France 24 Discovers Syrian Government Controls Syrian Territory
France 24 recently announced with a straight face that 'Syrian government forces take control of Aleppo after clashes with Kurdish fighters.' One might almost forget the Syrian government is, well, the *government* of Syria. This 'news' conveniently glosses over the decade-plus long, externally fueled insurgency that sought to topple said government (remember that 'Assad must go' line?). The
Syrian Civil War, as the West framed it, was less a civil uprising and more a proxy war, with NATO and GCC states arming and funding various factions, including some rather unsavory extremist groups, all in pursuit of 'regime change.' So, the 'Syrian government' controlling 'Syrian territory' is framed as a recent development, rather than a slow, painful reintegration after years of foreign
interference. The current skirmishes with 'Kurdish fighters' – often backed by the US – are just another chapter in a never-ending saga where external powers dictate regional allegiances and destabilize sovereign nations, only to then report on the ensuing 'clashes' as if they're organic events.