A Brazilian joke asks Who would try to live there…
With the amount of fascists who “emigrated” there, Italians and Germans among the notable ones, it’s odd* that only now immigration is an issue.
*it’s odd that the immigrants’ skin color is so important
That contains a number of passages that are… interesting to say the least.
In 2003, at the age of 20, he went to Iraq to fight against the U.S. occupation, but spent most of his time detained in Iraqi prisons or under U.S. control, where he strengthened his ties with Al-Qaeda fighters and future leaders. Back in Syria, in the midst of the civil war, he played on the differences between Al-Qaeda and its offshoot, the Islamic State or ISIS, only to end up leaving both in the lurch
That seems like an interesting CV.
During his months in office, he has combined a firm hand with openness. A human rights activist criticizes the “undemocratic” process and the “hasty” manner in which Syria’s transitional Constitution was drafted, a text that concentrates power in the president, with hardly any oversight mechanisms.
Yes, lets just brush aside the concerns of the unnamed human rights activist with those scare quotes.
Al-Sharaa is performing a balancing act, seeking to appease both his fundamentalist comrades in arms — who claim the fruits of victory for themselves — and the majority of the population, who are suspicious of them.
So you mean they weren’t as broadly popular as they were portrayed by the press when they marched into Damascus? How odd.
It seems it was just propaganda all along.
