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@KevorkAlmassian
Jan 29, 2024 • 12 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Dear American friends, the US forces are in Syria to protect the interests of the tiny elites in Washington and not to fight terrorism as your officials claim.

They're in the Middle East to destabilize the region and sell weapons to the conflicting parties. Some even say they are there for the sake of Israel.

The people in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran are not your enemies. Your enemies are psychopaths like Lindsey Graham and his friends in the military-industrial complex who are pushing for war with Iran and starting WWIII with Russia.
The CIA waged one of its costliest covert operations to train and arm radical insurgents in Syria. The result was the emergence of ISIS and al-Nusra Front.

nytimes.com/2017/08/02/wor…
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The weapons that the CIA sent to Syria were seized by the al-Qaeda offshoot

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sy…
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Syria-based investigative journalist @VanessaBeeley notes that the CIA Timber Sycamore Operation was signed off by former US president Barack Obama. The operation was the channel through which the US trained and armed the radical insurgents.

renegadeinc.com/white-helmets-…
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In February 2012, Jake Sullivan sent an email to her then-boss Hillary Clinton and told her "Al Qaeda is on our side in Syria." Image
Why are US troops in Syria?

Donald Trump in 2019: "I left troops to take the oil. I took the oil."
The CIA deliberately supported al-Qaeda affiliated groups in Syria to "isolate the Syrian regime," according to a document belonging to the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) classified as “secret,” dated 12th August 2012.

medium.com/insurge-intell…
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The second joint Military Operations Center was in Turkey (a NATO member). Even Ankara's allies say Turkey let fighters and arms over the border, some of whom went to join ISIS.

The goal was again to topple Assad.

reuters.com/article/idUSKB…
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Israel also supplied the radical insurgents near its border with cash as well as food, fuel and medical supplies for years.

wsj.com/articles/israe…
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Former Mossad Head says Israel gave medical treatment to al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria for humanitarian reasons.
The former U.S. special envoy to Syria James Jeffrey told PBS in 2021 that Al-Qaida’s Syrian offshoot is an “asset” to U.S. strategy in Syria.

responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/04/03/for…
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Members of an American-backed rebel group in Syria beheaded a young child in a grisly execution video.

The footage surfaced in mid-July 2016 of members of Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki and a captured child in Aleppo.

thedailybeast.com/us-backed-mode…
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Jul 4
1/ Donald Trump didn’t lift sanctions on Syria out of concern for starving Syrian children. He did so to facilitate Julani’s cooperation with Israeli and American demands.

Here's what's really happening 🧵
2/ There’s something viscerally wrong about watching President Donald Trump—a man once cheered for his supposed “anti-war” instincts—quietly lift U.S. sanctions on known war criminals and extremist factions in Syria.
3/ No fanfare. No press conference. Just the quiet normalization of a man like Abu Mohammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda affiliate, now rebranded as the “leader” of Syria’s new regime. This, we are told, is how America supports peace.
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Jul 2
1/ Pashinyan’s war against the Armenian Church is only the final act in a much larger play.

Here's what's happening in Armenia 🧵
2/ Since 2018, Pashinyan has functioned less like a national leader and more like a local manager for foreign interests. One by one, he has gone after the pillars of Armenian nationhood — the national identity, the sovereignty of Artsakh, and now, the Armenian Apostolic Church.
3/ Let’s be clear: you do not have to be a supporter of the Church or even religious to see what this is. The Church in Armenia is not just a spiritual institution — it is the spine of our cultural and historical memory.
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Jun 26
1/ Israel rolls into Syrian territory almost daily, but instead of resisting occupation, Julani’s goons were busy shooting and bombing Churches this week.

Here's what's happening in Syria 🧵
2/ In December 2024, something surreal happened. The media machine — backed by think tanks, NGO mouthpieces, professional "activists," and state-approved experts — pulled off a stunt straight out of Men in Black.
3/ You remember that flashy little device, the neuralyzer? Zap — memories gone. That’s exactly what they did to the public mind.

Suddenly, we were all supposed to forget what happened in Syria. Forget ISIS. Forget al-Qaeda. Forget over a decade of terrorism. Erase it all.
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Jun 17
1/ There’s a deeper layer to the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran, and that layer is China.

Here's why Beijing should be worried 🧵
2/ In the theater of geopolitics, narratives are often constructed to mask deeper realities. One such narrative—that Israel's war on Iran is only about nuclear weapons—is a convenient façade that conceals a far more strategic and imperial motive.
3/ Iran’s nuclear program is a mere subplot in a broader confrontation. The real issue for Washington and Tel Aviv is Tehran’s insistence on asserting a sovereign, independent foreign policy that rejects the diktats of American hegemony.
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Jun 17
1/ As the US and Israeli war on Iran intensifies, Qatar continues playing the role of the wolf in Palestinian clothing, doing business with Israel while preaching resistance.

Here's what's happening 🧵
2/ Qatar loves to wrap itself in the Palestinian flag. Whether through Al Jazeera’s 24/7 pro-resistance narrative or its open-door policy to Hamas officials, Doha has marketed itself as the "defender of Palestine" in the Arab world.
3/ But as always, scratch beneath the surface of this manufactured image and you’ll find the stench of hypocrisy. Qatar isn't resisting Israel—it's buying from it.
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Jun 10
1/ Iran's reported successful intel op inside Israel isn’t just a flex; it is also a dangerous crossroads.

Here’s what’s unfolding 🧵
2/ In a world where psyops masquerade as diplomacy and where the line between sabotage and sanctions has long disappeared, Iran has just dropped a geopolitical bombshell.
3/ Tehran’s declaration that it has secured a mountain of “strategic and sensitive data”, including thousands of documents related to Israeli nuclear facilities, is not merely an intelligence success—it is a tectonic shift in the ongoing shadow war across West Asia.
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