Was the current government not democratically elected?
It was
Why are protesters calling it illegitimate?
Because the real validators of european elections (EU institutions and politicians) didn’t like the results and decided to irresponsibly question them, instead of telling their supporters to try next time
He’s just saying shit
From what I understand I’m going to try to spitball some possible scenarios for the future in Syria, I’m not gonna bother attributing probabilities to them cos fuck if I know.
This is all based on the assumption that the rebel and oppositions groups are not 100% beholden to US/Israel interests, the guy they had on Radio War Nerd stated that this offensive was most likely a rebel initiative, and that their backers in Turkey were not itching to depose Assad immediately.
-Islamist rebels and opposition groups manage to stabilize the country, islamists make some deal with the kurds so they don’t have to fight
-Rebels attempt to break into kurd territory (civil war)
-Infighting among rebel groups escalates (civil war)
-Israel and turkey say fuck it and both annex whatever chunk of syrian land they want
-Rebels make some type of deal with Iran, for example allowing the land bridge to lebanon to continue in exchance for non-interference
-Rebels keep their sectarianism and al-qaeda past in check and don’t commit many serious massacres or sectarian discrimination
-Rebels are literally al-qaeda in syria and commit many serious massacres and sectarian discrimination
-Assad is still alive and does government in exile, either gets abandoned by every ally as they recognize the rebel government or doesn’t, no in-between.
-Rebels do 9/11 for russia or iran as reprisal for backing assad.
-Iraq scenario: Unstable and impoverished country that nevertheless manages to keep civil war at bay, becomes political battle ground for american and iranian proxies
-Afghanistan scenario: Rebel government is left mostly alone but is too politically unseemly to be fully integrated into the “rules based order”
-Libya scenario: Eventually another civil war
-New scenario: Syria becomes a total US/Israel proxy
If anyone want to add to this be my guest
It was criminal to vote for kamala harris