Good 🧵 on Syria, written by an independent consortium of Syrians and people who have worked inside Syria for many years, as opposed to armchair journalists, propagandists, and cable news shock jocks 
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Great read.
So it were Islamists (HTS) that liberated Syria, right?
Mainly. So we shall see.
Thanks. So worldwide media cheers for Islamists.
Man that's a plot twist I did not see coming.
The Mujahideen was pretty popular back in the day when they faught the Soviets.
The thread could also give a little credit to Israel for tying up Hezbollah and Iran (instead of only referring to its aggression), and to Ukraine for tying up Russia.
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don't worry, when the time comes the current "Rebels" will be dubbed "Assad loyalists" so we can bomb the fuck out of them
lol based. not only that, is there not just a ton of prior examples of this in just the last 20 years? fall of saddam, libya, afghanistan? and wont there be even more foreign powers trying to get involved in the area to fill the power vaccum? Not to be all religious, but when the isrealites left egypt to escape the pharoh, they didnt end up in the promised land right away. instead they suffered in the desert for 40 years before they finally arrived at a better place. IE removal of the tyrant is only the beginning. there is a long way to go before this gets better. i hope im wrong
Yep. But I wonder why german media cheers for islamists and just wanted to understand if it is correct.
Great thread.
Let’s just pray, whatever the outcome, that lives of Syrian civilians improves. Any increase in standard of living and liberty would be a win.
Decades under the regime and a decade of civil war has put these people through unimaginable horror.
The one thing I question in this 🧵 is “but it is striking just how little a role outsiders played in the regime’s collapse”
This could be true because there was 10x involvement previously, and it was materially less now.
But looking at the SNA and allied groups during the offensive, it is hard to ignore their Turkish equipment and training.
Many soldiers had Turkish standard issue uniforms and gear. Turkish night vision and thermal scopes, and used professional military combined arms assaults. They also used the most modern combined FPV drone and surveillance UAV tactics.
Obviously large states will try to take advantage of the power vacuum. Downplaying their involvement does not do any favours for the Syrian people.
Let’s hope the general syrian society can really take control of their future, and remove extremist and foreign powers influence.
I"m not so optimistic as long as Turkey keep arming Jihadist. Not an armchair observation I lived and worked there for 4 years.
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"That doesn't mean that Syria is safe from Israeli aggression". How about a little "thank you" to Israel for bringing Hezbollah, the largest pro-Assad pro-Ayatollah drug-dealing terrorist organization in the region, on their knees?
The Israeli military is occupying and ethnically cleansing Syrian towns, as we speak
Here is a Druze village near the border unanimously requesting to live under Israeli rule, rather than be conquered by the majority-tyranny of ISIS-graduates Sunni Arabs, and possibly end up like Yazidis.
Sunni Muslims are not the only natives to the middle-east, you know.
As much as we like the demise of Assad's sadistic soviet regime and wish for the Ayatollah's to also fall, we shouldn't easily let Qatar's Al-Jazeera propaganda fool us with romantic stories about an "Arab Spring". It's probably going to get ugly for the Alawites when the fighting is over.
Want to have your land back? Sign a peace treaty with Israel like Egypt did. That's the only way you'll get it.
Fun trivia question: Which Jewish American celebrity has a Syrian-Jewish mother? (From the not-so-long-ago past when tens of thousands of Jews lived in Syria, before it became Judenfrei).
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