Quick 🧵 on #Syria
US sanctions are hurting people across #Syria. And despite humanitarian exemptions, they have a chilling effect. True.
Also true: US sanctions are not the main reason for why Northwest Syria has hardly any capacity to respond to the quake nor receive aid.
US sanctions are hurting people across #Syria. And despite humanitarian exemptions, they have a chilling effect. True.
Also true: US sanctions are not the main reason for why Northwest Syria has hardly any capacity to respond to the quake nor receive aid.
2/By imposing the frame that the west is to blame mainly for the crisis in #Syria , we gaslight Syrians who have been suffering directly from Moscow, Damascus and Tehran. The former two have weaponized aid and systematically bombed hospitals and clinics in opposition areas.
3/Mischaracterizing the crisis also indirectly supports the regime's view that the solution to the lack of relief in the Northwest is to allow Damascus to fully consolidate relief.
But the humanitarian crisis exists because Assad has for years denied aid to areas that oppose him
But the humanitarian crisis exists because Assad has for years denied aid to areas that oppose him
4/In fact, Russia and Assad have long smeared rescuers now saving Syrians from the quake as terrorists in order to justify killing them.
Israel uses the same ploy against #Palestinians. So does #Sudan' s junta to justify killing anti-coup protesters.
There is no real difference
Israel uses the same ploy against #Palestinians. So does #Sudan' s junta to justify killing anti-coup protesters.
There is no real difference
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