Arabs doing scummy Arab shit? Who would have thunk it? They don’t even care that China is genociding the Uyghers, a Muslim group. They take that Chinese money anyway and continue to undermine western interests.
“after his country was expelled in 2011 for its brutal crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy protests during the Arab Spring.”
LOL... The CIA using Facebook -created- the peaceful protests that were the precursor to ISIS. It started as far back as Bush. Wikileaks posted the documents where the local Ambassador was cultivating separatist groups to exploit.
Remember back to that time. Assad was the most liberal (in the classical sense) of any leader in the middle east. In Syria you could be a Christian, any kind of Moslem, and yes, they had two remaining Synagogues. Women could travel, hold jobs, divorce, check into a hotel, drive a car, get an education, and dance to music on Latakia beach while drinking a glass of Syrian made wine.
Nowhere else in the middle east was even close. So the State Department, CIA, and USAID got busy.
The destruction we created in Syria is hard to measure. The refugee flood into Europe, the arms smuggling from Syria, the flood of migrants to Africa, ISIS, the need to flood in large numbers of Iranian soldiers to fight our rebels, and hundreds of thousands dead.
We, under Obama, trained and funded terrorists that became ISIS that slaughtered the Christian population there.
Then, Trump had to go in and wipe the ISIS bastards because they became a national security.
Neocon foreign policy must die.
All for nothing. For this idiotic war, we switched sides in the war on terror, destroyed Libya, Syria, and unleashed a flood of migrants into the EU. All to overthrow the most liberal leader in the middle east. Jordan is close, but it still labors under a King.
It was truly deranged.
“Feb 12, 2022 — The Myth – the Fake Messiah of Middle East Christians ... No, Bashar Al Assad is not the shield of Eastern Christians””
Since when did you guys ever look out for the fate of Christians?
Assad should be lauded for stopping Obama’s “Arab Spring” of installing Islamic militants in power. The terrorists were rolling up the Arab countries without much of a fight until they got to Assad. His resistance gave the Egyptians the backbone to rid themselves of Obama’s puppet government. Then a long hard fight that ended up pitting the CIA backed militants against the US Army back militants, a little help from Russia and he managed to pull it off.
They’ve been going after Assad because he wouldn’t allow gas pipelines to go through his country to supply Europe as a favor to Russia.