to trust someone who was not only former Al Qaeda but also former ISIS.
I do however believe that Assad’s crimes is still worse as of now than that of the HTS regime,* I mean Assad had a literal death camp not like the torture chambers that Saddam had but I mean full on extermination camps, namely in the form of Sednaya Prison where 30,000 were killed in.
Edit: *As of right now, but I now have a feeling that things can get worse with the HTS opening all of Syria’s prisons completely (something similar happened to Iraq in 2003 resulting in total collapse of order) and the total disregard for the lives of Alawites, Christians, minority women, etc.