I remember when Rojava was a thing and chapo including the sub was really onboard with it so a lot of well meaning western left got swept up with that nonsense because of their propaganda banners and symbolism.

Killing people doesn’t make one a bad person. If he was killing ISIS he was killing US proxy forces. If he was killing Syrian government troops or their friends on the other hand he was doing US dirty work.

Some people say it’s proof he’s a US intel op and he could be. But he could just as easily be some weird idealist dude. I don’t think he’s harmful to listen to. He doesn’t have awful politics even if his professed bent isn’t quite ML, doesn’t really punch at AES states to my limited knowledge.

There’s a competing podcast or two that like to accuse him of being a fed which is also something feds might do to someone who isn’t so be careful about believing any random unsourced claims that are too over the top.