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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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Sep 4
1/ For 7 decades, the United States ruled unchallenged. But no empire lasts forever.

What happens when China, scarred by its WWII sacrifices yet rising under Xi Jinping, takes its place on the world stage? 🧵
2/ History has a way of whispering into the present. The 21st century is not simply another chapter in human history. It is the pivot, the point on which the balance of power turns, the moment when yesterday’s world order collides with tomorrow’s uncertainty.
3/ For over seven decades, the United States has ruled as the unchallenged empire, dictating the terms of global politics, finance, and security. But history, as we know, is never static. Empires rise, empires fall, and no power rules forever.
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Sep 3
THREAD: Fear was the fuel of pandemic politics.
Now it’s the fuel of war politics.

From corona to Russia, the ruling elites have found a method: govern through urgency, sell security above all, and leave prosperity behind.

Here's why you should be concerned 🧵
1/ At the Poland–Belarus border, Ursula von der Leyen declared: “Putin is a predator.”

The message is simple: only “strong deterrence” can keep him in check.

The subtext is simpler: Europe is remaking itself around war.
2/ In the days around that border tour, Brussels rolled out the vocabulary of acceleration—scorecards for defense spending every six months, loans-for-arms facilities, and “pretty precise plans” for post-war “guarantees” in Ukraine.
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Aug 26
🚨🏴What’s happening in Syria today isn’t democracy.

It’s a grotesque parody—parliamentary “elections” scripted by Abu Muhammad Julani, where ballots are props and citizens are subjects.

A third of seats handpicked.
Millions disenfranchised.
10,000 dead. 🧵
1/ For 14 years, Syrians were told the destruction of their state—their economy, schools, hospitals, and livelihoods—was the price for “freedom.”
Instead, they got chaos, repression, and staged elections.
2/ Julani’s parliament is rigged by design:

🔴1/3 of seats chosen directly by him

🔴The other 2/3 chosen by bodies he controls

This isn’t representation. It’s monopoly, reinforced by violence.
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Aug 20
1/ The Washington Summit, following the Trump-Putin meeting, revealed less “Western unity” than the quiet shifts already underway.

Sanctions? Off the table.
U.S. troops in Ukraine? Not happening.
NATO membership for Kiev? Effectively dead.
Everyone knows it — no one says it. 🧵
2/ The Washington summit, following Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska, revealed less about Western “unity” than about the quiet but decisive shifts already underway.
3/ Beneath the speeches and photo ops, the direction is clear: Trump has not moved an inch since Alaska.

Sanctions remain off the table. U.S. troops on Ukrainian soil — even dressed up as “peacekeepers” — are not going to happen.
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Aug 17
1/ In 1979, Washington, Riyadh & Islamabad lit a fire which birthed the world’s first "global jihad".

From CIA cash to Saudi sermons to Pakistani training camps, the machine was built.

One man’s journey through it all: Ahmad Zidan, the new advisor of Abu Mohammad al-Julani🧵
2/ In the shadows of the Cold War, far from the marble halls of Washington, Riyadh, and Islamabad, a quiet plan was being drawn—a plan that would outlive its creators and morph into something far more dangerous than anyone imagined.
3/ It was 1979. The U.S. had a “brilliant idea”, in the words of Hillary Clinton: Operation Cyclone—the careful orchestration of what would become the world’s first modern “global jihad.”
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Aug 12
🇦🇲🇦🇿 The “peace deal” between Armenia & Azerbaijan is being sold as a historic breakthrough.

In reality, it’s a geopolitical jackpot for Turkey & Azerbaijan, a strategic win for the US, and a dangerous trap for Armenia.

Here’s why the Zangezur Corridor could be a time bomb 🧵
1/ The ink is barely dry on the so-called “peace deal” brokered in Washington between Armenia and Azerbaijan, yet the celebration in Ankara and Baku is already in full swing.
2/ What is being packaged as a “historic breakthrough” is, in reality, a geopolitical victory for Turkey and Azerbaijan, with the U.S. as the strategic midwife — and Armenia as the primary loser.
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