Or look up how Putin came to power by getting government agents to bomb apartments, so he could later claim to have defeated the terrorists.

What? The Chechens invaded Dagestan so the 2nd Chechen War would have happened regardless if the apartment bombings (that may or may not have been a false flag) happened or not.

No, Putin definitely has. Read some reports from Ukraine, and this is obvious

Well by your definition, Ukraine is Nazi as the current maidan regime got into power by conducting a false flag operation where pro-maidan snipers shot their own protestors and then blamed it on the then government in order to incite public backlash against Yanukovych.

False Flag has been confirmed by several hundred witness testimonies including wounded protestors, 2,000 videos, 6,000 photos, and 30 gigabytes of radio intercepts.

After their takeover, they went on to crack down on the anti-maidan movement such as by conducting the Victory Day Massacre at Mariupol where they shot unarmed protestors.

And in Kursk oblast during the recent conflict, they loaded up the local populace onto trucks and drove to mass graves where the people were then shot into.

Whether the target was communists in the 1950s or pro-Palestine activists today, university administrators have always worked to keep academia in line.

It also ain’t really all that different to how America treated anti-war and civil rights protestors during the Vietnam era.

Also, using Jacobin as a news source? Based.

I also suggest:

https://peoplesdispatch.org/

https://peoplesworld.org/

https://redphoenixnews.com/ (Warning: Hoxhaist)

What?

The prices are lower because there is a consumer demand famine so they are aggressively attempting to dump inventory. This is a potential sign that the market is about to crash.

And the tariffs are also making Costco try to mitigate the high costs associated with tariffs by shifting the burden onto the suppliers by asking for cuts on prices but the Chinese suppliers are finding this unreasonable.

Honestly, Al-Sharaa has been a great thing so far if stability is the real goal.

The stability of the HTS regime has been pretty good so far, although I was actually surprised by the more recent events actually. I didn't expect things to heat up a bit as they did as I stated here: https://lemmy.world/post/26434168/15500733

This will be tested, though, once he tells a single big nation with economic interests in the region, “no” or if Trump/Putin can find something to extort them for.

My main concern about the new regime is that al-Julani seems to be having massive problems with controlling his own people, I mean he had to instruct his own troops to stop recording arrests or executions (poorly translated sorry) alongside with the massacres against the Alawites and it is difficult to trust someone who was not only former Al Qaeda but also former ISIS.

I do however believe that Assad's crimes is still worse as of now than that of the HTS regime,* I mean Assad had a literal death camp not like the torture chambers that Saddam had but I mean full on extermination camps, namely in the form of Sednaya Prison where 30,000 were killed in.

Edit: *As of right now, but I now have a feeling that things can get worse with the HTS opening all of Syria's prisons completely (something similar happened to Iraq in 2003 resulting in total collapse of order) and the total disregard for the lives of Alawites, Christians, minority women, etc.

It literally is torture.

For those that don’t understand, here is a example of what happens:

They are brought to the basement of a local church after school hours every weekday where they are subject to shock therapy treatments lasting for around an hour and aversion therapy sessions lasting for three hours, those that are unaware, aversion therapy sessions often are something like being drugged as to induce nausea and at the same time, presented with homosexual erotic imagery so that those ‘treated’ would associate homosexuality with this nausea. This would be supplemented with occasional beatings.

I’m not sure multiple post-hoc edits are going to make people trust you more, but better than nothing.

I was quite known for this on Reddit.

As for ISIS being better than Assad, I mean the bar is in hell, but for Syrians I think it’s unmistakable and Others seem to agree.

Yes, a literal apocolyptic death cult that bombs cities across the world and conduct mass shootings across the world is a better option than Assad? We will have to agree to disagree on this.

The Kurds were abandoned to Turkey, and you’re surprised they’re on the defense?

I am not surprised, I was just stating that they were on the defensive, all the way in the corner in fact.

Erdogan wants them dead more than anything.

I mean we can agree. Have you seen Turkish rhetoric on Kurds? It is genocidal.

What we ended up getting with Al-Sharaa seems like the 2nd best scenario of the 4, which almost certainly couldn’t have happened without Ukraine putting up the defense they did.

Well there were definitely far worst options, I can agree with that.

Then again, there are hardly good options when your country could only be described as "a country-sized battlefield that was fought over by the now-deposed murderous dictator Bashar al-Assad, DAESH remnants, Al-Qaeda psychos, proxies of Iran, proxies of Turkey, private military companies like the Russian-controlled Wagner Group, various oppressed minorities fighting to secede, and supposed moderate rebels".

Yup.

Very true statement.

Neoliberalism is one of America’s worst enemies alongside Trump.

One of the biggest problems with this is trying to get the SpaceX rocket into space considering that the rockets prefer to explode.

And remember Trump is doing this in support of some murderous asshole named Netanyahu.

“Folks, I struck the greatest deal for America, believe me! These amazing European countries? They're just throwing cash our way, and for what? Absolutely nothing! It's fantastic!”

-Trump after scamming European countries who only wanted to help the poor.

Well rude, but I can easily understand your anger.

Does it work now?

Strange, let me see if I can fix it. Thanks for telling me this.

The article you linked once again states her motivations were not what you said… She wanted to support the Kurds

Something which I stated: (only good thing is that one of the groups she would support would be Kurds)

However historically, efforts to fund ‘moderate rebels’ also benefitted groups such as the Al-Nusra Front.

Jacob Sullivan even stated to Hillary Clinton that, "AQ is on our side in Syria", in reference to al-Qaeda likely about Al-Nusra Front (whom their successors are currently murdering Alawites in massacres after their takeover, thankfully 10k is safe hiding in a Russian air base).

Hillary Clinton's goal was not to have ISIS topple Assad however, America’s previous strategy at least before Russian air power ruined this, was to funnel ISIS concentrations into Assadist forces (in an effort to destroy ISIS) and fund moderate rebels, this however only led to 'moderate rebels' and ISIS hitting Assadist forces on both fronts as many of these ‘moderate rebel’ groups did not prioritize fighting ISIS (really the only one that did was the Kurds hence why I support supporting them). Even with America not directly supporting ISIS, one can easily see how this can benefit ISIS.

something virtually no progressive should have a problem with doing in the Middle East.

And nothing I have a problem with, they are the most democratic region in Syria, believers of socialism, and even Russia supported their aims that is federalization of Syria.

Do note however that SDF barely did anything when Assadist forces were collapsing last year.

Also, for the people of Syria, Assad may represent stability for the Russian interests there, but horrible outcomes for the people, I find/found him to be the worst of the three options.

ISIS, a death cult that wants to start WW3 is a superior outcome according to you or am I not getting what you stating here?

Thankfully by 2024, ISIS was just a blip on a map albeit they remain a cockroach that refuses to die.

Yes, Terry Davis.

She wanted to arm insurgents (only good thing is that one of the groups she would support would be Kurds) and then during her campaign, stated that she wants a no-fly zone under the guise of protecting civilians. Hmmm.

To hinder Russian military operations in Syria was to support ISIS and ‘moderate rebels’ (mostly terrorists with exception of the Kurds) by proxy. It was Russian airpower that defeated ISIS as they destroyed ISIS command & control centers and destroyed ISIS ability to project force by bombing all targets that were not Assad’s forces (while many perhaps most of the targets were ‘moderate rebels’, the sheer number of sorties meant that significant damage to ISIS was done, more damage than the west inflicted) at a time when the Syrian government’s supply lines was cracking.

Damascus would be ISIS controlled territory if Russia didn’t turn half of Syria into a parking lot. Russia did this in support of Assad who is a horrible dictator but them not doing this means ISIS would have defeated Syria which would be a more horrible outcome.

It makes the government more efficient at increasing waste, fraud, and abuse perhaps.

(Judging by the downvotes, it seems some people think DOGE actually decreases waste?)

I don’t care if she was Secretary of State, revoke it considering she wanted to risk starting WW3 over Syria of all places with her no fly zone which is protecting ISIS and ‘moderate rebels’ (whom just killed thousands recently in Latakia after their take over) from Russian bombs by proxy.

Her being the Secretary of State during her time period is even more reason to not give her security clearance.

Edit: Lasherz made it clear that by how my comment was worded, that I am stating that protecting ISIS was Clinton’s task, it wasn’t but she was doing it (in my eyes) by proxy.

Sorry but no, it is also used by far-right anti-establishment types.

Appropriating terms used by the far right despite being a leftist is just my thing.