a Loving Dog posted:

stop posting how are u. you suck the most rear end

paul_soccer12 posted:

paul_soccer12 posted:

Jose posted:

Lol he's mad he got shown up

https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1401248956529577984?s=19

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

the gay zone

lollontee posted:

it is fact bad and fascist to imply the american empire should gtfo of the whole of middle east, and the world in general, and should remain within their internationally recognized borders

quote:

The second—even more complex—case is Syria. There, the Obama administration never intended to impose a NFZ. Because of inevitable Russian and Chinese vetoes at the UNSC, this would have required a violation of international legality like that committed by the George W. Bush administration in invading Iraq (an invasion Obama had opposed). Washington kept a low profile in the Syrian war, stepping up its involvement only after the so-called Islamic State surged and crossed the border into Iraq, and then restricting its direct intervention to the fight against ISIS.

Yet Washington’s most decisive influence on the Syrian war was not its direct involvement—which is paramount only in the eyes of neo-campists exclusively focused on Western imperialism—but rather its prohibition of delivery by its regional allies of anti-aircraft weapons to the Syrian insurgents, primarily due to opposition from Israel. The result was that the Assad regime enjoyed a monopoly in the air during the conflict and could even resort to extensive use of devastating barrel bombs dropped by helicopters. This situation also encouraged Moscow to directly engage its air force in the Syrian conflict starting in 2015.

Anti-imperialists were bitterly divided on Syria. Neo-campists—such as, in the United States, the United National Antiwar Coalition and the US Peace Council—focused exclusively on Western powers in the name of a peculiar one-sided “anti-imperialism,” while supporting or ignoring the incomparably more important intervention of Russian imperialism (or else timidly mentioning it, while refusing to campaign against it, as in the case of the Stop the War Coalition in the United Kingdom), let alone the intervention of Iran-sponsored Islamic fundamentalist forces. Progressive democratic anti-imperialists—this author included—condemned the murderous Assad regime and its foreign imperialist and reactionary backers, reproved Western imperialist powers’ indifference to the fate of the Syrian people while opposing their direct intervention in the conflict, and denounced the nefarious role of the Gulf monarchies and Turkey in promoting reactionary forces among the Syrian opposition.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Can you provide some citations. Tia

AnimeIsTrash posted:

One pill makes you gay and the other makes you into a lib. Choose wisely.

How are u posted:

Sometimes we do real good, sometimes we do real bad. It's kind of a mixed bag.

How are u posted:

Sometimes we do real good, sometimes we do real bad. It's kind of a mixed bag.

How are u posted:

Sometimes we do real good, sometimes we do real bad. It's kind of a mixed bag.


Sometimes it feels like the whole world is a mixed bag, and that things are not really black or white, right or wrong. Makes u think.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

steal his look

Zeroisanumber posted:

The best thing that Obama ever did was go against all of his national security shitheads and the Saudi royal shitheads and decide to avoid going for full-on regime change in Syria.

Yossarian-22 posted:

still gave the dipshit fundamentalist rebels hundreds of millions in aid

AnimeIsTrash posted:

One pill makes you gay and the other makes you into a lib. Choose wisely.

How are u posted:

Sometimes we do real good, sometimes we do real bad. It's kind of a mixed bag.


Sometimes it feels like the whole world is a mixed bag, and that things are not really black or white, right or wrong. Makes u think.

Jose posted:

Lol he's mad he got shown up

https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1401248956529577984?s=19

Corky Romanovsky posted:

I heard that Syrian expats were being blocked from voting at consulates and embassies, but i haven't pinned down any sources. Anyone got anything?

Jose posted:

Lol he's mad he got shown up

https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1401248956529577984?s=19

Corky Romanovsky posted:

I heard that Syrian expats were being blocked from voting at consulates and embassies, but i haven't pinned down any sources. Anyone got anything?

mawarannahr posted:

why should expats get to vote?

Atrocious Joe posted:

you write for the nation?
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/anti-imperialism-syria-progressive/

Yossarian-22 posted:

amazed and devastated that syria isn't a democracy, dunno how i'll handle this news

Not So Fast posted:

on most issues they're cool and good but they also take the tired line that Assad did nothing wrong.

so on measure they're better than most MSM sources which shill for every war criminal but Assad

Corky Romanovsky posted:

go ask assad

debates over electoralism aside... it isn't uncommon for people to vote while residing overseas and retaining citizenship (laws depend on jurisdiction). the US requires all citizens residing overseas to file taxes regardless of income or tax liability, as well as report foreign bank accounts etc.; they can vote in federal elections at the very least, and possibly in state and local voting. syria might maintain voting for people living overseas to help encourage currency remittance to syria, and to keep citizens feeling connected to the nation in hopes that they return and more directly contribute to the prosperity of syria.

not all expats are like gusanos, and they make up a minority of the voting populace regardless