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1/ On March 7, 2025, an Alawite hecatomb: humanity butchered in blood-soaked rituals, perpetrators proudly filming their infernal spectacle. Women wailed in horror as children were dragged from homes and slaughtered alongside husbands, fathers, and grandfathers.
2/ Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, absurdly recognized internationally as Syria’s "legitimate security forces," proudly broadcasted their atrocities: civilians forced to crawl, bark, beg—until bullets silenced their pleas; women’s and children’s bodies piled into a grotesque monument.
3/ Yet, mainstream media sanitized this massacre into oblivion. AP News callously reduced it: "Clashes in Syria between government forces and Assad loyalists kill more than 200." Victims erased, slaughter obscured, murderers legitimized. Image
4/ Al Jazeera perpetuated the lie, blandly labeling a genocidal bloodletting as mere "clashes," deliberately obscuring the truth, and hiding accountability behind a veil of journalistic cowardice. Image
5/ The United Nations, in willful blindness, ignored today's apocalypse, instead fixating on geopolitical ghost stories: "Post-Assad Syria faces critical test over eliminating chemical weapons." Detached from reality, morally bankrupt in response to atrocity. Image
6/ Amnesty International—purported champions of human rights—remain deafeningly silent. Thousands of recent posts, yet not one acknowledges the March 7 massacre. Human rights selectively upheld; inconvenient slaughter ignored. Image
7/ The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights cloaked atrocities in deliberate ambiguity: "240 people were killed, died and were martyred in different circumstances." No justice, no dignity, only bureaucratic neutrality toward genocide. Image
8/ The pinnacle of hypocrisy emerges in the international community's embrace of murderers. German FM @ABaerbock , self-proclaimed advocate of a "feminist foreign policy," eagerly legitimized HTS leader Jolani—even after his extremist disdain publicly rejected her handshake. Image
9/ Two Months before this slaughter, Baerbock brazenly urged Syrian minorities to disarm and surrender to Jolani. Countless women now bear witness to unimaginable horrors, having watched their beloved slaughtered by the very force Baerbock endorsed. Image
10/ Today, on International Women’s Day, Alawite mothers mourn in unspeakable anguish, their children butchered, their husbands and sons erased in Syria’s bloodiest massacre in years. This was not just mass murder—it was the calculated destruction of a people’s continuity, the annihilation of a generation essential to their survival.
11/ This was genocide not only by extermination but by erasure—designed to sever identity, and strip the victims even of the dignity of remembrance.

Yet the greatest crime is not just the butchery itself, but its concealment. Sanitized by media euphemisms and diplomatic cowardice, this atrocity has been washed of its horror, its perpetrators granted legitimacy by an international community whose silence is complicity.
12/ And that silence has been understood as approval. The massacre has not stopped. At this very moment, a mass killing operation is underway in the Qusour neighborhood of Baniyas, where Alawite and Christian families are being dragged from their homes and executed in the streets. Among the dead, once again, are children.

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Mar 2
A thread — 🧵“And all across the land, men looked up at the sky and saw the dragons coming, and they knew their doom.”

Jaramana #جرمانا might have been a meaningless Damascus sub-district, a citadel nobody ever heard of, as unknown as the Druze brigade bearing its name, standing in its defense.

But not anymore.

The self-crowned president may have just set his throne ablaze—trying to take it by force. #SyriaImage
1/
A century ago, European diplomats carved arbitrary lines across the Middle East. Today, we call them the Sykes-Picot borders. We pretend these lines are sacred, while ignoring the people forced to endure decades of war and displacement because of them—people like the Druze of southern Syria.

Today, those borders mean little to the fighters in Jaramana, where Druze gunmen refuse to surrender their district to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the new rulers of Damascus. The battle isn’t just over a neighborhood—it’s about survival in a country that has erased so many minorities before them.Image
2/
The Druze have a long history of resisting central authority, and jihadist groups like al-Nusra (HTS’s previous name) or ISIS. To outsiders, they are a Syrian minority. To jihadists, they are heretics. When the world insists that the Druze accept “Syrian unity” under their would-be executioners, it’s absurd.

Should we really ask them to live under those who once labeled them murtadeen (apostates) and called for their extermination?Image
Read 9 tweets
Feb 20
— A Thread 🧵
The U.S. and Russia are negotiating Ukraine’s future—without Ukraine. Zelensky calls it illegitimate, but the truth is far more horrifying.

On sunflower fields abused by monoculture, nitrogen… fertilized by blood and bone. Where men give battle to the death, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

For the deep metabolic rift extends to all of the earth.Image
2/—
Victory and defeat are mere propaganda frames.

Who sets the terms of peace? The Ukrainian people, or the transnational elites who profit from endless war?

Trump and Putin aren’t negotiating peace—they’re dividing the spoils. While Zelensky fights for relevance. Image
3/—
Trump’s demand that Ukraine give the U.S. half its rare earth minerals in exchange for military aid exposes the war’s true logic. This isn’t about democracy vs. autocracy—it’s about economic conquest.

First, they flooded Ukraine with weapons. Now, they want the spoils. Image
Read 13 tweets
Feb 6
1/ The U.S. is About to Make a Catastrophic Mistake in Syria
The U.S. Department of Defense is reportedly drafting plans for a full military withdrawal from Syria.

This decision will:
✅ Hand Syria to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an al-Qaeda and ISIS offshoot.
✅ Give state-grade weapons and funding to jihadist groups.
✅ Open the door for chemical weapons proliferation.

These facts are so unbelievable yet undeniable that I had to rebuild this thread from scratch, using only bipartisan, congressional sources.

📑 All sources are included below. Every claim is backed by declassified U.S. government reports.🧵Image
2/ The U.S. Presence in Syria is Minimal But Critical
There are currently ~2,000 U.S. troops in Syria. Their role is:

• Supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in counterterrorism operations.
• Preventing ISIS resurgence and terrorist attacks.
• Serving as a diplomatic shield for Kurdish-led forces that sacrificed 11,000 fighters to defeat ISIS.

This is not an "endless war"—it is a low-cost, high-impact deterrent. @CJTFOIR

Source;
📑 [CRS Report: IN12469]Image
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3/ A Full U.S. Withdrawal Would Create an Immediate Crisis
If the U.S. leaves Syria:

• HTS, an al-Qaeda-linked group, will take control of Damascus.
• They will gain access to Syria’s state-grade military infrastructure, including heavy weapons and funding.
• Turkey has already announced plans to modernize their forces, directly benefiting HTS.
• ISIS will have new opportunities to regroup and expand.

Source;
📑 [CRS Report: IF11380]​
📑 [CRS Report: IN12473]Image
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Jan 29
1/ Three days ago, #Turkey's spymaster-turned-foreign minister, Fidan, bragged on Saudi TV about brokering a rapprochement between #Russia and the "new Syrian authority."
2/ Over the past month, almost the entire NATO leadership showed up in Damascus to shake hands with Jolani, once ISIS’s number two, desperately trying to push Russia out of the Mediterranean. But a double game was in motion. Image
3/ The timing is striking too: the EU had just lifted Syria's sanctions (2 days go)—the ink wasn’t even dry on the paper.
Read 7 tweets
Jan 25
1/ Imagine this: The CIA secretly partners with a group still labeled a terrorist organization. A group with deep ties to al-Qaeda and a bloody history of bombing civilians. Sounds familiar? That’s exactly what’s happening with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in #Syria. Image
2/ The Washington Post just revealed that the CIA shared intelligence with HTS—yes, HTS—to help thwart an alleged ISIS attack in Damascus. HTS, which once bombed a Damascus shrine in 2017, killing 76 civilians, is now being framed as a partner in stability. How did we get here?
3/ Let’s break it down: HTS, formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, was al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria before a PR rebranding in 2017. It’s led by Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, a man who swapped fatigues for suits, posing as a “moderate leader.” But a rebrand doesn’t erase years of terror.
Read 15 tweets
Jan 25
1/ Trump’s fiery call with Denmark’s prime minister over buying Greenland underline deep issues of sovereignty, colonial legacies, and the future of autonomous regions. This wasn’t a joke—it was a threat rooted in global power struggles. 🧵 Image
2/ Greenland is rich in resources, geopolitically crucial, & home to a proud Inuit population. Yet, its status as an autonomous territory of Denmark puts it in the crosshairs of powerful nations seeking control under the guise of “security” and “development.” Image
3/ Trump’s claim—that Greenland’s native people should choose between US & Danish rule—erases their right to real autonomy. It assumes that self-determination is only valid within the framework of dominant state powers. A deeply colonial mindset persists. Image
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