Russian plane shot down in Syria, page-163

speaking of blinkered, are not your pro us pro rebel groups the same?

what is happening in Syria disgusts me. Israel wants to enlarge their borders by levelling Syria, iran wants their proxy to keep poking the bees nest, iran keeps issuing threatening statements, saudi wants to eradicate their shia neighbours, Russia just want a warm water port and the us is supplying arming and funding terrorist groups that the cia helped establish before sept 11 2001 when it created them to fight the Russians, and turkey wants to annex part of Syria. enter also china which is eyeing the obor initiative to link china with the Mediterranean plus sending some 3000 troops to blood them

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-s-christian-city-idlib-frontline-275605521

“We are peaceful Christians who didn’t want to enter the war so we tried to reach a peaceful solution and our priests went out and talked to the terrorists [armed rebels, mostly from outlying Sunni villages], trying to diffuse the situation,” says Mhardeh Defence Force commander Simon al-Wakil.
“We told them, if you want to break down the Syrian government, go to Damascus not here but when we saw how they behaved towards us, using only an iron fist, we realised this was a fake revolution.”........

Around him, sipping strong coffee, sit members of the Mhardeh Defence Forces - teachers, doctors, engineers and poets - who, he says, took up arms to defend their Christian town, culture and history. The narrative that rebels threatened Syrian minorities has been used extensively by the government but the residents of Mhardeh say for them, this is a reality. They believe their town was targeted by rebels from outlying Sunni villages specifically for being Christian and say they were expected to flee in terror to pre-prepared refugee camps in Turkey.


Christians light candles in one of Mhardeh's four churches (MEE/Katharine Cooper)
Wakil, injured himself nine times, gestures around the room, saying every man present has been injured in fighting and most have gone straight back to the front lines after treatment.
“We are pro-Syria,” he says firmly. “Before the war, Syria was a great place, on a road of development, but then 86 countries and the ‘Zionist entity’ [the term some Syrians apply to Israel, which they do not recognise as a country] supported the destruction of this country. They destroyed Syria but we, and our children, will rebuild it.”