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Is that relevant?

Are you trying to say that these al-Qaeda/HTS, this Takfiri Salafi Islam is a good thing for Syria?

The point here is that most (if not close to all) of these "foreign fighters" are actually foreign to Syria. They are goons and brain washed monkeys of western Intel, through Saudi funded mosques in the west. Loved by Tel Aviv and welcome in Davos (what does that tell you).

You would probable say the same about Libya.

It is a very tough job to find "good" rulers, but if they don't even serve the interest of their "own" country (but that of others) you are looking into bigger problems than a dictatorship.

Jonathan 7mo ago

I don’t know enough to have strong opinions on which is better for Syria. I would guess the new regime because of how horrible Assad was, but that’s little more than a prior. As for the claim about foreign born rebels, it’s difficult to find numbers on this but the best estimates I can find put that number as numbering in the few thousands.

https://observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20241220-syria-foreign-fighters-jihadism-extremism

All I’m claiming is that wailing about the poor Assad regime being slandered is flat out wrong. There’s mountains of evidence that the Assad regime did in fact commit lots of war crimes.

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cryptowolf 7mo ago

"I don't know enough".

Perfectly said.

Jonathan 7mo ago

Thank you! As David Hume said “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”

If you don’t have a large amount of evidence to back up your belief, then you should have a low amount of conviction in your belief. I think one of the most important things in public discourse is clearly communicating how strong your convictions are on a topic.

Offmatrix 7mo ago

True, Glorifying any regime, EU, Russia, US, China, Israel, Assad is problematic in all sense of the word.

The brutally of the Assad regime, is partly also a product of being a geopolitical hotspot for more than 20 years (Not being subservant to Israel/US "greater Israel" politics).