Thread by @THE_47th

In my free time, I sometimes go into pro-Assad Syrian FB pgs & try 2 gauge thr mood/current state of mind. I also stir shit up by throwing a few facts that they find hard to chew.

For example, recently, Syrian FB has been lit with criticism agnst the Syrian Prime Minister...

So what I do, I seek out ”influencers” with +50K followers, who have been speaking out against the corrupt PM/ Ministers within this current gov. I then calmly & respectfully argue with them, hoping that their followers read the conversation..

My fav approach, is to get them to curse at the Prime Minister, redicule the stupid policies and plans that the government had in place, get them to say things like “only an idiot would let such ppl do these plans” and “why are we cursed with such people in power?”...

I then throw them a bit of breaking news:

Bashar Assad personally appointed this “inept” Prime Minister and every cabinet member.

Bashar personally approved and signed off those “stupid policies”.

And then link them to Articles 97 & 98 of the Syrian (Assadi) Constitution.

I can tell you, for the 1st time since 2011, I am seeing progress with Assadists. The overwhelming maj of them are no longer in absolute denial. They can’t be anymore. While the war didn’t affect/hurt every Syrian house per se, the economic crisis did. Questions are being asked.

During the war, Assadists drank the disinformation Kool-Aid. I can understand why: decades of propaganda, brain wash, successful disinfo campaigns by resistance/Russia camp, severe mistrust of anything American (or from outside...etc).

But as the threat of war is gone, and as ppl are now looking at their miseries, there aren’t several parties to blame- there’s only one party. Assad’s corruption, extortion, criminality and ineptitude of Assad’s rule is allowing theft: the truth is there, it can’t be contested.

- Those checkpoints extorting loyalists.. they belong to Maher’s Assad’s 4th Division.

- Who decided to buy Mig 29s, new hardware and open fronts on Idlib that cost Syria 100s of millios of dollars instead of securing wheat/diesel deals? Assad.

- Who protects thieves?

Long story short- Syrian farmers, traders, and manufacturers are speaking up, they are losing their businesses.

- Factories are closing & it is not because of Caesar. The regime made it impossible to import raw materials with its fake exchange $ rate (30-40%half of real value)

- Syria’s once-thriving pharma industry is not on its deathbed bcz of EU/US sanctions, these sanctions don’t ban importing pharma raw materials.

Simply put: To pharma manufacturers, it costs X to produce drug Y, but Ministry of Internal Trade forces them to sell at 20% of cost.

- Food importers in Syria can import food- till today, even from America itself, but being forced to import on the Governments terms and gov set exchange rate makes is a business suicide. It is not the sanctions, it is the gov policies.

-Farmers who spent all their resources growing vegetables /fruits, are given orders to sell their produce at 30-40% of cost. Then all of a sudden, a smuggler says: I can smuggle ur vegetables to Lebanon for 5 times the selling price in Syria. Who is the smuggler? An army general.

Long story short: The people stealing and smuggling diesel, food stuff, the people making it impossible to import or export, the security forces extorting and strealing your goods and services are from the regime...and this is all in plain sight- no two Syrians can argue that.

Bottom line, Syrians in exile need to speak to Syrians inside, and shed more light on why we are where we are today. Don’t bring up the war, don’t go back to who started what- only speak about the economy, state facts that cannot be disputed.

For starters, follow and start interacting with these pro-Assad influencers:

facebook.com/aref.tawel.5

facebook.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D…

facebook.com/shady.hulwa/

facebook.com/BasharIsmailOf…

facebook.com/Hedar.Razoq1/

facebook.com/Dima-Nassif-%D…

More:

facebook.com/Nizaralfara/

facebook.com/%D8%AD%D8%B3%D…

facebook.com/Mwaffakimadedd…

facebook.com/m.ridaalbasha/

facebook.com/SaddamHusseinj…

facebook.com/aead.hasan.31

follow these people, engage them, shed some light and truth...see how the mood is changing for yourselves.

Reply to me with more pro-Assad influencer profiles.

Of course, I forgot to mention my fav of them all: Ali Aql. Relatively speaking, he is 1 of the most reasonable Assadists out there. Ex soldier, disinfranchized- tout of the war hangover w/ some Qs.

facebook.com/aqllysy/