• azuth@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    As opposed to ISIL and ‘moderate’ islamic militias? Or Turkey that occupies areas in the north?

    Do you think life would be better for Syrians under them? After all the country was under the same regime for decades but the crisis started after the war.

    You don’t care about Syrians, you most likely do not actually give a shit about Ukrainians either.

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      5 months ago

      Is this a football game where we have to pick sides?

      Since you don’t know me you obviously also don’t know who or what I care about.

      All I see is you shilling for a dictator and war criminal. That others also are fascist war criminals doesn’t make him any less evil.

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        5 months ago

        It’s not sides, it’s outcomes.

        Is Syria better off after the civil war? It’s still going to split between the same dictator, some islamic militias while many many people died and many more had fled. At least ISIL died off eventually.

        I have no issue calling Assad or Putin evil. I just don’t have any delusions about who their opposition was and whether they were evil or not. If they won Syria would have been worse off today. There would probably even be a conflict with Israel, the US would promptly drop them, where Syria would get even more fucked.

        But it is for your that this is a game. There are clearly good guys and evil guys and any effort to slightly undermine the evil guys is worth the cost (which is not borne by your or any of the good guys). Ukraine did not make this attack to improve the situation for any Syrian. You know that, you cheer them because they are on your team.

        I also want to know how do you think the world should work. After all Syria is not the only dictatorship in the world. Should random countries attack Saudi Arabia? China? Israel? Pakistan? Eritrea? Sudan?