In light of recent events, the demcon project Rojava will be tested. What will they do now? Will AANES seek independence?

Trump has said the US shouldn't be involved in Syria, will he recall the remaining few thousand US troops from Syria? Or will the neocons convince Trump he can engage in "good" nation-building and create Kurdistan from AANES and northern Iraq? Would SDF go for such a plan since their stated goal is not a Kurdish state, but a multicultural state organised along the lines of democratic confederalism?

    • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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      13 天前

      Sinochem, a Chinese company is extracting oil from Syria in the oil fields controlled by DAANES/SDF. Are the Chinese engaging in imperialism in Syria?

        • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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          12 天前

          I made a mistake, Sinochem had to stop operations because of EU sanctions on Syria. They are trying to get back though. Turns out Chinese oil companies don't use ultra-leftist logic, weird.

          • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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            12 天前

            They did not leave because of sanctions, they reconsiders buying Syrian oil because of sanctions in 2018, four years after they pulled out. Your information is wrong again.

            • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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              12 天前

              Your information is wrong again.

              Not this time.

              Chinese state-controlled Sinochem and UK-listed explorer Gulfsands Petroleum have shut down their oil operations in Syria following European Union sanctions related to the crackdown on the uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, Gulfsands said.

              https://www.syria-oil.com/english/?p=2039

      • GlueBear @lemmygrad.ml
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        13 天前

        Imperialism? No. Being opportunistic capital parasites? Absolutely.

        Still, they're not worse than the us/hrs.

        • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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          12 天前

          Why is receiving some weapons from the US a greater sin than being opportunistic capital parasites? Why does China get critical support, but Rojava doesn't?

          • GlueBear @lemmygrad.ml
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            11 天前

            China has done so much more for humanity, even beyond the global fight against capitalism. Their contributions to science, health, and the arts are vast and plenty. Their support of the DPRK in resisting the US and the South's conquest is just one example of their long history of supporting AES around the globe. They ended extreme poverty in their own country, they're leading the world in renewable energy, they're always at the forefront of farming/food production breakthroughs, they forgive the debts of countries that have struggled with colonialism, they do business with countries that are being sanctioned by the US and I could go on but you get the idea.

            rojava is just a worthless, temporarily-embarressed ethnostate that has accomplished nothing in its pathetic existence except support the destruction of an entire country suffering from civil war. Rojava has done nothing for humanity except curse it by actively supporting the interests of the US in western Asia. That's why self respecting communists won't support that shit-ass project that westerners glaze whenever they aren't already glazing the current religious, reactionary fascist that just displaced a secular, anti-imperialist leader.

            tl;dr: China has done so much for the world, while rojava should be wiped off the map by HTS because it's just a blight.

            Edit: I want to emphasize that both HTS and rojava should be utterly destroyed. Syria should be free of all western imperialists and their compradors.

            Hope that helps 🙏🏼

            • supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml
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              11 天前

              One critique of China I have is them continuing to do business with the entity. Instead of or in addition to revenge tariffs and sanctions on US firms, they should sanction the entity. Let the US lose its pet in West Asia.

            • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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              11 天前

              rojava should be wiped off the map by HTS

              You want ISIS to genocide the Kurds so that you can be "proven right" in an internet argument. The state of you.

              ethnostate

              Not an ethnostate. Maybe you should learn abou Rojava before you "criticise them".

              • GlueBear @lemmygrad.ml
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                10 天前

                I want the extremists to kill each other so my country and the entire region can finally have peace. Yeah, you're correct.

                • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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                  9 天前

                  That's not what you said. You said Rojava should be wiped off the map first, then as an afterthought edit said they should both be destroyed.

                  I don't know why you're allowed to advocate for ethnic cleansing and Islamic fascism, but here we are.

                  Just to confirm, is this a good thing: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/11/turkish-backed-fighters-accused-killing-soldiers-syria/ ?

                  How do you propose to defend the Kurds against SNA/HTS?

        • supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml
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          12 天前

          He doesn't have one, he just wants to justify considering Rojava a revolutionary force while it literally collaborates with the biggest imperialist that has ever existed in human history. He probably printed some posters and bought that movie Hillary Clinton made. Sunk costs.

          • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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            12 天前

            Putin and Russia attempted to join NATO in 2003. Russia still sells uranium to the USA.

            You're not applying a standard consistently, but it changes according to your feelings.

            You probably printed ISIS flags because they are an "anti-imperialist force" lmao.

            • supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml
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              12 天前

              I don't like Russia and I think both Russia and China sucks for still not cutting off business with isntrael. May be if you don't assume my viewpoints and start amalgamating people you have had arguments with in the past.

              • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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                12 天前

                May be if you don’t assume my viewpoints

                Rich coming from the person who accused me of being Brace Belden, donating to Hillary Clinton and paying for true anon (I have heard the name, I have no idea what it is).

                start amalgamating people you have had arguments with in the past.

                The fucking irony lmao. You saw me talk positively about Rojava and assumed all these different things about me.

                  • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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                    12 天前

                    I am sorry sorry brace I insulted rojava. Are you redeplying soon considering the state Syria is in? Conoco field needs some new guards?

                    I'm at fault for assuming that you wanted to be taken seriously.

          • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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            12 天前

            Sinochem stopped operations in Syria in 2011, according to its partner Gulfsands Petroleum.

            Not for any ideological reasons, though, they were forced to by sanctions

            Sinochem stopped operations in Syria in 2011, according to its partner Gulfsands Petroleum.

            I made a mistake. They've been trying to get back ever since, though.

            The Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls the region, has “no other choices” but to sell to regime brokers or shadowy traders from northern Iraq, said Abdullah Al-Ghadawi,

            Thanks for confirming that US isn't getting any of oil from Rojava.

            • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
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              12 天前

              Thanks for confirming that US isn’t getting any of oil from Rojava.

              For this statement to be true, we have to ignore the following from the same article:

              “Pioneering” American entrepreneurs have waded into the “murky” oil business in Syria, according to a report by the Financial Times which investigated the US oil firm Delta Crescent Energy (DCE). The company was founded by a member of a former member of the US Delta Force who knew the Kurdish leadership — the Syrian Democratic Forces — through the security company he founded, TigerSwan.

              In April last year, the US Treasury granted a rare license allowing DCE to sidestep American sanctions on Syria’s oil sector. Question marks have been raised over how this has happened. The founders of DCE are said to have donated to Republican candidates but they have denied using political influence to secure the license. Speaking about DCE’s work in the Kurdish controlled north-east region, Joel Rayburn, US special envoy to Syria said that US officials endorsed the project “because we support trying to get the economy of north-east Syria up and running.”

              Are you implying that the US is doing a charity in that region when you are saying that they aren't getting any oil? If so, why is there a US oil firm in the Kurdish controlled north-east region which is also known as Rojava, also known as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)?

              I am not quite following your logic here.

              • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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                11 天前

                Whoever ends up with the oil is irrelevant imo, the main objective for the US was that Syrian gov wasnt getting it. Although the US did indeed end up stealing a lot of it.

              • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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                12 天前

                How much oil did DCE extract/sell? I don't mean that as a gotcha, I am genuinely asking.

                Many US companies "get contracts" for things they never deliver on. Many people scam the government in that way. The company could have also been a CIA front, a way to get operatives on the ground under the guise of "prospecting" or "making deals".

                I'm not denying that Rojava isn't talking to the US or cooperating, they absolutely are. I'm just thinking that Rojava gets more out of the relationship, while they only contribute a little towards US' overall goals.

                • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
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                  12 天前

                  How much oil did DCE extract/sell? I don’t mean that as a gotcha, I am genuinely asking.

                  This is not a simple oil firm that has a website and produces all of this data transparently like any other S&P500 would. For context, this is an oil firm operating in the following conditions:

                  • It is operating in a territory owned by an armed group funded by the USA
                  • It is operating in a devastated country riddled with sanctions(Caesar law -> Prohibiting US businesses from investing or operating in Syria)
                  • From the article that I shared before: DCE is said to be unlike other major oil firms that have long been involved in pumping crude from the Middle East, including neighbouring Iraq. This unknown outfit’s mission is to explore, refine and export oil from a corner of war-torn Syria controlled by a US-backed Kurdish-dominated militia. “It’s too pioneering; too adventuresome . . . some might say too risky,” the former US ambassador to Denmark told the FT, speaking about DCE’s operations.

                  To go back to your main argument("Thanks for confirming that US isn’t getting any of oil from Rojava"), evidence show that they are profiting from this situation with Syrian oil. However, we don't know how much oil they are extracting because the data is muddied due to the legality of the actions done by the firm itself. In other words, this oil firm is actually delivering "something" that they are unable to say openly. Even Radio Free Asia is trying to silence the claim that the US is stealing Syrian oil. That's how bad things are in Syria.

                  • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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                    11 天前

                    evidence show that they are profiting from this situation with Syrian oil.

                    What evidence? Conjecture is not evidence.

                    we don’t know how much oil they are extracting

                    Since you haven't come up with a number, I'm confident in saying 0.

          • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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            12 天前

            China isn’t being funded and supplied by US forces to guard their assets.

            Are you denying that Rojava are being used as pawns by the US?

            • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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              12 天前

              China isn’t being funded and supplied by US forces to guard their assets.

              Neither is the SDF.

              Are you denying that Rojava are being used as pawns by the US?

              That's a very vague statement, virtually meaningless. "being used" - to what degree, to what effect? "pawns" - that implies that Kurds don't have any agency, kinda racist ngl.