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I don't have any problem with the Kurds selling their oil to finance their fight against Assad. He's a murderous tyrant and if it weren't for Turkey's objection

I don't have any problem with the Kurds selling their oil to finance their fight against Assad. He's a murderous tyrant and if it weren't for Turkey's objections Kurdistan would already be an independent state. As for "well-known facts" on the Syrian street, it's a "well-known fact" among Americans that their economy is trapped a disastrous inflationary spiral, it just happens not be a true fact.

lenkite 2y ago
Good job moving the goalposts now that you have acknowledged the theft of Syrian oil. You have now excused it as there is a "murderous tyrant". Standard NATO talking point for getting rid of anyone "we don't like". That "murderous tyrant" has murdered FAR fewer people than nearly all U.S. Presidents and was the bulwark that stopped the genocide of Syrians by Obama-Hillary sponsored "moderate rebels" - the folks who kept women chained in the basements of Aleppo. And who were busy slaughtering Christians and forcing their children to convert to Islam. The vast majority of the same "moderate rebels" who metastasized into ISIS and then decided Syria was too tough of a nut to crack and Iraq looked far sweeter for their caliphate. All equipped with shiny-new American wargear. The same playbook played earlier in Afghanistan with Bin Laden repeated with the same disastrous consequences. I strongly suggest speaking to native Syrians, especially one from a minority religion, instead of getting a horrendous education through cherry-picked American propaganda. Of-course, there are very special and differing American standards applied to so-called "murderous tyrants" - the Sauds get a free pass even if their citizens have lesser freedoms with no diversity permitted in religion.
- ForHackernews 2y ago
  Is it "theft" if the people living there sell their natural resources? There's a huge amount of injustice in the world. The Saudi regime is awful, too. You're not going to convince me that Assad is a great guy, but also I'm not in charge of US foreign policy and my side just lost bigly. You'll probably get the chance to see what an isolationist US looks like. Trump's impulses are to leave everyone in the mideast to their own devices and it's hard to even say he's wrong.

lenkite 2y ago

Good job moving the goalposts now that you have acknowledged the theft of Syrian oil. You have now excused it as there is a "murderous tyrant". Standard NATO talking point for getting rid of anyone "we don't like". That "murderous tyrant" has murdered FAR fewer people than nearly all U.S. Presidents and was the bulwark that stopped the genocide of Syrians by Obama-Hillary sponsored "moderate rebels" - the folks who kept women chained in the basements of Aleppo. And who were busy slaughtering Christians and forcing their children to convert to Islam. The vast majority of the same "moderate rebels" who metastasized into ISIS and then decided Syria was too tough of a nut to crack and Iraq looked far sweeter for their caliphate. All equipped with shiny-new American wargear. The same playbook played earlier in Afghanistan with Bin Laden repeated with the same disastrous consequences. I strongly suggest speaking to native Syrians, especially one from a minority religion, instead of getting a horrendous education through cherry-picked American propaganda. Of-course, there are very special and differing American standards applied to so-called "murderous tyrants" - the Sauds get a free pass even if their citizens have lesser freedoms with no diversity permitted in religion.

ForHackernews 2y ago
Is it "theft" if the people living there sell their natural resources? There's a huge amount of injustice in the world. The Saudi regime is awful, too. You're not going to convince me that Assad is a great guy, but also I'm not in charge of US foreign policy and my side just lost bigly. You'll probably get the chance to see what an isolationist US looks like. Trump's impulses are to leave everyone in the mideast to their own devices and it's hard to even say he's wrong.