r/blowback • u/MadJakeChurchill • 21d ago

Syria for Blowback Season 7?

What do you think? It won’t be 6, but the results of a jihadist rule will be almost immediately perceivable, with more displaced minorities, the invasion of AANES (‘Rojava’). All the pretend Jeffersonian Democrats that the CIA have supposedly been training for over a decade will no doubt be drug kingpins, and the people of Syria will suffer.

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u/jefferton123 21d ago

So I just saw something that said Israel was invading or, like, pushing further into the territory they’ve been occupying there. I don’t know what’s going on if someone wants to help out with anywhere from the last week to the last decade? I’ve been under the impression that Syria has been at war since at least 2014 or 2015 and the CIA backed a bunch of people who started fighting with each other while fighting the Syrian army? More or less correct?

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u/sargepoopypants 21d ago

More or less correct, based on my dumbass understanding. The Israelis are expanding past the Golan Heights to build more of an illegal ‘buffer zone’.

You have the Kurds, essentially a semi-anarchist state, based on what I’ve heard they’re chill.

HTS, founded by members of Al Quaida and ISIS, were the main ringleaders of the initial attack. They want to build a caliphate, but only in Syria (if you believe them).

The army that took Damascus seems to be one backed by Turkey and the West but it’s still unclear to me, both due to hazy news and how websites describe them. 

I’m scared shit will be worse for the Syrians, but Assad was dogshit by any standard, even excluding western propaganda. I hope I’m wrong.

Also Syria was the corridor that got weapons from Iran to Palestine. I’m very concerned that that will encourage more of the Israeli genocide.

Hopefully this is helpful, worth noting I’m a dumbass who looked into this at work so I’m probably wrong. I’m waiting for Spencer Ackerman and Derek Davidson to say more about it

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u/speakhyroglyphically 20d ago

You have the Kurds, essentially a semi-anarchist state, based on what I’ve heard they’re chill

US backs the Kurds as their wider 'Kurdistan' aspirations destabilizes the region

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u/sargepoopypants 20d ago

Wouldn’t that piss our ally Turkey off?

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u/Elronbubba 19d ago

Yes but the US offers support temporarily to the Kurds and withdraws it, this has happened repeatedly. US pulled the plug on then as soon as ISIL was defeated in 2017. Essentially, “Kurdistan” is split between Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran, and none of those countries are going to acquiesce to giving up territory. Even if they did , Kurdistan would be landlocked and at their mercy for trade/airspace.

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u/jefferton123 21d ago

Appreciate it nonetheless. You know more specifics than I do. I do need to start reading Foreign Exchanges again or listening to the War Nerd.

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u/tossthesauce92 20d ago

Someone else posted this video in another thread and I found it pretty informative:GDF - Who’s fighting who in Syria?

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u/Schwiftysauce89 17d ago

In Derek Davidson we trust

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u/War_and_Pieces 20d ago

They ought to get around to Serbia/the Balkins next 

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u/somedumbassgayguy 19d ago

More like season 20

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u/rikoovdh 20d ago

Then they would need to do the entire modern history of arab countries...

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u/Schwiftysauce89 17d ago

Idk I feel like there is still so much left to play out in Syria, maybe in like 5-10 years.