please bare with me here, as i’m pretty uneducated on this topic. but, i’ve seen some articles and sources on iran that talk about imperialism in syria (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cpU9U9fe1zC2t_SIHv1Sb1niE--IyqCKd_RLHQ0df7g/edit). some stuff talking about russian intervention in syria (https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Yhpv-4JZC8a0TwYukPkXx99WJ2JEvKj9iiacvIy07o/edit). and this drive overall just anti-assad and anti-syria: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qPj2stbfacp4G7lCJ6g_ddw1iwSy1g9N
i know the stuff about gas attacks aren’t true, but i just want a marxist pov on this.
Anything that begins by claiming Russia or Iran’s involvement in Syria constitute “imperialism” should not be taken seriously. They both have been doing the exact opposite there namely fighting imperialism and its terrorist proxies, at the behest i may add of the legitimate Syrian government. Furthermore Iran’s involvement in the region as a whole is possibly even more important and beneficial than even Russia’s because Iran is the main and indispensable backer of the anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist resistance. All Palestinian resistance would collapse without Iran and likely so would Lebanon’s independence which has been safeguarded so far by Hezbollah managing to inflict some humiliating defeats on the occupation forces of the Zionist settler-colonial apartheid regime.
So frankly i wouldn’t even bother to read further once i see claims of “Iranian imperialism” being made since that is a patently ridiculous notion. What you are dealing with is propaganda pure and simple.
thank you, i really do appreciate that. how do i respond to the things of like russia bombing hospitals in syria tho?
Unless they can cite actual examples then there is no reason to engage with such generic claims. Otherwise every claim needs to be investigated on its own merits. Sometimes we have throrough independent investigation that reveals what actually happened, sometimes not. From what we have seen in Ukraine one of three things is usually the case when they claim things like this: a) the story is completely made up, b) it was actually their side who did it (in the case of Syria we have numerous known instances of where the so-called “white helmets” were observed collaborating with terrorists to orchestrate attacks on civilians, detonating bombs and then claiming it was a Russian airstrike, then filming the aftermath in order to produce anti-Assad propaganda; Eva Bartlett who was present in Syria and is now in Ukraine has produced some excellent reporting on this), or c) the buildings in question were being used as military bases by militants and either had already been emptied of civilians or the civilians were purposely kept as human shields (again this is something that has also frequently happened in Ukraine, including with hospitals and schools, and we have both pictures/videos of soldiers in these buildings and witness testimony of people who were there).
bet, thank you!