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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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Dec 16
🚨🇺🇸 Dear Americans,

as a Syrian, I don’t hate you, and I don’t wish harm to your soldiers. But you are being lied to about why your troops were sent to my country and why they’re still there.

This thread is for you. 1/20
For 14 years, you’ve been told a simple story: Assad is a dictator, he crushed peaceful protests, and America reluctantly stepped in to defend human rights, fight terrorism and bring democracy. That’s the fairy tale. 2/20
The reality: the Syrian war did not start in Damascus. It started in Washington and Tel Aviv. It was a political decision to remove a government that refused to submit to US–Israeli regional plans. 3/20
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Nov 28
We now have an Al-Qaeda–linked ruler in Damascus and Israel quietly expanding inside Syria under the slogan of “protecting minorities”. This is not an accident.

Let me break down the strategy behind it.

1/19 🧵
I see a lot of people pretending what’s happening in Syria right now is some organic, spontaneous outcome of the so-called “Syrian revolution”.

Let’s be honest: that’s not what happened. 2/19
We now have an Al-Qaeda–linked ruler in Damascus, Julani, whose rise was tolerated – even enabled – because he was useful to a lot of players, including Israel.

Not in spite of his ideology.
Because of it. 3/19
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Nov 26
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Today, I was shocked by Senator Jeanne Shaheen calling on CNN to use the Ukrainian army as a permanent proxy force for future US wars.

Ukrainians have been cannon fodder in one unwinnable war. Now, the warmongers want to enlist them for the next one? 🧵

1/6
Shaheen admitted:

“Ukraine right now has the biggest army in Europe... We want that army on the allies side fighting with Europe and the United States in any future conflict.”

Shaheen sees Ukraine's tragedy as an asset management and a successful investment. 2/6
While hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men have been killed or maimed in an avoidable war, Washington is planning how to preserve this freshly built Ukrainian legion for their next conflict.

The sacrifice of a generation is not enough for them. 3/6
Read 7 tweets
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Nov 21
Everyone’s talking about Ukraine's sovereignty. But when Israel expands inside Syria? Silence.

Here’s why Israel is not going to withdraw from these new " buffer zones". 🧵 1/24
Let’s start with what actually happened. Netanyahu, flanked by senior Israeli commanders, didn’t visit the Golan this time. He walked into newly occupied zones in southern Syria, territory Israel has quietly taken amid the Syrian collapse. 2/24
Standing on Syrian soil, he told troops Israel’s presence there is of “immense importance” and will not be rolled back. That’s not a slip of the tongue. That’s policy, stated in the open. 3/24
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Nov 19
🚨🇨🇳 China thinks it’s doing smart diplomacy with Syria’s de facto rulers. In reality, it’s stabilizing the house where its future enemies are being trained.

Let’s unpack how the TIP Uyghur militants were prepared as a long-term lever against Beijing.

1/24🧵
Let’s talk about something Western media barely touches: the usefulness of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) inside Syria, and why their presence matters far beyond Idlib or Jisr al-Shughur.

Syria was never the end. It was the staging ground. 2/24
From day one, Uyghur militants were not “just another” foreign faction. They were disciplined, ideological, battle-hardened, and highly useful to:

Turkey, NATO structures, HTS under Jolani, and indirectly, the US.

Not for “liberating Syria.” For something else. 3/24
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Nov 14
🚨🇺🇸 American soldiers buried their friends fighting al-Qaeda. Today, Washington is rolling out the red carpet for the former leader of al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch.

If that doesn’t tell you the War on Terror was a lie, nothing will. 🧵
1/14 The photograph of Julani slipping into the White House — practically smuggled in like contraband — should have been a geopolitical earthquake.

Instead, it landed in total silence.

The same pundits who shouted about “Islamist infiltration” for 20 years had nothing to say
2/14 The neocon establishment — the ones who built careers warning about al-Qaeda — went mute when Washington welcomed one of al-Qaeda’s senior alumni as the “new Syrian president.”

Their silence reveals more than their outrage ever did.
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