🚨🇸🇾 Syria is once again dominating news headlines across the world.
👇 Now’s a good time to review why Syria is such an important geopolitical flashpoint (🧵1/9)
The Syrian Civil War is not simply a conflict between the Assad government and its opponents.
Syria has effectively become an international battlefield – featuring the US, Turkey, Russia, Iran, Qatar, Israel, and other regional players.
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Syria is part of the Iranian-led Axis of Resistance, a key logistical hub for supplying Hezbollah in Lebanon, a longtime supporter of the Palestinian cause, and a bulwark against the expansion of Israeli political influence in the Levant.
🏴⚔🇸🇾 HTS terrorists (rebranded Al-Qaeda) have launched an offensive on Syrian Arab Army positions near Aleppo.
US Deep State and Israel have been supporting terrorist groups in Syria for more than decade.
👇Let’s break down the facts (🧵1/5)
Jake Sullivan, Mike Flynn, and US Defense Intelligence Agency are all on the record as stating that the US supported ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Syria.
This continues to this day. US troops stationed in Al-Tanf, Syria train ISIS remnants.
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From 2013 to 2017, the US and its regional allies provided weapons and training to Syrian rebels affiliated with Jabhat Al-Nusra, a terrorist group that originally was affiliated with Al-Qaeda.
🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 Biden has reportedly authorized Ukraine to attack Russian territory with American long-range missiles.
🪖☢ This move brings NATO and Russia one step closer to war, which could involve nuclear weapons.
Here’s what you need to know (🧵1/10)
The New York Times, Reuters, and Axios are reporting that Biden gave Ukraine the greenlight to use US-made ATACMS to provide cover for Ukrainian troops occupying parts of Russia’s Kursk region.
This looks like an authorized leak by the Biden White House.
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The Biden admin’s official pretext for this move is to “deter” North Korea from sending more troops to Russia.
Not sure we buy this explanation, and not only because we haven’t seen any evidence to suggest North Korean troops are fighting for Russia.
🚨🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky has figured out a way to sell Trump on Ukraine proxy war project.
He will promise Trump privileged access to Ukraine’s mineral wealth in exchange for continued military aid.
👇Here’s what you need to know (🧵1/7)
Pre-2014 Ukraine was one of the top global suppliers of mineral resources. It could boast of 20,000 mineral deposits, covering 116 types of minerals, including titanium, lithium, beryllium, manganese, gallium, uranium, zirconium, graphite, fluorite, and nickel.
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The territory of Ukraine before 2014 possessed titanium ore reserves of ~8.4 million tons, or between 10-20% of the total global reserves.
Titanium is essential for strategic industries such as aerospace, shipbuilding, automobile, and medical equipment.