By Janice Kortkamp - 3 Dec 2024
My attempt to summarize the US proxy war against Syria. Please feel free to add to this, criticize, ask questions, whatever.
The Foreign Policy article from 2012 was giving "Two Cheers!!!" for the US knowingly arming terrorist groups to try to overthrow the legitimate leader of Syria and take control of the country. The US/israel partnered with the UK and France and regional allies of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar- with those allies getting promised big pieces of the Syrian pie as inducements, especially Turkey. The "rebel" groups included al Qaeda and those directly linked to al Qaeda and ISIS. Also legions (thousands of groups at one point) of others that shared the same ideology and methods to more or less degree.
Many tens of thousands of fighters poured into Syria over the border with Turkey. In those days all of Syria was "the front"; it was total chaos. Hezbollah and Iran joined the fight against the terrorist groups. Later Russia came in militarily after they saw ISIS was gaining momentum and the US was helping ISIS - yes you read that right - hoping to force President Assad to negotiate or surrender. This was confirmed by John Kerry at the time in a recorded conversation with the "opposition".
Fast forward to 2018. The terrorist groups that had been systematically defeated from nearly all of the country were removed to the Idlib province in the northwest of the country to allow the rest of the country to get back to as much normalcy as possible.
By 2022, Foreign Policy was lamenting that Idlib, where all the US "moderate rebels" were holing up, was the "capital of global terrorism".
But now we're back to 2012 where those same terrorists are now getting "two cheers!!" again, as western media and politicians pretend they're fighting to "free Syria" 🤬🤦♀️
There is only one real Syria. Its capital is Damascus, one of the (if not the) oldest continuously inhabited capital cities in the world. Its army is the Syrian Arab Army. Its leader is President Bashar al-Assad.
And its people are very best. They're not lemmings or a collective. They come from many backgrounds and have their own opinions. Many hate President Assad, many love him, many are in between, just like public opinion about leaders in other countries. This war is not about one man. This war has nothing to do with human rights or democracy or freedom. All of the areas under US backed "rebels" had substantially worse human rights, no democracy, and far fewer freedoms. Never at any point did the "rebels" have a unifying leader or manifesto.
This war was created in an effort for the US to either seize control over Syria or failing that (which it did fail) to weaken/destroy it. The US has only one real interest in Syria: Syria didn't submit to US dictates, particularly Syria refused to end its relationship with Iran and its support for the groups resisting israel and its never ending expansionism and aggression.
This is why the US is still there, illegally occupying 1/3 of Syria - 1/3 of the country where the richest oil and grain fields are, stealing that oil and grain, and raising/equipping a mercenary army to divide Syria up.
You see, israel isn't "defending itself", israel is using the US to make sure no one - not the Palestinians, or Lebanese, or Syrians, or Iraqis, or Iranians - can protect themselves *from* israel.
That's as simple as I can make it.
[Janice Kortramp Facebook post on 3 Dec 2024 | https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14BvubY6PF/ ]
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