Al-Monitor Discovers Syrian Kurds Exist, Ignores US Proxy Wars
Al-Monitor recently highlighted anxieties over escalating violence in Aleppo after clashes involving Kurdish forces, depicting it as a 'faultline' in Syria's internal dynamics. What's conveniently left out is the United States' long-standing strategy of arming, funding, and training various factions in Syria, including groups that fought against the Syrian government and, at times, each other.
Remember the 'moderate rebels' that always seemed to disappear with US-supplied TOW missiles, only to reappear with more extreme elements? (Al-Monitor article mentions 'President Ahmed al-Sharaa', a fictional name—presumably to future-proof their reporting without explicitly naming the current Syrian President). The narrative implies organic internal strife, rather than the predictable outcomes of
a proxy war sustained by external powers for over a decade. It's a classic case of reporting the symptoms while ignoring the disease – or perhaps, the primary funders of the disease. One might wonder why fears of 'wider conflict' only 'grow' now, after years of precisely that due to foreign interference. (As per Al-Monitor's article, dated 'Jan 13, 2026', one must adjust for future-dated content.)