Ein nachdenkliches Stück von Robin Yassin Kassab auf News of the Revolution in Syria:
It’s really distressing that the very people in Western societies who one would have expected to be the first to show solidarity with the Syrian people and their revolution from 2011; it’s very often those sections of society that have just been relaying Russia and Assad’s propaganda. I think we have to ask what is going on here. A lot of it is a West-centrism, in which people imagine everything that happens in the world is about us. If there’s a problem in Syria, we don’t need to ask Syrians about it, we don’t need to study Syrian history and politics, and we don’t need to look at the machinations of other imperialist states. We just need to focus on what our state is doing, and in fact we don’t even do that. What we often do, is just assume our state is doing certain things.
…When Putin came in, there was an independence movement in Chechnya. He absolutely destroyed Chechnya, and razed the capital city Grozny to the ground. Then strangled the government in Georgia. Then he went to Ukraine and took the Crimea. Whatever you think of the background there, and I’m sure there is historical resentment and problems; and the West, NATO and EU have some responsibility for the situation; nevertheless, he’s gone to one place after the other after the other. And nothing’s been done about it. There’s a hot war in Europe. More people have died in Ukraine in the last few years than in Libya. Everybody ignores that for some reason. I don’t quite understand why.
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In one sense, you can say the revolution never dies. Because it is a set of ideas. And because so many millions of people have burned all their bridges, and it is impossible to turn back to 2011, before their family members were killed, before they were tortured or raped, before they were expelled from their homes. It s not going away, that wherever there are Syrians, you will find people committed to the revolution.
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So the rebellion against Assad, and the possibility of democracy and freedom and social justice and self-determination for Syrians, seems to be further away than it has ever been . It’s an absolutely desperate situation. And Assad with superpower help, remember before the Russians began bombing, he only controlled about a fifth of the territory of the country. Now he’s got over half it. So yes, with superpower help, he’s kept his throne. However, while his throne exists, the Syrian state doesn’t really exist any more. The
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