How The World Tried to Destroy Syria: They Lied About the War
From global sanctions, to proxy groups, to civil war and more; Syria has survived under extreme circumstances with very little help from any nations outside a few anti-imperialist states.
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Disclaimer:
The history of Syria’s struggles from the 70’s to today, especially focusing on the civil war of 2011 to present day, is long and extensive. This piece is simply to cover a reasonable amount of the information to expose the truth behind the issue and expose Western propaganda; because that is the goal, it means this piece will be reasonably long and information heavy. However it is a necessary read as it exposes everything we was lied to about.
Syrian Struggles - From Founding to Today:
The West has aimed to destroy Syria since 1979 due to multiple reasons: The main reasons being - Syria under Syrian Ba'athist Party control, receiving aid from the USSR, and pushing to become independent from US economic control and political influence.
Under the leadership of Hafez Al-Assad, the leader before Bashar, Syria seen struggles as not only did the US put them on the "State sponsor of Terrorism" List; but the Muslim Brotherhood tried to overthrow them as well in the same year.
Arguably, we could also include the Six Day War of 1967, where the Israeli theft of the Golan Heights and continued attacks on Syria from then to today contributes to Syria’s struggles.
Syria since it’s founding after European colonialism has been caught in conflict after conflict as the country has actively fought against one proxy group or another or colonial interests back to back. These events have contributed to Syria’s struggles as a nation.
Sanctions & Embargo on Syria:
Syria has came under sanctions for well over 50 years for one reason or another.
The first being in 1979 with the US classifying them as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” for it’s involvement in the Lebanon conflict and support for the Lebanese Resistance Movement called Hezbollah.
Following that was sanctions from the European Community in November of 1986, these sanctions was to limit travel and any arm/munitions sent to Syria. This was also the same year that the Syrian elections voted for the Ba’athist Party again in February, following after was more violence by the Wahhabist Muslim sect between March-April.
There was more sanctions added to Syria in 2004 for their active support for Hezbollah and Hamas along with their aligning to the Axis of Resistance.
Then there is the global 2011 embargo as the manufactured civil war begins in Syria. A clear effort by the west and their allies to strike a final nail in the coffin of Syria’s stability. Thankfully they failed.
Nations That Sanctioned or Attacked Syria's Economy in 2011
European Union, United States, Arab League, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Turkey
Nations That Added Additional Sanctions or Attacks on Syria's Economy in 2012-2018
European Union, United States
Impact:
"wide impact on the Syrian population, leading to a near-embargo of the country as a result of the sanctions imposed by trade or humanitarian aid entities to that country and the legal complexity of such measures. The impact also affects the medical sector."
Messing with the economies of nations means messing with food and medical security that its population depend on. It is because of this why 12.4 million Syrians struggle with food insecurity. It is also why their healthcare system has been damaged due to war and fleeing physicians; causing limited hospitals and nurses who are overloaded and lacking supplies.
The world tried to destroy them economically, along through proxies, and are confused why they aligned with the Axis of Resistance.
Syrian Civil War:
Syria was not without its own problems before the civil war; economic struggles, free market policies, over dependence on certain industries, a 5 years long drought, etc. But the evil the US aimed to launch was due to a hatred for a nation that demanded its own self determination.
-Civilian Causalities From War & Sanctions and Turkish Colonialism of Syrian Territory
"On 28 June 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Office said that 306,887 civilians had been killed in Syria during the conflict between March 2011 and March 2021, representing about 1.5% of its pre-war population."
-Screenshots from The Syrian Truth Project
-Many say "But Assad gassed his own people!" But what is the facts?
There was multiple reports about this, but much of the evidence about it was heavily suppressed for western watchdogs. The first recorded documentation of chemical weapons was in 2012, when a leaked video from within a FSA lab showed chemical components from the Turkish company Tekkim. Bashar al Ja’afari, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, immediately requested an investigation - which was ignored. A video that was uploaded during this time from a group representing itself as the “Screaming Wind Chemical Battalion” who specifically threatened to wipe out the Alawite minority.
For context, FSA means Free Syrian Army, now referred to as the Syrian Free Army to avoid the bad reputation, it is the rebel group that Western governments and Saudi Arabia armed and used. This group was/is made up of largely insurgents from Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Egypt, Libya, Turkey, and Afghanistan.
If Syria’s Assad truly was behind the chemical weapons attacks, then it would make no logical sense why in late 2012 the UN with Syria established the OPCW to overlook the elimination of the Syrian Government’s chemical weapons supply. Which they finished in destroying all of it in 2014.
The US state department was quick to lay blame on the Syrian government, and then later it was confirmed that the Syrian rebels fired them. This was proven with video and photo evidence by the SyrianFreePress, whose website was shut down shortly after the evidence dropped. I refuse to trust US judgment because of this. Many of these former FSA rebels that the US armed and trained later created ISIL, who also gassed Syrians using chemical weapons in 2015.
In 2018, the Russian military found a FSA/ISIS chemical lab which was making mustard gas and LSD which was assumed they would put in the Damascus water supply.
“Assad has nothing to gain from chemical weapons use. He is already winning the war.”
–American foreign terrorist Matthew VanDyk
-Why Does This Matter?
“I tell myself I shouldn’t take online FSA propaganda too seriously but when I remember the large portion of foreigners who moved to Syria to join FSA & ISIS rebels I remember that this online propaganda turns into real life action & irreversible recruitment very quickly.
There are entire FSA battalions of foreign fighters, many of whom have been interviewed & spoken about how the internet influenced them.”
-Syrian Truth Project
Not only has the West caused countless lives lost and billions in destruction to Syria and surrounding regions, but the lies they told the world on top of that means that this conflict is one of a few where the complexity of it and overwhelming destruction will last for decades. No one can even talk about the Middle East without inevitably mentioning the destruction that Syria and its neighbors went through because of the proxy groups involved and the West’s active participation.
-FSA & ISIS Acts to Exterminate Religious Minorities
The FSA, ISIS and other extremist groups was incredibly racist and hateful - they targeted multiple religious and ethnic minorities alongside Alawites; they also targeted Christians, Assyrians, Armenians, Druze, Shia’s, etc. The minority they hated the most and mentioned the most was Alawites.
[Rumble: FSA Attacks Religious & Ethnic Minorities]
-Aid to Terrorist Cells | Turkish Collusion
Between November 2012-February 2013, Turkey and Jordan helped to deliver 3,000 tons of Croatian weapons into the hands of the of those FSA chemical weapons threat-makers.
Turkey gave free housing to the terrorist Jabhat al Nusra, with particular attention to the Chechen and Tunisian leaders, and helped ensure the transit of their members
February 28th, 2013, Nikki Haley repeats pro-FSA propaganda and even welcomes them into the UN to speak against Syria.
December 30th, 2013, FSA and other insurgents poison Aleppo main water supply. No condemnation from the UN despite being informed and requested for condemnation multiple times.
ISIS fighter & leader, Bana”s, welcomed in Turkey by Erdogen.
March of 2014, the US & Turkey was shelling the Latakia port as al-Nursa and FSA began attacking the Syrian governorate. This was around the same time as the OPCW was taking the last of Syria’s chemical weapons supply.
CIA arms and trains al-Nusra insurgents and FSA. This operation was called Operation Timber Sycamore.
2015, Saudi-Turkey pact to aid Syrian terrorist cells against the Syrian government.
Creation of the White Helmets, a group funded heavily with stolen money by Mayday, presenting itself as a philanthropic group dedicated to saving civilian lives, but was exclusively operating in rebel controlled territories and collaborating with FSA and ISIL militants.
To this day the FSA subgroup called the “Revolutionary Commando Army” is still stationed at the American occupation base Al-Tanf.
-White Helmets seen with Al-Nusra Front (Al-Qaeda)
-Screenshots from The Syrian Truth Project
Many videos leaked from Syria showing ISIS not only traveling freely over the Turkish border, but also fighting alongside Turkey or even disguised as Turkish soldiers, in fact there is 4 videos of a compilation on archive.org showing this. [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]
Additionally, not all the weapons ISIS gets is from the US or Israel, some is from Turkey. Soldiers in Rojava discovered weapons caches from ISIS with Turkish made weapons.
-FSA Ties to Al-Nusrah Front (Al-Qaeda)
-US Government Admits to Arming & Training ISIL
There is multiple videos of US politicians, journalists, news anchors and even some whistleblowers who have admitted to the US arming, funding and training ISIS/ISIL forces in Syria. They became a proxy group that would later be used to create the branch ISIS-K in Afghanistan and even be sent to fight alongside Ukrainians against Russia. Many watchdogs have spent the last decade digging for this information, and I’ve collected it into a video on:
[Rumble: US Admits to Training & Using ISIS]
Multiple videos and reports, especially from the Middle East, have leaked showing US made munitions and supplied dropped into ISIS and FSA territories. While the Western populations was being lied to that we was firm enemies, the US was going behind everyone’s backs giving them supplies to empower them. As is the case with this video for example, showing Syrians discovering US made munitions in ISIS territory after they abandoned the area in 2015.
-FSA & ISIS Ties with Israel
FSA, ISIS and other extremist groups was useful proxies for the Zionist entity (Israel). Israel gave military munitions and intelligence along with medical treatment because the US proxy groups was seen as useful in removing Assad and securing the Northern border for the illegal Israeli government. It would also drastically damage Hezbollah and Hamas, both strong allies of Syria’s Assad government.
[Rumble: Israel & Mossad Use ISIS & FSA]
-FSA Ties with ISIS/ISIL
It was very common for videos and images to randomly be leaked showing FSA either fighting alongside or rallying with ISIS/ISIL. This largely had to do with many of FSA going to join the founding of ISIS when the Al-Nusra Front with the help of the CIA established the group. In 2014, reports stated that many FSA and other groups sided with ISIS as a result of US airstrikes, which is ironic given the US’s involvement with ISIS.
-Additional FSA Facts
FSA was also known to use child soldiers during the war. 60% of the UN’s verified cases of child soldiers was those fighting for the FSA.
FSA was known for cannibalism in their terrorist acts across Syria. Starting with one of the group’s leaders eating the heart of a fallen Syrian soldier as a means of intimidation. The news tried to make it out, and even he did when approached for interview, like he didn’t eat it, he just held it. But this was proven wrong by the leaked video that can be found on archive.org after it leaked to the public.
-Rojava, Kurdish Ties to the FSA and US
The Kurdish forces are made up of multiple groups, many of which secular and anarchist. The most popular being the “Syrian Democratic Forces” or SDF for short. Rojava as it’s popularly known, has support from the US, UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, France, and Iraq. There is rare occasions, usually when dealing with Turkey who hates Rojava and the Kurds, where Rojava has gotten the assistance of Iran, Russia and Syria. However as I said these are rare, and have become more common in the most recent years.
However we aren’t going to ignore Rojava’s close ties to the FSA and the US.
Summarized Quote:
“What made me leave Rojava was when the group got involved with the US, accepting their assistance. We called for the US to bomb an area where ISIS fighters was shooting from, and instead of precision striking the area, we watched their planes level the entire town. There was multiple civilians there. That event is what made many of us anti-imperialists who leaned more towards Communist values abandon the Rojava project. It was also a turning point that made the Kurdish question further involvement with the US.”
-Christopher Helali
While there may have been hesitance within Rojava to continue working with the US, this sadly did not change, since earlier this year Rojava soldiers was seen using US supplied arms and vehicles.
And, unsurprisingly, the alliance of Kurdish and a subgroup of FSA against ISIS, which if ironic given everything we just showed and proved about FSA ties with ISIS.
-“Humanitarian Aid”
Humanitarian aid from the West is just code for “bare minimum supplies to live, making you dependent upon us” or “some aid and a lot of munitions for our proxies.”
-Trump Picking up Where Obama Left Off
Trump during his campaign lied about a “good neighbor” policy with Syria. He, once in power, continued in attacks on Syria and vocalized his support of Turkey’s invasion and occupation of Jarabulus, Syria.
-The Civil War Today
The civil war still rages, but as of the last few years, the Syrian government has been significantly stronger than when it was in 2011-2012. They have control of significantly more land than they did since then and Assad’s approval rating is up over 90%. This still hasn’t stopped the Western backed FSA and ISIL groups still trying to undermine the popular government, with recent events like the ex-ISIS chief being appointed as commander of US-backed militia in Syria.
Why Did They Do It?
The goal to destroy Syria’s government involved multiple objectives and reasons. Those being:
Retaining global hegemony
Safeguarding Israeli interests
Destroying the Syrian military
Weakening and destroying Hezbollah
Scaring China, Iran and Russia
Restricting Russia from a safe-hold in the Middle East
Accessing the Syrian oil pipelines
The Syrian civil war was the event where much of the West’s most illegal activities and money laundering took place. It was the event where many Wahhabist and Salafist proxy groups with Saudi backing grew their strongest. It was an illegal manufactured war by foreign entities.
Moral of The Story:
ANYTHING the US & its Allies does in another nation will always be to harm it and further their own interests. Be that hegemony, resources, etc.
Not only was we all lied to about what happened in Syria, but Syria has every right to never trust us or our judgement on anything. The West, our governments, tried to destroy Syria and turned it into one of the most chaotic geopolitical conflicts in human history, all because Syria decided they don’t want the Western boot on their neck.
Additional Sources Used for Different Parts of This Piece:
Syrianews.cc | “True History of FSA Chemical Weapons Threats against Syria” (Use startpage.com and view via their Anonymous Viewer feature, otherwise site might not register)
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