@CedarTea yeah that's not far from what I've been able to glean so far tbqh. I, like you, have no idea if that's the whole picture or not (at least from the perspective of Western media and the empire they support; I know it's absolutely not the whole picture from the Syrian perspective but given that I'm not a stakeholder in that perspective, I have no interest in criticizing it. Only what our ghouls are using events to accomplish/sell on my TV.)