( yes war reducing in intensity is a good thing of course which is largely due to the Syrian Arab Army , Iran and the Russian Air and support campaign). I get why the Modern Kurdish insurgency in Syria -with it's Anarchist political doctrines laid out by Ocalan that in many ways mirror New Left discourse in it's most utopian visions- along with the birth of ISIS onto the "moderate rebel" scene seemed like the good guys, taking part in armed action before ISIS but most people in the US know them from the PR campaign that begin with the artificial creation of the SDF. Especially after ISIS was wiped from Iraq and only really existed in Syria and Russia and the Syrian Army were making gains against them.
Just imo the image of Rojava in many ways masks a more brutal reality on the ground (from prisons , to military bases) where large imperialist are backing pretty much all of the separatist movements in Syria, ready to take any real discontent (the regime is oppressive and even began to put in neoliberal reforms before 2011) or manufacture it if need be to divide and conquer and suck the blood out of the people.
I'll add this as the chaos of the war did have a moment where yes even the most ardent anti war activist struggled not justifying US Special Ops , bombings and so on : The ISIS siege of kobani . Yes ISIS and the breakdown of Syria's protest into total war (yes Islamist) insurgency wouldn't have happened without Iraq , the Libyan post 2011 'rat line' , Tymbore Sycamore and so on . But it happened and it's true bombs/US Special Forces/Contractors helped save it [kobani] . Kurdish women were apparently fierce warriors in that battle and killed a lot of ISIS -obviously male- militants .
( yes war reducing in intensity is a good thing of course which is largely due to the Syrian Arab Army , Iran and the Russian Air and support campaign). I get why the Modern Kurdish insurgency in Syria -with it's Anarchist political doctrines laid out by Ocalan that in many ways mirror New Left discourse in it's most utopian visions- along with the birth of ISIS onto the "moderate rebel" scene seemed like the good guys, taking part in armed action before ISIS but most people in the US know them from the PR campaign that begin with the artificial creation of the SDF. Especially after ISIS was wiped from Iraq and only really existed in Syria and Russia and the Syrian Army were making gains against them.
Just imo the image of Rojava in many ways masks a more brutal reality on the ground (from prisons , to military bases) where large imperialist are backing pretty much all of the separatist movements in Syria, ready to take any real discontent (the regime is oppressive and even began to put in neoliberal reforms before 2011) or manufacture it if need be to divide and conquer and suck the blood out of the people.
I'll add this as the chaos of the war did have a moment where yes even the most ardent anti war activist struggled not justifying US Special Ops , bombings and so on : The ISIS siege of kobani . Yes ISIS and the breakdown of Syria's protest into total war (yes Islamist) insurgency wouldn't have happened without Iraq , the Libyan post 2011 'rat line' , Tymbore Sycamore and so on . But it happened and it's true bombs/US Special Forces/Contractors helped save it [kobani] . Kurdish women were apparently fierce warriors in that battle and killed a lot of ISIS -obviously male- militants .