It never stops amazing me what kind of poorly-informed people come to the idea to discuss the…

You obviously never heard of the MSF (<= open that link and read before coming to the idea to reply) nor about hospitals they support in…

It never stops amazing me what kind of poorly-informed people come to the idea to discuss the Syrian Civil War (or to have ‘firm & substantiated opinions’ about that topic).

You obviously never heard of the MSF (<= open that link and read before coming to the idea to reply) nor about hospitals they support in Aleppo and elsewhere around Syria. And I have little doubts that you’re either going to say they’re ‘halucinating’ or ‘Jihadist-supporting’ when supporting hospitals in insurgent-held areas and then being as ‘brazen’ as to report about their bombardment, too.

Considering that, no surprise you’ve never heard they stopped providing information to the Assadist regime about location of such hospitals — precisely because that regime bombed every single hospital they’ve declared, and that again and again.

Re. “Democratic opposition”: never mentioned that, you did so.

But, since you did so, let me inform you that by doing so you have only shown how little you know about this topic, too.

Namely, insurgent-held areas in Syria are administrated by civilian authorities, so-called ‘local councils’. There are about 400 of these, roughly half of which was elected by local population, early this year. These were the first such elections in Syria since 1950s: sure, they were neither ‘perfectly free’, and rather ‘primitively democratic’. But, they are still something entirely impossible under Assadist regime.

BTW, most of elections in question were won by what can only be described as ‘technocrats without ideology’.

Most of such authorities meanwhile have more power in regards of every-day life in insurgent-held territories than armed groups. They are controlling the food & power supply, schools, water supply and waste disposal, they maintain ‘Free Police’ etc. (<= read that link too). No doubt, they have their problems with Islamists (not to talk about transnational jihadists and the Assadist regime). However, although resisting the outcome of above-mentioned elections, even such powerful and ‘Islamist’ groups like the Jaysh al-Islam are usually accepting their administrative decisions (Jaysh al-Islam is the most powerful insurgent group in Eastern Ghouta).

In some of besieged areas, this went so far that the local civilian authorities have forced local insurgent groups to open their underground facilities (i.e. tunnels used for smuggling) to civilian use.

As stated several times in various of my articles published at War Is Boring, existence of such authorities is the core reason for Assadist and Russian bombardment of civilians. Whenever they can’t kill or scare them away, then they are ethnically cleansing them — i.e. negotiating cease-fires, after which the insurgents and local civilians are bussed to Idlib — like they did in Darayya, in August this year.

Thanks to such ‘measures’ by the regime, the local council of Darayya, freely elected early this year and proving one of most active and most effective, was dissolved today.

Finally, if you want to complain about anybody there ‘arming radical militant groups’, you might want to inform yourself about Assad doing so all the time — and this starting already in 2003. That, however, is a much longer topic, which would require posting dozens of links. Since I doubt you’re going to check even one of those related to the MSF’s activities in Syria, or about local councils, their elections and functions, I’ve posted here, no point in doing that.