Syria and the aftermath of the Arab Spring are interesting since since the US pulled out they\u2019re basically the first geopolitics since the fall of the empires that isn\u2019t in some sense \u2013 or coopted into being \u2013 about the US
(Well maybe some stuff in Francophone Africa - but mostly because the empire there never fully fell.)
It\u2019s a shame that the only people I see really theorizing about it - the Twitter bappin crowd - seem literally psychotic, and and this is coming from someone experiencing a bit of a mental break right now
I saw one guy in a thread and all his replies, like, as statements they did in fact address the things they were in response to, but his tone was just so divorced from anyone else\u2019s it was surreal. Not like autistic missing social cues but reminded me of talking with schizophrenics who were like, in the real world, so not the guys downtown yelling arguments at no one, but clearly experiencing a totally different version of it
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