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|title = [[File:Baath.png]] Ba'athism |
|title = [[File:Baath.png]] '''Ba'athism''' |
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|caption = "وحدة، حرية، اشتراكية (Unity, Freedom, Socialism)" |
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|caption = «STOP WATCHING PORNOGRAPHY, YOU HAVE BEEN ASSADED!» |
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|aliases = [[File:Hussein.png]] Saddamism <br> [[File:Hafez_al-Assad.png]] Assadism <br> Neo-Ba'athism ([[File:Cball-Syria.png]] Syrian model) |
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[[File:Baath.png]] Ba'ath<br> |
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Jadidism |
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[[File:Baath.png]] (Arab Socialist) Ba'ath Party<br> |
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|alignments = [[File:Authright.png]] [[AuthRight]] ([[File:Hussein.png]] Iraqi side)<br>[[File:Authleft.png]] [[AuthLeft]] ([[File:Cball-Syria.png]] Syrian side)<br> |
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[[File:Neo-Baath.png]] Neo-Ba'athism/Syrian Ba'athism<br> |
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[[File:Hussein.png]] Saddamism/Iraqi Ba'athism<br> |
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[[File:Hafez_al-Assad.png]] Assadism [[File:Bashar al-Assad.png]]<br> |
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[[File:Vanguard Dictablanda.png]] Vanguard Dictablanda ([[File:Aflaq.png]] Aflaq)<br> |
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[[File:Butcher of baghdad.png]] Butcher of Baghdad ([[File:Hussein.png]] Saddam)<br> |
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*Main<br> |
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[[File:CLeftTot.png]] Center-Left Totalitarianism<br> |
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[[File:ArabStateCap.png]] Arab State Capitalism<br> |
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[[File:ArabNazBol.png]] Arab Nazbol (Jokingly, somewhat)<br> |
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[[File:KosiniakAssad.png]] [[Agrarianism|Kosiniakism]] (Jokingly, in Poland) <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2nfmMxK5Io comes from this meme song]</ref><br> |
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[[File:Cball-Palestine.png]] Palestine (Erroneously)<br> |
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[[File:Assadthegamer.png]] <s>Assad Gamer</s><br> |
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<s>[[File:Sussein.png]] Haddam Sussein</s><br> |
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Chemical Pan-Arabism |
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|alignments= |
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{{Info|Authoritarian Left|AuthLeft}}<br>{{info|Culturally Left}}<br> |
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{{Info|Nationalists}}<br> |
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[[File:Ethnonat.png|link=:Category:Ethnonationalists]] [[:Category:Ethnonationalists|{{Color|#E1E1E1|'''Ethnonationalists'''}}]]<br> |
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{{Info|Socialists}}<br> |
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[[File:RevNat.png|link=:Category:Revolutionary Nationalist]] [[:Category:Revolutionary Nationalist|{{Color|#FF9900|'''Revolutionary Nationalists'''}}]]<br> |
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[[File:QuasiFash.png|link=Quasi-Fascism (Disambiguation)]] [[:Quasi-Fascism (Disambiguation)|{{Color|#A05000|'''Quasi-Fascists'''}}]] (Accused)<br> |
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'''Variants:''' {{Collapse| |
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[[File:Authunity.png|link=:Category:Authoritarian Unity]] [[:Category:Authoritarian Unity|{{Color|#F9BABA|'''Auth'''}}{{Color|#92D9F8|'''Unity'''}}]] ([[File:Hafez al-Assad.png]] Assadism)<br> |
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[[File:Trad.png|link=:Category:Culturally Right]] [[:Category:Culturally Right|{{Color|#8BC34A|'''Culturally Right'''}}]] ([[File:Hussein.png]] Saddamism, After 1993)<br> |
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[[File:Cap.png|link=:Category:Capitalists]] [[:Category:Capitalists|{{Color|#FFFF00|'''Capitalists'''}}]] ([[File:Hafez al-Assad.png]] Assadism, Since 1990s)<br> |
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[[File:Religious.png|link=:Category:Religious]] [[:Category:Religious|{{Color|#00ABF4|'''Religious'''}}]] ([[File:Hussein.png]] Saddamism, After 1993)<br> |
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}} |
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|influences={{ScrollBox| |
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[[File:Anti-Americanism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Americanism}}<br> |
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[[File:Anti-Colonial.png]] Anti-Colonialism<br> |
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[[File:Anticommunism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Communism}} (Domestically)<br> |
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[[File:AntiLibIcon.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Liberalism}}<br> |
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[[File:Antiwest.png]] Anti-Westernism<br> |
[[File:Antiwest.png]] Anti-Westernism<br> |
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[[File:Antizion.png]] Anti-Zionism<br> |
[[File:Antizion.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Zionism}}<br> |
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[[File:Absoc.png]] [[Arab Socialism]]<br> |
[[File:Absoc.png]] [[Arab Socialism]]<br> |
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[[File:Auto.png]] [[Autocracy]]<br> |
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[[File:Ethnonat.png]] [[Ethnonationalism]]<br> |
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[[File:PanArab.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism#Pan-Arabism|Pan-Arabism]]<br> |
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[[File:UniParti.png]] [[Particracy]]<br> |
[[File:UniParti.png]] [[Particracy]]<br> |
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[[File:PolState.png]] [[Police Statism]]<br> |
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[[File:ProgFash.png]] {{PCBA|Progressive Fascism}}<br> |
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[[File:Republicanismpix.png]] [[Republicanism]]<br> |
[[File:Republicanismpix.png]] [[Republicanism]]<br> |
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[[File:Statecap.png]] [[State Capitalism]]<br> |
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[[File:Strato.png]] [[Stratocracy|Stratocracy]]<br> |
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[[File:Totalitarian.png]] [[Totalitarianism]] |
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}} |
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**[[File:Authoritarian_Conservatism.png]] [[Authoritarian Conservatism]] |
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**[[File:Auto.png]] [[Autocracy]] |
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[[File:Aflaq.png]] '''Aflaqism/Original Ba'ath Party''' {{Collapse| |
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**[[File:Castro.png]] [[Castroism]] |
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*[[File:Antiath.png]] Anti-Atheism |
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*[[File:Anticap.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Capitalism}} |
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*[[File:Antiimp.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Imperialism}} |
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*[[File:AntiReact.png]] [[Progressivism|Anti-Reactionaryism]] |
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*[[File:Antiwest.png]] Anti-Westernism |
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*[[File:Absoc.png]] [[Arab Socialism]] |
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*[[File:Arafat.png]] [[Arab Socialism|Arafatism]] (Sympathetic) |
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*[[File:Dictablanda.png]] [[Civil Libertarianism|Dictablanda]] |
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*[[File:Islamic Socialism.png]] [[Islamic Socialism]]<ref>despite being a Christian, Aflaq thought that Arab Socialism was supposed to be "under the leadership of Muhammad"</ref> |
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*[[File:LeftAntiCom.png]] {{PCBA|Left Anti-Communism}} |
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*[[File:Leftnat.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism]] |
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*[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] (Formerly) |
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*[[File:Nazi.png]] [[Nazism]] (Sympathetic) |
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*[[File:NAM.png]] {{PCBA|Non-Alignedism|Neutralism}} |
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*[[File:PanArab.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism#Pan-Arabism|Pan-Arabism]] |
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*[[File:ProgFash.png]] {{PCBA|Progressive Fascism}} |
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*[[File:Saadeh.png]] [[Saadehism]] |
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*[[File:Secular.png]] [[Secularism]] |
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*[[File:Vanguardism.png]] [[Leninism|Vanguardism]] |
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}} |
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[[File:PanArab.png]] '''Arsuzism''' {{Collapse| |
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*[[File:Anti-Colonial.png]] Anti-Colonialism |
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*[[File:ArabNat.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism|Arab Nationalism]] |
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*[[File:Auto.png]] [[Autocracy]] |
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*[[File:Ethnonat.png]] [[Ethnonationalism]] |
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*[[File:Muslim.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy]] |
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*[[File:Nazi.png]] [[Nazism]] (Allegedly)<ref>He was a former member of the League of Nationalist Action, which was believed to been inspired by the "Ironshirts"</ref> |
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*[[File:PanArab.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism#Pan-Arabism|Pan-Arabism]] |
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*[[File:Pragmat.png]] [[Machiavellianism|Pragmatism]] |
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*[[File:Cultural Nationalism.png]] [[Cultural Nationalism|"Resurrection"]] |
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}} |
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[[File:Hussein.png]] '''Iraqi Ba'athism/Saddamism''' {{Collapse| |
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*[[File:Aflaq.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism|Aflaqism]] |
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*[[File:AntiAm.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Americanism}} |
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*[[File:Anticommunism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Communism}} |
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*[[File:AntiNasser.png]] Anti-Nasserism |
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*[[File:Antizion.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Zionism}} |
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*[[File:Authoritarian Conservatism.png]] [[Authoritarian Conservatism]] (Post-1993) |
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*[[File:Castro.png]] [[National Communism|Castroism]] (Sympathetic) |
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*[[File:Hochi.png]] [[Ho Chi Minh Thought]] (Sympathetic) |
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*[[File:Indust.png]] [[Industrialism]] |
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*[[File:Cball-Iraq.png]] [[Nationalism|Iraqi Nationalism]] |
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*[[File:Islamfash.png]] [[Clerical Fascism|Islamic Fascism]] (Post-1993) |
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*[[File:Anti-Kurd.png]] [[Ethnonationalism|Kurdophobia]] |
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*[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] (Sympathetic) |
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*[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism]] |
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*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism]] (Aesthetically) |
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*[[File:Nazi.png]] [[Nazism]] (Sympathetic) |
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*[[File:PolState.png]] [[Police Statism]] |
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*[[File:Prohib.png]] {{PCBA|Prohibitionism}} (Post-1993) |
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*[[File:ReactPix.png]] [[Reactionary Modernism]] |
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*[[File:Slaveism icon.png]] [[Caste System|Slavery]] |
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*[[File:SocFash.png]] [[Social Authoritarianism|Social Fascism]] |
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*[[File:Strato.png]] [[Stratocracy]] |
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*[[File:Sunni.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy|Sunni Theocracy]] (Post-1993) |
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*[[File:Tito.png]] [[Titoism]] (Sympathetic) |
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*[[File:Totalitarian.png]] [[Totalitarianism]] |
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*'''Historically:''' |
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**[[File:Brezhnev.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|Brezhnevism]] (Pre-1980) |
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**[[File:ProgFash.png]] [[Fascism|Progressive Fascism]] (Pre-1993) |
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**[[File:Secular.png]] [[Secularism]] (Pre-1993) |
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*'''Udayism''' |
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**[[File:Kak.png]] [[Kakistocracy]] |
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**[[File:Klep.png]] [[Kleptocracy]] |
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**[[File:Plutocrat.png]] [[Plutocracy]] |
**[[File:Plutocrat.png]] [[Plutocracy]] |
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**[[File:Psychopathy.png]] Psychopathy |
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**[[File:Sexocracy.png]] Sexocracy |
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**[[File:Socauth.png]] [[Social Authoritarianism]] |
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**[[File:Rpop-tinfoilhat.png]] [[Right-Wing Populism]] |
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**[[File:Statecap.png]] [[State Capitalism]] |
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**[[File:Tito.png]] [[Titoism]] |
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**[[File:Totalitarian.png]] [[Totalitarianism]] |
**[[File:Totalitarian.png]] [[Totalitarianism]] |
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**[[File:Ultranat.png]] [[Ultranationalism]] |
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[[File:Neo-Baath.png]] '''Syrian Ba'athism/Neo-Ba'athism''' {{collapse| |
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*[[File:Bashar al-Assad.png]] '''Bashar al-Assadism''' |
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**[[File: |
**[[File:Alawite.png]] [[Shia Theocracy|Alawitization]] |
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**[[File: |
**[[File:AntiAm.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Americanism}} |
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**[[File: |
**[[File:AntiBibi.png]] Anti-Bibism |
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**[[File:AntiIsis.png]] Anti-Jihadism |
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**[[File:AntiLibIcon.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Liberalism}} |
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**[[File:Antiporn.png]] Anti-Pornography |
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**[[File:Anti-Sunni.png]] Anti-Sunnism (accused) |
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**[[File:Antizion.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Zionism}} |
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**[[File:Anti-Semitic.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Semitism}}<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlzpnP1221Y</ref><ref>https://www.memri.org/tv/zionist-jew-zelensky-support-nazi-collaborators/</ref> |
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**[[File:AuthNeolib.png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism|Authoritarian Neoliberalism]] |
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**[[File:Cultofpersonality.png]] [[Autocracy|Cult of Personality]] |
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**[[File:Dengf.png]] [[Dengism]] (Sympathetic, after 2023) |
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**[[File:Pac.png]] Detente (with Israel)<ref>https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201008-syrias-assad-agrees-to-normalise-relations-with-israel-if-conditions-are-met/</ref><ref>https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2021-11-17/ty-article/.premium/why-arab-rapprochement-with-syrias-assad-works-for-israel-too/0000017f-e20e-d9aa-afff-fb5ec67a0000</ref> |
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**[[File:Hafez_al-Assad.png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism|Hafez al-Assadism]] |
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**[[File:Khomenewicon.png]] [[Khomeinism]] (Sympathetic) |
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**[[File:Klep.png]] [[Kleptocracy]] |
**[[File:Klep.png]] [[Kleptocracy]] |
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**[[File:Nazi.png]] [[Nazism]] (Accused) |
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**[[File: |
**[[File:PolState.png]] [[Police Statism]] |
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**[[File: |
**[[File:Pragmat.png]] [[Machiavellianism|Realpolitik]] |
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**[[File:Reform.png]] [[Reformism]] (Some) |
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**[[File:Rpop.png]] [[Right-Wing Populism]] |
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**[[File:Russophilia.png]] Russophilia |
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**[[File:Secular.png]] [[Secularism]] (Self-proclaimed) |
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**[[File:Cball-Syria.png]] [[Nationalism|Syrian Nationalism]] |
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**[[File:Authsoccap.png]] [[Social Authoritarianism|Social Authoritarian Capitalism]]<ref>https://crisismag.net/2019/10/01/economic-liberalization-and-social-transformations-in-pre-war-syria/</ref> |
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**[[File:Totalitarian.png]] [[Totalitarianism]] |
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**'''Historically:''' |
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***[[File:Anti-Kurd.png]] [[Ethnonationalism|Kurdophobia]] (2000-2011) |
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*[[File:Hafez_al-Assad.png]] '''Hafez al-Assadism''' |
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**[[File:Antizion.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Zionism}} |
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**[[File:Alawite.png]] [[Shia Theocracy|Alawitization]] |
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**[[File:ArabNat.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism|Arab Nationalism]] |
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**[[File:Authcap.png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism]] |
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**[[File:Bonaparte.png]] [[Bonapartism]] |
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**[[File:Cultofpersonality.png]] [[Autocracy|Cult of Personality]] |
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**[[File:Gaullismicon2.png]] [[Gaullism]] |
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**[[File:Klep.png]] [[Kleptocracy]] |
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**[[File:MiliLen.png]] [[Leninism|Militarist Leninism]] (aesthetically) |
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**[[File:NationalistSoc.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|"Nationalist Socialism"]] (self-proclaimed) |
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**[[File:Islamic Socialism.png]] [[Islamic Socialism]] |
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**[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism]] |
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**[[File:Plutocrat.png]] [[Plutocracy]] |
**[[File:Plutocrat.png]] [[Plutocracy]] |
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**[[File:PolState.png]] [[Police Statism]] |
**[[File:PolState.png]] [[Police Statism]] |
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**[[File:Pragmat.png]] [[Machiavellianism|Pragmatism]] |
**[[File:Pragmat.png]] [[Machiavellianism|Pragmatism]] |
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**[[File:PrezMon.png]] [[Presidentialism|Presidential]] [[Monarchism]] (accused) |
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**[[File:React.png]] [[Reactionaryism]] (accused by [[File:SalahJadid.png]] [[Arab Socialism|Jadidism]]) |
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|song = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NrjjQjbdAM Baath Party Anthem]<br> |
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**[[File:Rpop.png]] [[Right-Wing Populism]] |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgiyWGyJcIc God Syria and Bashar]<br> |
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**[[File:Shia.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy|Shia Theocracy]] (Aesthetically) |
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**[[File:Socauth.png]] [[Social Authoritarianism]] |
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**[[File:Cball-Syria.png]] [[Nationalism|Syrian Nationalism]] |
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**[[File:Totalitarian.png]] [[Totalitarianism]] |
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*[[File:SalahJadid.png]] '''Salah Jadid Thought''' |
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**[[File:Antiimp.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Imperialism}} |
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**[[File:AntiReact.png]] Anti-Reactionaryism |
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**[[File:Antizion.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Zionism}} |
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**[[File:Absoc.png]] [[Arab Socialism]] |
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**[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]] (Modern supporters) |
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**[[File:Leftnat.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism]] |
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**[[File:Mao.png]] [[Maoism]] (sympathetic) |
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**[[File:Saadeh.png]] [[Saadehism]] (formerly) |
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**[[File:Statesoc.png]] [[State Socialism]] |
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**[[File:Strato.png]] [[Stratocracy]] |
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}} |
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[[File:Raghad Hussein.png]] '''Raghadism''' {{Collapse| |
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*[[File:Anti-Iran.png]] Anti-Iranian sentiment |
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*[[File:Anti-Shia.png]] Anti-Shi'ism |
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*[[File:Authoritarian_Conservatism.png]] [[Authoritarian Conservatism]] |
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*[[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy]] |
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*[[File:Trumpism.png]] [[Right-Wing_Populism#Trumpism|Trumpism]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CYzXfqYPc</ref> |
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|song= |
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[https://youtu.be/4NrjjQjbdAM Ba'ath Party Anthem]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/patze8b01lM Syrian Army Of Christ]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/Toc5uNiOy5c Mr. Credo - "Saddam Hussein" (Russian song)]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/VPcpUlcCp8o?si=NyBHqxRkFhNGW2gE God Syria and Bashar]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/xYA1CvNUNI4 The torch of Baath is my morning]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/L19onxnn0PM Laymouni]<br> |
[https://youtu.be/L19onxnn0PM Laymouni]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yk28pbJB50 |
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yk28pbJB50 Land of The Two Rivers]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w7TBRk1bWo Swords of Iraq]<br> |
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w7TBRk1bWo Swords of Iraq]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLu_Njy4ghY Glory to the Banner of Islam]<br> |
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLu_Njy4ghY Glory to the Banner of Islam]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Icl6mj4l4 Peace From God to the People of Iraq]<br> |
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Icl6mj4l4 Peace From God to the People of Iraq]<br> |
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[https://youtu.be/1vtsPxeb8fc Honor, Homeland, Sincerity!]<br> |
[https://youtu.be/1vtsPxeb8fc Honor, Homeland, Sincerity!]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfCsDlHlVo4 Sealers of Arabism!]<br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO7LglM9z60 Fire your guns, show no mercy] <br> |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvAlRk6LNOo Anthem of the Fedayeen Saddam]<br> |
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*[[File:PanArab.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism|Zakī al-Arsūzī]] (1899-1968) [[file:Cball-Syria.png]] Syria |
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[https://youtu.be/94meDq86TTI May it fall!]<br> |
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*[[File:PanArab.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism|Michel Aflaq]] (1910-1989) [[file:Cball-Syria.png]] Syria |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ8oXa8exes Al Bari Will Protect You, O Saddam.]<br> |
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*[[File:Absoc.png]] [[Arab Socialism|Salah al-Din al-Bitar]] (1912-1980) [[File:Cball-Syria.png]] Syria/[[File:Cball-France.png]] France |
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV5zVWpvW1k Fot Beha]<br> |
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*[[File:Republicanismpix.png]] [[Republicanism|Munif Razzaz]] (1919-1984) [[File:Cball-Jordan.png]] Jordan/[[File:Cball-Syria.png]] Syria |
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<s>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZxdOeXUiJ0 Iraq Lobster]</s> |
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*[[File:Socauth.png]] [[Social Authoritarianism|Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr]] (1914-1982) [[File:Cball-Iraq.png]] Iraq |
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|theorists = [[File:Cball-Syria.png]] '''Syria''' {{Collapse| |
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*[[File:PanArab.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism|Zakī al-Arsūzī]] (1899-1968) |
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*[[File:Aflaq.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism|Michel Aflaq]] (1910-1989) |
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*[[File:Absoc.png]] [[Arab Socialism|Salah al-Din al-Bitar]] (1912-1980) |
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*[[File: |
*[[File:Republicanismpix.png]] [[Republicanism|Munif Razzaz]] (1919-1984) |
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*[[File:SalahJadid.png]] [[Arab Socialism|Salah Jadid]] (1923-1993) |
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*[[File:Hafez al-Assad.png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism|Hafez al Assad]] (1930-2000) |
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*[[File:Plutocrat.png]] [[Plutocracy|Abdul Halim Khaddam]] (1932-2020) |
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*[[File:Mediastocracy flair.png]] [[Mediacracy|Richard Medhurst]] (?-) [[file:Cball-UK.png]] UK/[[file:Cball-Syria.png]] Syria (possibly)}} |
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*[[File:Anti-Semitic.png]] [[Stratocracy|Mustafa Tlass]] (1932-2017) |
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|likes =Dictatorship<br>Chemical Weapons<br>[[File:Putin.png]] Vladimir Putin<br>[[File:PatPaleoCon.png]] Paleoconservatives and [[File:Conbertf.png]] Conservative Libertarians<br>[[File:ML.png]] Western Tankies<br>Wikileaks<br> |
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*[[File:Strato-Antifurry.png]] [[Stratocracy|Ali Haydar]] (1932-) |
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|dislikes = Porn/hentai <br> Coomers<br><s>Democracy</s> <br>Non-arab minorities (Iraqi side)<br> Anime <br>[[File:Zio.png]] Israel <br>[[File:Cball-Saudi.png]] Saudi Arabia <br>[[File:Cball-Qatar.png]][[File:Cball-UAE.png]][[File:Cball-Kuwait.png]] the Gulf Monarchies<br>Muslim Brotherhood<br>Iraqi incubator conspiracy<br>Being accused of having WMD <br>Private Military Companies (e.g. Blackwater) <br> [[File:CIA.png]] CIA<br>[[File:Cball-FSA.png]] "Moderate" Rebels<br>[[File:Cball-Isis.png]] DAESH<br>[[File:Jihad.png]] Al-Qaeda<br>[[File:Cball-Xinjiang.png]] ETIP<br> [[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]] and [[File:3way.png]] [[Third Way]] <br>Everyone who supported the 2nd Gulf War, Iraq War and Timber Sycamore |
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*[[File:PolState.png]] [[Police Statism|Ali Duba]] (1933-) |
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*[[File:Klep.png]] [[Kleptocracy|Rifaat al Assad]] (1937-) |
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*[[File:Klep.png]] [[Kleptocracy|Imad Khamis]] (1961-) |
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*[[File:Bashar al-Assad.png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism|Bashar al Assad]] (1965-) |
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*[[File:Klep.png]] [[Kleptocracy|Muhammad Bashar Kiwan]] (1966-) |
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*[[File:Authcap.png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism|Rami Makhlouf]] (1969-) |
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*[[File:Fem.png]] [[Feminism|Asma al Assad]] (1975-) |
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*[[File:RT.png]] [[Mediacracy|Richard Medhurst]] (?-), [[File:Cball-UK.png]][[File:Cball-Syria.png]] UK/Syria |
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*[[File:Euras.png]] [[Fourth Theory|Kevork]] [[Mediacracy|Almassian]] (?-), [[File:Cball-Armenia.png]][[File:Cball-Syria.png]] Armenia/Syria |
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[[File:Cball-Iraq.png]] '''Iraq''' {{Collapse| |
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'''Ba'athism''', also known as '''Saddamism '''or '''Assadism''' (depending if it's Iraq or Syria respectively), is an Authoritarian Left, Arab Nationalist, culturally variable, and Anti-[[File:Zio.png]][[Zionism|Zionist]] Ideology. In the political compass he is close to Authoritarian center, towards the left. He believes in a unified Arab state led by a revolutionary government under a vanguard party. He is very anti-pornography, hates wahhabists and theocracies, and despises imperialism. |
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*[[File:Socauth.png]] [[Social Authoritarianism|Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr]] (1914-1982) |
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*[[File:Hussein.png]] [[Totalitarianism|Saddam Hussein]] (1937-2006) |
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*[[File:ComicalAli.png]] [[Mediacracy|Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf]] (1940-) |
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*[[File:Muslim_2.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy|Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri]] (1942-2020) |
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*[[File:Butcher of baghdad.png]] [[Police Statism|Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti]] (1951-2007) |
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*[[File:UdayHussein.png]] [[Totalitarianism|Uday Hussein]] (1964-2003) |
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*[[File:QusayHussein.png]] [[Kleptocracy|Qusay Hussein]] (1966-2003) |
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*[[File:Raghad Hussein.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy|Raghad Hussein]] (1968-) |
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'''[[File:World.png]] Foreign Sympathizers/Supporters'''{{Collapse| |
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*[[File:JosipBrozTito.png]] [[Titoism|Josip Broz Tito]] (1892-1980) [[File:Cball-Yugoslavia.png]] Yugoslavia |
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*[[File:Brezhnev.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|Leonid Brezhnev]] (1906-1982) [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] Soviet Union |
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*[[File:NaziButcher.png]] [[Nazism|Alois Brunner]] (1912-2001) [[File:Cball-Austria.png]] Austria |
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*[[File:NicolaeCeaușescu.png]] [[National Communism|Nicolae Ceaușescu]] (1918-1989) [[File:Cball-SRRomania.png]] Romania |
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*[[File:FidelCastro.png]] [[National Communism|Fidel Castro]] (1926-2016) [[File:Castro.png]] Cuba |
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*[[File:RaulCastro.png]] [[Market Socialism|Raúl Castro]] (1931-) [[File:Castro.png]] Cuba |
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*[[File:JChirac.png]] [[Gaullism|Jacques Chirac]] (1932-2019) [[File:Cball-France.png]] France |
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*[[File:RonPaul.png]] [[Libertarian Conservatism|Ron Paul]] (1935-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA <ref> https://twitter.com/RonPaul/status/976536009054793729?t=ThY7nqqvQ7b4SQ_MLCCjhA&s=19 </ref> |
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*[[File:Khom.png]] [[Khomeinism|Ali Khamenei]] (1939-) [[File:Cball-Iran.png]] Iran (Especially the Syrian variant) |
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*[[File:KimJongil.png]] [[Juche|Kim Jong-il]] (1941-2011) [[File:Cball-North_Korea.png]] North Korea |
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*[[File:Anraat.png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism|Frans van Anraat]] (1942-) [[File:Cball-Netherlands.png]] Netherlands |
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*[[File:Lula.png]] [[Socialism of the 21st Century|Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]] (1945-) [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] Brazil |
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*[[File:AliAbdullahSaleh.png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism|Ali Abdullah Saleh]] (1947-2017) [[File:Cball-NorthYemen.png]] North Yemen/[[File:Cball-Yemen.png]] Yemen |
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*[[File:Antiimp.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Dennis Kucinich]] (1946-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] US |
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*[[File:Zhir.png]] [[Reactionary Liberalism|Vladimir Zhirinovsky]] (1946-2022) [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia |
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*[[File:AntonioRazzi.png]] [[Kakistocracy|Antonio Razzi]] (1948 -) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy (Accused, Allegedly) <ref> https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/03/21/antonio-razzi-e-il-suo-selfie-vergognoso-con-bashar-al-assad/3465125/ </ref> |
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*[[File:KKK.png]] [[White Nationalism|David Duke]] (1950-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:VladimirPutin.png]] [[Authoritarian Conservatism|Vladimir Putin]] (1952-) [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia |
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*[[File:PIJ.png]] [[Jihadism|Ziyad al-Nakhalah]] (1953-) [[File:Cball-Palestine.png]] Palestine |
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*[[File:SteveBannon.png]] [[Alt-Lite|Steve Bannon]] (1953-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:XiJinpingThoughtf.png]] [[Dengism|Xi Jinping]] (1953-) [[File:Cball-China.png]] China |
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*[[File:Antiimp.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Tim Anderson]] (1953-) [[File:Cball-Australia.png]] Australia |
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*[[File:Chavismo-eyes.png]] [[Chavismo|Hugo Chávez]] (1954-2013) [[File:Cball-Venezuela.png]] Venezuela |
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*[[File:George.png]] [[Conservative Socialism |George Galloway]] (1954-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK |
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*[[File:Lpop-tinfoilhat.png]] [[Kakistocracy|Cynthia McKinney]] (1955-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:Griffinism.png]] [[British Fascism|Nick Griffin]] (1959-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK |
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*[[File:NeoFash.png]] [[Fascism|Roberto Fiore]] (1959-) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy |
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*[[File:Nahyan.png]] [[Elective Monarchism|Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan]] (1961-) [[File:Cball-UAE.png]] UAE<ref>[https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/19/424 Syria’s Assad in UAE for second post-quake Gulf visit]</ref> |
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*[[File:Khom.png]] [[Khomeinism|Hassan Nasrallah]] (1960-) [[File:Cball-Lebanon.png]] Lebanon |
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*[[File:Maduro.png]] [[Chavismo|Nicolás Maduro]] (1962-) [[File:Cball-Venezuela.png]] Venezuela |
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*[[File:Dugin.png]] [[Fourth Theory|Aleksandr Dugin]] (1962-)[[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia |
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*[[File:RT.png]] [[Mediacracy|Vanessa Beeley]] (1963/1964-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK |
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*[[File:JimmyDore.png]] [[Conservative Socialism|Jimmy Dore]] (1965-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:MarineLePen.png]] [[Welfare Chauvinism|Marine Le Pen]] (1968-) [[File:Cball-France.png]] France |
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*[[File:TuckerCarlson.png]] [[Paleoconservatism#Carlsonism|Tucker Carlson]] (1969-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:WagnerGroup.png]] [[National Capitalism|Dmitry Utkin]] (1970-2023) [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia |
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*[[File:AlexJ.png]] [[Right-Wing Populism|Alex Jones]] (1974-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:Grayzone.png]] [[Fourth Theory|Max]] [[Mediacracy|Blumenthal]] (1977-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:RT.png]] [[Mediacracy|Eva Bartlett]] (1977-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA/[[File:Cball-Canada.png]] Canada |
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*[[File:Altr.png]] [[Alt-Right|Michael Peinovich]] (1977-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:Spencer.png]] [[Contrarianism|Richard Spencer]] (1978-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA (Formerly) |
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*[[File:PatAlt.png]] [[British Fascism|Mark Collett]] (1980-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK |
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*[[File:Gabbard.png]] [[Paternalistic Conservatism|Tulsi Gabbard]] (1981-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:Berletic.png]] [[Fourth Theory|Brian Berletic]] (1982-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA/[[File:Thailand.png]] Thailand |
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*[[File:Watson.png]] [[Alt-Lite|Paul Joseph Watson]] (1982-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK |
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*[[File:DiegoFusaro.png]] [[Conservative Socialism|Diego Fusaro]] (1983-)[[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy |
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*[[File:KimFatty.png]] [[Juche|Kim Jong-un]] (1984-) [[File:Cball-North Korea.png]] North Korea |
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*[[File:RT.png]] [[Dengism|Abby Martin]] (1984-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:HouseOfSaud.png]] [[Monarcho-Capitalism|Mohammed bin Salman]] (1985-) [[File:Cball-Saudi.png]] Saudi Arabia<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/syria-assad-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-arab-summit-rcna85324 Syria’s Assad receives warm welcome at Arab summit after years of isolation]</ref> |
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*[[File:Susli.png]] [[Saadehism|Maram Susli]] (1987-) [[File:Cball-Syria.png]] Syria/[[File:Cball-Australia.png]] Australia |
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*[[File:CPIMaupin.png]] [[Welfare Chauvinism|Caleb Maupin]] (1988-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:TWP.png]] [[National Bolshevism|Matthew Heimbach]] (1991-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:SamKhan.png]] [[Fourth Theory|Sameera Khan]] (1991-) [[File:Cball-Pakistan.png]] Pakistan/[[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:Fuente.png]] [[Paleoconservatism|Nick Fuentes]] (1998-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:GloboJuche.png]] [[Juche|Marco Escarotico]] (1999-) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy |
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*[[File:Kremlintarian.png]] [[Paleolibertarianism|Ryan]] [[Indigenism|Dawson]] (?-) [[File:Cball-US.png]][[File:Cball-Japan.png]] US/Japan |
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*[[File:Grayzone.png]] [[Mediacracy|Aaron Maté]] (?-) [[File:Cball-Canada.png]] Canada |
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*[[File:Khom.png]] [[Khomeinism|Sarah Abdallah]] (?-) [[File:Cball-Lebanon.png]] Lebanon/[[File:Cball-Canada.png]] Canada |
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*[[File:ComradeTrump.png]] [[Conservative Socialism|Jackson Hinkle]] (?-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|Jayanth Tharappel]] (?-) [[File:Cball-India.png]] India/[[File:Cball-Australia.png]] Australia |
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*[[File:Orth.png]] [[Orthodox Theocracy|Jay Dyer]] (?-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:AltNazBol.png]] [[Alt-Right|Joseph "Eric Striker" Jordan]] (?-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA |
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*[[File:EcoStrass.png]] [[Alt-Right|Keith Woods]] (?-) [[File:Cball-Ireland.png]] Ireland}} |
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[[File:Cball-Iraq.png]] [[Ethnocracy|Ba'athist]] [[Totalitarianism|Iraq]] (1968-2003)<br> |
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[[File:Cball-Syria.png]] [[Kleptocracy|Syrian]] [[Autocracy|Arab]] [[State Capitalism|Republic]] (1963-) |
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Chemical Weapons<br> |
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[[File:Putin.png]] [[Authoritarian Conservatism|Vladimir Putin]]<br> |
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[[File:RonPaul.png]][[File:Altr.png]] Anti-War Right [[File:SteveBannon.png]][[File:Berletic.png]]<br> |
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[[File:Tankie.png]] [[File: USA PSL.png]] Western Tankies [[File:Grayzone.png]][[File:George.png]]<br> |
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Wikileaks<br> |
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<s>Assad Curse</s><br> |
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Oil as long as he owns it<br><s> |
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entrance hidden by bricks and rubble</s> |
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Communism at home<br>Porn/hentai <br> |
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<s>Being mistaken for Palestine</s> <br> [[File:Coomer.png]] {{PCBA|Coomerism| |
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Coomers}}<br>All forms of democracy (Until the Damascus Spring)<br>[[File:Baath.png]] Other Baathists<br>Non-arab minorities (Especially the Iraqi side)<br> Political dissidents<br>Anime <br>[[File:Zio.png]] [[Zionism|Israel]] <br>[[File:Cball-Saudi.png]] [[File:Cball-Qatar.png]][[File:Cball-UAE.png]] [[File:Cball-Kuwait.png]] [[Monarcho-Capitalism|Gulf Monarchies]] (Formerly)<br>[[File:MuslimBrotherhood.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|Muslim Brotherhood]]<br>Iraqi incubator conspiracy<br>Being accused of having WMD <br>[[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|"Moderate" Rebels]] and [[Jihadism|Terrorists]] [[File:Cball-Isis.png]]<br> [[File:Necon.png]] [[File:CIA.png]][[File:MI6.png]][[File:HenryKissinger.png]][[File:Thatcher.png]][[File:GHWB.png]][[File:GWB.png]][[File:Cheney.png]][[File:Neconfem.png]][[File:Libhawk.png]][[File:McCain.png]][[File:Clinton.png]][[File:Hillary.png]][[File:New Labourism.png]][[File:Brownism.png]][[File:LiberalParty.png]][[File:SLD.png]][[File:LDP(Japan).png]][[File:Berlusconi.png]][[File:Bibi.png]][[File:McConnell.png]][[File:Bolton.png]] [[Neoconservatism|Neocons]] and [[Third Way|Liberal Hawks]] [[File:Obamium.png]][[File:Bidenism.png]][[File:Romney.png]][[File:Kuchma.png]][[File:Havel.png]][[File:Saakashvili.png]][[File:KDP-icon.png]][[File:PUK-icon.png]][[File:IslamicDawa.png]][[File:Hitchens.png]][[File:AndersFoghRasmussen.png]][[File:Stoltenberg.png]][[File:Mesocon.png]][[File:Thaksin.png]][[File:CanadaConservative.png]][[File:ModPartyicon.png]][[File:BoJo.png]][[File:Cameronism.png]][[File:OneNatFem.png]][[File:NeoThatcherite.png]][[File:PS.png]][[File:Sarkozy.png]][[File:Macron.png]][[File:TrudeauLib.png]][[File:Shapirocube.png]][[File:LiuXiaobo.png]][[File:NewRight(Israel).png]][[File:Duda.png]][[File:Zelensky.png]][[File:SwedenKD.png]]<br> |
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'''Ba'athism''', also known as '''Saddamism''' or '''Assadism''' (depending if it's Iraq or Syria respectively), is an Authoritarian unity, Arab Nationalist, culturally variable, and an [[File:Antizion.png]] anti-zionist ideology. In the political compass, Ba'athism is close to the Authoritarian center, towards the left. Ba'athists believe in a unified Arab state led by a secular government under a vanguard party with a state capitalist economy. Ba'athism is very anti-pornography, hates Wahhabists and theocracies, and despises (western) imperialism. Ba'athism in Iraq ('''Saddamism''') tends to be more Right-Wing, While Ba'athism in Syria ('''Neo-Ba'athism''') tends to be more Left-Wing. |
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The origins of Ba'athism began with Zaki al-Arsuzi and Michel Aflaq. While Aflaq, Bitar and Arsuzi were never members of the same organization, they are considered the founders of Baathism. Arsuzi formed the Arab Baath Party in 1940 and his views influenced Aflaq, who alongside junior partner Salah al-Din al-Bitar founded the Arab Ihya Movement in 1940 that later renamed itself the Arab Baath Movement in 1943. Though Aflaq was influenced by him, Arsuzi did not cooperate with Aflaq's movement. Arsuzi suspected that the existence of the Arab Ihya Movement, which occasionally titled itself "Arab Baath", was part of an imperialist plot to prevent his influence over the Arabs by creating a movement of the same name. When Arsuzi left the League of Nationalist Action (LNA) party in 1939 after its leader died and the party had fallen into disarray, he founded the short-lived Arab National Party in 1939 and dissolved it later that year. On 29 November 1940, Arsuzi founded the Arab Baath. |
The origins of Ba'athism began with Zaki al-Arsuzi and Michel Aflaq. While Aflaq, Bitar and Arsuzi were never members of the same organization, they are considered the founders of Baathism. Arsuzi formed the Arab Baath Party in 1940 and his views influenced Aflaq, who alongside junior partner Salah al-Din al-Bitar founded the Arab Ihya Movement in 1940 that later renamed itself the Arab Baath Movement in 1943. Though Aflaq was influenced by him, Arsuzi did not cooperate with Aflaq's movement. Arsuzi suspected that the existence of the Arab Ihya Movement, which occasionally titled itself "Arab Baath", was part of an imperialist plot to prevent his influence over the Arabs by creating a movement of the same name. When Arsuzi left the League of Nationalist Action (LNA) party in 1939 after its leader died and the party had fallen into disarray, he founded the short-lived Arab National Party in 1939 and dissolved it later that year. On 29 November 1940, Arsuzi founded the Arab Baath. |
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A significant conflict and turning point in the development of Baathism occurred when Arsuzi's and Aflaq's movements sparred after the 1941 coup d'etat by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani and the Anglo-Iraqi War. Aflaq's movement supported al-Gaylani's government and the Iraqi government's war against the British and organized volunteers to go to Iraq and fight for the Iraqi government. However, Arsuzi opposed al-Gaylani's government, considering the coup to be poorly |
A significant conflict and turning point in the development of Baathism occurred when Arsuzi's and Aflaq's movements sparred after the 1941 coup d'etat by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani and the Anglo-Iraqi War. Aflaq's movement supported al-Gaylani's government and the Iraqi government's war against the British and organized volunteers to go to Iraq and fight for the Iraqi government. However, Arsuzi opposed al-Gaylani's government, considering the coup to be poorly planned and a failure. At this point, Arsuzi's party lost members and support that transferred to Aflaq's movement. Subsequently, Arsuzi's direct influence in Arab politics collapsed after Vichy French authorities expelled him from Syria. The Arab Baath Movement's next major political action was its support of Lebanon's war of independence from France in 1943. The Arab Baath Movement did not solidify for years until it held its first party congress in 1947 when it merged with the Arab Socialist Party led by Akram al-Hawrani to establish the Arab Socialist Baath Party. |
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'''Assadism''', a Syrian form of Ba'athism, came to power in Syria in 1963 when the Ba'ath Party was established as the ruling party in Syria. The Ba'ath Party stayed a unified group in Syria and its neighbors until 1966 when it splittered into the Syrian and Iraqi dominated factions. Syrian Ba'athist Party member Bashar Hafez al-Assad became the the 19th president of Syria in 2000 and had eventually led to him being discredited by many as being an authoritarian dictatorship. This led to major protests by Syrian civilains which eventually spiraled into a rebellion by 2011, largely coordinated by the self-acclaimed 'Syrian Opposition', leading into a full on civil war when the opposition splinttered along the lines of [[File:Islamic Democracy.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|Islamic Democrats]], [[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy|Sunni fundementalists]], [[File:Nalib.png]] [[National Liberalism|National Liberals]] and sometimes, even [[File:Jihad.png]] [[Jihadism|Jihadists]]. As time passed, within the northern region of the nation, many of the Kurdish minority, having felt neglected and ignored by the Syrian government, unified under the ideology and [[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism]] and later also got involved in the war under the administration of the "autonomous region" of [[File:Rojava.png]] Rojava. The [[File:Cball-Isis.png]][[Jihadism|Islamic State]] got involved in 2013 but lost most of its territory by 2017. The [[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|Free]] [[National Liberalism|Syrian]] [[Islamic Theocracy|Army]] also came into existense as a loose collection of militant factions within the [[File:Islamic Democracy.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|Islamic Democrats]] without any singular unifying ideology, however were all unified by the desire to overthrow the Syrian Ba'athists and Assad. Eventually, overtime, the large-support of the opposition eventually began to die out within the population, which has led to a large amount of rebel-owned territory being lost, with many rebel factions that are currently still active in the civil-war either being allied or ideologically aligned with hard-core [[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy|Islamist fundementalists]], [[File:Jihad.png]] [[Jihadism|Jihadists]], [[File:Ottoman.png]] [[Neo-Ottomanism|Pro-Turkish Insurgents]], or having integrated themselves within the administration of [[File:Rojava.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism|Rojava]] and the SDF, with those who did the ladder tended to follow more liberal-leaning ideologies, with many factions following ideologies such as moderate Syrian Patriotism, secularism, [[File:Dem.png]] [[Democracy]], anti-racism, or even alligning with the ideology of [[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism]], with certain rebel factions including but not limiting, the [[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Nationalism|The Army of Revolutionaries]], |
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[[File:Cball-IraqiKurdistan.png]] [[Democracy|The Kurdish Front]], |
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[[File:PanTurk.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism#Pan-Turkism|The Seljuk Brigade]], |
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[[File:Hussein.png]] Saddam Hussein at the age of 20 joined the revolutionary pan-Arab [[File:Baath.png]] Ba'ath Party in [[File:Cball-Iraq.png]] Iraq, after dropping out of law school. In 1958, a year after Saddam had joined the Ba'ath party, army officers led by General [[File:Abd_al-Karim.png]] Abd al-Karim Qasim overthrew [[File:Moncap.png]] Faisal II of Iraq in the 14 July Revolution. The Ba'ath Party was originally represented in Qasim's cabinet. The party turned against him for his refusal to join [[File:Nasser2.png]] Gamal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic (UAR). Qasim created an alliance with the [[File:ML.png]] Iraqi Communist Party, which was opposed to any notion of pan-Arabism. |
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After participating in a failed assassination plot to kill Qasim, Saddam moved to [[File:Cball-Egypt.png]] Egypt. On 8 February 1963, while Saddam still was in Egypt, army officers with ties to the Ba'ath Party under the leadership of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr overthrew Qasim, marking the start of the Ramadan Revolution; A 9-month reign of terror to purge Iraq of communists, with the financial and tactical support of [[File:CIA.png]] CIA. |
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[[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Democracy|Idlib Revolutionaries Brigade]], |
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The Ba'athist regime came to a temporary end later that year in the November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état by the non-Ba’athist faction in the Iraqi government. Saddam was arrested in October 1964 and served approximately two years in prison before escaping in 1966. The same year Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr appointed him Deputy Secretary of the Regional Command. In September 1966, Saddam proved to be an extraordinary challenge to Syrian domination of the Ba'ath Party, resulting in the Party's formalized split into two separate factions. |
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[[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Democracy|Euphrates Jarabulus Battalions]] to name a few most well known SDF-FSA groups. Assyrian SDF allied groups such as the Syriac Union Party hold their own ideology of [[File:dawronoyeicon.png]] [[Dawronoye]] which takes great influence from Democratic Confederalism while promoting Nationalism and autonomy for indigenous Assyrians, as well as being affiliated with certain moderate opposition groups such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coordination_Committee_for_Democratic_Change National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change].<br> |
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In July 1968, Saddam participated in a bloodless coup led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr in the 17 July Revolution that saw the Ba’athists regain control of Iraq. Saddam proceeded to carry out purges of Nasserists, communists, and others that didn’t adhere to Ba'athist ideals. |
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During the history of Assad and his rule, he has been criticized during his leadership for being ruthless in his efforts to defeat the opposition. For example, he has been widely regarded for being responsible for numerous war crimes during the civil conflict, such as with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack Ghouta chemical attacks] in 2013, where bombs and sarin gas was used indiscriminately in civilian populations, as well as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun_chemical_attack Khan Shaykhun chemical attack] in 2017 where similar methods of bombing, airstrikes, and sarin gas were used leading to numerous civilian casualties. |
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The Ba’athist regime inherited an Iraq long plagued by divisions and tensions along social, ethnic, religious, and economic fault lines: Sunni versus [[File:Shia.png]] Shi'ite, Arab versus Kurd, tribal chief versus urban merchant, nomad versus peasant. The desire for stability led Saddam to pursue both massive repression of dissent and the improvement of living standards through extensive [[File:Socauth.png]] welfare [[File:Welf.png]] programs and large-scale infrastructure projects. |
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In 1972, Saddam oversaw the seizure of international oil interests, which, at the time, dominated the country's oil sector. A year later, world oil prices rose dramatically as a result of the 1973 energy crisis, and skyrocketing revenues enabled Saddam to further gain support from the masses through economic improvement. |
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While Saddam was a staunch [[File:Anticommunism.png]] anti-communist himself, he maintained and deepened Iraq’s already close ties to [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] the Soviet Union [[File:Brezhnev.png]]. This greatly infuriated the US which feared loss of control of the Middle East and began to covertly finance [[File:Cball-IraqiKurdistan.png]] Kurdish rebels led by [[File:KDP-icon.png]] Mustafa Barzani with the help of [[File:Pahlavi.png]] Pahlavi Iran during the Second Iraqi–Kurdish War to overthrow Saddam’s regime. The Kurds were defeated in 1975 at the hands of the Iraqi government, leading to the forcible relocation of hundreds of thousands of Kurdish civilians. |
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In 1976, Saddam rose to the position of general in the Iraqi armed forces and in 1979 became the President of Iraq. Only 6 days after his accession to the presidency, Saddam initiated another large-scale purge, mass arrests, and public executions of hundreds of Ba’ath party officials he perceived to be a threat to his rule. The trials and executions were televised for everyone in the country to prevent anyone else from getting any ideas to challenge Saddam’s [[File:Totalitarian.png]] monopoly of power. |
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====[[File:Cball-Iran.png]] Iran-Iraq War [[File:Cball-Iraq.png]]==== |
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Following the 1979 [[File:Khom.png]] Islamic Revolution in [[File:Cball-Iran.png]] Iran, which overthrew Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iran-Iraq relations dropped to a new low as the new Iranian regime’s [[File:Shia.png]] Shia Theocracy stood in contrast to Saddam’s Sunni dominated Ba’athist dictatorship that suppressed Shia clerics. There were frequent clashes along the Iran–Iraq border throughout 1980, with Iraq publicly complaining of at least 544 incidents and Iran citing at least 797 violations of its border and airspace. |
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini openly called on Iraqis to overthrow the Ba'ath government with the intent of spreading the Islamic Revolution throughout the Middle East. Iran supported a government in exile for Iraq, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, and recruited POWs, Shias, Kurds, and other dissidents that had been oppressed under Saddam’s regime. |
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Iraq launched a full-scale invasion of Iran on 22 September 1980. The Iran-Iraq War quickly became a subject of foreign interest groups and the world’s leading nations who sought to ensure that neither Iran nor Iraq would get the upper hand in the war. Iraq's three main suppliers of weaponry during the war were [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] the Soviet Union, [[File:Cball-China.png]] China [[File:DengXiaoping.png]] and [[File:Cball-France.png]] France [[File:Gaullismicon2.png]] in addition to [[File:Cball-US.png]] the US [[File:Reagan.png]] [[File:CIA.png]], [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK [[File:Thatcher.png]] [[File:MI6.png]], [[File:Cball-Portugal.png]] Portugal, [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] West Germany, [[File:Cball-Saudi.png]] Saudi Arabia [[File:HouseOfSaud.png]], [[File:Cball-UAE.png]] [[File:Cball-Kuwait.png]] the Gulf States and many other countries. Many of the aftermentioned countries supplied Iran with weapons at the same time. |
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Saddam would spend much effort near the end of the war in 1988 with clearing out Kurdish resistance. The Ba’athist regime initiated the Anfal campaign a genocide of Iraqi Kurds using chemical weapons that would result in between 50,000 and 100,000 deaths. |
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The Iran–Iraq War was the deadliest conventional war ever fought between regular armies of developing countries with a total of over a million casualties on both sides. The war also led to the massive destruction of critical infrastructure and severe economic loss for both sides with Saddam’s regime losing almost all legitimacy and support from the Iraqi people it had gained during the past decade of economic prosperity. |
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====[[File:Cball-UN.png]] [[File:GHWB.png]][[File:Clinton.png]][[File:Cball-Saudi.png]] [[File:Cball-Kuwait.png]] 1990s [[File:Hussein.png]]==== |
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As the Iran-Iraq War had come to end in 1988, Saddam’s Iraq founds itself ridden with debt, much of it was owed to Kuwait which refused to forgive the debt at Saddam’s request. Kuwait of exceeding its OPEC quotas for oil production which kept oil revenues down for Iraq. In early 1990, Iraq accused Kuwait of stealing Iraqi petroleum through cross-border slant drilling. |
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Unable to come to an agreement that would suit both parties, Saddam began to prepare Iraq for an invasion of its southern neighbor. The invasion started on 2 August 1990, marking the start of the 2nd Gulf War and within two days, most of the Kuwaiti military either being overrun or forced to flee to neighboring countries. Immediately following the invasion, Iraq set up a puppet government known as the "Republic of Kuwait" to rule over Kuwait, eventually annexing it outright, when Saddam Hussein announced a few days later that it was the 19th province of Iraq which he partly justified by irredentist reasons. Iraqi forces proceeded to crack down mercilessly on Kuwaiti resistance to the occupation through the arrest and executions of thousands of suspects. |
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The Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait were unanimously condemned by all major world powers. On 3 August 1990, [[File:Cball-UN.png]] the UN Security Council passed Resolution 660 condemning the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and demanding that Iraq unconditionally withdraw all forces deployed in Kuwait. |
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To manufacture public consent for war with Iraq the US government under President [[File:GHWB.png]] George H.W. Bush used the public testimony of a 15-year-old teenage girl, Nayirah (A secret member of Kuwait’s ruling al Sabah family) who testified in front the US Congress that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, take the incubators, and leave the babies to die. |
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At the start of the following year US along with a coalition of many other countries including but not limited to [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK [[File:JohnMajor.png]], [[File:Cball-France.png]] France [[File:Cball-Egypt.png]] Egypt [[File:NDP(Egypt).png]], [[File:Cball-Saudi.png]] Saudi Arabia [[File:HouseOfSaud.png]], and [[File:Cball-Syria.png]] Syria [[File:Hafez al-Assad.png]] etc. launched a massive military assault on Iraq and Iraqi forces stationed in Kuwait. As the Coalition quickly gained the upper hand the Iraqi military set fire to 700 oil wells as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991. On 25 February, Kuwait was officially liberated from Iraq. |
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The [[File:Clintonism.png]] Clinton Administration (1993-2001) that took office after Bush II Administration became committed to a policy of regime change to remove Saddam from power through the use of UN-enforced sanctions, and covert support for Shia and Kurdish dissident groups and during 7 years after the liberation of Kuwait, President [[File:Clinton.png]] Bill Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998. |
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===[[File:Cball-Syria.png]] Syria=== |
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====[[File:SalahJadid.png]] Salah Jadid==== |
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====[[File:Hafez al-Assad.png]] Hafez al-Assad==== |
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Hafez al-Assad (1930-2000) was a Syrian statesman and military officer who served as President of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. Hafez participated in the [[File:Cball-Syrian Republic.png]] [[W:1963 Syrian coup d'état|1963 Syrian coup d'état]] [[File:Cball-Syria.png]] which brought the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party to power. After serving as defense minister for a few years he initiated another coup that ousted the de facto leader [[File:SalahJadid.png]] Salah Jadid and appointed himself as leader of Syria. Hafez imposed change on the Ba'ath government when he took power, by imposing [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism|capitalism and limited liberalization of the economy]], thus moving the Syrian Ba'ath Party away from it's [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism|socialist]] roots. |
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As President, Hafez organized state services along sectarian lines the Sunnis became the heads of political institutions, while the Alawites took control of the military, intelligence, and security apparatuses. Even though Hafez sided with the [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|Soviet Union]] in the [[W:Cold War|Cold War]] against [[File:Zio.png]] [[Zionism|Israel]], he prosecuted and repressed leftists such as supporters of [[File:SalahJadid.png]] Salah Jadid, at home. Hafez's policies indirectly led to the establishment of a "new elite" as state officials used their positions for personal gain resulting in spikes of corruption. |
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From the 1970s to the early 1980s the [[File:AlawiteDynasty.png]] Alawite Dynasty found its power and grip over Syria challenged by a series of revolts and armed insurgencies of Sunni Islamists, mainly members of the [[File:MuslimBrotherhood.png]] Muslim Brotherhood which aimed to overthrow the secular Ba'athist dictatorship. The Islamist uprising reached its climax in the 1982 Hama uprising and massacre, which resulted in tens of thousands casualties and was used by Hafez to eliminate dissent turning Syria into a totalitarian dictatorship |
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====[[File:Bashar al-Assad.png]] '''Bashar al-Assad'''==== |
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Following the death of [[File:Hafez al-Assad.png]] Hafez al-Assad in 2000 and the succession of his son, Bashar to the presidency, political repression diminished significantly in what was known as Damascus Spring. Bashar attempted to improve relations with the west through market liberal reforms such as the privatization of education, healthcare, the banking sector, and the media. However, corruption only increased, and the Syrian opposition began to organize foreign powers came to decide that Assad had to go. |
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=====Syrian Civil War===== |
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Due to a combination of Bashar's domestic policies and the agenda of foreign powers like the [[File:Cball-US.png]] US, [[File:Cball-Turkey.png]] Turkey, and [[File:Cball-Saudi.png]] [[File:Cball-Kuwait.png]] [[File:Cball-Qatar.png]] [[File:Cball-UAE.png]] The Gulf States, opposition to the Assad dictatorship began to mount leading to a full-on civil war when the Syrian opposition splintered along the lines of [[File:Islamic Democracy.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|Islamic Democrats]], [[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy|Sunni fundementalists]], [[File:Nalib.png]] [[National Liberalism|National Liberals]] and sometimes, even [[File:Jihad.png]] [[Jihadism|Jihadists]]. As time passed, within the northern region of the nation, many of the Kurdish minority, having felt neglected and ignored by the Syrian government, unified under the ideology and [[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism]] and later also got involved in the war under the administration of the "autonomous region" of [[File:Rojava.png]] Rojava. The [[File:Cball-Isis.png]][[Jihadism|Islamic State]] got involved in 2013 but lost most of its territory by 2017. The [[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|Free]] [[National Liberalism|Syrian]] [[Islamic Theocracy|Army]] also came into existence as a loose collection of militant factions within the [[File:Islamic Democracy.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|Islamic Democrats]] without any singular unifying ideology, however, were all unified by the desire to overthrow the Syrian Ba'athists and Assad. Eventually, over time, the large-support of the opposition eventually began to die out within the population, which has led to a large amount of rebel-owned territory being lost, with many rebel factions that are currently still active in the civil war either being allied or ideologically aligned with hard-core [[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy|Islamist fundementalists]], [[File:Jihad.png]] [[Jihadism|Jihadists]], [[File:Ottoman.png]] [[Neo-Ottomanism|Pro-Turkish Insurgents]], or having integrated themselves within the administration of [[File:Rojava.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism|Rojava]] and the SDF, with those who did the ladder tended to follow more liberal-leaning ideologies, with many factions following ideologies such as moderate Syrian Patriotism, secularism, [[File:Dem.png]] [[Democracy]], anti-racism, or even aligning with the ideology of [[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism]], with certain rebel factions including but not limited to: |
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*[[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Nationalism|The Army of Revolutionaries]] |
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*[[File:Cball-IraqiKurdistan.png]] [[Democracy|The Kurdish Front]] |
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*[[File:PanTurk.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism#Pan-Turkism|The Seljuk Brigade]] |
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*[[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism|Northern Democratic Brigade]] |
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*[[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Federalism|Northern Sun Battalion]] |
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*[[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Democracy|Idlib Revolutionaries Brigade]] |
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*[[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Democracy|Jaysh al-Salam]] |
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*[[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Democracy|Euphrates Jarabulus Battalions]] |
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to name a few most well-known SDF-FSA groups. Assyrian SDF allied groups such as the ''Syriac Union Party'' hold their own ideology of [[File:Dawronoyeicon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism#Dawronoye|Dawronoye]] which takes great influence from [[Democratic Confederalism]], while promoting nationalism and autonomy for indigenous Assyrians, as well as being affiliated with certain moderate opposition groups such as the [[w:National_Coordination_Committee_for_Democratic_Change|National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change]]. |
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During the history of Assad and his rule, he has been criticized during his leadership for being ruthless in his efforts to hold onto power and suppress opposition. For example, he has been widely regarded for being responsible for numerous war crimes during the civil conflict, such as with the [[w:Ghouta_chemical_attack|Ghouta chemical attacks]] in 2013, where bombs and sarin gas were used indiscriminately in civilian populations, as well as the [[w:Khan_Shaykhun_chemical_attack|Khan Shaykhun chemical attack]] in 2017 where similar methods of bombing, airstrikes, and sarin gas were used leading to numerous civilian casualties. |
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For more information on war crimes done by the Syrian Opposition, see [[Islamic Democracy]]... |
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==Beliefs== |
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=== [[File:Cball-Iraq.png]] Iraq [[File:Hussein.png]] === |
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The Arab nation is a united Arab state that would transform the Arab world politically, economically, intellectually and morally. Liberty is freedom and would be ensured by a Baath party which was not elected by the populace because the party had the common good at heart. Ba'athism likes socialism because they think it would be necessary for the Arabs to achieve an Arab state. Islam would be admired by all but not imposed on the state and society. |
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[[File:Hussein.png]] '''Saddamism''', an Iraqi form of Ba'athism, came to power in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was established as a dictator in 1968 by the Iraqi-dominated faction of the Ba'athist party due to the 17 July Revolution. Saddam also entered a war against [[File:Cball-Iran.png]] [[Shia Theocracy|Iran]] during the Iran-Iraq War, but almost lost until Saudi aid came. Saddam then made peace with Iran. In 1990, Saddamist Iraq invades and annexes Kuwait after a 2-day campaign. This is met with distaste from the international community which led to an invasion in 1991. Iraq eventually loses the war but Saddam Hussein retains power, but the country is stripped of a lot of its resources. After feeling betrayed by Arab nations from the war, Saddam started to shift away from Arab nationalism to implementing more Islamic laws in Iraq (which would later be called the "Faith Campaign"). Iraq was invaded by a [[File:Cball-US.png]] US-led international coalition in 2003, who took down the Saddamist regime, disbanded the Iraqi Republican Guard, and attempted to establish a republic. This republic would fail and lead to years of violence all the way to 2017 in the Iraq War that including [[File:Khom.png]] [[Khomeinism|Khomeinists]], [[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism|Democratic Confederalists]], [[File:Jihad.png]] [[Jihadism|Jihadists]], and (after 2013) the [[File:Cball-Isis.png]] [[Jihadism|Islamic State]]. Several Saddamists and Ba'athists would attempt to regain power in Iraq during the Iraq War until 2006 when Saddam Hussein was executed by the US government, ending the Ba'athist age. |
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==Personality and Behavior== |
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Today, pro-Saddam Ba'athist parties still remain, although unpopular with limited influence in Iraqi politics. |
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Ba'athism's personality has two variants that represent two branches of this ideology. |
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His Syrian branch is very anti-pornography. Whenever someone goes to watch porn he pops out of nowhere and says stuff like "YOU HAVE BEEN ASSADED!!!". Anyone who says that he must go disappears, usually followed by the Syrian variant laughing. |
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== Beliefs == |
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The Arab nation is a united Arab state that would would transform the Arab world politically, economically, intellectually and morally. Liberty is freedom and would be ensured by a Baath party which was not elected by the populace because the party had the common good at heart. Ba'athism likes socialism because they think it would be necessary for the Arabs to achieve an Arab state. Islam would be admired by all but not imposed onto the state and society. |
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His Iraqi branch is very sadistic, mutilating ideologies that disagree with him and sending their pieces in boxes. Hates non-Arabs, especially Jews and Kurds. If neocon shows up to take him out, he hides under bricks and rubble. |
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== Personality and Behavior == |
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Ba'athism is very anti-pornography. Whenever someone goes to watch porn he pops out of nowhere and says stuff like "YOU HAVE BEEN ASSADED!!!". He hates Wahhabists and theocracies. He sees them as a threat and often goes on rants on how they are "fake muslims". He despises imperialism and imperialists. He gets very violent whenever he sees one. He hates being called just another ideology based around [[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism]]. "I AM NOT HIM! WE ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT PEOPLE! IT'S A LIE BY [[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]] AGAIN!", he says in a very deep voice. |
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==How to Draw== |
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Ba'athism's design is based on the flag of the Arab Socialist Baʽath Party. |
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#'''(Optional)''' Give the ball a bolt-action rifle, or an AK variant (AK-74, AK-47, et cetera) |
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==Relationships== |
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===Friends=== |
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*[[File:Absoc.png]] [[Arab Socialism]] - My father. I have more radical and extreme views however he taught me a lot and we agree on many stuff. |
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*[[File:Strato.png]] [[Stratocracy]] - Literally me! |
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*[[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism]] - I'm a socialist, but not the [[Marxism|Marxist]] kind. The whole idea of a stateless moneyless society is just insane! I'm fine with nationalized oil and minerals. |
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*[[File:Nazbol.png]] [[National Bolshevism]]- This is the way. Let's destroy capitalist globalists and zionists together. |
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*[[File:Dengf.png]] [[Dengism]] - Fellow Auth-Leftist who supports a state-dominated economy. Has been one of my main arms suppliers since the 1980s. <s>Why did you arm Khomeini too during the Iran-Iraq War?</s> |
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*[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]] - Me! <s>At least on paper, anyway...</s> |
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*[[File:Juche.png]] [[Juche]] - Juche gang! |
*[[File:Juche.png]] [[Juche]] - Juche gang! Hereditary dictatorship is based! <s> Why did you too support Khomeini over me?!</s> |
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*[[File:Nazbol.png]] [[National Bolshevism]] - This is the way. Let's destroy capitalist globalists and Zionists together. |
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*[[File:Chavismo.png]] [[Chavismo]] - My best friend in the west! Stay strong Maduro. |
*[[File:Chavismo.png]] [[Chavismo]] - My best friend in the west! Stay strong Maduro. |
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*[[File:Castro.png]] [[Castroism]] - My second best friend in the west! |
*[[File:Castro.png]] [[National Communism|Castroism]] - My second best friend in the west! |
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*[[File:Putin.png]] [[Kleptocracy|Putinism]] - Friendly pal. |
*[[File:Putin.png]] [[Kleptocracy|Putinism]] - Friendly pal. Both my Syrian and Iraqi sides strongly support you. I have to say, thank you very much for saving Assad from [[File:Jihad.png]] [[Jihadism|Jihadis]] and [[Neoconservatism|Neocon terrorists]]. |
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*[[File:AnEn.png]] [[Climate Skepticism]] - Yes, I had to burn Kuwaiti oil and destroy the marshes, but such is the cost of uniting the Arab World. |
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*[[File:Totalitarian.png]] [[Totalitarianism]] - Applies to Saddam's dictatorship and to a certain extent Hafez's regime during the 1980s following the Hama Uprising but Bashar has been forced to soften up. |
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*[[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism]] - Wait... Why is this put in allies? No no no, we are <big>''TOTALLY''</big> DIFFERENT! That is just a lie spread by [[File:Necon.png]]! F*ck them either way. <s>''<small>Proceeds to gas and bomb civilians.</small>''</s> |
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* [[File:Nazcap-Hat.png]] [[National Capitalism]] - Hafez found good use of Austrian Nazi-fugitive Alois Brunner who help him with torture and interrogation techniques, and the Wagner Group came to Bashar's rescue when he needed it during the Syrian Civil War. |
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*[[File:Bundis.png]] [[Bundism]] - Finally, a good jewish ideology! |
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*[[File:Plcn2.png]] [[Paleoconservatism]], [[File:Altl.png]] [[Alt-Lite]], [[File:Whitesup.png]] [[White Nationalism]], [[File:Libcon.png]] [[Libertarian Conservatism]], and [[File:Altr.png]] [[Alt-Right]] - Based anti-interventionist right. Ron Paul, Steve Bannon, and David Duke, among others of your followers, constantly defend me from accusations made by neocucks, and also stand up against the globalist elite. |
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*[[File:Tito.png]] [[Titoism]] - I stood by your grave at your funeral longer than the others for a reason.Rest in Peace, Tito! |
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*[[File:Gaullismicon2.png]] [[Gaullism]] - Jaques Chirac was a good friend to both Saddam and Assad. |
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=== Frenemies === |
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*[[File:Absoc.png]] [[Arab Socialism]] - My father. I have more radical and extreme views however he taught me a lot and we agree on many stuff. But why did you imperialize Syria? That's not what true pan-Arabists do. |
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*[[File:Tito.png]] [[Titoism]] - I stood by your grave at your funeral longer than the others for a reason. Rest in Peace, Tito! Hope you won't mind that some of my Syrian variant likes a theocracy. |
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*[[File:Gaddafi.png]] [[Gaddafism]] - Operated a lot like me. RIP legend. <s>Why did you persecute Ba'athists during the cultural revolution in Libya?</s> |
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*[[File:Authcap.png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism]] - My Iraqi side was aided by Anraat and my [[w:Economy of Syria|Syrian side]] has been warming up to free-market capitalism since the 1990s. Bashar reluctantly embraced the free market in the early 2000s to appease the west. Privatized [[w: List of schools in Syria|education]] and [[w:Health in Syria|healthcare]] and legalized private banks, but the civil war made him revert it. I prefer State Capitalism anyway. |
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*[[File:IllibDem.png]] [[Illiberal Democracy]] - One party is enough but my Syrian side has been forced to accept some form of <s>controlled</s> opposition in recent times to give an impression of democracy. |
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*[[File:Klep.png]] [[Kleptocracy]] - <s>Literally me!</s> You were one of the main causes of the Syrian civil war. |
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*[[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]] - I hate you and you constantly try to undermine me and pit my Iraqi and Syrian sides against each other. However, we have a long history of cooperation such as when you gave the Iraqi Baath Party a kill list for communists in the wake of the Ramadan Revolution or when you gave Saddam weapons to counter Iran. Assad also participated in the CIA torture and rendition program in the early 2000s. Still, none of this is enough to stop you from invading our countries and sponsoring terrorists that support your globalist agenda. |
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*[[File:Antijap.png]] [[Anti-Japaneseism]] - Fellow Anti-Weeb, although I don't have anything wrong with Japanese people, but I do with your ideology. |
*[[File:Antijap.png]] [[Anti-Japaneseism]] - Fellow Anti-Weeb, although I don't have anything wrong with Japanese people, but I do with your ideology. |
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*[[File:Christy.png]] [[Christian Theocracy]] and [[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy]] - Church and mosque united through <s>state control</s> love and faith, right? |
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*[[File:Luxem.png]] [[Luxemburgism]] - A fellow socialist ideology! <s>Why won't you accept me?</s> |
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*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism]] - Hey, uh, I'm not too keen on the whole Communism stuff, but as an ally, you rock! You also gave me plenty of support. Together we will fight Western imperialists and Jihadists! However, my Iraqi variant banned the communist party and prosecuted its members in Iraq, I hope you won’t mind it. |
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*[[File:Christy.png]] [[Christian Theocracy]] - You might not be muslim but you're better than the zionists. |
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*[[File:Khom.png]] [[Khomeinism]] - My Iraqi side wants to kill you, but my Syrian side loves you. At least we both hate [[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]]. But c'mon man, tone it down with your revolutionary exportation, hence why Saddam hated you. Maybe at some rate in the future, we could become stronger allies since you've saved Assad from the so-called "rebels". |
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*[[File:JewTheo.png]] [[Jewish Theocracy]] - FOR THE LAST TIME, I'M NOT [[File:Nazi.png]] NAZI, I DON'T HATE JEWS, I HATE ZIONISTS! |
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*[[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy]] - Just because I respect his [[File: Christy.png]] right to exist doesn't mean I'm an infidel! |
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*[[File:Khom.png]] [[Khomeinism]] - My Iraqi side wants to kill you, but my Syrian side loves you. At least we both hate [[File: Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]]. |
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*[[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism]] - A useful ally, but we have radically different goals. At least we both hate Israel. |
*[[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism]] - A useful ally, but we have radically different goals. At least we both hate Israel. |
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*[[File:Strasser.png]] [[Strasserism]] - Same as above |
*[[File:Strasser.png]] [[Strasserism]] - Same as above. |
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*[[File:Socliber.png]] [[Social Libertarianism]] - At least you oppose military intervention against me as well. Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are based as they exposed US war crimes in Iraq and Syria. Just quit being a Lolbertarian. |
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*[[File:Libcon.png]] [[Libertarian Conservatism]] - We're ideologically very different. However, Ron Paul thinks Assad must stay, so you're based. |
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*[[File:Prog-u.png]] [[Progressivism]] - Why do your western followers hate me and support Rojava? I am secular, republican, anti-Zionist, and pro-feminist, with Bashar even being pro-drug. Just why can't we be friends? |
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*[[File:UKUKIP.png]] [[National Liberalism|Faragism]] - Similar to above, you're generally non-interventionist, so that means you don't really want me toppled either. I'll let you pass. |
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**{{Alias|Prog-u.png|File:Prog-u.png|Because you are an ethnocentric war criminal, while Rojava cares about minorities.}} |
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*[[File:Altr.png]] [[Alt-Right]] - Thanks for your support. But get off the internet, it's degenerating your brain. |
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*[[File:Demcon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism]] - I support you against [[File:Jihad.png]] Daesh and [[File:Ottoman.png]] Turkey BUT YOU ARE A PART OF ME, NO INDEPENDENCE FOR YOU! Help me win this war and I'll think about giving you autonomy. |
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*[[File:IslamCap.png]] [[Monarcho-Capitalism|Islamic Capitalism]] - Greedy Zionist-bootlicking imperialist puppet who is also the reason the Middle East is in conflict! However, MBS and MBZ are kinda based as they opposed western intervention in the Syrian Civil War and encouraged Putin to come to Bashar's rescue from the jihadists. <s>But I will later have you taken over under my system, I did not forget about pan-Arabism after all.</s> |
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*[[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]] - You defeated me in Iraq and now the Middle East is in a terrible condition! Also stop funding ISIS and bombing Syria! Rot in Hell zionist loving criminal. |
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*[[File:Trumpism.png]] [[Right-Wing Populism|Trumpism]] - I had my hopes for you as you used to condemn military interventions but then you proceeded to bomb me! Thanks for cutting off support to the rebels, though. |
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*[[File:Zio.png]] [[Zionism]] - Oppressor of Palestinian Muslim Brothers and the reason why Middle East is in conflict. Can't Mossad the Assad! |
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*[[File:Ecosoc.png]] [[Eco-Socialism]] - Sometimes bitched about my state capitalism (as if I care), and does not like Saddam's bad ecological record (also don't care), but Corbyn hated the Iraq war. |
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*[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]] and [[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] - I jailed Riad al-Turk for 20 years but had to release him during the Damascus spring to give an impression of democracy. However, your western variants agree that both the Iraq war and NATO intervention in Syria are mistakes. |
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*[[File:MuslimBrotherhood.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|Muslim Brotherhood]] - Hama Massacre go brrrrrr... |
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*[[File:Zio.png]] [[Zionism]] - Oppressor of Palestinian Arabs and the reason why the Middle East is in conflict. Can't Mossad the Assad! |
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*[[File:Labzion.png]] [[Labour Zionism]] - We could have been brothers but you had to be Zionist. |
*[[File:Labzion.png]] [[Labour Zionism]] - We could have been brothers but you had to be Zionist. |
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*[[File:Bidenism.png]] [[Big Tent Liberalism|Bidenism]] - Stop bombing me you senile bastard! |
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*[[File:Macron.png]] [[Neoliberalism|Macronism]] - Same as above! |
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*[[File:Jihad.png]] [[Jihadism]] - Leave. We don't need your crimes on our land! |
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*[[File:3way.png]] [[Third Way]] - Who must go? |
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*[[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|Free |
*[[File:Cball-FSA.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|Free Syrian Army]] - WHO MUST GO?! HAHAHAHAHA! |
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*[[File:dawronoyeicon.png]] [[Democratic Confederalism|Dawronoye]] - Why can't you Assyrians stop complaining and supporting those rebel groups? At least DemCon wasn't as pro-rebel. |
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*[[File:Kahan.png]] [[Kahanism]] - "Greater Israel"? Oh no, you don't. |
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*[[File:dawronoyeicon.png]] [[Dawronoye]] - Why can't you Assyrians stop complaining and supporting those rebel groups? At least DemCon wasn't as pro-rebel. |
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*[[File:Kahan.png]] [[Kahanism]] - "Greater Israel"? Oh no you don't. |
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*[[File:Nazi.png]] [[National Socialism]] - For the last time, we don't hate Jews, we hate Zionism! You're no different from [[File:Zio.png]] him! |
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*[[File:Ottoman.png]] [[Neo-Ottomanism]] - NO, YOU F*CK OFF, ERDOĞAN! |
*[[File:Ottoman.png]] [[Neo-Ottomanism]] - NO, YOU F*CK OFF, ERDOĞAN! |
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*[[File:Reform.png]] [[Reformism]] - F*ck you, only the revolutionary vanguard will succeed! |
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*[[File:3way.png]] [[Third Way]] - F*ck you too for the Iraq War, Blair! |
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*[[File:Neobert.png]] [[Neo-Libertarianism]] - Aren't you just [[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]] again but Libertarian? |
*[[File:Neobert.png]] [[Neo-Libertarianism]] - Aren't you just [[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]] again but Libertarian? |
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*[[File:AmericanModel 1.png]] [[American Model]] - I HAVE NO WMDs, I'M TELLING YOU! |
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* [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/One_Common_Trench_or_Two_Opposite_Sides%3F One Common Trench or Two Opposite Sides?] by Saddam Hussein |
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez_al-Assad Hafez al-Assad] |
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah_Jadid Salah Jadid] |
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Latest revision as of 18:59, 13 August 2024
"We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need- for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period."
Ba'athism, also known as Saddamism or Assadism (depending if it's Iraq or Syria respectively), is an Authoritarian unity, Arab Nationalist, culturally variable, and an anti-zionist ideology. In the political compass, Ba'athism is close to the Authoritarian center, towards the left. Ba'athists believe in a unified Arab state led by a secular government under a vanguard party with a state capitalist economy. Ba'athism is very anti-pornography, hates Wahhabists and theocracies, and despises (western) imperialism. Ba'athism in Iraq (Saddamism) tends to be more Right-Wing, While Ba'athism in Syria (Neo-Ba'athism) tends to be more Left-Wing.
History
Creation
The origins of Ba'athism began with Zaki al-Arsuzi and Michel Aflaq. While Aflaq, Bitar and Arsuzi were never members of the same organization, they are considered the founders of Baathism. Arsuzi formed the Arab Baath Party in 1940 and his views influenced Aflaq, who alongside junior partner Salah al-Din al-Bitar founded the Arab Ihya Movement in 1940 that later renamed itself the Arab Baath Movement in 1943. Though Aflaq was influenced by him, Arsuzi did not cooperate with Aflaq's movement. Arsuzi suspected that the existence of the Arab Ihya Movement, which occasionally titled itself "Arab Baath", was part of an imperialist plot to prevent his influence over the Arabs by creating a movement of the same name. When Arsuzi left the League of Nationalist Action (LNA) party in 1939 after its leader died and the party had fallen into disarray, he founded the short-lived Arab National Party in 1939 and dissolved it later that year. On 29 November 1940, Arsuzi founded the Arab Baath.
1940s
A significant conflict and turning point in the development of Baathism occurred when Arsuzi's and Aflaq's movements sparred after the 1941 coup d'etat by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani and the Anglo-Iraqi War. Aflaq's movement supported al-Gaylani's government and the Iraqi government's war against the British and organized volunteers to go to Iraq and fight for the Iraqi government. However, Arsuzi opposed al-Gaylani's government, considering the coup to be poorly planned and a failure. At this point, Arsuzi's party lost members and support that transferred to Aflaq's movement. Subsequently, Arsuzi's direct influence in Arab politics collapsed after Vichy French authorities expelled him from Syria. The Arab Baath Movement's next major political action was its support of Lebanon's war of independence from France in 1943. The Arab Baath Movement did not solidify for years until it held its first party congress in 1947 when it merged with the Arab Socialist Party led by Akram al-Hawrani to establish the Arab Socialist Baath Party.
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Rise of Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein at the age of 20 joined the revolutionary pan-Arab
Ba'ath Party in
Iraq, after dropping out of law school. In 1958, a year after Saddam had joined the Ba'ath party, army officers led by General
Abd al-Karim Qasim overthrew
Faisal II of Iraq in the 14 July Revolution. The Ba'ath Party was originally represented in Qasim's cabinet. The party turned against him for his refusal to join
Gamal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic (UAR). Qasim created an alliance with the
Iraqi Communist Party, which was opposed to any notion of pan-Arabism.
After participating in a failed assassination plot to kill Qasim, Saddam moved to Egypt. On 8 February 1963, while Saddam still was in Egypt, army officers with ties to the Ba'ath Party under the leadership of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr overthrew Qasim, marking the start of the Ramadan Revolution; A 9-month reign of terror to purge Iraq of communists, with the financial and tactical support of
CIA.
The Ba'athist regime came to a temporary end later that year in the November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état by the non-Ba’athist faction in the Iraqi government. Saddam was arrested in October 1964 and served approximately two years in prison before escaping in 1966. The same year Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr appointed him Deputy Secretary of the Regional Command. In September 1966, Saddam proved to be an extraordinary challenge to Syrian domination of the Ba'ath Party, resulting in the Party's formalized split into two separate factions.
In July 1968, Saddam participated in a bloodless coup led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr in the 17 July Revolution that saw the Ba’athists regain control of Iraq. Saddam proceeded to carry out purges of Nasserists, communists, and others that didn’t adhere to Ba'athist ideals.
The Ba’athist regime inherited an Iraq long plagued by divisions and tensions along social, ethnic, religious, and economic fault lines: Sunni versus Shi'ite, Arab versus Kurd, tribal chief versus urban merchant, nomad versus peasant. The desire for stability led Saddam to pursue both massive repression of dissent and the improvement of living standards through extensive
welfare
programs and large-scale infrastructure projects.
In 1972, Saddam oversaw the seizure of international oil interests, which, at the time, dominated the country's oil sector. A year later, world oil prices rose dramatically as a result of the 1973 energy crisis, and skyrocketing revenues enabled Saddam to further gain support from the masses through economic improvement.
While Saddam was a staunch anti-communist himself, he maintained and deepened Iraq’s already close ties to
the Soviet Union
. This greatly infuriated the US which feared loss of control of the Middle East and began to covertly finance
Kurdish rebels led by
Mustafa Barzani with the help of
Pahlavi Iran during the Second Iraqi–Kurdish War to overthrow Saddam’s regime. The Kurds were defeated in 1975 at the hands of the Iraqi government, leading to the forcible relocation of hundreds of thousands of Kurdish civilians.
In 1976, Saddam rose to the position of general in the Iraqi armed forces and in 1979 became the President of Iraq. Only 6 days after his accession to the presidency, Saddam initiated another large-scale purge, mass arrests, and public executions of hundreds of Ba’ath party officials he perceived to be a threat to his rule. The trials and executions were televised for everyone in the country to prevent anyone else from getting any ideas to challenge Saddam’s monopoly of power.
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Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in
Iran, which overthrew Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iran-Iraq relations dropped to a new low as the new Iranian regime’s
Shia Theocracy stood in contrast to Saddam’s Sunni dominated Ba’athist dictatorship that suppressed Shia clerics. There were frequent clashes along the Iran–Iraq border throughout 1980, with Iraq publicly complaining of at least 544 incidents and Iran citing at least 797 violations of its border and airspace.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini openly called on Iraqis to overthrow the Ba'ath government with the intent of spreading the Islamic Revolution throughout the Middle East. Iran supported a government in exile for Iraq, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, and recruited POWs, Shias, Kurds, and other dissidents that had been oppressed under Saddam’s regime.
Iraq launched a full-scale invasion of Iran on 22 September 1980. The Iran-Iraq War quickly became a subject of foreign interest groups and the world’s leading nations who sought to ensure that neither Iran nor Iraq would get the upper hand in the war. Iraq's three main suppliers of weaponry during the war were the Soviet Union,
China
and
France
in addition to
the US
,
UK
,
Portugal,
West Germany,
Saudi Arabia
,
the Gulf States and many other countries. Many of the aftermentioned countries supplied Iran with weapons at the same time.
Saddam would spend much effort near the end of the war in 1988 with clearing out Kurdish resistance. The Ba’athist regime initiated the Anfal campaign a genocide of Iraqi Kurds using chemical weapons that would result in between 50,000 and 100,000 deaths. The Iran–Iraq War was the deadliest conventional war ever fought between regular armies of developing countries with a total of over a million casualties on both sides. The war also led to the massive destruction of critical infrastructure and severe economic loss for both sides with Saddam’s regime losing almost all legitimacy and support from the Iraqi people it had gained during the past decade of economic prosperity.
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As the Iran-Iraq War had come to end in 1988, Saddam’s Iraq founds itself ridden with debt, much of it was owed to Kuwait which refused to forgive the debt at Saddam’s request. Kuwait of exceeding its OPEC quotas for oil production which kept oil revenues down for Iraq. In early 1990, Iraq accused Kuwait of stealing Iraqi petroleum through cross-border slant drilling.
Unable to come to an agreement that would suit both parties, Saddam began to prepare Iraq for an invasion of its southern neighbor. The invasion started on 2 August 1990, marking the start of the 2nd Gulf War and within two days, most of the Kuwaiti military either being overrun or forced to flee to neighboring countries. Immediately following the invasion, Iraq set up a puppet government known as the "Republic of Kuwait" to rule over Kuwait, eventually annexing it outright, when Saddam Hussein announced a few days later that it was the 19th province of Iraq which he partly justified by irredentist reasons. Iraqi forces proceeded to crack down mercilessly on Kuwaiti resistance to the occupation through the arrest and executions of thousands of suspects.
The Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait were unanimously condemned by all major world powers. On 3 August 1990, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 660 condemning the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and demanding that Iraq unconditionally withdraw all forces deployed in Kuwait.
To manufacture public consent for war with Iraq the US government under President George H.W. Bush used the public testimony of a 15-year-old teenage girl, Nayirah (A secret member of Kuwait’s ruling al Sabah family) who testified in front the US Congress that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, take the incubators, and leave the babies to die.
At the start of the following year US along with a coalition of many other countries including but not limited to UK
,
France
Egypt
,
Saudi Arabia
, and
Syria
etc. launched a massive military assault on Iraq and Iraqi forces stationed in Kuwait. As the Coalition quickly gained the upper hand the Iraqi military set fire to 700 oil wells as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991. On 25 February, Kuwait was officially liberated from Iraq.
The Clinton Administration (1993-2001) that took office after Bush II Administration became committed to a policy of regime change to remove Saddam from power through the use of UN-enforced sanctions, and covert support for Shia and Kurdish dissident groups and during 7 years after the liberation of Kuwait, President
Bill Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998.
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WIP
Syria
Salah Jadid
WIP
Hafez al-Assad
Hafez al-Assad (1930-2000) was a Syrian statesman and military officer who served as President of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. Hafez participated in the 1963 Syrian coup d'état
which brought the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party to power. After serving as defense minister for a few years he initiated another coup that ousted the de facto leader
Salah Jadid and appointed himself as leader of Syria. Hafez imposed change on the Ba'ath government when he took power, by imposing
capitalism and limited liberalization of the economy, thus moving the Syrian Ba'ath Party away from it's
socialist roots.
As President, Hafez organized state services along sectarian lines the Sunnis became the heads of political institutions, while the Alawites took control of the military, intelligence, and security apparatuses. Even though Hafez sided with the Soviet Union in the Cold War against
Israel, he prosecuted and repressed leftists such as supporters of
Salah Jadid, at home. Hafez's policies indirectly led to the establishment of a "new elite" as state officials used their positions for personal gain resulting in spikes of corruption.
From the 1970s to the early 1980s the Alawite Dynasty found its power and grip over Syria challenged by a series of revolts and armed insurgencies of Sunni Islamists, mainly members of the
Muslim Brotherhood which aimed to overthrow the secular Ba'athist dictatorship. The Islamist uprising reached its climax in the 1982 Hama uprising and massacre, which resulted in tens of thousands casualties and was used by Hafez to eliminate dissent turning Syria into a totalitarian dictatorship
Bashar al-Assad
Following the death of Hafez al-Assad in 2000 and the succession of his son, Bashar to the presidency, political repression diminished significantly in what was known as Damascus Spring. Bashar attempted to improve relations with the west through market liberal reforms such as the privatization of education, healthcare, the banking sector, and the media. However, corruption only increased, and the Syrian opposition began to organize foreign powers came to decide that Assad had to go.
Syrian Civil War
Due to a combination of Bashar's domestic policies and the agenda of foreign powers like the US,
Turkey, and
The Gulf States, opposition to the Assad dictatorship began to mount leading to a full-on civil war when the Syrian opposition splintered along the lines of
Islamic Democrats,
Sunni fundementalists,
National Liberals and sometimes, even
Jihadists. As time passed, within the northern region of the nation, many of the Kurdish minority, having felt neglected and ignored by the Syrian government, unified under the ideology and
Democratic Confederalism and later also got involved in the war under the administration of the "autonomous region" of
Rojava. The
Islamic State got involved in 2013 but lost most of its territory by 2017. The
Free Syrian Army also came into existence as a loose collection of militant factions within the
Islamic Democrats without any singular unifying ideology, however, were all unified by the desire to overthrow the Syrian Ba'athists and Assad. Eventually, over time, the large-support of the opposition eventually began to die out within the population, which has led to a large amount of rebel-owned territory being lost, with many rebel factions that are currently still active in the civil war either being allied or ideologically aligned with hard-core
Islamist fundementalists,
Jihadists,
Pro-Turkish Insurgents, or having integrated themselves within the administration of
Rojava and the SDF, with those who did the ladder tended to follow more liberal-leaning ideologies, with many factions following ideologies such as moderate Syrian Patriotism, secularism,
Democracy, anti-racism, or even aligning with the ideology of
Democratic Confederalism, with certain rebel factions including but not limited to:
The Army of Revolutionaries
The Kurdish Front
The Seljuk Brigade
Northern Democratic Brigade
Northern Sun Battalion
Idlib Revolutionaries Brigade
Jaysh al-Salam
Euphrates Jarabulus Battalions
to name a few most well-known SDF-FSA groups. Assyrian SDF allied groups such as the Syriac Union Party hold their own ideology of Dawronoye which takes great influence from Democratic Confederalism, while promoting nationalism and autonomy for indigenous Assyrians, as well as being affiliated with certain moderate opposition groups such as the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change.
During the history of Assad and his rule, he has been criticized during his leadership for being ruthless in his efforts to hold onto power and suppress opposition. For example, he has been widely regarded for being responsible for numerous war crimes during the civil conflict, such as with the Ghouta chemical attacks in 2013, where bombs and sarin gas were used indiscriminately in civilian populations, as well as the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack in 2017 where similar methods of bombing, airstrikes, and sarin gas were used leading to numerous civilian casualties.
For more information on war crimes done by the Syrian Opposition, see Islamic Democracy...
Beliefs
The Arab nation is a united Arab state that would transform the Arab world politically, economically, intellectually and morally. Liberty is freedom and would be ensured by a Baath party which was not elected by the populace because the party had the common good at heart. Ba'athism likes socialism because they think it would be necessary for the Arabs to achieve an Arab state. Islam would be admired by all but not imposed on the state and society.
Personality and Behavior
Ba'athism's personality has two variants that represent two branches of this ideology.
His Syrian branch is very anti-pornography. Whenever someone goes to watch porn he pops out of nowhere and says stuff like "YOU HAVE BEEN ASSADED!!!". Anyone who says that he must go disappears, usually followed by the Syrian variant laughing.
His Iraqi branch is very sadistic, mutilating ideologies that disagree with him and sending their pieces in boxes. Hates non-Arabs, especially Jews and Kurds. If neocon shows up to take him out, he hides under bricks and rubble.
How to Draw
Ba'athism's design is based on the flag of the Arab Socialist Baʽath Party.
- Draw a ball
- Fill the ball with white
- Draw the Ba‘ath Flag:
- Add a black colored horizontal stripe on top
- Add a green horizontal stripe at the bottom, making the ball an equal Black-White-Green tricolor
- Over the tricolor, add a large red triangle extending from both left corners and facing rightward with it's sharp edge, ending around a third of the flag
- Add two eyes
- Draw a black beret on the ball, with a small version of the Ba‘athist Iraq Coat of Arms
- (Optional) Give the ball a bolt-action rifle, or an AK variant (AK-74, AK-47, et cetera)
You are finished!
Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
---|---|---|---|
Red | #CE1126 | 206, 17, 38 | |
Black | #0D0D0D | 13, 13, 13 | |
White | #FFFFFF | 255, 255, 255 | |
Green | #007A3D | 0, 122, 61 | |
Beret Black | #1C1C1C | 28, 28, 28 | |
Gold | #E8CA4F | 232, 202, 79 |
Relationships
Friends
Stratocracy - Literally me!
Socialism - I'm a socialist, but not the Marxist kind. The whole idea of a stateless moneyless society is just insane! I'm fine with nationalized oil and minerals.
Dengism - Fellow Auth-Leftist who supports a state-dominated economy. Has been one of my main arms suppliers since the 1980s.
Why did you arm Khomeini too during the Iran-Iraq War?Juche - Juche gang! Hereditary dictatorship is based!
Why did you too support Khomeini over me?!National Bolshevism - This is the way. Let's destroy capitalist globalists and Zionists together.
Chavismo - My best friend in the west! Stay strong Maduro.
Castroism - My second best friend in the west!
Putinism - Friendly pal. Both my Syrian and Iraqi sides strongly support you. I have to say, thank you very much for saving Assad from
Jihadis and Neocon terrorists.
Climate Skepticism - Yes, I had to burn Kuwaiti oil and destroy the marshes, but such is the cost of uniting the Arab World.
Totalitarianism - Applies to Saddam's dictatorship and to a certain extent Hafez's regime during the 1980s following the Hama Uprising but Bashar has been forced to soften up.
National Capitalism - Hafez found good use of Austrian Nazi-fugitive Alois Brunner who help him with torture and interrogation techniques, and the Wagner Group came to Bashar's rescue when he needed it during the Syrian Civil War.
Paleoconservatism,
Alt-Lite,
White Nationalism,
Libertarian Conservatism, and
Alt-Right - Based anti-interventionist right. Ron Paul, Steve Bannon, and David Duke, among others of your followers, constantly defend me from accusations made by neocucks, and also stand up against the globalist elite.
Gaullism - Jaques Chirac was a good friend to both Saddam and Assad.
Frenemies
Arab Socialism - My father. I have more radical and extreme views however he taught me a lot and we agree on many stuff. But why did you imperialize Syria? That's not what true pan-Arabists do.
Titoism - I stood by your grave at your funeral longer than the others for a reason. Rest in Peace, Tito! Hope you won't mind that some of my Syrian variant likes a theocracy.
Gaddafism - Operated a lot like me. RIP legend.
Why did you persecute Ba'athists during the cultural revolution in Libya?Authoritarian Capitalism - My Iraqi side was aided by Anraat and my Syrian side has been warming up to free-market capitalism since the 1990s. Bashar reluctantly embraced the free market in the early 2000s to appease the west. Privatized education and healthcare and legalized private banks, but the civil war made him revert it. I prefer State Capitalism anyway.
Illiberal Democracy - One party is enough but my Syrian side has been forced to accept some form of
controlledopposition in recent times to give an impression of democracy.Kleptocracy -
Literally me!You were one of the main causes of the Syrian civil war.Neoconservatism - I hate you and you constantly try to undermine me and pit my Iraqi and Syrian sides against each other. However, we have a long history of cooperation such as when you gave the Iraqi Baath Party a kill list for communists in the wake of the Ramadan Revolution or when you gave Saddam weapons to counter Iran. Assad also participated in the CIA torture and rendition program in the early 2000s. Still, none of this is enough to stop you from invading our countries and sponsoring terrorists that support your globalist agenda.
Anti-Japaneseism - Fellow Anti-Weeb, although I don't have anything wrong with Japanese people, but I do with your ideology.
Christian Theocracy and
Islamic Theocracy - Church and mosque united through
state controllove and faith, right?Marxism-Leninism - Hey, uh, I'm not too keen on the whole Communism stuff, but as an ally, you rock! You also gave me plenty of support. Together we will fight Western imperialists and Jihadists! However, my Iraqi variant banned the communist party and prosecuted its members in Iraq, I hope you won’t mind it.
Khomeinism - My Iraqi side wants to kill you, but my Syrian side loves you. At least we both hate
Neoconservatism. But c'mon man, tone it down with your revolutionary exportation, hence why Saddam hated you. Maybe at some rate in the future, we could become stronger allies since you've saved Assad from the so-called "rebels".
Fascism - A useful ally, but we have radically different goals. At least we both hate Israel.
Strasserism - Same as above.
Social Libertarianism - At least you oppose military intervention against me as well. Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are based as they exposed US war crimes in Iraq and Syria. Just quit being a Lolbertarian.
Progressivism - Why do your western followers hate me and support Rojava? I am secular, republican, anti-Zionist, and pro-feminist, with Bashar even being pro-drug. Just why can't we be friends?
Democratic Confederalism - I support you against
Daesh and
Turkey BUT YOU ARE A PART OF ME, NO INDEPENDENCE FOR YOU! Help me win this war and I'll think about giving you autonomy.
Islamic Capitalism - Greedy Zionist-bootlicking imperialist puppet who is also the reason the Middle East is in conflict! However, MBS and MBZ are kinda based as they opposed western intervention in the Syrian Civil War and encouraged Putin to come to Bashar's rescue from the jihadists.
But I will later have you taken over under my system, I did not forget about pan-Arabism after all.Trumpism - I had my hopes for you as you used to condemn military interventions but then you proceeded to bomb me! Thanks for cutting off support to the rebels, though.
Eco-Socialism - Sometimes bitched about my state capitalism (as if I care), and does not like Saddam's bad ecological record (also don't care), but Corbyn hated the Iraq war.
Democratic Socialism and
Social Democracy - I jailed Riad al-Turk for 20 years but had to release him during the Damascus spring to give an impression of democracy. However, your western variants agree that both the Iraq war and NATO intervention in Syria are mistakes.
Enemies
Muslim Brotherhood - Hama Massacre go brrrrrr...
Zionism - Oppressor of Palestinian Arabs and the reason why the Middle East is in conflict. Can't Mossad the Assad!
Labour Zionism - We could have been brothers but you had to be Zionist.
Bidenism - Stop bombing me you senile bastard!
Macronism - Same as above!
Jihadism - Leave. We don't need your crimes on our land!
Third Way - Who must go?
Free Syrian Army - WHO MUST GO?! HAHAHAHAHA!
Dawronoye - Why can't you Assyrians stop complaining and supporting those rebel groups? At least DemCon wasn't as pro-rebel.
Kahanism - "Greater Israel"? Oh no, you don't.
Neo-Ottomanism - NO, YOU F*CK OFF, ERDOĞAN!
Neo-Libertarianism - Aren't you just
Neoconservatism again but Libertarian?
American Model - I HAVE NO WMDs, I'M TELLING YOU!
Gallery
Portraits
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Old portrait
Comics and Artwork
Further Information
Literature
- One Common Trench or Two Opposite Sides? by Saddam Hussein
Wikipedia
- Ba'athism
- Ba'ath Party
- Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction)
- Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party
- Sudanese Ba'ath Party
- As-Sa'iqa
- Ba'athist Iraq
Internet Communities
Notes
References
- ↑ comes from this meme song
- ↑ despite being a Christian, Aflaq thought that Arab Socialism was supposed to be "under the leadership of Muhammad"
- ↑ He was a former member of the League of Nationalist Action, which was believed to been inspired by the "Ironshirts"
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlzpnP1221Y
- ↑ https://www.memri.org/tv/zionist-jew-zelensky-support-nazi-collaborators/
- ↑ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201008-syrias-assad-agrees-to-normalise-relations-with-israel-if-conditions-are-met/
- ↑ https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2021-11-17/ty-article/.premium/why-arab-rapprochement-with-syrias-assad-works-for-israel-too/0000017f-e20e-d9aa-afff-fb5ec67a0000
- ↑ https://crisismag.net/2019/10/01/economic-liberalization-and-social-transformations-in-pre-war-syria/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CYzXfqYPc
- ↑ https://twitter.com/RonPaul/status/976536009054793729?t=ThY7nqqvQ7b4SQ_MLCCjhA&s=19
- ↑ https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/03/21/antonio-razzi-e-il-suo-selfie-vergognoso-con-bashar-al-assad/3465125/
- ↑ Syria’s Assad in UAE for second post-quake Gulf visit
- ↑ Syria’s Assad receives warm welcome at Arab summit after years of isolation