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