Happy Ending In Syria?

[herodotus]

I am waiting for independent verification of this, but if this is true, I have some questions:

HTS officials order Palestinian resistance factions to disarm, close bases in Syria: Report

The new rulers in Damascus are taking actions to prevent the Palestinians from defending themselves or resisting Israel

thecradle.co

 

[ICRockets]

I am waiting for independent verification of this, but if this is true, I have some questions:

HTS officials order Palestinian resistance factions to disarm, close bases in Syria: Report

The new rulers in Damascus are taking actions to prevent the Palestinians from defending themselves or resisting Israel

thecradle.co

It wouldn't surprise me. At least for the time being, I think a lot of the factions vying for control in Syria are going to be fairly isolationist. Support for Palestinian resistance is going to further antagonize Israel, so they're going to hope that NOT giving that support will temper the fervor for Zionist expansion.

It won't, because Israel is not a rational actor. But it's understandable why those who ARE rational actors would perceive it to be in their own rational best interests to treat them with kid gloves.

 

[herodotus]

It wouldn't surprise me. At least for the time being, I think a lot of the factions vying for control in Syria are going to be fairly isolationist. Support for Palestinian resistance is going to further antagonize Israel, so they're going to hope that NOT giving that support will temper the fervor for Zionist expansion.

It won't, because Israel is not a rational actor. But it's understandable why those who ARE rational actors would perceive it to be in their own rational best interests to treat them with kid gloves.

Just one minor point of contention, I think Israel is vey much a rational actor, but their motivation is driven by evil. The Netenyahu regime- considering how corrupt and expansionistic it is, and how supportive of genocide it is, I think its high time to call his government a regime - is evil, but its very rational. Think about it, its September 2023, most of your citizens want you and your cronies taken out because you have abused power and are corrupt as fuck. You have Palestinians who want your biggest supporters to stop building illegal settlements in their internationally respected territories, you have Iran funding and arming the Palestinians, and so you have a very weak grip on power. However, there is one (can we stil call it a trump card?) card you have in your deck. Hamas. For years you and your predecessors have cultivated and funded them to discredit the Palestinians, and so you get wind that one of their hotheads is going to do something big or else you even pay them to do something particularly nasty such as make a big attack and take 100+ people hostage.

All of a sudden you get all sorts of things. You are at war against a terrible foe. Instantaneously the corruption and abuse of power allegations go away. Good luck finding the John Oliver piece from October 2023 (one of his best works and now very difficult to find)

Oh good I found it, it was not there for a few months, but here it is in its entirety:

You also get a chance to ethnically clense the Palestinian territories of its combat/reproductive aged men and kill its independence ambitions. You also get to go after Hezbollah and strike Iran because nobody in the west is going to sanction you. Fast forward a year, you have hit Iran, you have disabled Hezbollah, and after 13 years of civil war, poor governance, a US seizure of its oil (which crippled its economy) and Turkish seizure of its best agricultural lands you have a bankrupt government and starving population and so a few thousand ghouls with assault rifles and toyatas are all that's needed to topple it. Now you get Lebanon with little resistance and you get a huge buffer that may end up very near Damascus. Its diabolically clever. Its absolutely evil but its not irrational.

 

[herodotus]

Oh and look, its age restricted. That's odd because this is about the only episode he has ever made that has been age restricted. He has done bits on porn and sex scandals and no age restrictions there, but for some reason his -and I hope it was Emmy award winning, maybe even Peabody and Pulitzer winning - reporting on this was said to violate youtube community standards.

 

[ICRockets]

Just one minor point of contention, I think Israel is vey much a rational actor, but their motivation is driven by evil. The Netenyahu regime- considering how corrupt and expansionistic it is, and how supportive of genocide it is, I think its high time to call his government a regime - is evil, but its very rational. Think about it, its September 2023, most of your citizens want you and your cronies taken out because you have abused power and are corrupt as fuck. You have Palestinians who want your biggest supporters to stop building illegal settlements in their internationally respected territories, you have Iran funding and arming the Palestinians, and so you have a very weak grip on power. However, there is one (can we stil call it a trump card?) card you have in your deck. Hamas. For years you and your predecessors have cultivated and funded them to discredit the Palestinians, and so you get wind that one of their hotheads is going to do something big or else you even pay them to do something particularly nasty such as make a big attack and take 100+ people hostage.

All of a sudden you get all sorts of things. You are at war against a terrible foe. Instantaneously the corruption and abuse of power allegations go away. Good luck finding the John Oliver piece from October 2023 (one of his best works and now very difficult to find)

Oh good I found it, it was not there for a few months, but here it is in its entirety:

You also get a chance to ethnically clense the Palestinian territories of its combat/reproductive aged men and kill its independence ambitions. You also get to go after Hezbollah and strike Iran because nobody in the west is going to sanction you. Fast forward a year, you have hit Iran, you have disabled Hezbollah, and after 13 years of civil war, poor governance, a US seizure of its oil (which crippled its economy) and Turkish seizure of its best agricultural lands you have a bankrupt government and starving population and so a few thousand ghouls with assault rifles and toyatas are all that's needed to topple it. Now you get Lebanon with little resistance and you get a huge buffer that may end up very near Damascus. Its diabolically clever. Its absolutely evil but its not irrational.

Yeah this is basically correct, I just differentiate between what's rational for Netanyahu and what's rational for Israel.

 

[HipKat]

Oh and look, its age restricted. That's odd because this is about the only episode he has ever made that has been age restricted. He has done bits on porn and sex scandals and no age restrictions there, but for some reason his -and I hope it was Emmy award winning, maybe even Peabody and Pulitzer winning - reporting on this was said to violate youtube community standards.

YT Censorship is out of hand