© Kevork’s Newsletter
For us, none of this is surprising. It simply formalizes what we already knew: the so-called "War on Terror" was never about fighting terrorism. It was a geopolitical instrument that could be paused, reversed, or inverted whenever U.S. or Israeli strategic interests required it.
And Julani's rise proves that point better than anything else.
America's Betrayal: Not Only of Syrians, but of Its Own Veterans
I have American friends who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were told they were fighting al-Qaeda, fighting extremism, defending their country. Today, they live with PTSD, chronic wounds, and emotional scars, all while the very people they were told to fight are being escorted into the Oval Office for photo-ops. If I were in their shoes, I would feel deeply betrayed.
Meanwhile, Washington is rewriting history and hoping no one notices. The U.S. government had full knowledge of the jihadist engine that was being built in Syria. In 2012, Jake Sullivan emailed Hillary Clinton acknowledging that "al-Qaeda is on our side in Syria". The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) warned the Obama administration in 2012 that the insurgency's core force was jihadists, Salafis, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet Obama approved "Timber Sycamore," the CIA program that armed and trained these very groups.
Now, over a decade later, we arrive at the inevitable destination: the United States hosting the former emir of Jabhat al-Nusra — the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda — as the U.S.-approved steward of a "new Syria."
It is macabre theater.
Comment: It could lead one to think, that there wasn't really a wish to shoot down these drones. If the drones were from the NATO alliance itself to use as a pretext for anti-Russian propaganda, then it would make sense not to shoot them down. None of the other EU countries have tried to shoot them down either, which only strenghtens the hypothesis that these drones were there to force a certain 'NATO' narrative.
In the picture above, in the background appears what looks like the NATO headquarters.