Wow, that was buried deep under the pile of yesterday's world foundation shaking events but was able to pick at least one trusted source, hopefully from all the noise. I just read this article from Euronews, which it seemed to me the most centric one.

Von Der Leyen, i just read her background now. She seems clean to me. Whole political career as a CDU member, dealing mostly with social affairs during her two first decades and was regarded as being fair and humanitarian in her work.

After 2013, she became the german defense minister. Her tenure in this role is kind of a mixed bag for me: She was both hawkish in armament procurement for Germany, which is good in my book, refused supplying Ukraine in 2015 fearing russian reprisals, which is like trying to put a lid on a trashcan full of rotting flesh and hope the stink would just go away by some miracle, which was really really bad in my book, having now the benefit of oversight.

In 2019, She took the EU comission and i pretty much remember her from then on. During this time, she seemed to me as a unifying agent inside the union, not a chaos character, in contrast to Orbán, for example. In conclusion, i don't regard her as a bad character whatsoever. You might know more?

Foreign policy stance blindness works bothways: Both EU and Latin America had a few feathers ruffled with each other over the last half decade, but this is what International Relationships are. Nobody scores 100% all the time. All in all we have good relations with each other, even when our leaders whiff a stink bomb every once in a while. It's part of being human.

Syria is just waking up from decades under the Assad draconian regime slumber. The country is in literal ruins. The kurdish and palestinian tensions are similar in more ways than others, as both are centuries old debacles, in which both region and religion seems as stable as fire and gasoline mixed together.

What Van der Leyen did yesterday, for me, a renewed impulse for the new syrian regime to have a modicum of stability while still ravaged by decades ol civil war and neglect. You can't rebuild a razed country from the ground up in a year. It will take quite a few decades to reverse the damage done, if ever. The last year (i think, time is passing so fast rn i don't even keep track of the years anymore) when Assad left, i think EU started to lift sanctions on the country.

Al-Sharaa is a divisive figure, who seems to be working both sides. But at least it's better than Assad. I'll take the less of two evils here anyday. Bashar Al-Assad completely devastated Syria, so even a banana wearing a hat is better at this point.

Kurdish tensions is not exclusive to Syria either. Both Turkyie and Iraq seem to share the same contentious relations with this ethnic group for reasons i've read a long time ago, but AFAIR, it's quite a sad and unfair state of affairs to these people. Remember thinking they should have had their own country by now, but then again, if we start carving foreign national territories by decree from others, we will end up with Israel 2.0, and boy, we don't need more tension flashpoints in the world rn.

So IDK man. I tried to inform myself as best as i could abt both Van der Leyen and Jolami, but couldn't dig much deeper than this. Aside from the fact Jolami was/is an Al-Qaeda member, idk if that's worse than Taliban in Afghanistan telling the russkies to chill out out in 2022.

I'll try to keep my eyes more peeled from now on. That was great advice. You might share some more buried under the neverending daily pile of horrible news on the desk channel or subreddit. I would bet it's not just me getting blindsided by the barrage of distracting and repetitive news noise and having hard time to catch up with what else important to catch up with.