Ali
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I think I should make a GC. If you are Iraqi (either living here or a member of the diaspora) please reply or dm me. I want to have a space for other people from this country since I don't see much of them.
If you are not Iraqi you can just join my public discord lul
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@batbuta00 @RashmanTheHorse Yes but syria quasi normalized with Israel and is still worse off. So OPs point is reinforced
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@NotBI48 @RashmanTheHorse Having Syrians clean your streets doesn’t make it any less of a shithole
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@batbuta00 @RashmanTheHorse No worries we have Syrians who’re willing to clean our streets rather than go back home to their new Israeli hand-picked terrorist of a leader 👍🏼
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@MinionDaechir This is prime slop. Sure it farms a lot of rts and whatever but it doesn’t mean anything.
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@hdiashid @matthew_petti Obama saved the Yezidis with airstrikes, the PKK wouldn’t arrive until quite a while after. I also don’t believe the SDF was ever genuine about their ideology, this is evident when they demanded a separate region like the KRG.
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@batbuta00 @matthew_petti Also the identity of Yezidis (whether they are Kurds or a distinct ethnoreligious group) is contested and a fair few Yezidis, especially after the KDP's betrayal and especially in Iraq, do not consider themselves Kurds, though it's complex.
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@History__Speaks What Kurdish slaughter? As of now Syrian forces haven’t really entered any Kurdish majority areas, there hasn’t really been much fighting taking place either only a handful of skirmishes.
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It's very strange to see all these comments bashing Muslims indiscriminately light of the slaughter of the Kurds.
Kurdish people are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims. The logic of 'hate all muslims' is that we should hate them too.
We should certainly hate Salafi Jihadists. They have caused an astonishing amount of damage to the region and world.
But 'hate all Muslims' is dumb. Drawing distinctions isn't politically correct, it's being pragmatic, human, and having an IQ above Raisin-Bran level.
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@AbuDaraja @levantophile Have we seen them forgive/integrate isis fighters recently? If anything they’ve been making an effort to crack down on them. They know what the stakes are with Trump/intl community. Also control of the prisons won’t be handed over to local Bedouins but the interior ministry
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@batbuta00 @levantophile And the "brothers will be brothers" sentiment is 100% true in case of those ISIS fighters who swear loyalty to the new rule in Damascus. If you do that as a local former ISIS cadre i expect absolutely smooth integration into Syrian security forces (many examples already).
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I hope Western policymakers enjoy the sh*tshow they helped midwife in Syria.
And I’m not even referring to the impending mass release of ISIS fighters from prisons. Why would anyone have expected a different outcome?
The entire world has been pretending there is some fundamental difference between ISIS and Sharaa’s men, when in reality the former are simply a more psychotic and less strategic offshoot of the same ideology, essentially the Khmer Rouge of Islamism. Of course, Sharaa’s men were going to liberate their comrades.
The real sh*tshow is that the West has chosen to stake all its hopes on the assumption that a single semi-reconstructed jihadist leader will both 1) survive long enough, and 2) actually uphold his end of the bargain to rein in two decades of jihadist chaos across Syria and Iraq, when it had the option to at least keep its Kurdish allies of the past decade around as a fallback in case Plan A fails.
Now, there is no Plan B. The West has put all its eggs in the Sharaa basket. If he fails to deliver, or simply chooses not to, you end up with jihadists in control of a large state with a foothold on the Mediterranean, just a short boat ride from the EU (Cyprus). 🤦♂️
Laura Cellier@Laura_L_Cellier
The SDF says it requested assistance from a nearby US Airbase as the Al-Shaddadi prison comes under attack from Damascus aligned militia. US forces have not responded.
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@levantophile “Brothers fight, but they remain brothers”
Yeah you’re just an idiot. Isis was one of the biggest reasons the west couldn’t go along with regime change in Syria. That’s in addition to them opening up another front against the rebels.
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@batbuta00 Brothers fight, but they remain brothers. Also, it’s allegedly already happening, according to the video evidence being shared online.
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@YavuzBiH @TalAbdulrazaq That guy is a bald retard. Most Sunni Iraqis think like him which is why their condition is bad and never gets any better.
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Sunnah of Iraq can be proud of my Brother @TalAbdulrazaq ♥️
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@abu_nadara @levantophile They can also nuke the entire Middle East if they want. Realistically they're not going to do any of that, and as soon as the Netanyahu government is gone the relationship between Israel and Syria will change.
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This captures the Syrian predicament perfectly (and by extension the Iraqi and Lebanese one as well).
In highly centralized systems, different “tribes” compete for control, and the moment a representative of one group secures power, they immediately work to marginalize the others, and to crush them if they show any resistance. (Consider the Druze of Syria, who shifted in less than six months from being minor allies and co-victors in the fight against Assad to being branded “the enemy within” that needs to be eliminated.)
Meanwhile, when no group is strong enough to impose the kind of total dominance once exercised by the Assads or by Saddam, the result is chronic deadlock within a dysfunctional political system. Post-2005 Lebanon is the clearest example of this.
The logical conclusion is that, in a world of nation-states, some form of federalism and decentralization, along the lines of multi-ethnic Switzerland or Belgium, is the only workable solution for such societies. Otherwise, we may simply be better off splitting into separate states, à la Yugoslavia in the 1990s. 🤷♂️
Hicham Bou Nassif@Hbounassif
كان الأسد يحكم سوريا مركزيّا. استخدم أدوات المركز لقمع كلّ معارض، وذبح السنّة. اليوم انتقل الحكم لرجل قوّي سنّي. اسمعوا الخطاب ضدّ العلويّين والأقليّات بالفيديو. تغيّرت هويّة الخاسر بسوريا، ولكن بالحكم المركزي هناك دائما مكوّن "فوق"، ومكوّن "تحت". هذه وصفة حرب أهليّة دائمة.
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@levantophile I think Kurds have bigger problems to worry about ie Turkey than some random dude insulting them.
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Also, it is one thing to attack and mock significantly weaker groups (Alawites, Druze, etc.), but going after the Kurds and mocking them as “shoeshiners” is just stupid.
These are the very people the government is negotiating to integrate, and the ones it most needs on its side, given that Syria’s Kurds control nearly a third of the country, including the regions that hold much of its oil and agricultural land. 🤦♂️
That said, the government can barely control its own supporters now. Once the majoritarian fascist genie is out of the bottle, it is very hard to put it back in, and it begins devouring everything around it…
Kanaa Ayoub☀️@KanaaAyoub
🚨الشعب السوري انصار الجولاني مصر أن يقطع شعرة معاوية بينه وبين الشعب الكوردي ، وان يكون اقذر ما أنجبته البشرية من عديمي الاخلاق والتربية والأحترام . ان هذه الشعارات العنصرية وتشبيه شعب الكوردي كاملاً (بملمع الأحذية البويا )ماهو إلا حالة بعثية وعنصرية وشوفينية .
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Jolani responds to minorities demanding their rights in peaceful lives without the fear of being kidnapped or killed on daily basis by deploying terrorists into Western Syria, most of whom partook in the March massacres, with a large contingent of foreign terrorists.
Syria Justice Archive@SyJusticeArc
🚨 Jableh countryside: Our correspondents in the Jableh countryside report a heavy deployment of al-Jolani militis : Two buses full of fighters entered the headquarters of Brigade 107. Several vehicles carrying al-Jolani elements entered the village of Al-Daliyah. Another group headed to Ayn Sharqiyyah and took positions near the police station. Another group headed to Al-Hawiz.
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@thoughtflblonde Federalism can and should be done in the future, but not under the threat of Israeli airstrikes, war and separatism.
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This quoted post is good analysis why federalism is wrong for Syria. 👇
Syria has about the same population and is about the same size as the state of Florida. Florida does not need to be federalized.
I continue to think that if Syria had a bicameral legislature with one house elected by geography and one elected by party list, then power would be distributed well, by requiring more compromise, and it would empower minority components to better representation. If there is no legislative election according to geographical seats, then governors should be elected locally, not appointed. My two cents as a foreign analyst. ☺️
Amr Alsarraj@amr_alsarraj
الفيدرالية اتحاد بين دول وولايات مستقلة سوريا ليست ولايات لتتحد. وهي أصغر من أن تقسم. وتأسيس كيانات وتقسيمات إدارية على أساس طائفي يعزز الطائفية والانقسام والعداوات ويلغي الوطنية ويشوه المجتمع ويؤسس لحروب مستقبلية قد ترتقي لإبادات كما شهدنا في القرن التاسع عشر والعشرين
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Sharaa regime and HTS want to force alawites out of Homs, alawites compromise more than 25% of the population
Hassan I. Hassan@hxhassan
Essential & timely reporting from #Syria: Homs, once the capital of Syria’s revolution, has become a violent landscape of sectarian killings, property seizures & impunity, part of an emerging political economy of predation & revenge. By Kamal Shahin: newlinesmag.com/reportage/in-h…
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