1. This is a 7-year war with half of the population either displaced or made refugees, and with about 400,000 killed (93% of them killed by the regime).
2. This is a brutal regime which crushed an uprising and a revolutionary prospect, supported by one regional power, which was the main winner from the destruction of Iraq, a furure winner in Syria and "a threat" to Israel, and an authoritarian state, which is a big global power, but not a super-power, and it is in a geopolitical power struggle with the big imperialist states for spheres of influence. It used to be a friend of the main imperialist powers when a drunkard man opened the gates to "free market" and sold half of the country to foreign capitalists and newly-born local
ones, some of them now live in London. It is a regime that waged a
brutal war on the Chetchens and his "democratic" friends of the time looked the other way.
3. On the other side, known imperialist states, agents of global structural violence and inequality, with a record of wars, domination, support of dictators (Algerian and Egyptian) and autocrats (e.g. Saudi, Emirati, Qatari), anti-socialist, anti-progressive, sometimes back these type of Muslims (Mujahidin), other times back other types of Muslims ('moderate', 'secular', 'liberal'), their multi-national companies are leaders in plunder, exploitation, and destruction of the environment, their international financial institutions enslave other countries, coopting any hope of revolutionary change (2011), their universities teach about "spreading democracy", "empowering women", "developing the poor countries", "democracies retaliate against terroristm", their friends include autocrats from the Gulf, who buy large amounts of weapons from them and who also sell oil and invest large sums of money in the northern metropolis. They often talk of "human rights" and "our values", imposing austerity on their populations
and enriching the 1%. They have lost Iraq and they have lost Syria geopolitically, and more. Now they have reaslised that it is time they staged a PR and "save the Syrian people from chemical weapons", and leave more Syrians get killed by other weapons.
4. Also, Western and Arab leftists, suddenly stood up and opposed an attack on Syria by those who want to "save" the Syrian people. These are the very same leftists who have either openly supported Al-Assad regime's killing machine for seven years or have chosen silence.
The fact is that this is a series of proxy wars in a context of a counter-revolution and a global crisis. Big and regional powers are in a fierce war in defending or carving their own spheres of influence. All talk about "International Law", a poisoning of a spy, "fighting terrorists", etc are not the underlying factors and reasons.
2. This is a brutal regime which crushed an uprising and a revolutionary prospect, supported by one regional power, which was the main winner from the destruction of Iraq, a furure winner in Syria and "a threat" to Israel, and an authoritarian state, which is a big global power, but not a super-power, and it is in a geopolitical power struggle with the big imperialist states for spheres of influence. It used to be a friend of the main imperialist powers when a drunkard man opened the gates to "free market" and sold half of the country to foreign capitalists and newly-born local
ones, some of them now live in London. It is a regime that waged a
brutal war on the Chetchens and his "democratic" friends of the time looked the other way.
3. On the other side, known imperialist states, agents of global structural violence and inequality, with a record of wars, domination, support of dictators (Algerian and Egyptian) and autocrats (e.g. Saudi, Emirati, Qatari), anti-socialist, anti-progressive, sometimes back these type of Muslims (Mujahidin), other times back other types of Muslims ('moderate', 'secular', 'liberal'), their multi-national companies are leaders in plunder, exploitation, and destruction of the environment, their international financial institutions enslave other countries, coopting any hope of revolutionary change (2011), their universities teach about "spreading democracy", "empowering women", "developing the poor countries", "democracies retaliate against terroristm", their friends include autocrats from the Gulf, who buy large amounts of weapons from them and who also sell oil and invest large sums of money in the northern metropolis. They often talk of "human rights" and "our values", imposing austerity on their populations
and enriching the 1%. They have lost Iraq and they have lost Syria geopolitically, and more. Now they have reaslised that it is time they staged a PR and "save the Syrian people from chemical weapons", and leave more Syrians get killed by other weapons.
4. Also, Western and Arab leftists, suddenly stood up and opposed an attack on Syria by those who want to "save" the Syrian people. These are the very same leftists who have either openly supported Al-Assad regime's killing machine for seven years or have chosen silence.
The fact is that this is a series of proxy wars in a context of a counter-revolution and a global crisis. Big and regional powers are in a fierce war in defending or carving their own spheres of influence. All talk about "International Law", a poisoning of a spy, "fighting terrorists", etc are not the underlying factors and reasons.
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