War Propaganda and the Fall of Syria
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
A succession of U.S. presidents have been committed to regime change in
Syria. That long-held goal has been achieved in part through a sustained
campaign of war propaganda.
“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mull’d, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.” – Shakespeare, Coriolanus
Long ago, but what seems like only yesterday, I didn’t go to the U.S. war against Vietnam but the war came to me. It was when my exile began.
The NATO-Israeli cabal cheering on Damascus’s fall will get more than they bargained for. Power struggles and infighting among extremist militias and civil society, each backed by different regional and foreign actors who want a piece of the pie.
Photo Credit: The CradleThe short headline defining the abrupt, swift end of Syria as we knew it would be: Eretz Israel meets new-Ottomanism. The subtitle? A win-win for the west, and a lethal blow against the Axis of Resistance.
BBC Middle East correspondent Yolande Knell, 5 December, 2024
Imagine that the world’s largest and most respected human rights group issued a report detailing Russian war crimes in Ukraine and concluding that Russia was committing genocide. Western news media would devote massive coverage to the report. Newspaper and website headlines, together with television and radio broadcasts, would highlight Russia’s genocide and the bitter denunciations of Western leaders.
🔺 The West may, in the medium term, try to unleash a global armed conflict, with the epicenter in Eurasia;
🔺 The West is fully prepared to resort to extreme measures to hold on to its dominance;
🔺 The United States is losing the initiative on all fronts, from the Middle East to Asia and Africa, and is suffering outright failures in the post-Soviet domain;
🔺 The Anglo-Saxons have resorted to flagrant terror and attempts to physically eliminate opponents, a prime example of this is the assassination attempt targeting Slovakia’s PM Fico;
🔺 Regarding the threats against Vucic and Orban: Dynamic leaders of the emerging multipolar world are under attack by the Anglo-Saxons;
🔺 According to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the post-Soviet realm remains a priority target for attacks by American and British intelligence agencies.
About Russia’s Special Military Operation
🌏 The Ukrainian forces are on the brink of collapse;
🌏 Russia is close to achieving its set goals, the strategic initiative on all fronts belongs to the Russian military;
🌏 The Zelensky regime has completely lost its legitimacy and, as a result, its ability to negotiate;
🌏 The West plans to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian, and then force the Balts, East Europeans, and Germans to fight in the future;
🌏 Further escalation will not lead to the exhaustion of Russia, as Washington and London believe, rather it will culminate in the strategic defeat of the West itself.
The swift collapse of Assad’s regime raises troubling questions. In 2015, under far grimmer odds, Syria’s Republican Guard et Tiger Forces held the line against larger US-Turkish-Israeli proxies. Latakia’s coast and critical supply routes were defended heroically, and Damascus, despite being struck almost daily, stood resolutely. Today, that same Damascus has fallen without a fight. What changed? Was this collapse engineered by a series of covert deals and betrayals among those Assad once trusted to safeguard Syria’s sovereignty?
Ali Larijani, advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Damascus, December, 6, 2024
Iran and Russia are the two big losers in the ouster of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday by the Sunni Islamist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda. Assad fled in the nick of time after giving orders that there be a peaceful handover of power. The likelihood is that he is in Russia. At any rate, a rollback of the Islamist takeover in Syria is out of the question.
Brian Berletic
🇺🇸🇸🇾I’m asked why the Syrian Arab Army collapsed so quickly…
The Syria army was hollowed out from years of fighting and a crippled economy.
Russia prioritizes Ukraine and would not have been able to supply Syria with the arms/ammunition in the quantities required to fight off a NATO-armed/trained army.
Editorial Comment: I agree with Brian’s analysis, yet I have many questions that demand answers. Not only did Syria’s allies fail to stop the fall of Syria, they did nothing to end the genocide in Palestine or the advance of the war to Lebanon and Syria. In fact, Russia repeatedly sabotaged negotiations in Syria by insisting on Turkey’s inclusion, not respecting the sovereignty of Syria when it demanded the departure of all Turkish forces from Syrian territory. Repeatedly Russia supported Turkey and established joint security patrols, which amounted to protecting land illegitimately occupied by Turkish forces.
HTS fighters in Damascus on Sunday, December 8, 2024. OMAR SANADIKI / AP
US backed al Qaeda takeover of Syria follows Israeli retreat from Lebanon
The US backed al Qaeda takeover of Syria follows Israeli retreat from Lebanon Within hours of the Israeli-Lebanese cease fire – essentially an Israeli retreat after making no progress against Hezbollah in the ground war in south Lebanon, indicted war criminal Netanyahu turned his attention to Syria, warning Syrian President Bashar al Assad that he was “playing with fire.”
Made it out of Syria for the time being. Chaos rules, looting, thuggery and thieving. Gets the US Israel stamp of approval because this is what they believe in. Going through the border was a mash of gunfire, infighting and looting from every single shop and market. Terrorists on motorcycles, gunslingers and criminals. An incredibly sad experience. The house was surrounded by “rebels” drunk in “victory” from 5am, constant celebratory gunfire and around 10 they tried to beat the external door down to loot the contents of the house. Early morning Israel was destroying #Syria Air Defence with bunker buster bombs. The whole house shook. The CIA road map is always the same. The Resistance is broken and I doubt it can be repaired but the extremist mercenaries in the pay of Israel will tell you they “support Palestine”. Go on then, you are on the border now.
✅ Israel has stated that it is targeting Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian resistance centers to secure resources for their new caliphate.
Israel is systematically destroying all the brigades and battalions of the former regime’s army in southern Syria, directly targeting air defense systems, missile depots, development and manufacturing plants, and any location involved in producing or passing on weapons that might pose a future threat to Israel.
As for the so-called “new caliphate,” it seems they are not receiving the rewards from their masters. Instead, they find themselves in a position of degradation, as if they are being humiliated by those they serve,…
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In order to affect regime change in Syria, the U.S. government and its media organs carried out the most sophisticated and expensive propaganda campaign in history.
I documented several aspects of it in the 2018 mini-documentary, “The Syria Deception: Al-Qaeda Goes to Hollywood.”
The documentary’s relevance has been renewed as the same imperialist forces are now collapsing the Syrian state while Washington’s media organs give the foreign-sponsored extremist organizations attacking Syria a makeover.
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