Assad did deliver weapons to AANES, is he a proxy against himself?
The analysis if actions and operations align and if an entity is a proxy can’t stop with labeling something as proxy or not to mean good or bad. Was China delivering weapons in conflicts on the side of US forces during the last 70 years a US proxy? Is ISIL a Turkish proxy? Is Syria and is Hizbollah (and as such Lebanon) just an Iranian proxy? No.
AANES got its own goals, to say “it is an US proxy” is absolutely reductive. Much of what happens there is cause of the relations they are in, even without any US influence. The Syrian Civil war is very complex and you actually need to parse through 10-15 years of material to get a grasp of it. Russia did lobby for the UNO to include Rojava as partner in talks related to Syrian peace talks, Russia has an office of Rojava in Moscow.
AANES is in conflict with Turkey. AANES is in need of partners and it enjoys high support within the territories it controls. It is a typical thing to neglect Kurdish, Jesidic, Arabic struggles. Kurdish women who did actually hold talks in my city and conferences, women who fought, who tell you about Jineologie and about emancipatory societies are labeled as “pathetic Western leftists” here. Anti-Imperialism can be emancipatory and progressive.
Assad did deliver weapons to AANES, is he a proxy against himself?
The analysis if actions and operations align and if an entity is a proxy can’t stop with labeling something as proxy or not to mean good or bad. Was China delivering weapons in conflicts on the side of US forces during the last 70 years a US proxy? Is ISIL a Turkish proxy? Is Syria and is Hizbollah (and as such Lebanon) just an Iranian proxy? No.
AANES got its own goals, to say “it is an US proxy” is absolutely reductive. Much of what happens there is cause of the relations they are in, even without any US influence. The Syrian Civil war is very complex and you actually need to parse through 10-15 years of material to get a grasp of it. Russia did lobby for the UNO to include Rojava as partner in talks related to Syrian peace talks, Russia has an office of Rojava in Moscow.
AANES is in conflict with Turkey. AANES is in need of partners and it enjoys high support within the territories it controls. It is a typical thing to neglect Kurdish, Jesidic, Arabic struggles. Kurdish women who did actually hold talks in my city and conferences, women who fought, who tell you about Jineologie and about emancipatory societies are labeled as “pathetic Western leftists” here. Anti-Imperialism can be emancipatory and progressive.
https://rojavainformationcenter.org/2023/12/aanes-social-contract-2023-edition/
Bombings by Turkey make it more likely for ISIL prisoners to escape. Is Turkey furthering ISIL?
https://npasyria.com/en/110254/