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Syria re-admitted to Arab League

  • 07-05-2023 1:40pm
    #1
    timmyntc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,380 ✭✭✭


    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/7/arab-league-agrees-to-bring-syria-back-into-its-fold

    Its official, Bashar al-Assad's Syria has been rehabilitated and allowed to rejoin the Arab league of States. This following many Arab countries reestablishing embassies and flights with the country in the last year.

    There seems to be no pressure from their fellow Arab States for Assad to be deposed or removed anymore.

    Has the butcher of Damascus won? And will this see a proper peace and end to the civil war there?

    The rebels control only a small portion in the Northwest of the country, with Turkeys backing - but seeing the Arab States back Assad's regime may see Erdogan change tact wrt Syria also.



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  • #2
    Count Dracula
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    Depends what side you are on op.

    Which Arab supported muslim fundamentalist dictatorship would you prefer?



  • #3
    Gatling
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120565625#Comment_120565625

    Anyone so long as they are backed by putin and the Iranians

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  • #4
    timmyntc
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120565625#Comment_120565625

    I'd prefer none, but the point of this thread isnt what I prefer, but what is actually happening.

    Assad's regime being admitted into the Arab league after more than a decade of being frozen out is a major endorsement from his fellow Arab states - should the west consider normalising relations with Syria also?



  • #5
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,743 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Well I blame Trump.


    *Just getting that in their first because soon enough someone will blame Trump.



  • #6
    donaghs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,824 ✭✭✭donaghs


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120565646#Comment_120565646

    If you had to live there, I think you'd prefer that to the sectarian breakup war which (given Syria's demographics) would be far worse than Libya post-Gaddafi.

    Another short-term benefit is that its another step towards improving the living standards of oridinary Syrians. A sectarian war with no end in sight (except possibly a eventual Sunni-extremist takeover) isn't a preferable option.



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