TheLastHero [he/him]

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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I don't even blame them. Genocide Joe and the other democrat "supporters" are most likely tacitly supporting this no name bureaucrat in blocking this. Thank God! now we don't have to do any work, but we can still stay we "tried" and some forgettable scapegoat can all the heat for it. The perfect liberal policy!

    Watch her get a sweet private sector "consulting" gig in a couple years as quid pro quo. If they actually wanted this they would just run her over, literally if necessary.



  • TheLastHero [he/him]tochapotraphouseVerily
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    4 days ago

    I saw this first hand during the pandemic time when quietly Ukraine was one of the freest countries in the world. Quietly is the key! You just do your thing, escaping notice of Political Mordor.

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  • TheLastHero [he/him]tonewsModerate rebels coming to China
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    7 days ago

    they'll erase themselves if they even bother showing up. While they've been off pillaging in Syria for a decade the Chinese government has lifted the standard of living in Xinjiang and tamped down on Uyghur separatism. Typically a would be independence movement needs to, you know, be active in the land and among the people they are purporting to represent.

    If these guys think they'll receive a hero's welcome from the locals they'll be sorely mistaken, and the US isn't around in Afghanistan to funnel them support anymore. Hilariously their old friends in the Taliban will probably sell them out to China now for a few drops of aid money. It will look like some bay of pigs shit if they try to return in force. I doubt they will even try to leave Syria





  • You are correct. I didn't mean to refer any neo-Ottoman fantasies of Turkish nationalists. But turkish troops have crossed the border in active operations like Peace Spring and Olive Branch (ridiculous names for milliary operations btw). On paper this new government is supposed to be controlling the territory but its still an occupation by foreign troops and a violation of sovereignty.

    But yeah, their priorities are expelling the refugees and punishing the Kurds. HTS could just roll over and accept that they are going to continue to be Turkish puppets, but Kurds are part of Syria too and if this new government throws them to the wolves, I think other minorities will be feeling very nervous and not secure. States with limited sovereignty don't tend to be very stable states. For their own survival and stability it would be rational for this new HTS government to expand their relations beyond Turkey so they don't become overly reliant, and Russia is the only real choice.


  • realism winning again. The Syrian state's international position is the same as it was under Assad, even worse actually now that they lost their entire milliary. Turkey is fundamentally a threat to Syria with their territorial ambitions in the north. The NATO-Zionist bloc has extensive power projection in the region and nakedly imperialist ambitions. Their Arab neighbors are either wrecked and occupied (and thus useless allies) or already cut deals with the Zionists that they won't renege on for poor, powerless Syria.

    Russia is the only major power that doesn't directly threaten Syria's state sovereignty, that makes them natural partners in this current world order. China is the other exception but Syria has nothing to offer China that they couldn't get somewhere else easier. Russia meanwhile has few options and needs to maintain their own limited power projection in SWANA. Assad didn't work with the Russians just because he loved Молчат Дома and hated liberal democracy, they were the only ones who could offer him the best deal. HTS is finding out the hard way that the realities of international relations and governance are a lot less fun than looting the country.