• supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml
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    17 days ago

    A lot of sunnis (especially amongst the “rebels”) are so sectarian that they will be fine with this as long as the west overlooks their upcoming cleansing/ subjugation of religious and other minorities.

  • Large Bullfrog@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Reminds me of Afghanistan where the government there too just suddenly started giving up and evaporated. Goes to show how fickle war can to be, though I suppose this could be mostly attributed to Turkey’s involvement.

  • Yakubian_Thug@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    17 days ago

    It’d be so funny for Syria to just straight up launch all missiles at Israel at this point - you know, go out with a bang

  • d-RLY?@lemmygrad.ml
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    17 days ago

    I am hoping that Iran and Russia can get strikes going hard and fast to help inspire the official forces to keep going. Shit all is coming after Bashar al-Assad spoke of inaction in supporting Palestine resistance and stopping the genocide. Kind of reminds me of Gadhafi trying to wake up people about needing to stand against western imperialism and then being murdered by US backed rebels.

    I am also hoping that the Kurds start merc-ing all ISIS prisoners that have been forced on them to hold indefinitely. Shit is already really fucking bad. The faster that internal threats are dealt with the better for their zone, and allow focus on repelling Turkey and other factions that will most certainly turn attention their way.

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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      17 days ago

      Assad couldn’t support Palestine because the Syrian army was on its last legs as we can obviously see. If they started getting hit by IDF forces the rebels would have pounced on them immediately and it would have been an equally devastating defeat. If not worse since part of Syria would have been under Israeli occupation.

      What did you expect Assad to do?

      • Grapho@lemmy.ml
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        17 days ago

        They’re not saying that? They’re saying that this happens after Assad spoke about collective inaction to the genocide, precisely because Syria and Lebanon can’t do all the fighting by themselves when there’s this rabid dog of a state propped up by American guns and money.

    • Large Bullfrog@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I mean Iran would pretty much have to outright invade Syria at this point, the Syrian army has pretty much disintegrated already.

      • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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        17 days ago

        That would utterly disintegrate any Pan-Arab cooperation. It would be seen as an aggressive opportunistic strike, even if the reasoning is noble.