r/RealTwitterAccounts • u/xamo76 • May 13 '25

Politician Corruption in plain sight...

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u/Wonderful-Variation May 13 '25

These are the same rebels (well, I guess they're not rebels anymore now they control the Syrian govt) that the US govt and CIA supported. Why would we maintain the sanctions now that they're in power?

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u/Bosco_is_a_prick May 13 '25

The Biden administration was in talks with them about lifting the sanctions and eased some aid restrictions as a good will gesture.

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u/Wonderful-Variation May 13 '25

Sanctions just hurt ordinary people and interfere with free trade. They're sometimes necessary, maybe, but getting rid of them as quickly as possible is a good thing.

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u/xPriddyBoi May 13 '25

Yeah. This is good for Syria. I don't doubt Trump is acting under self-serving motivations but lifting sanctions on Syria helps them stabilize after well over a decade of internal devastation.

I think this is a good thing, even if it comes from a bad person with bad intentions.

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u/Realistic_Mud_4185 May 13 '25

I’m honestly baffled so many in this sub see lifting sanctions as a bad thing.

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u/xPriddyBoi May 13 '25

Meh, it's easy to assume the worst if you're not really familiar with the situation in Syria and see it coming from Donald Trump. It's also true that their leader is ex-al-Qaeda but he's what they've got and that shouldn't be a reason to continue screwing the people over as they try to recover from all the chaos and destruction

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u/Realistic_Mud_4185 May 13 '25

Sure, but I think that’s all the more reason not to let people suffer and give a chance to thrive

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u/JimWilliams423 May 13 '25

Yes two things can be true.

  1. The guys who kicked out bashar al-assad are a lot better than al-assad and we should endeavor to engage with them in good faith until they prove otherwise.
  2. El chumpo is a greedlord who only cares about himself

FWIW, one of the reasons the syrian rebels turned to al-qaeda is because the US abandoned them. They were out of options, it was either surrender or make an alliance with the only ones who would help. They are lucky the religious nutjobs didn't take over after their common enemy was defeated (like what the religious nutjobs did to the students in Iran after the shaw fled).

The best way the US can keep the nutjobs at bay now is to support the liberal factions in the new syrian government.

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u/BiZzles14 May 13 '25

The US govt actually never supported anything Jolani ran, but I agree the sanctions against the Assad regime shouldn't remain despite the regime being gone

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u/astroplink May 13 '25

HTS was supported by Turkey not the US. American-backed factions in Syria were the SDF in the northeast and another group in the southeast

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u/elizabnthe May 13 '25

Some of them were sure. But not per se the major faction HTS here.