Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government, Israel has occupied additional Syrian territory in a push to create a 'Greater Israel'
  • very_poggers_gay [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    mind boggling that isisreal can topple Syria’s government, storm Syrian land, systematically bomb Syrian military/defense assets, and more, all with the so-called civilized, allegedly pro-democracy “West”'s approval.

    if any country did this - or attemped a fraction of what israel has achieved - the imperial core would do everything in its power to destroy them.

  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    You have to wonder if part of the rationale or hope in using extremist Al Qaeda proxies and ISIS in Syria was to create a situation that would give the zionist entity a veneer of an excuse to go in for their own security once it fell.

    I have no doubt this wasn’t the main reason, facts being they just prefer and have had past great success using Islamist extremist proxies but you have to wonder if they took measures to ensure that say the SDF wouldn’t come out on top in Syria which were that to happen the zionists wouldn’t have an excuse to do land-grabs under the guise of security. Which only furthers my opinion that really the SDF, Rojava, etc were puppets who were disposable from the beginning, the US was going to use them and throw them away in favor of their more preferred Islamist toys who actually destabilize regions and give them an excuse to operate their military there. In other words it’s a bitter pill as those people may have to reckon with the fact that they joined up with the US, helped them steal oil and destabilize Syria under the idea that they had to defend themselves against ISIS which was IMO another US creation and proxy. The US is a real puppet-master here pulling a lot of strings.

    Really Syria has unfolded ideally for the US, it’s textbook what they want to do to Russia and China. That is fragmentation/balkanization via sectarian violence with them arming, creating, helping all the sides against the central government and playing them off each other and ensuring a vacuum of power that is rife for strife, struggle, and extremism for decades to come once they succeed. All while pretending to be only helping the public relations acceptable good guy side.

  • TheDrink [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    This is going to break US relations with the very rebels we funded to success in Syria. No way do they take a massive loss of territory lying down, which means they’ll get into conflict with Isreal, which means they’ll get on America’s shit list, which means they’ll go to Russia in search of allies, and we’re gonna be right back to where we were at (from a regional strategic perspective) when the whole fucking war started - only this time instead of a baathist dictator they’ll have a salafi one.

    I guess that’s the theme for America’s interventions in the middle east. Decades of death and destruction only for things to go right back to how they were.

    • xiaohongshu [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      No way do they take a massive loss of territory lying down, which means they’ll get into conflict with Isreal

      ‘Syria will not engage in conflict with Israel’: HTS chief breaks silence on Israeli assaults from Iranian press:

      Syria’s de-facto new ruler has broken his silence on the Israeli regime’s ongoing assaults on the Arab nation since President Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, saying that Damascus “will not engage” in a conflict with Tel Aviv.

      “We are not about to engage in a conflict with Israel,” Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Syrian TV on Saturday, citing the country’s “weakened state” as the reason.

      It’s already very clear that HTS listens to what the US tells them.