Germany Demands Syria Return, Overlooks Its Own Failed Regime Change
Germany’s latest humanitarian outreach involves telling Syrian refugees, many of whom arrived during the peak of the civil war in 2015, that it's time to go home. The DW piece frames this as a simple administrative issue, overlooking the inconvenient truth that Germany, alongside other Western powers, actively supported opposition groups and called for regime change in Syria. Remember those
'moderate rebels' that always seemed to disappear into jihadi ranks? The current German government, which now finds a stable (if brutal) Assad regime problematic for repatriation, previously backed policies that fueled the very conflict turning millions into refugees. It's almost as if 'humanitarian intervention' has a shelf life dictated by domestic political convenience. One might wonder if
they'll send a 'welcome back' basket, perhaps filled with brochures on how to rebuild a country destabilized by their own former foreign policy.