Religious people? Those people are idiots.
Okay for what it’s worth as a Muslim I’ve found Lemmings to be a lot more civil about the religion thing than redditors. At least I feel that people here are less likely to think being atheist makes them smart.
It’s not though. It’s the same guy who has been leading the SSG (HTS’s civilian government project) in Idlib. It seems HTS is mostly running the show here, which admittedly doesn’t make it clear what the other groups have to say about it.
I mean that’s more because America’s metro fucking sucks. My country has better and I’m literally from a third world country.
It’s interesting the lengths Russia will go through to win this without becoming a half-decent country.
I mean yeah but they named a transition prime minister so they’ve at least started doing the whole government thing.
Yeah fair enough. Please if anyone here becomes king of the world fucking kill this guy.
The Jon Bolton execution alone would inspire parades across the Middle East.
We’d first need to know who he is, so who is that guy and what did he do?
But then if the actual voters don’t like you you die. The whole thing becomes a lot more volatile.
They actually are. I don’t quite understand their relationship myself, but Israel has sold US tech to Russia a few times AFAIK.
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Literally yes. This is the perfect counterexample against the childish notion of “violent = bad”.
Huh? That’s so wrong I have no idea where you got it from. ISIS do not represent Islamists in general, or anyone but themselves. I’m not using “bad apples” logic here; ISIS was bad enough to be rejected by other Islamists, and almost everyone else. Israel, and the West in general, absolutely despise Islamists because they among other things are fundamentally opposed to Western hegemony and Israeli Apartheid, as would be observed from US behavior during the war on terror and its consideration of every Islamist organization out there are terrorist.
So maybe next time have a conversation rather than just telling somebody “that’s untrue”? No need to be weirdly adversarial…
That… is fair enough.
I’m not ignoring anything though. You’re acting like my “concern” is saying “things will go bad” when it’s not.
Wasn’t my intention to be adversarial but that is also fair enough.
Uh… This is Syria, not Libya.
If the rebels do not stand up to Israel then Libya will suffer the same fate as Palestine in the future.
They can stand up to Israel themselves, without having to get tortured in prison camps to satisfy Assad’s whims. I’m not sure what-centric this way of thinking is, but to Syrians the big war is the one they’ve been fighting for 14 years against Assad-backed Russia.
knowing there are people who will take advantage of their weakened forces if they join the war.
Only if they have a civil war going on. Also Assad didn’t join any wars (again, too busy committing war crimes against his own people), so the only lesson here is “don’t oppress your people so bad they fight you for fourteen years”. If anything, Palestinians could find themselves with a new ally depending on how the new government turns out.
Oh. I mean I don’t know how direct it is but unfortunately (???) Israel contributed to a good thing for once. If this results in a free Syria I don’t know he probably won’t be able to sleep at night, but either way I think he’s trying to take credit for it rather than Assad falling being some kind of 5D chess move. If it was anything like that Islamists wouldn’t have been leading the offensive and HTS (which is Islamist) wouldn’t be set to have the most influence in the post-Assad government.
What Netanyahu statement?
Absolutely none. The strongest force is now the HTS AFAIK, but there are a whole bunch of other groups involved in the current offensive, both Islamist and Secular. This could go anywhere from free elections (okay probably not this one) to another dictatorship to civil war 2: electric boogaloo.
That’s the SNA, which is the other major player in Syria. They’re supposed to have been involved in the offensive but I’m not hearing much about them getting involved in Damascus politics.