Arming, aiding and abetting militant (and largely imported) forces in order to overthrow a sovereign government amounts to a direct breach of the UN Charter. There was no "pro-democratic uprising" in Syria, nor is the current war a "civil war". The government of Syria still has popular support, as it had in 2011, and the fighting factions are proxies for third parties: NATO countries supporting US "regime change" policy aimed at consolidating its control over the Middle East, and GCC countries who follow their own interests, and aid NATO e.g. by channeling funds and arms which it might be a bit difficult to get stamped by military budget committees in our "democracies".
"What went wrong" is that allegedly democratic countries allegedly so attached to their values engaged in breaching the UN charter in a dirty, illegal war accompanied by massive propaganda effort to topple the government of a sovereign country. Not for oil of course, like before in Iraq. For gas this time, and political influence.
There's plenty of citations there of "reporting at the time" that directly contradict any peaceful and pro-democratic genesis of the conflict. This was a repeat of the 1982 Hama "uprising" -- jihadists incited right from the start by third parties to violently attack the government.
Arming, aiding and abetting militant (and largely imported) forces in order to overthrow a sovereign government amounts to a direct breach of the UN Charter. There was no "pro-democratic uprising" in Syria, nor is the current war a "civil war". The government of Syria still has popular support, as it had in 2011, and the fighting factions are proxies for third parties: NATO countries supporting US "regime change" policy aimed at consolidating its control over the Middle East, and GCC countries who follow their own interests, and aid NATO e.g. by channeling funds and arms which it might be a bit difficult to get stamped by military budget committees in our "democracies".
"What went wrong" is that allegedly democratic countries allegedly so attached to their values engaged in breaching the UN charter in a dirty, illegal war accompanied by massive propaganda effort to topple the government of a sovereign country. Not for oil of course, like before in Iraq. For gas this time, and political influence.
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/the-revolutionary-distemper-in-syria-that-wasnt/
There's plenty of citations there of "reporting at the time" that directly contradict any peaceful and pro-democratic genesis of the conflict. This was a repeat of the 1982 Hama "uprising" -- jihadists incited right from the start by third parties to violently attack the government.