Summary

The Biden administration announced it will support a new Syrian government that renounces terrorism, protects women’s and minority rights, and dismantles chemical weapons.

This follows the ouster of Bashar al-Assad by the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which the U.S. designated as a terrorist organization in 2018.

While the U.S. may reassess HTS’s status, ongoing concerns about ISIS resurgence and regional instability persist.

Meanwhile, Israel has seized the Golan Heights buffer zone amid condemnation, and Biden is coordinating with allies, including Israel, on the evolving situation in Syria and Gaza.

  • @LastWish
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    622 months ago

    How come Syria has to protect women, but US federal and state governments don’t?

    • @disguy_ovahea
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      532 months ago

      Why does Syria need to renounce terrorism, but the US federal and state governments don’t?

      Terrorists

    • @Hyperlon
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      -51 month ago

      What do you mean?

      • @[email protected]
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        131 month ago

        Look at the anti female healthcare laws that are being enacted across the US.

        Start with Florida and Texas as some of the more glaring examples.

        • @Hyperlon
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          -31 month ago

          Could you be specific about which laws? I’m not saying you’re wrong I just want to know specifically what you are saying the government is doing that removes protections from women

            • @Hyperlon
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              -81 month ago

              The intent of those laws isn’t to hurt women or reduce their protections. Those laws are intended to protect what the law makers view as children from being murdered by the women. They are just implemented in a really poor way resulting in those horrible scenarios.

              • @[email protected]
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                51 month ago

                Given gow horribly thwy are implemented, it’s hard to accept it isn’t intentionally being cruel.

                • @Hyperlon
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                  -61 month ago

                  Definitely possible but I’m a fan of Hanlon’s Razor unless evidence shows otherwise.

            • @Hyperlon
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              -91 month ago

              The intent of those laws isn’t to hurt women or reduce their protections. Those laws are intended to protect what the law makers view as children from being murdered by the women. They are just implemented in a really poor way resulting in those horrible scenarios.

              • @LastWish
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                101 month ago

                It’s obvious you were waiting for someone to finally say abortion so you could respond with that.

                If women are dying because of laws denying them medical care that could have easily saved their lives, that is the definition of not protecting women.

                • @Hyperlon
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                  -101 month ago

                  I was waiting for someone to actually state their position. It is a bit weird how no one would actually say what their opinion was and instead relied on people making assumptions about their position. It’s rather terrible for communication imo.

                  You are right, women are being hurt by those laws, those are not anti womens healthcare laws though. As I said those laws are about the fetus. Women being hurt and killed is an unintended externality. People talk like there is a war on women here comparable to what the Taliban is doing when the US is one of the best places in the world to be a woman. That’s not to say the US isn’t backtracking but perspective is important.

        • @Hyperlon
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          -61 month ago

          Unfortunately I can’t read people’s minds to figure out what their argument is.

  • @JiveTurkey
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    312 months ago

    The irony in this is almost too much. How can we say this while also supplying the arms to Israel so they can continue to kill women and children while also terrorizing places they have no business being. It’s all a fuckin joke.

    • @scarabic
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      32 months ago

      You’re 100% correct. I mean… Mideast policy hypocrisy like this has been the norm all the decades I’ve been alive.

  • @[email protected]
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    201 month ago

    I give it two months before Trump orders the CIA to assassinate al-Bashir, probably at request of Israel.

    I really, really hope to be wrong, but unfortunately Syria is very weak right now and Israel has already been striking the leftover military institutions to keep them weak. I just can’t imagine foreign capitalists being able to stop themselves from further exploitation.

  • @distantsounds
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    142 months ago

    Has anyone told Biden what Israel has been doing in Gaza?

  • @sir_pronoun
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    132 months ago

    Those aren’t crazy demands

    • @givesomefucks
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      172 months ago

      Yeah, but they’re Biden’s…

      And he’s also defending Israel seizing Syrian land.

      That’s not even getting into who know what trump will do in a month

    • @small44
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      2 months ago

      Is Saudi Arabia an example of protecting women and promote non extreme version of Islam?

    • Makhno
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      22 months ago

      It is for religious extremists

    • @scarabic
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      12 months ago

      No one said they were.

  • Caveman
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    102 months ago

    He’s also defending the buffer zone’s buffer zone. I thought they’d rather focus on democracy so the rest can be handled by the people,

  • @JeeBaiChow
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    42 months ago

    Meanwhile, in the lineup for next year’s white house occupancy, …