r/neoliberal • u/Currymvp2 unflaired • 7d ago

Scoop: U.S. raises concerns about attacks on minorities with new Syrian government News (Middle East)

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/30/syria-us-meeting-attacks-alawites
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u/Creative_Hope_4690 7d ago

Several videos circulating on social media purport to show armed militants — allegedly affiliated with HTS or the security forces of the new government— beating, cursing, and humiliating Alawite men while arresting them, or otherwise making threats toward Alawites.

I seen some of the videos by accident it’s plain torture. The US got 10x shit for doing 1% of what I seen in those videos. I guess the standard is 10x higher for the west.

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u/namey-name-name NASA 7d ago

To be fair it’s not unreasonable to expect more from liberal democracies than literal jihadists. The problem is that the anti-AmeriKKKan leftists are also pro-jihadist

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u/kaesura 7d ago edited 7d ago

USA was 1000x worse in Iraq which this situation most resembles (literally both baathist dictators) . Within days of the invasion, USA soldiers had killed 17 peaceful protestors in one incident. USA soldiers had several massacres after that one . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah_killings_of_April_2003

And there was widesoread recreational torture by american soldiers in abu gharib , camp bucca etc

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