I guess Assad and Russia are winning. Beyond that it's hard to tell with all the hacky propaganda journalism going on. Skeptical of a lot of claims without evidence parroted in western media from certain rebel faction sources who are basically al Qaeda.

And stuff like this, passing off images from music videos or Israel's bloodbaths in Gaza as being from Syria.






Somehow I doubt our media will have the same apoplectic fits over 'fake news on social media' that targets our geopolitical adversaries.

But I'm sure if we just drop more bombs, but the freedom kind, and give more weapons to terrorists when they align against our adversaries then the lives of everyday Syrians will improve.


All that being said, propaganda or no, I don't think it's really in dispute that Assad and Russia aren't exactly discriminating in their bombings, which are responsible for the large majority of the deaths in Syria. But until there is an alternative that doesn't involve brinkmanship with a nuclear power and empowering more crazy fundamentalists, and doing so largely not for humanitarian but economic imperialist reasons (see pipeline disputes in Syria) I don't know if there's a good answer to that situation though.

If it were Hollywood, there would be some recognizable landmarks in the background. Hollywood set designers love to destroy landmarks, and London's in particular. In order to get hired to be a set designer in Hollywood, the interviewer always asks you what superpower you would choose if you can have any, and they ask you what you to describe what you would do in your rampage.

It's unlikely Assad would have won without Russian assistance.

The US helped the "rebels" in Libya too. The rebels are now ISIS and the whole region is a warzone. Can place some of that blame on Hillary.

So why is Russia supporting a tyranical dictator?

Didn't Assad already cross the red line? So what's different about the other lines?

But yeah, you'll find the "good rebels" buried in a mass grave somewhere. At least Assad is a known evil. I mean the gamble in Libya didn't exactly pay off so why would it be any different in Syria (besides the additional bonus of risking a conflict with the Russians)?

This war has turned into a clusterfuck. There are no "good guys" in this conflict. When it's not Russia and the Assad regime killing civilians in air strikes, you have rebels slaughtering civilians, too. Man, fuck the Middle East. The west broke it, but didn't buy it. It's best to just sidle out of there and walk away as if nothing happened—before the proprietor summons the authorities—and let the child (edit: I actually meant "chips," but "child" somehow works) fall where they may.