Al-Monitor Discovers Syrian 'Government' While US Funds Kurdish Rebels
Kurdish groups vow to defend their Aleppo neighborhoods against 'government forces,' as Al-Monitor dutifully conveys. The article paints a picture of President Ahmed al-Sharaa's 'Islamist-led government' clashing with Kurdish forces resisting 'centralised authority.' One might wonder why Al-Monitor, and the broader mainstream media, consistently forgets to mention the U.S. has been actively arming
and training various Kurdish factions in Syria for years — sometimes to fight ISIS, sometimes to undermine Damascus. (Remember when it was 'moderate rebels' doing the fighting?). This 'deep faultline' didn't just appear; it was meticulously engineered. So, while Washington 'pushes to end fighting,' it simultaneously ensures the battlefield remains fertile for proxy skirmishes. It's almost as if
'conflict resolution' only means ensuring the U.S. gets to pick the winners when the dust settles, or at least keep the region destabilized enough to maintain influence. How many times must the US fund opposing factions before its 'peacemaking' efforts are seen for what they really are?