Thread by @aaronjmate

The key point -- which few in US media will make -- about the US fighting ISIS in Syria is that the US not only sparked ISIS by invading Iraq, but then used ISIS as a tool for regime change in its dirty war on Syria.

John Kerry explained it best:

"The reason Russia came in is because ISIL was getting stronger, Daesh was threatening the possibility of going to Damascus and so forth. And that’s why Russia went in. Because they didn’t want a Daesh government and they supported Assad," Kerry privately admitted in 2016.

"And we know that this was growing. We were watching. We saw that Daesh was growing in strength, and we thought Assad was threatened. We thought, however, we could probably manage, that Assad would then negotiate. Instead of negotiating, he got Putin to support him."

So in Kerry's words, the US was "watching" ISIS advance and threaten Damascus. US however thought it could "manage" ISIS's growth and use it to force Assad 's ouster. This wonderful pro-democracy US plan got foiled when Russia intervened to prevent a "Daesh [ISIS] government."

The reason few in US media will acknowledge Kerry's words is because while you're allowed to criticize individual US atrocities in Syria, you're not allowed to criticize or acknowledge the underlying multi-billion US dirty war on Syria. In fact, if you do, you're a Russian asset.

You also can't point out that the site of the US raid, Idlib, is what Biden official Brett McGurk calls "the largest Al Qaeda safe haven since 9/11." You can't acknowledge that because the US helped create it, & it exposes who Syria's "rebels" really are.

When I say the US helped Al Qaeda establish a safe haven in Idlib, that's because, as Jake Sullivan acknowledged in 2012: "AQ is on our side in Syria."

US & allies flooded their "side" with billions of dollars in weapons -- including the weapons that helped AQ capture Idlib.