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  • It’s not sides, it’s outcomes.

    Is Syria better off after the civil war? It’s still going to split between the same dictator, some islamic militias while many many people died and many more had fled. At least ISIL died off eventually.

    I have no issue calling Assad or Putin evil. I just don’t have any delusions about who their opposition was and whether they were evil or not. If they won Syria would have been worse off today. There would probably even be a conflict with Israel, the US would promptly drop them, where Syria would get even more fucked.

    But it is for your that this is a game. There are clearly good guys and evil guys and any effort to slightly undermine the evil guys is worth the cost (which is not borne by your or any of the good guys). Ukraine did not make this attack to improve the situation for any Syrian. You know that, you cheer them because they are on your team.

    I also want to know how do you think the world should work. After all Syria is not the only dictatorship in the world. Should random countries attack Saudi Arabia? China? Israel? Pakistan? Eritrea? Sudan?


  • Don’t be obtuse the similarities between the the Syrian Arab spring and the maidan uprising are quite obvious if you actually know what either are.

    Ukraine was not a dictatorship unlike Syria. Maidan succeeded and Russia attacked both openly in Crime and with ‘rebels’ in the East. Western support was limited till the next invasion by Russia.

    Syria was a dictatorship. After the Arab spring the US started arming islamic militias and attacking Syrian forces. A couple of years later and we had fucking ISIL devastating a big part of Syria and that is when the immigration crisis from Syria peaked, not at the start of the civil war. The US kept supplying the ‘moderate’ islamic groups even though it was known that a lot of their equipment ended up on ISIL.

    Do you really believe that any of the foreign interventions in Syria has benefited the Syrians? Do you believe it was meant to?












  • You should never have been on lemmy according to your stated goals of a ‘safe’ closed community. Your actions during the reddit exodus while you were still a big part of the lemmyverse (especially regarding communities) certainly did not do the rest of lemmy any good. Not that I think you care.

    It’s better for lemmy if you leave, it’s better for your goals to leave so just do it.







  • FIR is an ICAO concept relating to civil aviation. Military operations do not have to follow ICAO rules and FIR procedures, never mind request permission to enter a FIR zone in international airspace.

    Even in regards to civilian aviation FIR airspace is not subject to the whims of the nation administering it (unless the airspace is also in their territorial airspace). Airlines can be banned for territorial airspaces not FIRs.

    So no Incheon FIR is not internationally recognized as South Korea airspace.

    Nor was the KADIZ set up to support Inceon FIR it was setup during the Korean war by USAF.

    Having said that pretending to have an ADIZ is not illegal in itself as long as you do not take illegal actions in support of it. You can track planes via radar,ask them to identify themselves (they can ignore you) and even fly up to them in international airspace.

    Though shooting even warning shots as they claimed they did in 2019 would be an illegal act of agression.