Syria, Ukraine, and parallels between autocrats - with Jean-Pierre Filiu - Thinking in Dark Times #8
Explaining Ukraine
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Syria - The Parallels of Cruelty on the Ground
There are many parallels of what Russia is doing here compared to what Assad regime and Russia itself was doing in Syria. Bombing hospitals, bomb-baying civilian infrastructure, killing people on the humanitarian corridors,. creating this sentiment of fear when you just shell civilians who are trying to escape. Can we talk about this parallels? Yes cruelty and what I call terror techniques that have been tested and developed in Syria and are now implemented against Ukraine. We see lots of cases in Bucher, Rostomel, dozens of shells of civilians who try to escape. And it is systematic.
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