Honestly, Al-Sharaa has been a great thing so far if stability is the real goal.
The stability of the HTS regime has been pretty good so far, although I was actually surprised by the more recent events actually. I didn’t expect things to heat up a bit as they did as I stated here: https://lemmy.world/post/26434168/15500733
This will be tested, though, once he tells a single big nation with economic interests in the region, “no” or if Trump/Putin can find something to extort them for.
My main concern about the new regime is that al-Julani seems to be having massive problems with controlling his own people, I mean he had to instruct his own troops to stop recording arrests or executions (poorly translated sorry) alongside with the massacres against the Alawites and it is difficult to trust someone who was not only former Al Qaeda but also former ISIS.
I do however believe that Assad’s crimes is still worse as of now than that of the HTS regime,* I mean Assad had a literal death camp not like the torture chambers that Saddam had but I mean full on extermination camps, namely in the form of Sednaya Prison where 30,000 were killed in.
Edit: *As of right now, but I now have a feeling that things can get worse with the HTS opening all of Syria’s prisons completely (something similar happened to Iraq in 2003 resulting in total collapse of order) and the total disregard for the lives of Alawites, Christians, minority women, etc.
The stability of the HTS regime has been pretty good so far, although I was actually surprised by the more recent events actually. I didn’t expect things to heat up a bit as they did as I stated here: https://lemmy.world/post/26434168/15500733
My main concern about the new regime is that al-Julani seems to be having massive problems with controlling his own people, I mean he had to instruct his own troops to stop recording arrests or executions (poorly translated sorry) alongside with the massacres against the Alawites and it is difficult to trust someone who was not only former Al Qaeda but also former ISIS.
I do however believe that Assad’s crimes is still worse as of now than that of the HTS regime,* I mean Assad had a literal death camp not like the torture chambers that Saddam had but I mean full on extermination camps, namely in the form of Sednaya Prison where 30,000 were killed in.
Edit: *As of right now, but I now have a feeling that things can get worse with the HTS opening all of Syria’s prisons completely (something similar happened to Iraq in 2003 resulting in total collapse of order) and the total disregard for the lives of Alawites, Christians, minority women, etc.