I lost touch with him years ago. It's just strange to see the trajectory people have taken in this war. He lost friends to Nusra, ISIS, and the YPG. And he lost his city. Sad to see him now participating in this operation.
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opened up facebook to see a fighter I had embedded with in 2013 is active in one of the Turkish backed groups attacking northeast Syria right now. He's from Ras Al Ayn, was originally in a mixed kurd/arab FSA group that fought the YPG there in 2013.
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A range of morons have pointed to this tweet as some evidence that the FSA were always jihadists, glossing over the part here where it says this man and his group fought Nusra and Isis. Many of the men left the war years ago precisely bc they saw the jihadi groups rising.
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this man is from Ras Al Ayn. In his mind, he’s fighting for his home. Almost as if war is complicated and doesn’t fit into the neat little box the anime teens in my mentions don’t realize
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Probably wanted to go home
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Why was the YPG fighting the FSA in 2013?
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Islamist/Jihadis and pro-Turkey elements in the FSA attacked YPG/PYD positions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ras_al-Ayn … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Kurdish%E2%80%93Islamist_conflict_%282013%E2%80%93present%29 …pic.twitter.com/T1vGUyvogJ
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Who could have seen that coming right
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You didn’t know, or didn’t fit your narrative at the time (Assad evil dictator, Armed opposing forces (backed b pentagon) the good guys of the story? Social media was fully discussing how past a certain point the peaceful protests got hijacked by religious violent nuts in Syria.
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Here's a possibility... when embedded they are trying to shape your perception. MAYBE this is a reflection of who he truly is? just throwing it out there! Just a passing thought!
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