They were forced by US actions to do so tho. GZD post is garbage but tThe critiques against them in the past is the simple truth that there is and was scenario where the secular Syrian Government can become stable economicaly and geopoliticaly with US prolonging their occupation in the erea since its very presence and action there is for it to not happen. Prollonging the current situation means misery and suffering for millions of syrian citizens with no future where they will have a full belly and a safe ans stable life. So it wasnt a fear. It was a reality that negatively impacted millions of Syrians.
What some people disagreed with and were branded as tankies is that you should support Rojava even if it is a project that exists and was able to exist only through US presence ,control and opperations there (which means and meant what i described above) and the narrative in the western left at thet time that they HAD TO ALLY WITH THE US and that there WAS NO CHOICE and THAT ASSAD AND TURKS WOULD SLAUGHTER THEM OTHERWISE and as a result US presence is the lesser evil for them and should be prolonged
Balkanizing third world states serves US imperialism. The idea that Rojava had no other choice but to side with US imperialism is just another way of saying that communists should not have supported it or really give it any undue attention. Rojava is no different from the micro-orgs that happen hundreds of times during periods of Civil War and they are just as forgettable. The reason why people cared so much about Rojava was beause it had a populist character and we could displace our own alienation and imagine a good world in the middle east compared to the bigotry of ISIS. Rojava was never socialist but bourgeoise, thus communist do not have a dog in the fight except to oppose our own imperialism (and this means opposing and investigating why the US cares about Rojava)
They were forced by US actions to do so tho. GZD post is garbage but tThe critiques against them in the past is the simple truth that there is and was scenario where the secular Syrian Government can become stable economicaly and geopoliticaly with US prolonging their occupation in the erea since its very presence and action there is for it to not happen. Prollonging the current situation means misery and suffering for millions of syrian citizens with no future where they will have a full belly and a safe ans stable life. So it wasnt a fear. It was a reality that negatively impacted millions of Syrians.
What some people disagreed with and were branded as tankies is that you should support Rojava even if it is a project that exists and was able to exist only through US presence ,control and opperations there (which means and meant what i described above) and the narrative in the western left at thet time that they HAD TO ALLY WITH THE US and that there WAS NO CHOICE and THAT ASSAD AND TURKS WOULD SLAUGHTER THEM OTHERWISE and as a result US presence is the lesser evil for them and should be prolonged
Balkanizing third world states serves US imperialism. The idea that Rojava had no other choice but to side with US imperialism is just another way of saying that communists should not have supported it or really give it any undue attention. Rojava is no different from the micro-orgs that happen hundreds of times during periods of Civil War and they are just as forgettable. The reason why people cared so much about Rojava was beause it had a populist character and we could displace our own alienation and imagine a good world in the middle east compared to the bigotry of ISIS. Rojava was never socialist but bourgeoise, thus communist do not have a dog in the fight except to oppose our own imperialism (and this means opposing and investigating why the US cares about Rojava)