Independent military author and researcher. Transnational rebel.
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Thousands fled to the mountain. No food. No water. A slow death awaited. /2 
1/ Over the past week, Suweyda endured a brutal siege: a city cut off, its people surrounded by thousands of jihadists. Massacres followed. Yet Tom Barrack, is lying through his teeth: 
2/ They poured in from all over [MAP] — until the retreat order came. From none other than Ahmed al-Sharaa, the self-declared “President of Syria.”
handed rifles with zero background checks, and transported by the thousands to the frontlines to kill Druze. No one is stopping them, not Israel, not the Syrian government, not the United States. 2/5
HTS has fielded what it calls “Thermal Sniping Companies”: elite units built specifically for night warfare. These aren’t just fighters with scopes. They're trained to move, kill, and infiltrate under total darkness — while you can’t see a thing. 1/6
2/ Turkey’s been using chemical weapons to smoke PKK fighters out of tunnel networks for a while now — yeah, even though it’s banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention. And get this: their own Defense Minister, Hulusi Akar, admitted it in parliament.
2/ For decades, hundreds of thousands of Syrian Kurds had no citizenship, no ID, no rights.
1/ Their crimes were detailed in Aug 2023 via an OFAC press release, citing serious human rights abuses in Afrin: kidnappings, sexual violence, ransom extortion of Kurds and Arabs. These men were sanctioned under E.O. 13894. 🔗home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
2/ Russia’s tone has shifted from “favoring a ceasefire” to skepticism about its longevity. Putin at the Minsk forum played a diplomatic middle ground hoping the Iran–Israel fighting could “be considered a thing of the past". But, no defence pact, and no S400.
2/ And that might be technically true. Yes, Jolani split from ISIS back in 2013. He led Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria. But what they never tell you, what they deliberately omit every single time, is this:
1/ In 2002, the U.S. spent $250 million running the “Millennium Challenge” war game—a simulated war in the Persian Gulf. The OPFOR, led by Marine Gen. Paul Van Riper, tossed out Pentagon playbooks: no radios, no satellites. Orders went by motorcycle courier and mosque loudspeakers.
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2/ In his thesis, Fidan praises the CIA for mastering covert empire-building; citing regime change, propaganda, and economic sabotage as successes worth copying.
2/ The thesis, titled "Intelligence and Foreign Policy: A Comparison of British, American and Turkish Intelligence Systems", was submitted at Bilkent University. Written in English, it’s shockingly candid about Turkey’s strategic ambitions after the Cold War. 
2/ May 1st: headlines said a French giant was taking over Syria’s Port of Latakia.
1/ I’ve written many threads tracing how Ahmed al-Sharaa (Jolani), now declared interim president of Syria with the endorsement of key actors in the imperial core, is navigating the passage from insurgent to head of state. 
