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Feb 8 5 tweets 2 min read
Exactly. There is no greater scam than the people who oppose the SDF and worked for isolate them and not have any official meetings with them and US officials, and then demand the SDF do a better job running a prison that the West basically forced them to run.
The huge scam is that countries won’t take back their ISIS members and demand the SDF not release them AND say SDF can’t turn them over to Syria regime…and don’t want the SDF paid to keep the prisoners. It’s a huge catch-22…then they complain the prisoners escape too
There is a double standard, the same people that want a temporary, transaction and tactical relations with the SDF, and say they are sub-state group we can’t officially work with…are the SAME ones who then treat them as a quasi-state in reports and condemnations
You can’t have it both ways and see the SDF as barely a militia and non-state actor…and then ALSO demand AANES have the same obligations as if it was a country like Denmark…if you want it to be Denmark then invest billions of dollars, build institutions and give it meetings.
What some want is that the SDF will be starved of resources and at same time make impossible demands of it, demands made of NO OTHER group in Syria…

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Feb 8
If Macron can pull this off it will be fascinating...not sure what some media will do though since they told us the invasion is imminent for months and came up with all sorts of stories...(the same folk that of course told us we need diplomacy with Iran...need a deal not war etc)
I mean remember back in 2014-2015 how we were told that "if we don't do a deal there will be war"...even though there was zero evidence of "war"...but when it came to Russia it was like "there will be an invasion in the next week..."...there wasn't even a question about it
Not one was saying "we need to do a deal with Russia or there will be war"...it was just presented as a fait accompli...there will be an invasion...why...who knows...we don't know, just it will happen, it is written in stone...
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Feb 8
How do they put more wood in that fire place to keep the flame so high, the wood must be exhausted quickly by such a high flame…so where is the extra wood? Also how come it doesn’t leave bits of wood near the fireplace, usually there is some mess?
Is the fire fake or burning fake wood? What’s happening here? Usually a fire like that you need to have wood available right nearby with tongs or something to put it in, putting it in by hand can be hot. It doesn’t make sense? Is there some contraption feeding the fire?
Look how much flame there is? And there’s not a speck of dirt or wood fragments nearby from feeding it? How does it work? Where are the tongs and things to maintain it?
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Feb 8
🧵 I have a question: amid the Ukraine crises, while some reports look at Russia’s context, l see very few reports appear to be looking at the US context; how Ukraine was entwined with Trump era scandals and also Biden in previous admins.
Doesn’t it seem strange the way Ukraine became this kind of key issue in US policy, but not just policy the way the US may support Poland or Estonia…but it looks MUCH larger. The last admin literally had an impeachment over this…and Biden and son had this whole contretemps too
There is a deep connection in US politics to Ukraine. It’s but just happenstance. And yet now the crisis there is seen as kind of in a vacuum. But those like Biden have a long historic knowledge of this, one might argue even controversial background, but the point is it’s not new
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Feb 7
I can't get over how you have these pro-Ankara accounts that put out positive statements about Israel-Turkey reconciliation...and then days later are bashing Israel, bashing Israeli politicians, and spreading conspiracies about Israel's role in the region...ummm...
The reality of the pro-Ankara troll army is that one minute it gets the talking point about "wow...Israel and Turkey may reconcile...Israel's president is visiting"...but their real view...the entrenched one...is visceral hatred of Israel and sometimes antisemitism.
One can't talk about reconciliation and also hate the country one is "reconciling" with...literally I see these trolls backing Hamas...and then being like "oh there could be reconciliation." You can't back extremists and terror and also be fore "reconciliation."
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Feb 5
Fars News reporting in Iran that Kataib Hezbollah has "warned Turkey: Withdraw your forces before it's too late"...usually when Iran media that is close to IRGC messages something like this, an action may follow. Watch closely if KH or a "new group" linked to them does something
There have been previous incidents where pro-Iran militias targeted Turkish forces in Iraq, usually the Bashiqa base, for instance back in November; rudaw.net/english/middle…
It's important to recall that while many Turkish forces in Iraq are concentrated in a string of mountain bases and outposts, which Ankara claims is to fight "terrorism"...that the Bashiqa camp is on the border of the KRG, and is within range of the 107mm and 122mm from Nineveh
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THREAD: The narrative about the killing of ISIS leader Qurayshi includes several narratives; let me sum them up:

1. "He was very hands-on leader & involved in many day-to-day operations."

2. "Qurayshi, never left his compound. Living on the 3rd floor with family, he emerged only occasionally to bathe on roof. Families with no connection to ISIS lived on the first floor, apparently without knowledge of the terrorist two stories above them." edition.cnn.com/2022/02/03/pol…
3."After years of war, Idlib’s social structure has been torn up, scrambled, and overwhelmed by displaced people from other parts of Syria, creating a situation where a stranger can easily go unnoticed. On top of that, it is basically stateless territory."
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