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People greatly overestimate how much we, as a species, care about atrocities. The reality is that once they're over, we move on. Actually even when they're going on, the overwhelming majority of people don't and won't care because it doesn't affect them. This will never change, that's just the way we are.
Think about it, how many of you still care about how ISIS genocided the Yazidis or that Azerbaijan ethnic cleansed Armenians out of Artsakh? The answer is probably none. Even if you cared at the time, now you don't care. Maybe that's too far away, have you ever thought about how the land you live on right now was built on bloodshed? Probably not, but even if you did, you think of the violence as something in the distant past. The violence becomes an interesting historical fact rather than a persisting injustice.
This will be the case here too. After what is happening in Gaza right now comes to end, people will move on, and with time people will quickly accept the new reality and treat what happened as just another chapter in history. The kid in this comic strip will grow up to think that it's cool that he went on a vacation with his family to a place that had such a wild historical event take place.
I actually lived in Syria for 3 years under the Al Assad regime. Nobody, and I mean nobody, misses him in Syria. Al Assad and his regime were pure evil. He had to go, and the country is better off for it. That being said, most Syrians aren't thrilled about Al Sharaa and his new regime. A lot of Syrians are still optimistic about the future, but it's looking like Syria isn't exactly free, just under new management.
Dude what are you even talking about? Al Sharaa is not worse than Al Assad. We literally found multiple mass graves that are estimated to have over 100k bodies that were created during his reign. Don't get me wrong the rebranded Al Nusra front isn't good, and they certainly have genocidal tendencies towards minorities, but so did Al Assad. After the civil war started he became completely unhinged and started going after EVERYONE. There's a reason why Syrian inside and outside Syria celebrated his fall from power.
Also, idk where you're getting this from but the US doesn't have anything to do with how the current situation in Syria unfolded. In 2011, the Arab spring revolution came to Syria and people protested his rule and demanded change. Instead of agreeing to make reforms or stepping down, he started massacring his own people, which led the nation to openly revolt against his regime. Because of this, a bunch of factions were created around this time to overthrow the Al Assad regime and rule the country themselves. Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the US all backed different factions for their own self interests.
In this case, the Al Nusra front was one of these factions, which was found by Al Sharaa in 2012. It was indeed an evil terrorist group and the Al Sharaa himself was the leader of all of it. It's also very much true that he had ties to both Al Qaeda and ISIS before splitting with both and starting waging wars against them. During all of this, the US and Al Sharaa hated each other. Al Sharaa joined Al Qaeda in Iraq in 2003 to fight the US invasion, and the US imprisoned him for 5 years (2006-2011) for trying plant explosives against US troops. When he formed the Al Nusra front, the US designated him and his groups as terrorists in 2013. In 2014, when the US was bombing ISIS, Al Sharaa came and made public declarations about how these bombings were an attack on islam (even though Al Nusra was at war with ISIS at the time) and that anyone who cooperates or receives support from the US are traitors and his enemies who he will fight. In 2017, the US put out a $10 million reward for anybody who can give Al Sharaa's location.
Do you know who was okay with him? Turkey. The Al Nusra front occupied Idlib and the surronding area... which just happens to be near the Turkish border. Turkey had their own direct proxies, however, they never opposed and even indirectly helped the Al Nusra front. Why? Because they acted as a buffer zone between Turkey and the rest of Syria, and the Turkish government supported its existence as it deterred Syrian refugees from flooding into the country. Turkey also supported them because they were against the US, and the US was supporting Kurdish groups in Syria, which Turkey doesn't like.
The Syrian civil war went into a stalemate after the intervention from Russia and Iran in 2015 on behalf of the Al Assad regime. This remained the case until the US left Afghanistan, Russia's bogged itself down in Ukraine, and Israel destroying Hezbollah. Basically the Al Assad regime lost it's two most important allies, and the US wasn't willing to intervene. With no foreign power obstacles, the Al Nusra had the opportunity able to launch an offensive and overthrow the Al Assad regime. In other words, Al Sharaa and the HTS weren't put there by the US or the West, they came to power in a different way.
At that point, Western governments had 2 choices. They could either reject the new Al Nusra government and give them the Taliban treatment or they could celebrate the fall of the Al Assad regime and hope for the best, which is what they ended up doing. The former could've reignited the civil war which nobody wanted, and the latter isn't great but at least whatever happens by this regime will be contained within Syria. It's not the best outcome of the civil war, but it is better than still having the civil war.
I think America very much got conditioned out of being the “world police”. Bad guy doing bad things 30,000 miles away? What are we supposed to do it? Dive into our military industrial complex and give a heavy tax bill to fix it?
The thing is, as someone in a privileged position, I’d argue the answer is yes. But I have to accept that lots of people say no, both for financial reasons, and for fears of having our military everpresent everywhere, even if they’re trying to do good.
But while spending might not make sense…spending to CREATE a genocide is a far more horrible thing that goes against everything I stand for.
Part of me wants to invest the US army into attacking Israel for its human rights abuses. I’m much more settled for a passive approach where the US at least stops helping them.
Of course, then the issue gets murkier when circumstances make the claim that most of these conflicts are in some way caused by actions of the big 3 empires.
The problem with the concept of a world police is that it's a political thing, not a law and order thing.
A political world police is just as good as a political regular police would be.
Imagine, police would just do whatever the majority are saying instead of, you know, using evidence to get someone before a judge and continue to use evidence to get someone convicted or alternatlively let people go free where there's no evidence.
ICE is pretty much what a political police looks like, and the US as the world police acted just like that.
Remember 911? Attacking Afghanistan might have maybe been somewhat justified, but attacking Irak, mostly because US troops were already there was totally not.
The "world police" was certainly not a successful thing and certainly not in regards to world peace. More often than not it was used to score points for the next national election.
Nobody will move on until we purge the genociders out of society
But you're wrong. The world has already moved on past Armenian genocide even though Turkey and the vast majority of Turks still deny the genocide, and some are even openly proud of it. The world has moved on from the Holocaust even though there are still soooo many genocide deniers everywhere. The world has moved on from the Yazidi genocide even though that has happened only 10 years ago and a lot of perpetrators are still running around today. Even now with what's going on in Ukraine, Myanmar, Tibet, Armenia, Kurdistan, Sudan, Yemen, people just move on with their lives. What makes you think that they don't or that this will be different?
Well maybe it's time to take the matter in our own hands and purge the genociders such as yourself out of society
This is what original sin means. The sins of our fathers, mothers, and nonbinary parents are passed onto us when we benefit from those sins, from that stolen wealth. It's not enough to embrace Jesus Christ as your saviour, you must also cleanse yourself of colonisation and racism. That's why I'm learning the language of the first nations who lived on the land I stand on, and fighting for their rights in the present. This sacrifice of our time, effort, and in some cases identity is required in order to be saved and enter the Lord's kingdom.
We are saved by grace alone, not works
42 For I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
44 “Then they also will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not serve You?’
45 “He will answer, ‘Truly I say to you, as you did it not for one of the least of these, you did it not for Me.’
If you have truly felt the grace of Jesus Christ then you will be compelled to do works of kindness. But if you have been taken in by the lies of the Antichrist then you will convinced you have felt His grace even as you steal from the poor and step on the downtrodden.
Yes, but the good works don't save you.
The commitment to sacrifice your privilege for the good of others is the grace that saves you
That's works. It's the Grace of God that saves you.
Commitment is grace.
It's not your grace, it's God's grace
Says who?
Ephesians 2:8
Ephesians isn't a person. That verse was ACTUALLY written by Paul the Heretic, who never even met Jesus Christ. It's fanfiction. It has no more biblical truth than Dante's Inferno.
What.
Jesus did meet Paul on the road to Damascus.
You're the heretic for rejecting St Paul.