[Godstud]

Ok... go on believing the lies. Up to you.
The weapons are foreign, the fighters are foreign, the agenda is foreign.

[Rich]

The pathetic fantasy world of the leftie and their new alt right friends. I support Assad, although I was very much a Jonny come lately to the Assad cause. But there was and is massive opposition to Assad from young trendy secular, often-atheist progressive types to the extremes of ISIS and every shade of Sunni Islam in between. The Kurds don't want him, even many Alawites and Christians wanted to see the back of him. The Assad regime is corrupt, inefficient, brutal and repressive.

In this pathetic fantasy world, conflicts must fall neatly into 2 utterly different categories, either foreign invasions with an innocent occupied and an evil invader or hermetic civil wars with no outside interference. Yes there are many foreign fighters, yes there are foreign forces involved, yes there are foreign weapon supplies, but so what? What civil was hasn't had outside intervention? Perhaps the 3rd Anglo American civil war of 1861 -1865. But note the US only won its independence with massive support from the Netherlands and absolutist France and Spain. Was the Spanish Civil War not a civil war because there was extensive outside intervention? And on the other hand how often has there been an invasion without significant numbers of people in the invaded land looking to collaborate?

[Godstud]

Assad's no innocent, but saying it's a civil war is an outright lie. You almost need a man like him to control those ME regimes. The soft touch doesn't work.

[Zionist Nationalist]

@Godstud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Hama_massacre
was that made by Americans too?

Syria was always a divided country and as long as the minority rules the majority there will always be internal conflicts
the civil war did not came out of nowhere the seeds were planted long ago

[Godstud]

An incident 30 years before the start of the Syrian war is what you point to?

[skinster]

It wasn't a civil war. Jeez, people still pushing that line in 2019 are

Just going to put this one here: