There's a difference between thinking Assad is just wonderful and thinking that Assad is the best of several awful options. When the likely options are Assad, fascism, or a balkanized Syria under the US's thumb, it should be pretty obvious which is the least bad
Please, for the love of god, incorporate an anti-imperialist framework into your analysis. Your takes are painful
Yeah dictators are extremely antiimperialist
There's a difference between thinking Assad is just wonderful and thinking that Assad is the best of several awful options. When the likely options are Assad, fascism, or a balkanized Syria under the US's thumb, it should be pretty obvious which is the least bad
Assad killed 500 000 people because he wanted to be a dictator