Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
The sheer fact that it's these dicatators' own people that are actively trying to overthrow them, pretty much shits all over any of the ideas that have been presented in this thread, in regads to these guys being great leaders or whatever.Libya and Syria aren't rebelling because of western interests. They're rebelling because they don't like their leaders.
Lmao we're basically acting out on a smaller scale the current drama in the UNSC with the dissenters being from Russia and China.
Let's not pretend for a single second that Russia and China support Assad because he's a just leader, they support him because he buys their weapons and because he's not a western puppet or a religious extremist. They don't give two shits at the end of the day whether he's oppressive, and why would they? Putin and Hu are also dictators, just of a more subtle and successful variety.