Do you have any firsthand knowledge of Syria, or merely passively consume "geopolitical" content on the internet far away? Anyone who actually spent time in Ale

Do you have any firsthand knowledge of Syria, or merely passively consume "geopolitical" content on the internet far away? Anyone who actually spent time in Aleppo in the early millennium saw that it was a powder keg, because the one thing people loved to complain about endlessly -- whether they were religious or secular, Arab or Armenian or Kurd -- was how much they despised the regime. Blaming the actual unrest against Assad on the US, as opposed to US attempts to subsequently exploit it, infantilizes the Syrian population. And don't do "/s", which I see you post often. This is HN, not Reddit, and sarcasm is considered poor form here.