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Yeh I saw this, once again another of the countless pieces of information that show the US never wanted "regime change" etc. Note how even in these kinds of discussions when they're essentially talking to each other, they still have to embellish facts to make their essential support for Assad seem a little more palatable: "in which the Islamic State had assumed control of most of eastern Syria and had begun to also threaten Syria’s main cities in the West." This of course is simple bullshit, which the speaker knows even as he says it. Yes ISIS had control of eastern Syria, but the US was already 9 months into bombing them there by "the summer of 2015", the period being referred to. But ISIS was in no way threatening "Syria's main cities in the west." Not at all, never in fact, the very idea was always the purest of fiction, but especially after the Syrian rebels drove ISIS root and branch from the whole of western Syria in January 2014, never to return, from the provinces of Idlib, Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Latakia, Damascus and Daraa (except the odd spot here and there, such as Yarmouk, which posed zero threat to any city), in fact they even drove ISIS from Raqqa briefly, but ISIS put all forces into getting it back, and they even drove ISIS from Deir Ezzor further east, and held it for 6 months until ISIS, flush with all the US weapons it had seized from Mosul when the US/Iranian Iraqi army ran away, re-invaded from Iraq and laid siege to Deir Ezzor for a month, during which time the Assad regime helped ISIS by joining in bombing the besieged rebels, while the US, which was already bombing ISIS in Iraq, made no attempt to prevent the fall of Deir Ezzor. In other words, the "catastrophe" the US was concerned about was not that Assad would fall to ISIS, but that Assad would fall to the rebels. On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 12:36 AM RKOB via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > *“We Worried that the Assad Regime Might Finally Collapse”* > > */New revelations about the approach of U.S. imperialism to the Assad > regime/* > > /By Michael Pröbsting/ > > > https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/us-official-we-worried-that-the-assad-regime-might-finally-collapse/ > > -- > Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG > (Österreichische Sektion der RCIT, www.thecommunists.net) > www.rkob.net > ak...@rkob.net > Tel./SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram: +43-650-4068314 > > > > --- > Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mkaradjis%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
