Aleppo is Falling — And the West is Pointing the Finger
Civil war has ravaged Syria for the past five years, killing thousands and forcing many to flee their homes in order to prevent from being ground up in the ensuing fights between the two, or rather more, parties.
Early on, the West had sided with the “rebels” and declared the Assad government unjust, trying their utmost to support those fighting government troops, and likely indirectly supporting ISIS. Claims have abounded that Syria is in fact merely a proxy war between the US and Russia, the like we’ve seen play out countless times before, most notably in the Vietnam War and the Korean War.
While with it can be said with almost one hundred per cent certainty that government troops committed crimes against humanity, neither side can be cleared of this charge. Especially considering the way the West is going about it, after it lost all sway over the outcome of the battle for Aleppo to Russia, is presumptuous and rather reminiscent of a small child throwing a fit because someone stole his favourite toy.
The West announced it would monitor the area with unmanned aircraft and satellite images in order to gather data to sue Syrian Assad as well as Russia for human rights violations, noting “that the situation in Aleppo was due to a ‘vacuum of Western and British leadership.’”
Taking into account Western oversea campaigns or invasions of other countries, a brief listing of war endeavours entailing war crimes is already staggering: The US killed countless civilians in their air and ground campaigns in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, leaving the regions contaminated with chemicals such as Agent Orange and radioactivity through uranium ammunition; the UK likewise killed her share such as through participating in the illegal attack on Iraq in 2003. With war crimes still having massive effects on regions and peoples around the globe, throwing a tantrum because it wasn’t them who could deploy their army in the area rings hollow.
Western media, for the most part, have done their part in supporting the official government narrative, be it in the UK or Germany or elsewhere. The government under president Assad is now universally referred to as “Assad regime”, the terrorist elements referred to as “rebels” and declared “moderate”, often without any real information or background give. The BBC, as in the linked article, aren’t the only ones, though; most have taken up these new figures of speech and employ them, be it in English or respective European native languages. How many people still believe this very one-sided representation is unclear, however, it is likely unsurprising that more and more people resent mainstream media and accuse it of being “Lügenpresse”.
