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Nov 28 20 tweets 4 min read
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
Nov 26 7 tweets 2 min read
🇺🇸🇺🇦 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
Nov 21 25 tweets 4 min read
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
Nov 19 25 tweets 5 min read
🚨🇨🇳 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
Nov 14 16 tweets 3 min read
🚨🇺🇸 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
Nov 11 17 tweets 3 min read
🇺🇸🏴 As we were fixated on Trump receiving Julani in the White House, something far more consequential unfolded: the IMF — the world’s economic hit man — just stepped into Syria.

Let me break it down. 1/16🧵 Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the IMF, met with Julani. And if you know what the IMF really is, that meeting tells you more about Syria’s future than any handshake in DC ever could. 2/16
Nov 1 18 tweets 3 min read
🚨 I don't know about you, but when the former head of Mossad, Yossi Cohen, sits down before a camera and boasts about booby-trapping and spying on electronic equipment ALL OVER THE WORLD, we should stop pretending this is normal. 1. What Cohen admitted in that interview isn’t a small tactical boast; it’s an open confession of a global sabotage doctrine hiding behind the mask of “innovation.”
Oct 24 25 tweets 4 min read
🚨🏴 Abu Muhammad al-Julani built an Islamic Emirate by importing foreign Takfiri jihadists.

Now, on Western request, he’s trying to deport them. Shockingly, the Takfiris didn’t appreciate the customer-service downgrade.

Here’s how Julani’s Takfiristan turned on itself. 🧵 1. I sometimes imagine the world as one big geopolitical lab experiment — a place where men in suits, far from any frontline, play with lives the way a child plays with matches.
Oct 17 23 tweets 3 min read
🚨 The rapprochement between Julani’s Syria and Russia is a transaction born of exhaustion in a much longer Turkish game that ultimately aims to push Russian influence out of the Mediterranean.

WATCH this video to learn when Türkiye will make its move against Moscow. 🧵 1- Turkey’s rise in the Syrian war didn’t happen by accident. It was the result of strategic patience; a long game played beneath the chaos.
Oct 1 25 tweets 3 min read
🚨Ever wondered why Hamas exists in Gaza? Because Israel made sure the alternative—Palestine’s secular, rights-based liberation movement—was eliminated.

Here's the story they won’t tell you 🧵 1. In the 60s & 70s, Palestine had a secular, revolutionary movement. Writers, artists, organizers framed it as part of the global anti-colonial struggle.

This was never “Muslims vs. Jews.”
It was colonized vs colonizer.
Sep 29 12 tweets 3 min read
🚨 They called it a conspiracy theory and mocked anyone who warned about it.

But now it’s here: Digital ID.
Switzerland has adopted it.
Keir Starmer wants to impose it in the UK.

Here's why Digital ID is the blueprint for a GLOBAL DIGITAL PRISON 🧵 1️⃣ Digital ID isn’t just another tech upgrade.
It’s the keystone of a new architecture of power.

Everything you do—eat, buy, say, or move—will be tied back to one thing: your Digital ID.
Sep 4 86 tweets 12 min read
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.
Sep 3 21 tweets 4 min read
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.
Aug 26 16 tweets 3 min read
🚨🏴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.
Aug 20 16 tweets 3 min read
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.
Aug 17 35 tweets 5 min read
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.
Aug 12 32 tweets 5 min read
🇦🇲🇦🇿 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.
Aug 7 22 tweets 3 min read
🇱🇧 1/ Lebanon is being pushed to disarm Hezbollah.
Backed by the US and Israel, some inside the country say it’s time. But beneath the surface lies a deeper, more dangerous question: What fills the vacuum?

Here's what's really happening in Lebanon 🧵 2/ Beirut is once again at a crossroads. An all-too-familiar place for a country that has spent decades navigating existential dilemmas, foreign interference, and internal division.
Jul 28 24 tweets 4 min read
1/ Egypt is under immense pressure from Muslim Brotherhood forces, because the only remaining strong Arab army in the region and the last major obstacle to the Israeli expansionist plan in the Sinai is the Egyptian army.

Here's why you should care about Egypt 🧵 2/ Let’s talk honestly—and yes, bluntly—about the Muslim Brotherhood and the broader regional game that’s unfolding around them.
Jul 25 30 tweets 6 min read
1/ The empire installed an al-Qaeda regime in the heart of Syria, and now, when their Frankenstein murders civilians, they blame the corpse of the Assad state or conjure up the ghost of ISIS as an excuse.

Here are some of the imbeciles who whitewashed Al-Qaeda 🧵 2/ In a world that prides itself on democracy, transparency, and human rights, it is nothing short of Orwellian how the very same Western powers that bombast about “freedom” and “liberation” have enabled, empowered, and installed a jihadist regime in the heart of Syria.
Jul 23 25 tweets 4 min read
1/ While Iranian officials hope that negotiations can forestall confrontation with the US and Israel, Tel Aviv is building the scaffolding for encirclement in the Middle East and South Caucasus.

Here is how Israel is taking strategic moves against Iran 🧵 2/ The headlines paint a portrait of confusion. Western media outlets clumsily talk about a "misunderstanding", as if the recent massacres in Suwayda were the result of a miscommunication between Julani, Israel, and Washington.