a lot to say but the worst thing is erdogan granted a victory to assad and that they were always on the same side. noone believed this from me though, not on the left, much less on the right.
the SDF is now being dismantled and the PYD is being absorbed into the russian controlled SAA 5th army core, so they'll be fighting alongside iraqi, Iranian and ba'athists. there is no revolution anymore, it's fully over as the only avenue that syrians can fight under now is hts, an al-qaeda spin off. The syrian people are fed up of the syrian national army which has totally mutated from being the expression of an armed uprising (the original free syrian army 2011-14) to being nothing but canon fodder for the turkish military state. turkey is likely to abandon them soon which is going to give obama-trump their dreams come true, ultra-balkanisation, and also create a new brand of salafi takfirism as groups war for scraps of 10km land strips. Afghanistan mk2, warlords amenable to the distabilisation everyone requires. This naturally means that the strategic pipeline from Kerkuk to Seyhan is going to be useful for trump-putin. neocolonialism in action, folks. Idlib, naturally, will fall.
Worse still, Erdogan is still trying to play russia off against the states, not realising that this is going to create an analogous situation in turkey where tr becomes ultra-nationalised and a new type of ultranationalist and islamic synthesis takes place.
unfortunately, some pro-syrian personalities have sided with Tayyip in this, something structural racism islamophobia something, ignoring of course that the majority of the turkish armed forces are conscripted kurds from poor areas who are registered on the censuses as Turkish. such nuance I fear eludes many western imperial nostalgics.
Firefinga's point is just out of a cold war textbook and not even disagreeable, so inaccurate that it's funny and i can't be arsed with it. there is no multipolar world when everyone is on the side of Bashir.
the SDF is now being dismantled and the PYD is being absorbed into the russian controlled SAA 5th army core, so they'll be fighting alongside iraqi, Iranian and ba'athists. there is no revolution anymore, it's fully over as the only avenue that syrians can fight under now is hts, an al-qaeda spin off. The syrian people are fed up of the syrian national army which has totally mutated from being the expression of an armed uprising (the original free syrian army 2011-14) to being nothing but canon fodder for the turkish military state. turkey is likely to abandon them soon which is going to give obama-trump their dreams come true, ultra-balkanisation, and also create a new brand of salafi takfirism as groups war for scraps of 10km land strips. Afghanistan mk2, warlords amenable to the distabilisation everyone requires. This naturally means that the strategic pipeline from Kerkuk to Seyhan is going to be useful for trump-putin. neocolonialism in action, folks. Idlib, naturally, will fall.
Worse still, Erdogan is still trying to play russia off against the states, not realising that this is going to create an analogous situation in turkey where tr becomes ultra-nationalised and a new type of ultranationalist and islamic synthesis takes place.
unfortunately, some pro-syrian personalities have sided with Tayyip in this, something structural racism islamophobia something, ignoring of course that the majority of the turkish armed forces are conscripted kurds from poor areas who are registered on the censuses as Turkish. such nuance I fear eludes many western imperial nostalgics.
Firefinga's point is just out of a cold war textbook and not even disagreeable, so inaccurate that it's funny and i can't be arsed with it. there is no multipolar world when everyone is on the side of Bashir.
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