It is hard to know what to say, Nigel. This is a circle of pigs. Still reading and following the trails.
I did get see this public note from a Kurdish woman who I respect today:
"Who is responsible for Idlib? Assad? Russia? Iran? The "rebels? Pointing fingers just so the right culprit is found in the futile hope that perhaps some international institution would punish the criminals responsible is the wrong response.
Because the real culprit is us.
So long as we live carelessly, and so long as we expect defunct institutions like UN or EU or US or "West" or really any of our governments to act ethically we continue to accept and allow a world where what happened in Idlib happens and continues to happen. We need to live deliberately, consciously and responsibly; where to live in a world where children don't die of chemical weapons means that we create the world that we want; where we need to remember that we are responsible for the policies of our governments; where we are so active, so informed, so politicised by our fierce love for each other that we demand and force, rather than passively making resigned condemnations of those collectively responsible, to stop creating the wars, and the chemicals and dropping bombs on the innocent. Where we remember that amongst this very war and terror the people of Rojava are doing everything they can to live couragesly and do everything they can under embargo and multiple threats and still challenge the established norms and reality of millions. This is an important lesson and alternative amongst this ongoing horror and tragedy: being reminded that we can do the impossible.
We create the world that we live in. We need to stop expecting governments to spontaneously act ethically, and do whatever it takes politically, socially, economically, physically, emotionally to ensure that we live in a different world."
From Hawzhin Azeez
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