Assad has been elected twice
But we treat him with less legitimacy than that clown Rocket Man in North Korea who we are willing to accept if he de- nukes
Go figure
We on the other hand are in Syria as occupiers to pick and choose among islamic radicals like AlQaeda to try to come up an army - any army- to join the Kurds who are the only real fighters aside from radicals - and to oppose the secular Assad because Israel and the Saudi want him gone because he made a strategic decision to ally with Iran as did his old man before him
Iran willing to kill islamist radicals Since quite a few Syrian shiites suffered mightily under ISIS and sunni radical militias
This is all grounds for us choosing a new Syrian government now that our ISIS experiment has hopefully been cleaned up for which we take no blame but full credit
Not that we would meddle in another country's elections or anything...
As with Condor Flight - to you, it doesn’t matter whether Trump is in power - everything the United States of America does is Neo-Con Empire Building.
Even World War II.
On the flip side ,the Neo-Connest of the Neo-Cons, Mr. Vladimir Putin can do no wrong. In fact, he’s protecting us! Just like Stalin protected us from the Nazis. Putin is protecting us from Ukrainian Fascists and ISIS terrorists! It’s all out of love.
Oh and he’s TOTALLY entitled to an empire larger than the USSR:
American collateral, European allies, and Israeli collateral be damned.
“Assad has been elected twice
But we treat him with less legitimacy than that clown Rocket Man in North Korea”
Stalin and Castro, and Rocket Man were elected too. Like Assad, their elections were not free elections, but fixed to ensure the outcome.
Assad’s Ba’ath Party is the last ruling Party on Earth based on the same principles as the German Nationalist Socialist (Nazi) Party - socialist dictatorship based on race.