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The choice is yours. Which faction do you support?
SAAF:
Pros:
1) Pan-ethnic/religious appeal
2) Secularist
Cons:
1) Undemocratic
2) Viscerally hated by everyone who is not them
3) Has deliberately gassed civilians
SDF:
Pros:
1) Democratic, maybe
2) Pan-ethnic/religious appeal
3) Secularist
4) Loves the west
Cons:
1) Hates major NATO player
2) Is viscerally hated by major NATO player
3) Is distrusted by all other factions
FSA:
Pros:
1) Turkish support
2) Jordanian support
3) American support
4) Democracy?
Cons:
1) Not a real faction, just a loose alliance of other factions who occasionally war each other
2) Literally al-Qaeda
3) Basically ISIS without the iconography
4) When not al-Qaeda, literally just as bad as al-Qaeda
5) Under attack from literally all other factions
6) Has deliberately gassed/starved civilians
7) Is getting pwnd in areas without direct outside support
ISIS
Pros:
1) They're pretty honest about what they stand for
Cons:
1) They're getting rekt
2) Hated by literally every other faction
3) No international support except Saudi Arabia
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