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Can we start taking seriously people who come to CTH/Hexbear malding about Assad's shitty regime to the point of calling Kurdish/Minority groups in Northeast Syria "traitors", among other things?
I'm personally subtweeting a particular post on here already but there are at least 3 different users I've seen posting stuff that is beyond the usual critique of YPG-American working relationship (which is a fair critique that has evidently hurt the revolution).
Stuff like:
X group within north east Syria are "traitors"
North East Syria houses "anti Turkish" groups that engage in illicit activities such as drug smuggling or terrorism.
Sympathy or apologism for Turkish-backed jihadism in Syria, whether by the SNA or HTS or other groups.
Attempts to portray the SDF/SDC as a "Kurdish" administration or armed group, minimising the majority Arab role in the region.
Red flag but not necessarily suspect, but using "PYD/YPG/PKK" is usually a sign a source or poster is parroting a Turkish source.
Should Not be tolerated on this instance. It is reactionary, reductionist, and revisionist to the political, economic, and social revolution and its consequences for the Syrian people.
I was on CTH before it was banned and I know that was years ago, but there needs to be some serious internal criticism if in those years we went from (critical) support for the revolution to blind adoration for the Assad regime that served Syria up on a plate for jihadist and Zionist bandits.
yeah we literally have evidence now that assad rejected working with the kurds to resolve the civil war because he thought he could sell his country out to the UAE so he could continue to be racist against the kurds.
this was more excusable before we had that article revealing this but anyone still parroting assadist talking points is just being willingly ignorant.
I might sound like I'm Coping, but I never understand how Assad's regime is perceived as the backbone of the resistance when the regime is basically a fancier version of a gunrunner, Assad used to be a darling of the West where the west have sent suspected terrorist to be tortured in this country (granted Jordan and Egypt did the same). The Regime has opportunity to negotiate an end to the conflict (as Iran and Russia suggested years ago), but they never did.
As this point, the regime really bought this on themselves. Yes the regime of HST is not going to be good for anyone, but Assad stagnant governance created a environment for Nepotism and corruption not unlike the Karzai's regime. What is also buried under the whole critical support is that the Assads also cracked down on a lot of the opposition which included communists and Palestinian militant groups to insure the survival of the Regime.
Assad's regime was not really a backbone of anything, not even itself. But it was a sine qua non condition for the resistance to even exist. Without Syria it becomes very difficult if not impossible to supply Hezbollah, reducing Lebanon to the country it was designed to be: something that can be easily occupied at Israel's leisure. Likewise since Syria no longer has much of an army, it too is having even more of its land occupied at Netanyahu's whim.
That said, I do agree that at one point we were gonna cross this bridge. Even if Baa'thist Syria wasn't a dead end, Assad was not particularly good at bucking that trend.