I overthought your comment as something saying that Assad’s regime was bad, bad, but now it can be declared a safe country. Probably from some other news about that being done by some European country? I don’t know.
Not with HTS (they have connections to IS), my comments was more along the line of “why did we think this was a safe country even before we knew HTS would take over”.
That’s easy to answer. It’s a long-standing colonial tradition to treat countries which abuse their own citizens, but not westerners, as safe. Doesn’t matter for which purpose.
Those nostalgic over Victorian era should pay attention to what’s really happening around us and see that we are there again. Even today’s cultural wars are quite similar to Victorian moralism. Except, I guess, our time is not as stylish.
This answers a question I did not ask. I never even suggested HTS to be a force of good.
But thanks for your contribution 😉
I overthought your comment as something saying that Assad’s regime was bad, bad, but now it can be declared a safe country. Probably from some other news about that being done by some European country? I don’t know.
Not with HTS (they have connections to IS), my comments was more along the line of “why did we think this was a safe country even before we knew HTS would take over”.
That’s easy to answer. It’s a long-standing colonial tradition to treat countries which abuse their own citizens, but not westerners, as safe. Doesn’t matter for which purpose.
Those nostalgic over Victorian era should pay attention to what’s really happening around us and see that we are there again. Even today’s cultural wars are quite similar to Victorian moralism. Except, I guess, our time is not as stylish.