the problem is not the perfect party platform, it is the peasants who are too stupid to understand our perfect technocratic solution
In any reasonable world, the Democratic party should be dissolved after this kind of performance, but the Democratic electorate ecosystem is a universal job guarantee program for ivy league ghouls
Jalani should make a deal to resettle every settlers from the west bank into Syria. It’s not like he cares about Syrian territory integrity or the state’s sovereignty.
Jadaliyya is doing a live stream regarding the collapse of Assad's Syria, they are also giving a history of the socio-economic situation of the country until now
this was more excusable before we had that article revealing this but anyone still parroting assadist talking points is just being willingly ignorant.
I might sound like I'm Coping, but I never understand how Assad's regime is perceived as the backbone of the resistance when the regime is basically a fancier version of a gunrunner, Assad used to be a darling of the West where the west have sent suspected terrorist to be tortured in this country (granted Jordan and Egypt did the same). The Regime has opportunity to negotiate an end to the conflict (as Iran and Russia suggested years ago), but they never did.
As this point, the regime really bought this on themselves. Yes the regime of HST is not going to be good for anyone, but Assad stagnant governance created a environment for Nepotism and corruption not unlike the Karzai's regime. What is also buried under the whole critical support is that the Assads also cracked down on a lot of the opposition which included communists and Palestinian militant groups to insure the survival of the Regime.
Most of my sources are from an interview done by Jeremy Scahill on dropsite news where he did a good summary of the situation before the interview segment and the other is from the episodes done by Radio WarNerd when the counteroffensive started (it goes in depth into what HST is and its evolution)
Bribing might play a role, but the collapse of the Syrian Pound after years of sanctions made it easier for people to go to the rebel region that uses foreign currency (ei. Turkish Lyra) because the region has foreign import and also better purchase power. The civil war border is not as controlled as it seems since the SAA didn't really bother to control them (you can see the border garrison being empty and they finally decide to send troops later when Hom fell). My hunch is that most people didn't really see the point of being in the army since the pay was shit (unless you are in the Iranian and Russian backed military, but they later were disbanded and integrated into the SAA) and most of them saw the writing on the wall and defect (The majority of the country is still Sunni so going to the rebels side is not as tough of a choice) and the one that are still in the SAA are officers that get a bigger pay than the average troops.
I guess the economic side did play a major role (like everything in life), but the lack of flexibility of Assad governing (within his control or beyond) probably didn't help.
In the sense, it does look like the fall of Afghanistan (pick one of the two).
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Fitting name tbh