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Right now we can see the criminality of the US/CIA deliberate blocking of large numbers of manpads (portable anti-aircraft weapons) in 2012, that were sent to Turkey from Libya for the Syrian rebels. Of course, we could see that criminality the last 4 years under Assad's genocidal bombs. But to turn this Russian aggression into Russia's Vietnam will require good anti-aircraft weaponry. If before, western peaceniks and progressives were squeamish about the demand because they thought sending anti-aircraft weapons to rebels to help save the lives of thousands of Syrian civilians from Assad's genocidal slaughter was "interference into the internal affairs of Syria" (sic), then what new measly excuse can they come up with now that the Russian imperialist state, the major backer of Assad these 4 years, has launched a massive, devastating war of aggression against the people of Homs, Hama, Daraa and other centres of the revolution (none of which have any ISIS), slaughtering civilians en masse while targeting the Free Syrian Army? Well, no doubt the US, which has already essentially welcomed the Russian strikes "with conditions", will think of plenty of good reasons to continue blocking manpads (when not actually joining in the slaughter of non-ISIS rebels, as the US has also done plenty of), and no doubt some very wrongly-named "anti-imperialists" will continue to criticise the US for, in their imagination, not blocking the manpads enough (?), and for not bombing alongside the Russians.
Now this has become a clear anti-colonial war, we need to demand: Let the FSA get all the advanced weaponry they need, from whatever source wants to send them, above all masses of good quality anti-aircraft weapons!
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