Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.

On Sunday last week, Damascus fell to Salafi terrorists and other imperialist-aligned forces. Regardless of the flaws of the ousted government, this is a horrible situation for the Syrian proletariat as well as for the people of Palestine, Lebanon and others. We can only hope for the perseverance of the Syrian workers and the remaining anti-colonial resistance.

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  • Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml
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    21 days ago

    It kind of does, because Syria was never able to take back those oil fields. Not when ISIS had them and not in the last 10 years. One could say that Syria had lost them for good once they lost them to ISIS.

    By this logic, one could argue that Israel has a right to every territory they take and the resources in them so long as they’re able to use the brute force to do it.

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      21 days ago

      It’s reverse. You’re saying Palestinians shouldn’t be supported because they took money/aid from the US.

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        21 days ago

        Is that what I’m saying or is that what you’re pretending I’m saying?

        At the end of the day, the only thing the YPG did was speed up the destruction of any sense of normality the people in Rojava could have experienced.

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          19 days ago

          Why didn’t SAA defeat ISIS in north-east Syria then? SDF didn’t take the land from the Syrian govt. they took it from the ISIS caliphate.