Along with Nicaragua, the DPRK, and Jamahiriya Libya, one of the most unfairly maligned countries within Western 'left' circles in recent memory is Syria. Ranging from those who hail the U.S.-backed, foreign jihadist terrorists as "moderate rebels" -- to those celebrating the equally-reactionary and -sectarian YPG militias (also backed by the U.S.) in balkanizing and ethnically cleansing northeastern Syria in the hopes that they will fulfill the Anarchist wet dream of "beautiful utopian goals of democratic confederalism" -- it seems that Syria has indeed become a blank canvas upon which the Western left can project their fantasies. It is the new "Terra Nullius," as author Maximilian Forte (Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa) describes. While sections of the Western left continue to make themselves useful idiots for U.S. imperialism, the legitimate Syrian government and the Syrian people inside of Syria are not afforded the luxury of having the last word on the world stage. It is always the victims of imperialism whose voices are hardly heard above the noise of Western war propaganda; and by extension, the global masses will continue to be silenced when the imperialist nations and capitalist class are allowed to drown them out...
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