theHRguy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoTIL: The CIA Played a Large Part in the 2011 Syrian Civil War that Killed 350,000 Peoplemedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squarekbin_space_program@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoYeah and Assad gassed and carpet bombed his own people. This is not new. Syria was a multi-level proxy war between not only Russia-China and the west, but also between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Also I’d be more surprised if the CIA wasn’t behind the curtain accidentally creating terrorist groups.
minus-squareUgurcan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoFunny thing is, the whole thing spun out of then-Turkish ambitions of having Muslim Brotherhood have a foothold at Syria.
minus-squarekbin_space_program@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoWell, for Turkey they also absolutely did not want the Kurdish people to have their own country bordering the Kurdish region of Turkey, given that they’ve been fighting for independence for a long time now.
Yeah and Assad gassed and carpet bombed his own people.
This is not new. Syria was a multi-level proxy war between not only Russia-China and the west, but also between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Also I’d be more surprised if the CIA wasn’t behind the curtain accidentally creating terrorist groups.
Funny thing is, the whole thing spun out of then-Turkish ambitions of having Muslim Brotherhood have a foothold at Syria.
Well, for Turkey they also absolutely did not want the Kurdish people to have their own country bordering the Kurdish region of Turkey, given that they’ve been fighting for independence for a long time now.