Can’t You Read: Saving Kurdistan Means Staying In Syria Forever

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Paved With Good Intentions

Whelp; this was an awkward post to publish back when I wrote it in October of 2019, and it’s an awkward post to be re-sharing again here today. Writing in the aftermath of Trump’s purely hypothetical decision to withdraw all U.S troops from Syria, I talked about the confliction emotions of many online leftists inspired by the admiration of Kurdish anarcho-socialist militias occupying a portion of Northern Syria they call “Rojova.” My purpose here was not to diminish the YPG, but to point out the fact that the liberal war machine will happily weaponize your sympathy for Kurdish militias, or students in Hong Kong, to generate support for horrifying imperialist policies – like occupying Syria forever.

Of course, while I still feel that debate is important and I’m pretty sure it’s going to come up again, to the surprise of precisely no one; Trump broke his promises and the Pig Empire remains in Syria to this day.

“Look, I’m not heartless – of course we should oppose Turkey’s invasion of Syria, of course we should oppose ethnic cleansing and possible genocide against the Kurds; but the truth is that this is a diplomatic and economic issue and there are far better solutions to this problem than leaving 50 American troops in the firing line and daring Erdogan to risk killing one of them. The Pig Empire was never prepared to go to war with (still, inexplicably) allied Turkey to protect the Kurds and US imperial ambitions in Syria do not include supporting an anarcho-communist militia once Assad is deposed and the venture capital vultures swoop in to “rebuild” the nation. The idea that staying in Syria is about defending the Kurds or that doing so would guarantee “protecting Rojova” is patently false.”

To check it out over on Can’t You Read, click on the header or the image below:

Ending the War in Syria Means Abandoning Rojova

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