Quote (Malopox @ May 8 2023 08:12pm)
I think you’ve forgotten the fun part where US wanted to oust Assad and funded Timber Sycamore and then all of these fun and radicalized guys decided to create their own Islamic Caliphate in Iraq, but now with blackjack, hookers and beheadings while raping and pillaging everything in their way.
And then US had to come in again to fight the same people CIA trained to protect their old Kurdish allies with whom they ousted Saddam (btw those Kurdish allies are still on US State Terrorism list). It’s all sad beyond belief and the whole region would probably benefitted a lot of only Yankees stayed home. Oopsie, cover that one up with a fig leaf and never talk about it - too complicated:
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/26/syrian-rebels-turkey-kurds-accountability/Tldr =
"Hereditary dictatorships give me morning wood and I'm down with chemical attacks on my own civilians"
Here are the reasons we think the Syrian civil war started,
Government corruption
Unemployment
Authoritarianism
Aftermath of Islamist uprising in Syria (Muslim Brotherhood)
Clampdown on Damascus Spring
Nepotism
Torture and death of children in one of Daraa's prisons
What do you think caused the war?
Malopox - "America did it...."
Educate yourself.