>>12026I'm honestly of two minds about this nowadays.
On the one hand, I think that original BO accomplished nothing except needless splitting when they did that. It divided the community and didn't do much of anything else, and laid the groundwork for a future series of /leftypol/s which were much more censorious and less fertile than the original.
On the other hand, original BO was
completely right about the YPG/PKK, and I literally didn't even realize it until last year some time… or 2023 at the earliest. It was a big psyop to get the western left to sympathize with what was, by that time, an operation by the US/"Israel" to strangle Syria by cutting it off from oil and agricultural land. The Kurds in Syria were quite literally running illegal concentration camps for """families of ISIS fighters""" on behalf of the American state within Syrian territory, where there was very little, if any, evidence required for internment, and then, when Jolani (HTS, ex-ISIS, ex-al Qaeda, MI6) took over Syria, suddenly the Kurds were laying down their arms and declaring themselves best buddies with these Takfiri psychos. The Kurds were used as cover for an illegal US occupation of Syria which was
much larger than what was admitted in the 2010s, the whole thing was completely insidious, and I sympathize with OG BO in retrospect for realizing the implications. I don't know what I would have done had I been in that position.