Maybe I'm just ignorant and/or snorting copium but isn't it better for them to have consolidated their forces / be less overextended? At least in the short-term to medium-term?
Besides, isn't the northeastern area they still control the part of Syria that's majority Kurdish (aka their "heartland" where they enjoy the most popular support")?
According to them, the "God" who created the material world and is talked about in the Old Testament is an evil and/or ignorant lesser deity and that's why the world sucks.
The "real" God rules over the immaterial (souls, knowledge, and the likes) and is called "the Invisible Spirit".
Both the snake and later on Jesus were agents/emanations of this "Invisible Spirit" sent to bring knowledge ("gnosis" in Greek) to humanity in order to help them break free from the prison that is the material world.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it doesn't matter how logical and internally consistent your ideology is, the one who is more organized wins out in the end. This doesn't have anything to do with any currently ongoing political situation. 🫠
So Outer Manchuria and Buryatia?
I'm not condoning it but I'm also not surprised that there are nationalists making irredentist claims to these places.
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