France 24 Discovers War Moves When Civilians Flee Again
France 24 leads with civilians fleeing Kurdish-majority neighborhoods in Aleppo as the Syrian Army declares them 'closed military zones' and begins shelling, calling it the 'deadliest flare-up' in months. This framing completely glosses over years of regional proxy conflicts, where Aleppo has been a tragically consistent hotspot. It's almost as if the Syrian army's actions exist in a vacuum,
rather than being a foreseeable consequence of shifting alliances and external interventions that have destabilized the region for over a decade. (Perhaps that's why they label Kurdish fighters as 'separatists' when it suits the narrative, and 'freedom fighters' when they serve other geopolitical agendas.) This 'news' treats ongoing war as a sudden, isolated incident, rather than a symptom of a
larger, systemic geopolitical chess match where civilian lives are simply collateral. How many 'deadliest flare-ups' must Syria endure before the Western media acknowledges the consistent, external factors stoking these conflicts, rather than just reporting the tragic, yet predictable, outcomes? It's a miracle they even noticed civilians are involved this time.