Comments by "Cinderball" (@cinderball1135) on "Syria: Footage shows attack on ambulance - evidence of possible war crime" video.
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@jameswhiteley6843 Oh I sincerely doubt that this is a C4 problem. I think YouTube is just playing up. Here is what I wrote:
"I am obviously concerned about fundamentalist Islam, but I don't think that the White Helmets are a valid target for that concern. From what I can tell, they're the nearest thing that Syria is going to get to having any "good guys". They're average joes who don't have any weapons or any political agenda - they're just operating bargain-bin ambulances to try and save lives.
The mere fact that the Russians and Assad want to brand them as terrorists doesn't make them so. After all, Russia, America, Assad, even the UK, everybody has an agenda that they're trying to pursue, so I'd rather look at the facts on the ground (such as we can get) and base my views off that. I've yet to see any evidence that the White Helmets are anything other than what they claim to be - humanitarians trying to save lives. Of course Assad doesn't like them - anybody who might conceivably save the life of a rebel soldier is automatically an enemy, according to his world view. He doesn't care about international law, or human rights, after all.
Assad's regime, make no mistake, is an oppressive, totalitarian nightmare, and Assad himself has no compunctions about murdering his own citizens to maintain control. He is far from being the lesser of many evils. The only reason he tolerates religious minorities is because faith is less important to him than absolute, unswerving loyalty to the Syrian state (and him as its leader).
If we want to agree on something, let's agree to be very suspicious of all the many, many outsiders - Americans, Russians, Iranians, Israelis, Turks, British and the rest - who have shipped arms and assistance into Syria, to try and put a finger on the scales of the conflict. Throwing more guns into a powder keg like Syria was never going to end well, and I think offering sponsorship to "moderate" Islamists is bound to end up biting us all in the collective behind. We should never have allowed Syria to become yet another international proxy war.
As for social lives, I hear you man, it's hard talking to lots of people. What I find is though, is that the pace at which I can meet new people rarely exceeds the pace at which existing contacts kind of drift away. It's constant effort, especially for somebody like me, but it's better than being shut indoors all day, every day. Which is a thing I have experienced."
And now I must say good night, and see you in the next one, haha
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