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Trump: "The president of Syria, who I essentially put there, is doing a phenomenal job." Takebeer! https://t.co/9QtL65A6E8
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1/ For 7 decades, the United States ruled unchallenged. But no empire lasts forever. What happens when China, scarred by its WWII sacrifices yet rising under Xi Jinping, takes its place on the world stage? 🧵 https://t.co/NrsEQF4seW
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2/ History has a way of whispering into the present. The 21st century is not simply another chapter in human history. It is the pivot, the point on which the balance of power turns, the moment when yesterday’s world order collides with tomorrow’s uncertainty.
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3/ For over seven decades, the United States has ruled as the unchallenged empire, dictating the terms of global politics, finance, and security. But history, as we know, is never static. Empires rise, empires fall, and no power rules forever.
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4/ And so: what happens when China rules the world, or at least shares the stage with the American empire?
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5/ To understand this, we must go back to the darkest days of the 20th century: a time when China was not the world’s rising giant, but its bleeding victim.
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6/ When we think of WWII, most of us imagine Normandy beaches, Soviet tanks rolling into Berlin, or American bombers over the Pacific. But there is another front—largely forgotten—where the fate of the war was shaped long before Pearl Harbor: China 🇨🇳
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7/ On July 7th, 1937, at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing, the Empire of Japan launched its full-scale invasion of China. What followed was not just another colonial campaign, but the beginning of the longest continuous war of the Second World War.
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8/ Eight years of bloodshed, eight years of occupation, and eight years of resistance. China became the first nation to resist fascist expansion, standing alone against the Japanese war machine while Europe still dithered in appeasement.
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9/ The scale of sacrifice defies comprehension. Entire cities bombed relentlessly, long before London or Dresden. Chongqing became a city of fire, enduring years of aerial bombardment.
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10/ The Rape of Nanjing—one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century—saw over 300,000 civilians massacred and tens of thousands of women subjected to systematic sexual violence.
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11/ By 1945, an estimated 20 million Chinese had perished—civilians and soldiers alike—second only to the Soviet Union in human loss. Millions more were displaced, starved, or broken by the grinding cruelty of war.
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12/ Yet, despite poverty, corruption, and internal division, China refused to surrender. The Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek fought, the Communists under Mao waged guerrilla war, and ordinary peasants resisted occupation in ways large and small.
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13/ By tying down over half of the Japanese Imperial Army, China prevented Tokyo from redirecting those forces toward SE Asia, Australia, or even India. Without China’s endless resistance, Japan might have swept deeper into the Pacific before 🇺🇸 could respond.
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14/ China was a crucial pillar of Allied victory. Recognized as one of the “Big Four” allies—alongside the U.S., the U.K., and the Soviet Union—China earned a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council. But after the war, Cold War politics overshadowed this memory.
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15/ China fractured into civil war, the West turned its back, and the story of Chinese sacrifice was buried beneath decades of ideological struggle.
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16/ Fast forward to September 3rd, 2025. Tiananmen Square is filled with the thunder of marching boots and the roar of jet engines. Xi Jinping presides over China’s largest-ever military parade—marking the 80th anniversary of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. https://t.co/zMRRXpTfSJ
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17/ By Xi’s side walked Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. Their image—arm in arm—was a message to Washington, Brussels, and Tokyo: China is not alone. https://t.co/uZCUFFJCDZ
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18/ Dozens of other leaders from the Global South, from Iran to Indonesia, stood in solidarity, reflecting a multipolar reality where the West no longer dictates attendance.
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19/ And then came the spectacle: tanks, drones, hypersonic missiles, stealth fighters, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, each a choreographed reminder of how far the PLA has come since the days of ragtag guerrilla fighters with little more than rifles and willpower. https://t.co/sJCecvaUHE
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20/ Western commentators were quick to dismiss the parade as saber-rattling, but the symbolism was undeniable. For China, the anniversary was not only about honoring the dead, it was about asserting its right to shape the future.
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21/ To understand this, we must understand the man at the helm: Xi Jinping. Born in 1953, the son of Xi Zhongxun, a revolutionary veteran once close to Mao Zedong, Xi inherited both the privileges and the perils of being a “princeling.”
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22/ During the Cultural Revolution, his family fell out of favor. His father was purged; Xi himself was sent down to the countryside in Liangjiahe, where he lived in a cave-dwelling, worked as a laborer, and endured the hardships of rural China.
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23/ This crucible became his origin myth; a tale he would later wield as proof of resilience and loyalty to the Party.
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24/ Xi’s rise through the CCP was steady, methodical, and deliberate. From county-level posts to Fujian province, where he built a reputation as a pragmatic administrator, to Zhejiang, where he earned a pro-business image, to a brief stint as Shanghai party chief in 2007.
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25/ Within months, he was elevated to the Politburo Standing Committee. By 2012, he became General Secretary of the Communist Party, and in 2013, President of the People’s Republic of China.
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26/ From the start, Xi understood that corruption was both the CCP's greatest weakness and his greatest opportunity. His anti-corruption campaign was unprecedented in scale—taking down over a million officials, from “tigers” (senior leaders) to “flies” (local bureaucrats).
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27/ To some, it was a genuine effort to restore discipline and legitimacy. To others, it was a ruthless purge of rivals. In reality, it was both. By wielding the campaign as both sword and shield, Xi consolidated power in ways unseen since Mao.
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28/ By 2016, Xi was declared the “core” of the CCP leadership. In 2017, “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” was enshrined in the Party constitution. In 2018, presidential term limits were abolished, paving the way for his indefinite rule.
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30/ This was not mere vanity—it was a structural transformation. Xi reasserted the Party’s dominance over every aspect of Chinese life: politics, economy, culture, even technology.
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31/ He created the National Security Commission to centralize security decision-making, restructured the military, and tightened ideological control across universities and media.
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32/ At the heart of Xi’s project lies a single phrase: the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Often translated as the “China Dream,” it is both a slogan and a strategy—a vision of restoring China’s rightful place after a century of humiliation by foreign powers.
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Barbaristan
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1/ Donald Trump didn’t lift sanctions on Syria out of concern for starving Syrian children. He did so to facilitate Julani’s cooperation with Israeli and American demands. Here's what's really happening 🧵 https://t.co/jbXtS6GyUA
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2/ There’s something viscerally wrong about watching President Donald Trump—a man once cheered for his supposed “anti-war” instincts—quietly lift U.S. sanctions on known war criminals and extremist factions in Syria.
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3/ No fanfare. No press conference. Just the quiet normalization of a man like Abu Mohammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda affiliate, now rebranded as the “leader” of Syria’s new regime. This, we are told, is how America supports peace.
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4/ It’s not peace. It’s a Faustian bargain. And Syrians—especially the minorities, the Christians, the Alawites, and the secularists—will pay the price.
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5/ Let’s break through the propaganda. The Trump administration didn’t lift sanctions out of concern for starving Syrian children. It did so to facilitate Julani’s cooperation with Israeli and American demands:
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6/ normalize ties with Israel, kick out Palestinian factions, and pretend the past decade of chaos was all part of Syria’s inevitable “transition.”
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7/ And for what? The man who once had a $10 million bounty on his head for leading a jihadist faction now wears a Western suit and gets nods of approval from Foggy Bottom.
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8/ It’s an insult to memory, to victims, to any notion of justice. And it’s being sold to Americans under the banner of “supporting stability.”
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9/ Make no mistake: This is not a change of heart. This is not a moral reckoning. This is geopolitics at its ugliest—where convenience dictates morality, and terrorism is fine as long as the terrorists serve the right master.
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10/ The Alawite massacres that occurred in March weren’t unfortunate collateral damage. They were premeditated, systematic, and sectarian. Reuters confirmed over 1,500 Alawite civilians were killed in 72 hours.
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11/ Women raped. Children executed. Entire villages razed. These weren’t crimes of passion. These were crimes of ideology. And they were carried out by factions that now sit at the negotiating table with Washington’s blessing.
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12/ The absurdity doesn’t stop there. Trump's administration also delisted two warlords—Abu Amsha and Sayf Abu Bakr—both accused of kidnapping, extortion, sexual violence, and a central role in a massacre of over 1,500 Alawites.
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13/ The U.S. Treasury detailed these crimes. Then Trump’s pen made them disappear. Where’s the outrage? Where are the congressional hearings? Where are the think tank panels?
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14/ Meanwhile, in the U.S., MAGA talking heads are melting down over a possible liberal Muslim mayor in New York. They call it “the fall of the West,” likening it to 9/11.
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15/ But when Trump normalizes a literal former al-Qaeda emir and lifts sanctions on warlords who decapitated Christians and sold women into slavery—crickets. It’s a cult. A nationalist cosplay movement that can’t see beyond its own navel.
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16/ The hypocrisy doesn’t end there. Western media continues to peddle the nonsense that Syria’s diversity is being preserved. In reality, Christians are being hunted. Their churches bombed. Their statues desecrated. Their women taken as sex slaves. The Julani regime has brought Afghanistan to Syria.
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17/ Thirteen thousand mosques exist in Syria. But now, under this “new government,” we must perform state-sponsored prayers in the middle of the street—not out of piety, but to demonstrate dominance. Religious display as political submission. We’ve seen this before—in Taliban-ruled Kabul.
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18/ The more you scratch beneath the surface, the clearer the project becomes. Erase Syria’s secular identity. Cleanse the minorities. Pave the way for a docile, compliant, ultra-religious vassal state.
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19/ A client regime that “makes peace” with Israel, expels the Palestinians, and plays ball with Turkey, Qatar, and Washington.
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20/ And Europe? Oh, the EU is busy delivering moralistic speeches calling for “inclusion” and “diversity,” all while Europe closes its doors to Syrian Christian refugees. You can’t make this up.
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21/ So let me ask: if this is the new world order—where terrorists wear suits, journalists are deplatformed for telling the truth, and Washington builds regimes on the corpses of ethnic minorities—then what exactly are we preserving? Not democracy. Not dignity. Not peace. Just power.
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22/ A friend of mine, an Afghan by birth, told me recently: “You haven’t learned anything from us.” He’s right. The same playbook that destroyed Kabul is being run in Damascus.
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23/ The same Western arrogance that trained mujahideen in the ‘80s is now dressing up war criminals in ties and calling them “reformers.” This isn’t just betrayal. It’s complicity. And the blowback is coming.
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24/ Because Syria isn’t an island. It borders Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. And when the terrorist haven you’ve created begins to overflow, you’ll remember this moment. When you sold Syria for gas deals, normalized genocidaires, and told the world it was for “stability.” Please don’t say we didn’t warn you.
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I’m not saying Macron was hiding a bag of Coke… but let’s just say if it were a bag of sugar or a grocery receipt, he wouldn’t have tucked it away like a squirrel hiding snacks for winter. https://t.co/foxWOWfsyD
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🇸🇾 President Bashar al-Assad's Speech at the Arab and Islamic Summit in Riyadh In a powerful address, President Assad highlighted that the core issue with Israel extends beyond the current Netanyahu government. He said the problem lies with the deep-rooted ideological foundations of the Zionist state, describing it as a “mind sick with bloodshed” and “obsessed with the illusion of superiority.” Assad called on Arab and Islamic nations to take a firm stance—urging a boycott of Israel and stop talking with “the thief in the language of the law, to the criminal in the language of morality, and the butcher in the language of humanity,”
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs and @TuckerCarlson discuss the real reasons the neocons orchestrated the regime-change war in Syria. Sachs: “We started arming the jihadists in Syria and the US said Assad must go.” Tucker: “Why would you want to overthrow Bashar al-Assad?” Jeffrey Sachs referred to multiple points such as the presence of Russia's navy on the Mediterranean in Syria, installing an American puppet in Damascus and sheer ignorance from the American decision-makers. But, in my opinion, there is more to that. The US wanted to remove Assad from power for a few other factors: while removing the Russian Navy from the Mediterranean (and the Black Sea) has been a geopolitical priority, there is also the Iranian factor at play. The strategic alliance between Syria and Iran created a network of alliances between state and non-state actors in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon and posed serious challenges to the US and Israeli hegemony over the region. Under Bashar al-Assad, Syria has become the "strategic depth" of the "axis of resistance" against American and Israeli dominance in the region. For example, in 2006, Syria's Assad opened the military warehouses of the Syrian army to Hezbollah which were used to repel the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and force them to leave. After that, Hezbollah delivered Syrian weapons to Gaza such as the anti-tank Kornet rockets. Therefore, the neocons and Zionists thought removing Assad from power would minimize the influx of weapons to the groups fighting against the Israeli occupation forces. Second, Syria is an important piece of geography in the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. This explains the reason why the US forces are stationed on the Eastern shore of the Euphrates; not only to "keep the oil" but rather also to block the borders between Iraq and Syria, and eventually block the access of China's Belt and Road Initiative to the Mediterranean. Third, if you listen to hardcore Zionist theorists, they preach about the "Greater Israel". Where does the Eastern border of this Greater Israel end? On the Western shore of the Euphrates. According to these hardcore Zionists, the Kurds would be their neighbour on the Eastern shore of the Euphrates, and that is exactly what the US has done in that region. Washington created a large militia dominated by the YPG Kurds and encouraged them to separate from Syria and form their own entity. At the end of the day, whatever the reasons were, the US has committed a crime against humanity in Syria. A crime that will not be forgotten. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are dead and millions more became refugees. The US supported the jihadists and created ISIS, al-Nusra, Islam's Army, Ahrar al-Sham, the Islamic Turkistan Army and many more terrorist armies and destroyed a beautiful and peaceful country with a rich history and civilization. In the discourse of this chaos, the Christians of Syria were ethnically cleansed from many towns and villages by these armies of US-backed terrorists.
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Meet Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, the former US soldier who has become the English-speaking spokesman for the Ukrainian army. Ashton-Cirillo is now threatening 'Kremlin propagandists' with murder. "Russia's war criminal propagandists will all be hunted down and justice will be served," Ashton-Cirillo says. The official spokesperson of the Ukrainian army is threatening journalists and activists with murder and the mainstream media is not even reporting about it. It is disgusting and immoral beyond belief❗️
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Why are we giving these psychos our money? Charlie Kirk rightfully asks
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"Ashton-Cirillo said she also attended political events...where Yankley and other members of the Proud Boys were present. Her ruse put her in position to help Johnston recruit Proud Boys and other far-right activists for the post-election protests." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/proud-boys-nevada-republican/2021/06/01/60da2a58-be5f-11eb-b26e-53663e6be6ff_story.html
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Ashton-Cirillo published a new video ‼️ https://t.co/54j8tELwVm