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Sumela » 10 Dec 2024, 12:09 pm » wrote: ↑

10 Dec 2024, 12:09 pm

Assad allowed freedom of religion.  
There are 100s of Christian churches in Syria.

The WASH DC backed "freedom fighters" will end this very soon.
They hated Assad because he refused to bow to the Empire.
The Empire of Chaos at work.

Cuckies like Lil Roggy reside in Cucky-istan....

The real problems with Assad had more to do with the fact that he has never been a natural leader, and had zero political ambitions.  Further, you are correct, he is an Alawite, which is a minority in Syria. Alawites tend to be secretive about their beliefs and therefore appear "elitist" to others in Syria. I never believed that Bashar was a brutal dictator by nature - everything in his background points to the contrary.  He would have been perfectly happy living out his life as an ophthalmologist in London as opposed to being forced to preside over a bunch of warring tribal Arabs in a land wedged between Turkey, Iran and Israel.   

Bashar relied on others in his military, and to a large extent Iran, to use brutality for him simply to keep the Syrian powder-keg from exploding underneath him.  I am not surprised to find out that he has been moving assets and shoring up relations with Russia since 2008.  I don't think the guy ever wanted to leave London to go back to Syria, let alone rule it.

I actually feel sorry for Bashar.  In another life, he probably could have been very happy being a respected eye doctor in London providing people with medical care. 

The absence of strong leadership leads to chaos.  Bashar Al-Assad is one example.  Joe Biden is another example. Both were terrible leaders for different reasons. But, in Syria, I do believe that Assad let other, more ambitious officials engage in campaigns of brutality, simply because he didn't have the skill-set to stop it.

Syria's problems were not caused by the U.S. nor Israel.  Putin's ambitions in using Syria for resources, military bases and a Mediterranean port contributed to the problem.  So did Assad allowing Iran to use Syrian land to facilitate its campaign against Israel.  Both were mistakes made by a weak, inept leader. 

As for the US hating Assad - that's not really the case.  The US hated that Assad allowed Putin to establish a military presence in his country - more of a hatred of Russia than Assad, the Baath party or even Syria.

As for Christians - there aren't that many Christians left in Syria.  I don't know how many Churches are standing (that's irrelevant anyway), but Christians have been oppressed in Syria for many decades and most have left.  I'm not saying that Assad persecuted Christians, but I am saying that he did very little to stop other Islamic tribes from persecuting them.