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Kareem Rifai 🌐 Profile picture
Kareem Rifai 🌐
@KareemRifai
anti-authoritarian advocate | syrian-circassian | currently @aei + m.a. @georgetowncss | contributor @centerclipaudio | alum @umich | all opinions my own
Dec 8 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
To the international leaders sincerely congratulating the Syrian people, thank you.

But it's not over: Syrians want to vote for their own leaders and live equally under the law.

Your role is to facilitate as needed and stop regional actors from abusing Syrians further. Don't condemn the future of Syria before doing anything to safeguard the Syrian desire for a democratic transition.

Things are going to be messy after the fall of a half a century of tyranny.

Don't abandon Syrians now.
Nov 30 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
JUST NOW: The Syrian opposition has reached Kafranbel, the Syrian town in Idlib famous for their protest banners. Image "Putin! Get your soldiers back safe, otherwise we send them to you in coffins." Image
Nov 15 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
From Putin to Maduro to Assad, there's few enemies of the United States that Tulsi Gabbard doesn't have a bizarre affinity for.

Amid a sea of controversial cabinet picks, she is by far the most dangerous to our national security.

My words in The Hill.
thehill.com/opinion/white-… Just weeks after Tulsi's visit to Damascus, Assad unleashed a deadly chemical attack on Khan Shaykhun.

Trump rightfully retaliated. His DNI nominee, Tulsi Gabbard, called the attack staged.
bellingcat.com/news/mena/2019…
Oct 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Iran is a revisionist state. In the past decade it has aggressively and violently expanded its influence, not only in the region from Damascus to Baghdad to Beirut to Sanaa, but across the globe. It is seeking a nuclear weapon.

This is not political commentary. This is a fact. A fact that is frequently ignored by pundits and commentators who insist on painting Iran as a victim, and the status quos of misery it has created across the region as normal and peaceful.

Iran has agency, and it has exercised it forcefully.
Sep 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Can any of these viral posts claiming that hospital-issue pagers were being blown up provide any actual evidence, because the viral "civilian health worker" who was confirmed dead from a pager explosion just had his funeral.

And, uh... yeah.

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Image I really do not understand where this claim originated from, considering that not even Hezbollah / Iran state media are reporting explosions of hospital-issue pagers.
Sep 17 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Random civilians are not carrying pagers in Beirut in the year of our lord 2024. Can we be serious please. Image Regardless of what you think about the attack morally — even pro Hezbollah media is not making this claim.

Hezb members openly use pagers to communicate. The viral claim that hospital pagers were targeted is obviously false. See video below about the "new pagers" Hezb recieved.
Sep 4 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
JUST NOW: Shocking documents from the Justice Department release on Russian election influence.

One of the docs below describes a redacted US political party as having a "relatively pro-Russian agenda," with a plan to create a Twitter sockpuppet network to promote said party.
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Image For clarity: the documents above and below are translated from Russian, with redactions made by the DOJ.

Here's another excerpt from a different evidence document.

Very simple context clues here on who exactly "Party A" and "Party B" are.
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Aug 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr.'s first campaign manager, Dennis Kucinich, are part of the same cohort who secretly visited Assad in Damascus on the dime of a shell organization of the Syrian Nazi Party.
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Image Gabbard and Kucinich went on a "fact-finding trip" to Syria with two affiliates of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.

Does their logo on the right look oddly familiar?
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Aug 20 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I compared the most critical passages on Russia from the 2012 vs. 2024 official Dem. party platforms and... just wow.

Mind-boggling just how wrong the Obama-adjacent foreign policy thought was and how much of a 180° it's taken — to full blown "new axis of evil" style rhetoric.
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Image Takeaways you should notice:

1. 2012 platform touts cooperation with RUSSIA to stop... Iran and North Korea... two countries we know are cooperating with Russian adventurism

2. 2024 platform promotes NATO and ally cooperation to stop network of authoritarianism
Jul 13 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
2016 GOP platform mentions of Taiwan: 9
2024 GOP platform mentions of Taiwan: 0

2016 GOP platform mentions of Ukraine: 4
2024 GOP platform mentions of Ukraine: 0

2016 GOP platform mentions of Syria: 2
2024 GOP platform mentions of Syria: 0
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Image 2016 GOP platform: "We salute the people of Taiwan, with whom we share the values of democracy, human rights, a free market economy, and the rule of law."

2024 GOP platform: N/A Image
Jun 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This 18 year-old NYU freshman just indirectly stole $51k worth of luxury goods from a Putin and Maduro-connected Russian mining magnate.

Kaitlyn Fung was just arrested for stealing from her Russian oligarch nepobaby roommate, Aurora Agapov.
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Image Agapov, pictured on the left here with Kaitlyn, is the daughter and granddaughter of Russian mining oligarchs Andre Agapov and Vladimir Agapov, worth tens of millions.

Andre is the President and Vladimir is the Chairman of Rusoro Mining. Image
Jun 9 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
"The mass slaughter in Srebrenica, for example, is certainly a horror story and major crime, but to call it 'genocide' so cheapens the word."

Noam Chomsky on the Srebrenica Massacre, which left 8,000+ Bosniak Muslims dead.
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Image "Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq."

Noam Chomsky on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Apr 18 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Matt Gaetz's constituents produce Javelins.

Jim Jordan's constituents produce Strykers.

Anna Luna's constituents produce HIMARS.

Scott Perry's constituents produce Bradleys.

Yet all four oppose the Ukraine aid that funded those projects — and they're not the only ones.


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Image New research from AEI shows that the majority of Ukraine aid is going to 122 defense production lines across 65 congressional districts to support Ukraine's defense effort.

However, several of the representatives benefitting are vocal opponents of aid. Image
Apr 18 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Marjorie Taylor-Greene's amendments to the foreign aid bills:

1. Members who vote for Ukraine aid must conscript in the Ukrainian Army

2. Israel aid will be used for the development of "space laser technology" on the Southern border
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Image No, I did not make this up, she's this insane:

Israel aid: ..

Ukraine aid: ..amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/GRE…
amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/Con…
Feb 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
VERY strong message from Edward Snowden on the murder of Alexei Navalny.

How's life as a Russian citizen? Free speech paradise as expected?

Oh. Image A thread of Edward Snowden's mask-off gems —

Exhibit A:

Feb 6 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This post made a lot of people angry, but the reply section is a fascinating dive into the most prevalent anti-Ukraine talking points:

• "Our taxes shouldn't go to foreigners"
• "US aid is money laundering"

Neither are particularly compelling, a thread. Image "Our taxes shouldn't go to foreigners"

Good news, they're not!

Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90% is going to Americans. Image
Jan 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
CODEPINK is an explicitly pro-Assad, pro-Putin, and pro-CCP organization partially bankrolled by a pro-CCP millionaire, which the New York Times recently reported.

Pelosi was obviously referring to the New York Times report + the protesters were all white women. Be serious. I don't think people understand that Pelosi (and many other members of Congress) are very aware of CODEPINK mostly by force because CODEPINK has been shoving themselves in members' faces for decades at this point.
Dec 31, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Presenting the TWITTER FRINGE HIGHLIGHT REEL OF 2023!

I've thrown together a list of top tweets for every month of 2023. Vote for the best by replying with your favorite tweet of the month below.

Starting off strong with this all-time banger from January: Image February:

When everybody clapped for Nina Turner in East Palestine. Image
Dec 30, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Flushing a decade of Muslim and Arab integration into the Democratic coalition down the toilet for a lose-lose gamble — all to accomplish nothing.

This is idiotic, and you don't have to be a Muslim or a Democrat to see that. The website cites the leader of CAIR Minnesota saying "we don’t have two options. We have many options. And we’re going to exercise that."

Who are these mystery "other options?" What have we deluded ourselves into believing here?
Oct 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A decade ago, an Assad regime tank blew up my grandparents' home while they were still inside.

The misuse of Syria videos in the Israel-Palestine information war spits on their memory.

It must stop. My words for @Telegraph.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/1… British influencer Sulaiman Ahmed posted an image of Syrian children who were gassed to death by the Assad regime.

He said it was a video of Palestinian children killed by the IDF. Ilhan Omar retweeted it. It went viral. Image
Oct 13, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
FIGHT DISINFORMATION: Comprehensive ongoing list of the most prevalent viral imagery of Syria falsely attributed to the Israel-Gaza war.

This image is of child victims of the Assad regime's gas attack against Eastern Ghouta a decade ago, not Israeli or Gazan victims of war. Image This is a video of children in the Assad-besieged Yarmouk, Syria from a Syrian documentary called "Little Palestine" from nearly a decade ago.

Though these children are mostly of Palestinian descent, this is Syria, not Gaza.