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Wonderful news! Finally, someone standing up to Assad and Putin! Except for the fact that the move indicates nothing less than complete and utter chaos in his
by kafkaesq 10y ago
Wonderful news! Finally, someone standing up to Assad and Putin!
Except for the fact that the move indicates nothing less than complete and utter chaos in his stance vis-a-vis Russia. And that it remains to be seen how Putin will decide to "stand up" for his symbolic ally in response.
- clock_tower 10y agoWho cares if his stance on Russia is inconsistent, if it used to be "let Putin do as he likes" and it's now "don't let Putin's proxies commit war crimes"? I'm not going to attack someone for flip-flopping from a terrible position to a promising one.
- douche 10y agoWhat I am not sure I understand is why anyone cares what happens in Syria, save maybe Israel. It's not an oil producer, and it has been a shitshow, rather than a regional power for 20+ years.
- clock_tower 10y agoHuman rights more than anything else; Assad's response to the Arab Spring was a pretty ugly one, especially by the standards of people who weren't overthrown. (The other issue is that Russia really likes that naval base. Wouldn't it have saved time to just give them the city and get them to stop interfering with the rest of this?)
- kafkaesq 10y agoWhat I am not sure I understand is why anyone cares what happens in Syria, Well there's this thing known as "empathy", in regard to those who are suffering. You might want to look into it sometime. (Then again, with a handle like yours...)