The US should be looking into what? How to deal with getting sanctioned by the US?

With Biden ramping up the trade war and a second Trump presidency on the horizon, it would have been dumb not to study how to prepare for sanctions.

They wanted them to win last time at first too, hence why they gave them weapons and positive press coverage (as the “free syrian army”).

Are they a US proxy or independent

Yes. Turkey does things the US doesn’t like, such as bombing US proxies, namely the Kurds, but at the same time, the US hold’s turkey’s leash.

the Kurds are the ones benefiting from the oil production

This is correct in the same sense that the poor benefited from the trump tax cuts; the US is getting that oil for $16/barrel.

What about US-induced famine?

Grain has been transported out of the US occupied area into Iraq.

There’s food scarcity and hunger-related disease across Syria, but it is significantly worse in the US-occupied areas.

To be clear Assad is not a good guy here, but stealing the country’s resources and bombing forces fighting the former Al Nusra only makes things worse.

lmao

A strawman is when you attack arguments nobody made.

I said “the story received no promotion”. I didn’t see it in the national news section of my local paper, and the national online news didn’t cover it for a month and aren’t even putting it on the front page a month later.

That’s borderline a blackout for something that should be a national shame.

Yes, because I, like most people don’t dig past the front page of online news, and most people don’t even do that much.

This is still a reflection on the relative lack of promotion such a visceral story should receive.

Good job destroying that strawman.

Repeating exactly what I said is moving the goalposts?

I didn’t say nobody wrote an article about it, I said nobody promoted it, it’s not on anyone’s front page, nor was it included in the physical edition of my local paper over the last week.

It’s telling that I haven’t seen a single US-based news source promoting this story.

I’m certain they don’t prefer the immiseration and famine that comes with the US and/or proxies literally stealing their harvests and oil.

The Kurds are more complicated; Turkey invades/bombs them whenever possible, sometimes the US takes measures against further Turkish aggression, sometimes they ignore it.

In 2019 the Kurds made a deal with Assad for protection and autonomy within Syria after Trump decreased support. For them, Turkey represents a far greater threat than the Syrian government.

Por que no los dos?

Americans

OK, legitimate is a strong term for any bourgeoisie democracy, but some amount of legitimacy comes from defending its people from HTS and all the other US armed terrorist factions, Israel, Turkey, and the US.

That will change once they’re not in danger of being subjected to a worse fate by the US, but for now it’s the only organization capable of resisting.

Having literally any understanding of geopolitics and history is just tankie shit ig.

There is a difference between not jumping into a burning building and not shooting someone running away from you. Once they’re fleeing, shooting them is not self-defense just because you’re afraid they might come back in the future.

If you don’t believe that, when does it stop being self-defense? Maybe they’ll come back a decade from now, then surely it’s self-defense to break into their home and kill them in their sleep to protect yourself.

There is, nobody can be comfortable not knowing whether they’ll be able to afford rent next month.

Most Americans have no idea we are occupying Syria.