I feel like the west letting rebels take over might be a plan for total intervention and control of Syria, Israel is already rock bottom in international relations, they probably want to win over the middle east once and for all. HTS being literal terrorists gives the America an excuse to intervene and to domestically suppress pro Palestinians since a lot of them support the new rebel government, also might use this as an opportunity to revitalize their military supply chain for competition with China, right now they are losing bad. It might also be why Assad gave up so quickly because he knew what the west was doing and wanted to give them a harder enemy.
Well there's always the case they start up as initial puppets but later on they start having "disagreements" with their original benefactors and then become an enemy. Then the West creates another set of terrorists to do the same thing etc.
Syrians do not deserve a country if they cannot bother put up a minimal fight.
Black Friday queues have shifted to food banks.
I suspect their biggest fear is AI taking over their scamming industry. That'll be the nails on the coffin.
You haven't studied the Arabic soft power gene. It's mere presence masks all other genes. The two alleles are made of oil and dates.
This seems like a strategic blunder, looking at it from the surface. Although, I can totally see the "rebel" label switched to "terrorist" once they've completely dismantled Assad's government which will allow more US occupation and Israel annexing easy territories (like they just did today with the Golan Heights).
Except ISIS. They never threatened Israel. Even when questioned explicitly on the subject, they simply said they aren't interested in Israel. And ISIS was the most brutal of jihadists; for reference, an al-Qaeda cleric said to them "you are too extreme".
Going off on the DPP initially endorsing the coup, I think this is the Trump effect where increasingly most of the world's liberal democracies and its advocates are willing to curtail more of their freedoms and civil liberties as the so called, "price to pay" to resist China.
It's actually kinda unfair they have a country despite being unwilling to fight for it. Meanwhile you have loads of stateless people like Kurds who are actually fighters.
This sounds harsh but one of the reasons a lot of these middle east guys are at the mercy of evil Israel is coz frankly they don't use their brains much. Time and time again they constantly keep getting played and fooled by Israel, the west and hell even other senior Islamic religious leaders who have ulterior motives. With the rise of the internet that gives them access to more information than ever, you would think they would start learning. But it seems the only thing it has helped them on is figuring out how to recruit more ignorant people to join their organization instead of stoping to see the bigger picture.
I think inviolable sovereignty needs to be seriously looked at a UN-level in the long term. Currently there is no mechanism to legitimately apply Darwinism in state relationships. If a country has repeatedly demonstrated an inability to govern itself, does it really need to remain and continue in the future? Whereas for people who are willing to fight and demonstrate capability and competence, there should be a mechanism to allow them to form a state and to see if they can develop further.
This is impossible. With the capabilities of the CIA, they have plenty of ways to create such people. The only superpower would be happy to use this low-cost solution if it obtained the legitimate means to destroy other countries.
