I'm just listening to the Citations Needed podcast, and they talked about how even since the Spanish War Americans have been using women rights to justify their aggression.
Citations Needed: Episode 47: American Magnanimity - Spinning Crimes Against Humanity as Benevolence
Episode webpage: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/citationsneeded/CN47_20180808_generosity_schwarz.mp3
Media file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/citationsneeded/CN47_20180808_generosity_schwarz.mp3?dest-id=542191
This right here is the actual reason libs hate Trump so much. He doesn't try to put a fig leaf over the atrocities US commits, he just comes out and says we're in Syria to take their oil.
ive always said that the difference between trump and libs is that he doesnt do "strategic ambiguance"
And half the population cheers him on for saying it, the other half are mad that he revealed their "secret" plan.
Especially absurd to use this propaganda angle when the West is backing Islamic fundamentalists to overthrow a secular state
It's a particularly effecttive angle because progressive liberals are sympathetic towards the victims of fundamentalist regimes, but are largely ignorant to the US's backing of them, while conservative liberals are just looking for an excuse to be racist.
"You do not understand. Moslem bad and the government look like Moslem therefore we must kill all their women." - Average liberal.
The US is actually backing socialists and even communists in Syria. HTS is mostly on its own. The US supports Assad over HTS.
Edit: Lol, downvote me all you want, doesn't change that the US chose the socialist YPG/PKK as their ally. Tbf though, their main ideology is ethnic nationalism, socialism for them is nowadays more a tool to fool some naive westerners.
Edit 2: I am a socialists myself. Still doesn't change facts.
You can't be serious. It has been common knowledge for almost a decade now that the US trained and funded all these "rebels". There is even those emails leaks where the US secretary of state says that "AQ is on our side in Syria". The US has spent billions funding all these terrorists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore
This is wrong. The US supports HTS through Turkey and through their Al Tanf base in the south of Syria.
Oh my, two mistakes in one sentence... HTS is not active in the south and Turkey supports the SNA (FSA) which is at times cooperating with HTS, but is at odds with them at the same time. The tentions just flared up today again and let to a lot of bloodshet between SNA and HTS in the last. Turkey did occasionally protect the HTS to a degree against Assads agressions (to prevent Assad from gaining ground), but also tried to get rid of them.
The US supports neither the SNA, nor HTS, but supports the YPG in the north and a mercenary troop in the south that acts like they were FSA, not HTS.
You know literally nothing about the conflict. Stop writing about it
The groups in Al Tanf market themselves as Free Syrian Army (the original revolitionaries) and nowadays sometimes as Syrian Free Army.
https://syrianobserver.com/foreign-actors/free-syrian-army-in-tanf-changes-its-leaders.html
As said above, imo the groups in Al Tanf are simple mercenaries and have nothing to do with the original FSA.
But one thing they surely are not, they are not HTS affiliated.
