Vanessa Beeley

1. Trump's regional strategy is a dangerous game of brinkmanship that will plunge the Resistance into a final stand against the Zionist movement

The following is a post on X, written by Yemeni analyst Mohamad Al Shami. I recommend everyone to follow him for insights that you will not find elsewhere.

My take on what's unfolding between the U.S. and the region.

BACKGROUND

• The Zionist enemy received unprecedented blows from the Axis of Jihad and Resistance, turning its war into an existential battle, by its own admission.

• The United States intervened directly, deploying its full capabilities with the aim of securing a total and sweeping victory over all states and components of the Axis, advancing steps toward the "Greater Israel" project.

• The enemy succeeded in militarily neutralizing Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran.

• It succeeded in toppling and fragmenting Syria, and the U.S. enabled the Israeli occupation to advance deep into vast areas of Quneitra, reaching the outskirts of Damascus and strategic areas along the Lebanese border.

• The Americans and Israelis failed, utterly, to deter the mujahideen in Palestine and Yemen.

• For a brief moment, the enemy thought victory was within reach, imagining it had isolated Gaza and shattered Axis unity. But Yemen took them by surprise, rising with greater strength. The Yemenis stood alone against the Zionist-American barbarity, relying solely on Allah, and declared to Gaza with full confidence and resolve: You are not alone.

• The U.S. then shifted its full force toward Yemen in a bid to complete what it believed was an imminent Israeli victory. Trump declared it openly: "We will wipe out the Houthis." But he failed, suffering unprecedented defeats and losses. His F-35s, B-2 bombers, and even aircraft carriers came under real threat of being downed or sunk.

• The mujahideen in Gaza stood firm in a legendary, unprecedented scene, not only withstanding the enemy's savagery, but also advancing their battlefield tactics, inflicting devastating losses over recent weeks.

• The U.S. now fears Hezbollah and Iran re-entering the frontlines, and is deeply concerned by Yemen's growing capabilities, which has drained the US and posed a genuine threat to the existence of the Zionist entity itself.

• China also has stood its ground in the face of American arrogance. Washington has finally yielded to the growing economic might of the Chinese dragon — and now fears the deepening ties between Yemen and China.

• Trump, fearing a visit to the region while his administration continues its aggression on Yemen, worried about being personally targeted, or that his aircraft might be, during such a visit. This led him to seek Omani mediation to halt the American aggression, which in turn led to Yemen pausing its retaliatory strikes on U.S. aircraft and ships.

• At that point, the U.S. had no choice but to save itself and the temporary Zionist entity, and was thus forced to halt its military operations in Yemen (a surrender in effect). It began bypassing Netanyahu with a direct green light from Zionist circles in the U.S., an acknowledgement that the "Greater Israel" project could not proceed now, and thus shifting toward scaling down the Zionist-American aggression on Gaza and the region.

CHANGE IN U.S. STRATEGY

In response, the U.S. pivoted to an "exit strategy" from this dangerous situation before a full-blown catastrophe could unfold, and has recently taken the following steps:

• A media campaign to distort the truth and cover up its humiliating failure in Yemen, by falsely claiming that "the Houthis requested surrender." A blatant lie known to anyone who followed the events of the past two months, as proven by Yemen's continued operations against the Zionist entity during Trump's regional visit.

• Exiting with the greatest possible benefits, which includes: – Cementing the new Israeli occupation in Syria, cutting a deal with al-Jawlani (Ahmad al-Shar'a), lifting sanctions on Syria, and opening the door for the U.S., Israel, and their allies in Saudi Arabia and Qatar to deal directly with the Syrian government, in ways that serve Zionist-American interests both inside and outside Syria.

This includes, for example, the high possibility of deploying takfiri groups against Yemen in the next phase.

Rehabilitating America's shattered image through the false claim that "the Houthis surrendered," marketing it to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf as a U.S. achievement in protection of Gulf — aimed at extortion, looting their wealth, and further subjugating them to the Zionist-American agenda.

Offsetting American and Israeli losses by extracting $2.2 trillion from Arab resources, killing two birds with one stone: weakening the region and violently looting its wealth, while at the same time injecting life into the collapsing U.S. economy for years to come, presenting it all as "business deals" in exchange for American projects in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Pushing Saudi Arabia toward the Abraham Accords — i.e., open normalization with the Zionist entity — and tightening Zionist-American control over subservient regimes in the so-called "Middle East."

Ensuring a steady flow of Gulf Arab wealth to the U.S. to prop up its crumbling economy, especially in light of China's meteoric economic rising power.

Buying time to study the sources of strength within the Axis of Jihad and Resistance, especially Yemen and the Palestinian resistance, and to craft future plans to dismantle them, while continuing the systematic destruction of Lebanon and Iran, tightening internal control over Syria, and neutralizing and weakening the resistance in Iraq.

WHAT'S NEXT?

In return, Saudi Arabia and Qatar received the following:

• An extension of their ruling regimes' grip on power.

• The illusion of having "neutralized the Houthi threat."

• The opportunity to polish Saudi Arabia's image by suggesting it played a role in lifting the blockade on Syria, paving the way for both Saudi and Qatari regimes to play a larger role in the upcoming Zionist-American agenda.

• So-called "joint defense agreements" to delude them into thinking they are protected from future threats.

• Enabling the Zionist-American enemy to exert full control over the Saudi and Qatari regimes via so-called "joint projects" spanning all domains, economic, military, social, technological, intelligence, AI, and more, and turning these regimes into tools for targeting components of the Axis of Resistance, thus making America's next phase of aggression more efficient and effective.

For this reason, all forces, components, and countries within the Axis of Jihad and Resistance, along with every free soul who stands with them around the world, must prepare for the inevitable next confrontation, even if the enemy announces a halt to its genocidal war on Gaza in the coming days. That pause would only be part of a new, undeclared strategy of aggression.

[My note - I would like to add the role of Turkey and Russia working in collaboration with Israel, particularly in Syria to consolidate their presence in the region. The recent visit from Jonathan Bass to Damascus prior to Trump lifting sanctions also secured assurances from Jolani that Syria would cooperate with the US against Iran as well as normalising relations with the Zionist entity]

We are facing a dangerous escalation rather than any kind of "peace".

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2. Trump sells-out Syria to Al Qaeda, resilient Yemen, the carving-up of a Syrian sovereign state

My reports are a little more ad-lib than usual because of an error with the slides but I hope the gist is clear. Trump lifting the sanctions on Syria is more theatre that will have very little genuine positive impact for the Syrian people emerging from a 14 year war against their dignity, hope and infrastructure.

The US made no promises to exit Syria and in recent weeks they have been rebuilding the American military footprint in the north-east. Trump has clearly extracted promises from Al Jolani ( rebranded Al Sharaa) self-elected president of Syria since the coup - primarily to normalise Syria's relations with Israel - something that Syria has proudly withstood since the squatter state came into being in 1948.

The carving-up of a sovereign state is becoming clearer - the regional lines are being drawn by the players who participated in the regime change war that began, in earnest. back in 2011, but had been planned for decades.. these are dark days that lie ahead for the Resistance Axis. Yemen is our greatest hope.

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3. Who truly pulls the strings in the US swamp? Conversation with Fiorella Isabel

I am joined again by my good friend and colleague, journalist Fiorella Isabel, for another deep dive into what's going on in the world - Emperor Trump and his no clothes policy, the Zionist 'final solution' in Gaza green-lighted in Washington, Yemen's humiliation of US hegemony and the upcoming 80th anniversary of Victory Day in Russia which is tomorrow.. this and so much more.

Fiorella's latest article is here.

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4. Unit 8200: The World’s Most Dangerous Cyber Warfare Unit, Powering Global Espionage and Profiting from the Shadows

Mike Robinson delves into the Israeli Intelligence overreach into UK state surveillance sectors. A chilling glimpse of our future? You can follow or subscribe to UK Column here.

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5. Yemen, graveyard of invaders and Trump gives green light for 'final solution' in Gaza

My reports yesterday 7th May, for UK Column - I cover the Trump hubris over the 'ceasefire' in Yemen which is nothing more than a US retreat from the fray after devastating losses and over-budget failures to impact Ansarullah and the Yemeni collective resistance against the Zionist genocide in Gaza.

My second report covers the uptick in the 'final solution' campaign in Gaza which is designed to force two million Palestinians into a fraction of the land mass of the tiny Gaza enclave - while encouraging 'evacuation' and mass deportation under the guise of humanitarian response. The Zionist starvation policy will be policed by American military/intelligence contractors who will ensure that only the "approved" Palestinians will receive food and aid.

From journalist يوسف فارس Yusuf Fares on Facebook:

This young man, Mohammad Al-Tabbasi, received a call from the Israeli occupation forces ordering him to stand behind a sand dune in the Sawafi area of Khan Younis, just behind the Al-Rahma displacement camp, so they could carry out his execution in isolation. They threatened that if he refused, they would bomb the entire camp.

He rushed to say his final goodbyes to his family: "Tell people to pray for me and forgive me," then ran to the spot where he would meet his death behind the dune. He uttered the takbir and began his final prayer...then they bombed him.

Have you ever witnessed such savagery, such terrorism? This is not an isolated incident. Dozens of young men and even children have received similar calls from Israeli intelligence, lured with the promise of aid. But when they arrived at the designated location, they were met with a devilish, mocking laugh...followed by an explosion.

This is Gaza. This is 'Humanity'. We failed.

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6. The UK Private Security Boom in Syria under Al Qaeda Regime - Part 1

First published by UK Column

When it comes to the world of Private Military Companies (PMC) or Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC), public perception has been conditioned to think of the Russian Wagner Group, formerly led by the maverick Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. Western commentators like Jack Margolin point out that: "During Wagner's assault on Bakhmut, Prigozhin declared the need for the Russian military to learn from what made Wagner effective. A year after his death, Russian military leadership have in many ways accomplished exactly that, taming the diffuse and agile elements of the Wagner Group to deploy them to lethal effect".

However, it may surprise some to know that the predominant trend by governments to benefit from PMCs is actually spearheaded by four countries, making up 70% of the PMC market globally. These countries are the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and South Africa, and they host the majority of PMCs operating in almost every country in the world for a diverse range of clients, assuming responsibilities for critical state and security functions.

Some argue that Russia, while having a relatively small PMSC sector, has potentially used its contractors for combat more than other countries. There is evidence that this is a cleaner use of PMCs than the US/UK's clandestine, covert use of the PMC skill set for a multitude of hybrid war strategies that offer plausible deniability and distance from the potential for war crimes and international law transgressions committed by these shadowy groups who assume the role of paid scapegoat when exposed.

The market for PMCs is a rapidly expanding one. Today, more than 150 private military companies exist and offer their services in around 50 countries. The size of the industry is quickly evolving; by 2020, $223 billion worth of services were sold, an amount estimated to double by 2030. This is a war for profit that is thinly disguised as 'modern diplomacy'.

As pointed out in this Modern Diplomacy article on PMCs:

Nonetheless, the legality of their actions becomes a subject of scrutiny when they operate in regions beyond their home country. Some of these companies are no strangers to violating international humanitarian and human rights laws, as long as they meet the needs of their clients so they can get paid.

For example, in 2004 muslim prisoners from Abu Ghraib prison in the hands of personnel from the United States' contractor CACI International were brutally tortured; soldiers even took pictures with the detainees making fun of them. Despite that, CACI International received no punishment, asked the accusers for a refund due to legal expenses, and continued to carry out contracts with the U.S. worth 23 million dollars.

In 2008, War on Want published a chilling report: 'Getting Away with Murder: the Need for Action on UK Private Military and Security Companies'. From that report:

Killings and human rights abuses by private armies in Iraq have dominated the headlines in recent months. There are currently tens of thousands of mercenaries working for private military and security companies (PMSCs) outside legal or democratic control. Both the US and Iraqi governments have begun to take action to control these mercenary armies. Yet the UK government has failed to act, despite UK companies being some of the biggest players in the industry.

During Parliamentary questions in 2021, Baroness Tonge posed a question to the Foreign Development and Commonwealth Office: "Q: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether UK citizens are permitted (1) to act as mercenaries, and (2) to train with foreign militaries; and if so, (a) under what legislative or other framework such activity is permitted, and (b) in what countries they permit such activity".

It was Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon who responded. It is worth nothing that Lord Ahmad has been a long-term supporter of regime change in Syria and defender of the use of the opaque Conflict Security and Stability Fund to support so-called 'moderate' armed groups fighting alongside Al Qaeda rebrands and affiliates in Syria since 2011.

A: We draw a clear distinction between mercenaries and private security companies (PSCs). We promote high standards for PSCs internationally through voluntary regulation [emphasis added] of the sector and played a leading role in the drafting of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers (2010), which sets out principles for security providers, and related standards, governance, and oversight mechanisms, and the launch of its oversight mechanism to monitor compliance with the Code, the International Code of Conduct Association (ICoCA) (2013).

Members of UK Armed Forces regularly undertake training and engage in exercises with a wide range of international partners in that professional capacity, where this best supports the development of UK military capability, contributes to the development of international defence relationships and supports wider government objectives [emphasis added].

Britain is the world centre for private military contractors, and it's almost impossible to find out what they're up to. This was the title of a 2018 article in Open Democracy: 'Welcome to the Murky World of Mercenaries and Floating Armouries'. Britain has led this privatisation of modern warfare:

Some of their biggest clients are governments; since 2004, the British state has spent approximately £50 million annually on mercenary companies. The total worth of the global private military and security industry has been estimated to stand somewhere between £69 billion and £275 billion.

Despite the size of this mercenary industry, the entire sector is marked by secrecy. Men trained in the arts of subterfuge and counter-intelligence dominate this sphere, and the result is an industry that operates from the shadows.

The conclusions drawn in the article, which is co-written by the Executive Director of Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), Dr. Iain Overton, are disturbing. In 2018, AOAV had investigated 235 UK-based, internationally-operating PMSCs. These "profit-seeking entities" are trusted with governmental security projects, while themselves being subject to a perilously weak system of "self-regulation" [emphasis added].

There is a growing inclination by the British State to outsource Government tasks to these PMSCs. As AOAV points out, given the lack of scrutiny of private military and security companies, private contractors may enable governments to get tasks done that avoid the scrutiny that comes with national force deployment:

Even though the foreign office argues that UK-employed private military and security companies are just conducting defensive operations, and hence not qualified as 'mercenaries', the lack of transparency that pervades the industry offers little in the way of assurances or reasons to trust this statement. Until Britain's mercenary industry shows greater transparency and oversight, Action On Armed Violence calls on the British government to take its declared human rights ambitions seriously. It must stop deploying private military and security companies to countries that have major human rights concerns.

It appears that British Government oversight in 2021 had not improved greatly despite the warnings clearly stated by Overton in 2018: the reliance on the perilously weak system of "voluntary regulation" is still in place, as Lord Ahmad stated in his response to Baroness Tonge.

In July 2023 The Standard published an article called 'How London Became Home to Some of the World's Largest Private Security Firms'. It said, "Nestled between London's members' clubs, tailors and car dealerships lie some of the world's biggest private armies".

Overton's warnings have, apparently, still not been heeded by the British State. A joint statement provided to ES Magazine by the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office says: "The Security Industry Authority (SIA) is responsible for the regulation of the private security industry in the UK ... [it] has no role in relation to the provision of security services overseas".

With a private security market now pivoting towards digital and cyber surveillance, there is a need for PMSCs to provide protection of data from a cyberattack. A market that could be even more lucrative for the PMSCs that are able to respond to such demand.

However, Overton warns that, in this case, "transparency would wane further still": "We'll see more of the Cambridge Analytica-style approach, digital intelligence services, and more surveillance-type work. That's probably where the real money is... it obviously works hugely in the shadows [...] this is a world of disinformation and misinformation [emphasis added] warfare".

In March 2022, BBC News Washington admitted that private military firms see demand in Ukraine. The BBC also reported in 2023 that then-Home Secretary Suella Braverman wanted to designate Russia's Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation. Ms. Braverman said Wagner fighters "are terrorists, plain and simple," and a "threat to global security". Will the UK FCDO apply the same standards to UK PMSCs operating outside international law and human rights conventions in foreign countries?

A quote from the BBC article on the proliferation of PMSCs operating in Ukraine points out:

'If you have the skillset to be a private contractor, you have the skillset to be a mercenary. There's no bright line between the two', said Sean McFate, an-ex US paratrooper.

The proliferation of PMCs may lead to as much 'chaos and mayhem' as good, he warned. 'Mercenaries historically elongate conflict for profit' [emphasis added], he added. 'It could get to a point in the mid-century where super-rich people have private armies, and I don't know how that looks'.

The Emerging PMSC Market in Al Qaeda-controlled Syria Led by Emerald Solutions

Recent articles in Intelligence Online and Alestiklal have pinpointed a Dubai-based PMSC operating in Syria with the approval of the Al Qaeda Junta that took power after the fall of Damascus and the exit of former President Bashar Al Assad, now given humanitarian asylum in Russia.

The self-proclaimed, unelected President of the Junta is now known as Ahmed Al Sharaa, formerly Abu Mohammed Al Jolani — with a history of ISIS membership, a co-founder of Al Qaeda in Syria (Nusra Front), and then creator of the Hayat Tahrir Al Sham brand (HTS) to distance Jolani's Western-Turkish-backed political aspirations from the Al Qaeda label. HTS is currently conducting ethnic cleansing operations in Syria, targeting Syrian minorities including Alawites Christians, Shia and Sunni Muslims who do not adhere to the Takfiri ideology and who are protecting fellow Syrians from the HTS terrorist purges across Syria.

Regime Change in Syria Was a Very British Affair

The UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (UK FCDO as it is now known) and MI6 agencies have played a principal role in the clandestine wars waged against successive anti-imperialist Syrian governments since Syria's independence from the French Mandate in 1946.

In 2013 French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas told reporters that Britain had planned to trigger and armed insurgence in Syria as early as 2009: "I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business - I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was preparing gunmen to invade Syria".

The UK FCDO and Intelligence agencies provided the primary creativity and investment in a media, PR, and NGO complex that would manage narratives designed to facilitate regime change and ultimately destabilise the sovereign nation of Syria. In 2020, a mass document leak exposed the extent to which the UK FCDO was involved in planting narratives on Syria via a cluster of UK/US-funded intelligence cut-outs, trained Syrian opposition representatives, and so-called citizen journalists; stories picked up by the likes of the BBC and Qatar's Al Jazeera. Journalist Ian Cobain exposed the UK FCDO role in a media campaign to whitewash the terrorist armed groups, for The Guardian in 2016.

Further leaked files show that such opaque UK FCDO operations also boosted the image of now-President Jolani.

These narratives included the alleged chemical weapons use by the Syrian Government against their own citizens in Ghouta 2013, Khan Sheikhoun 2017, and Douma 2018. These are the three main alleged attacks that underpinned the criminalisation of former President Assad, the Syrian Government, and armed forces, manufacturing public consent for regime change in Syria.

The flagship of the UKFCO regime change strategy were the MI6-midwived White Helmets, established in Turkey and Jordan in 2013 by former British Military Intelligence operative James Le Mesurier, who was awarded an Order of the British Empire Medal (OBE) for his efforts. The White Helmets were instrumental in the staging of the chemical weapons hoaxes. They were allegedly unarmed, but were regularly caught carrying weapons, and were embedded exclusively with the Al Qaeda-affiliated groups in the areas they occupied and besieged.

The White Helmets also were only able to produce spurious evidence against the Syrian Government that the West and Israel wanted to topple. Despite being embedded with the Al Qaeda-dominated terrorist forces that occupied Syria from 2011 onwards, they never reported on a single atrocity committed by the terrorist gangs against the Syrian people. As former CIA analyst Philip Giraldi wrote in 2018:

Perhaps the most serious charge against the White Helmets consists of the evidence that they actively participated in the atrocities, to include torture and murder, carried out by their al-Nusra hosts. There have been numerous photos [Editor's Note: this post has been deleted] of the White Helmets operating directly with armed terrorists and also celebrating over the bodies of execution victims and murdered Iraqi soldiers. The group has an excellent working relationship with a number of jihadi affiliates and is regarded by them as fellow 'mujahideen' and 'soldiers of the revolution'.

From the Article on Emerald in Intelligence Online

In March, Emerald Solutions' Instagram channel posted a video detailing their establishment in Syria: "Emerald Syria Limited is now officially licensed and fully compliant to support media, film, documentaries, commercial projects, reconstruction, oil & gas, and NGOs in Syria [emphasis added]. Ready to partner with you for success!"

Emerald Solutions Group told Intelligence Online that it currently supplied its "clients" with villas in Damascus secured by "local forces", meaning Jolani's militia comprising foreign and Syrian Takfiri mercenaries and groups. Emerald also claims that their operatives entered Damascus on the day the city fell in December 2024.

Allegedly, this was to protect international media organisations reporting on the events, but it must raise the following questions:

Were Emerald working in collaboration with HTS prior to the fall of Damascus? Were Emerald already working in Idlib prior to the HTS initial attack on Aleppo? Did Emerald take prior part in the logistics, strategic planning, preparation, fighting, and training of HTS? Is this why Emerald were given the green light so quickly by Jolani's regime? To what extent are the UK FCDO aware of the role of Emerald in Syria? Is the UK FCDO, in any way, funding Emerald directly or via intermediaries to protect UK foreign policy interests in Syria post-regime change? Why is Emerald not highlighting the atrocities being committed by the Jolani-led Takfiri groups that are carrying out horrific massacres of Syrians in the coastal areas and further inland?

Intelligence Online was unable to confirm whether or not Emerald Syria Ltd. had a local security licence, but we were able to consult the firm's certificate of incorporation in Damascus, established with a capital of 50 million Syrian pounds, or €3,500. This document was signed on 11 March by the Minister of Transitional Internal Trade Maher Khalil Hassan, who was subsequently dismissed on 29 March during a government reshuffle.

Intelligence Online inform us that the Emerald Syria and Iraq branch is run by a former member of the British Armed Forces who joined Emerald in November 2024, one month prior to the launch of the HTS attack on Aleppo and Damascus: Simon Roughton. Roughton is described as an "old hand" in the Middle East's security field. Roughton has worked extensively with the Kurdish special forces of the Iraqi Peshmerga from 2011 to 2014 through a company called Strategic Overseas Services (SOS) well stocked with other former British military personnel. He worked in Iraq for Aegis Defence and the AKE Group. He then managed Sidar Security in Erbil, Iraq, for ten years when he also represented Tactical North LLC, a military equipment broker. (Company details were not found).

Shortly after the fall of Damascus, a story broke that a young man from Missouri, US, had allegedly been imprisoned for seven months by the former Syrian Government and was found barefoot, wandering the streets of Damascus after thousands of prisoners were released across Syria by the incoming HTS forces regardless of the crimes for which they were incarcerated.

Travis Timmerman had entered Syria illegally from Lebanon, using a smuggler to bring him in. As someone who was living in Damascus from 2019 until December 2024, I honestly find that odd. At the time, it would have been very easy to enter Syria as a tourist with many restrictions on foreign tourists eased since 2018 and the liberation of Eastern Ghouta by the Syrian Arab Army. Timmerman's story is that he had crossed from Lebanon to Syria on foot, on a religious pilgrimage — 'God called him to Damascus'. Did God tell him to risk arrest by entering Syria illegally? According to Timmerman, he was not ill-treated while being detained by Syrian security.

Timmerman was swiftly handed over to US military at the illegal Al Tanf base on the border with Iraq and Jordan.

According to Emerald's Instagram page: "Our newly appointed MD for Iraq and Syria Simon Roughton then assisted, planned, Coordinated and executed the handover with the Syrian Emergency Task Force [emphasis added] (SETF) which involved transiting for many hours into a remote part of Syria and personally handing Mr Timmerman safely over to US forces".

Moaz Moustafa of SETF on the left with Travis Timmerman centre during the handover to the US military in Al Tanf.

Journalist Ivan Kesic wrote about the CIA-funded 'task force' that was at forefront of the US 'regime change' plot in Syria, the SETF, shortly after the fall of Damascus to an internationally-backed terrorist coup:

For years, the group served as the US Congress' direct link to the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other rebel factions. Its director, Mouaz Moustafa, is a Washington, DC-based activist of Syrian origin.

In 2014, further SETF activities were exposed in the documentary Red Lines, which was ironically intended to showcase the 'democratic nature' of the rebels.

Instead, it revealed international arms and rebel smuggling, Takfiri fanatics, looting, war crimes, and McCain, and Moustafa's central role, further exposing America's covert operations in the Arab country.

SETF were instrumental in maintaining the crippling unilateral coercive measures known as sanctions that decimated Syrian infrastructure and rendered life void of dignity and hope for the Syrian people, trying to recover from a US-UK-Turkey-Israel-EU-Qatar-Saudi Arabia allied regime change war that had been waged against the country since 2011, with Jolani heading up the terrorist proxies that are now in power.

The fact that Emerald Syria is collaborating with such an US-CIA outreach agent is another indicator of how they are perhaps pivotal to the MI6/CIA strategy for the future of Syria now that they have finally achieved the downfall of the Syrian Government and President Assad.

The Shadowy Aegis Connection — Roughton's First Job in Private Security

Roughton was 'Team Leader' at Aegis Defence Services from May 2007 to June 2010. In 2016, two former child soldiers who were under 13 when they fought in Sierra Leone's 'civil war' that ended in 2002, alleged that Aegis "failed to mitigate the psychological harm they suffered". As adults, the two men were among 2,500 personnel recruited from Sierra Leone to work in Iraq by Aegis and other PMSCs for as little as $16 per day. A former senior director at Aegis defended the practice of hiring personnel from Sierra Leone, saying the company had a "duty" to recruit there because they were cheaper than Europeans.

Former Aegis Director James Ellery said: "So you go from the Midlands of England to Nepalese, Asians etc. and then at some point you say I'm afraid all we can afford now is Africans".

At the time, Chi Onwurah, a Labour MP and chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Africa, said, "There's an inherent racism in paying security guards less depending on the country they are coming from when they are facing the same risks as a guard from the UK".

Aegis, from its establishment, received the majority of its pay cheques from the US Government between 2004 and 2008. Despite there being sketchy direct ties to the UK Government during their operations in Iraq and elsewhere, former British Army personnel were predominantly recruited.

The chairman of Aegis was none other than Conservative MP Nicholas Soames, who still acts as a member of the International Advisory Board for GardaWorld, which bought Aegis in 2015. Soames, formerly MP for Crawley and Mid Sussex, went on to become Minister of State for the Armed Forces and Shadow Secretary of State for Defence/War. This clearly demonstrates the revolving door between the UK Government and the PMSC industry.

Aegis was co-founded by former British Army Lt Col Tim Spicer in 2002. Spicer was the military 'expert' who combined forces with entrepreneur Jeffrey Day and former investment bankers Mark Bullough and Jeffrey Armstrong.

Spicer was no stranger to controversy in his PMSC career. His previous company Sandline was at the centre of the 1998 Arms to Africa scandal. A report found that Sandline had breached UN sanctions by sending a reported 100 tonnes of weapons to Sierra Leone during the 'civil war'. The Arms to Africa affair happened under former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's watch.

Blair was grilled by Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, who cited the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report into alleged breaches of the UN arms embargo in Sierra Leone: "Whilst the Government has been playing pass the parcel with the blame over this ... the rebels, who were defeated by (British) arms have now been re-armed, apparently with the assistance of another British company".

Then there was the 'Sandline Affair'. Peter W. Singer, author of Corporate Warriors, has stated:

"The company [Sandline] was hired to help put down a rebellion in Papua New Guinea, and the local army certainly wasn't happy to find out that a company had been brought in, paid more than their overall budget. So [the army] ... basically launched a coup".

The coup overthrew the Papua New Guinea Government.

In 2004, members of the US Congress raised serious concerns about Washington awarding a lucrative Iraq contract to Aegis and Spicer. The congressmen requested a Pentagon enquiry into Spicer's background. Washington-based 'think tank' The Brooking Institution said Spicer did not raise any red flags with the military's contract office.

The Government Accountability Office subsequently investigated Aegis and faulted the company for not performing adequate background checks on its employees. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), said there are yet more concerns: "In November 2005, there was an Internet video that surfaced that showed an Aegis contractor firing wildly at civilian cars on an Iraqi highway to the tune of 'Mystery Train' by Elvis Presley".

Aegis also played a major role in the conflict in Basra, Iraq. The Governor of Basra hired Aegis to replace the British troops who had left. Aegis strongly participated in the attack on Basra in 2003.

Back to the issue of 'self-regulation': Aegis, despite their questionable history, was a founding member of the British Association of Private Security Companies (BAPSC), established in 2006. In their accompanying statement, Aegis said, "As we face changing missions, new responsibilities and increasingly complex and dangerous environments, we recognise that the need for transparency and oversight is greater than ever".

Aegis tried to repair their damaged reputation by "working closely with the UK government to maintain good relations between the government and the PMCs". Since then, Aegis has only published one policy paper on the regulation of the PMC industry, suggesting that their commitment to such essential regulatory practices is not high, and is apparently not being sufficiently policed by the UK Government.

End of Part One

In Part Two of this series for UK Column, I will delve deeper into the Emerald Solutions British Army staff, Intelligence-linked consultants, and publicly available sponsors. There are connections to the UK FCDO-controlled White Helmets still operating in post-Assad Syria. Their long-time chief Raed Saleh, a former Idlib-Syria mobile phone salesman, has been appointed Minister of Disaster Management and Emergency Response under the Jolani/HTS Junta. I will speculate on the potential for Emerald and other British Army-staffed PMSCs to act as outreach agents for UK FCDO policy in 'New Syria' that must combat Russian, Israeli, and Turkish influence on the ground to secure a UK presence in Syria and the region, now and in the future.

I will also look at the other global conflict arenas where Emerald Solutions are to be found. They include Ukraine and Lebanon.

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7. The private military security sector pivots to Syria - UK is main provider of 'mercenaries' to serve UK FCDO agendas globally

Britain has been instrumental in the overthrow of the former Syrian government with a UK FCDO and MI6 laser-focus on regime change since 2009 as reported by former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas in 2013.

Now, there are the first signs of the arrival of Private Military Security Companies in Syria - my report delves into one particular Dubai-based company staffed with former British Armed Forces personnel that arrived in Damascus on the day that Al Qaeda took over in December 2024. There will also be a series of articles on this subject published at UK Column, to be republished here.

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8. Syria Podcast Episode 7 - Vanessa Beeley speaks to Mike Robinson

Mike and I revisit Syria and cover the most recent developments and geopolitical agendas inside and outside Syria, including the arrival of British-staffed Private Military and Security companies to rival the White Helmets.

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9. Child abuse in Israel - and Jolani is coming out as a Zionist stooge

Child abuse is a world disease but in Israel, it has reached unprecedented and uncontrolled levels. I will be writing something more in detail shortly.

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10. Is Ethnic Cleansing part of the Ethics of the Great Powers?

Maria Saadeh, a former member of the Syrian parliament (under the Assad leadership) - an architect and designer. In 2020, she founded her Nonprofit Association for Social Development "Houna Hawyati", focusing on enhancing the Syrian identity on social, economic and cultural levels.

In March 2015, a member of the Syrian parliament, Maria Saadeh, addressed the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, presenting a paper titled, "Unilateral Economic Sanctions against Syria and Terrorism: Two sides of the same coin."

In June 2016, Saadeh addressed the UN again. Speaking at the Institute of Democracy and Co-operation's side event at the UNHRC's session in Geneva, she said:

"Economic sanctions have been applied to punish the Syrian regime. Since 2011, member states of the UN have undertaken collective punitive action against the Syrian people. In March 2015, I presented here at the Human Rights Council a document entitled 'economic terrorism' which compared the results of terrorist organisations in Syria with the effects of coercive measures taken under the label of 'economic sanctions.'

These sanctions violate international law in the same way as terrorism does. Their results and effects are the same; the aim in both cases is to attack Syrian society and to violate human rights, especially the right to life.

As a result of the sanctions, unemployment has risen from 8.6% in 2010 to 50% in 2014; poverty reached 75% in 2013 where it was 9% in 2010; the number of children in primary education has fallen to 50%; the same number of hospitals and factories have closed as a result of the sanctions as as a result of terrorism. In the same paper, I also showed the relations between the states applying the sanctions and the terrorist organisations they support. I also discuss the relationship between them in despoiling Syria of its natural, economic and cultural resources."

2025 - Saadeh has just written a very important article which I will republish below:

Syria and the Levant: Is Ethnic Cleansing Part of the Ethics of Great Powers?

Is the Levant being purged of its indigenous people, the Native Syrians?

Russia's strategic analyst and philosopher Alexander Dugin was not convincing in his recent interview, despite being regarded as Putin's brain. He spoke with a political realism that lacked the vision and doctrine of Russia, its strategic position, and its core principles. Especially when Putin secured what he wanted to obtain from his war with the United States in exchange for other costs that Russia certainly paid.

Dugin's statements seemed submissive to realpolitik, justifying the rule of force over humanitarian and diplomatic arguments, disregarding human rights and international law. He dismissed these principles as obsolete political tools, arguing that the world now operates on barter and resource distribution at the expense of peoples and societies. He even went so far as to rationalize ethnic cleansing in Palestine, claiming it was unrelated to the moral obligations of great powers. But what about ethnic cleansing across the entire region?

Those who speak of political realism are usually the weaker party, forced to make the best of limited options and submit to the rule of the powerful. Alternatively, they are those who have bartered away their grand causes to secure victory or maintain their position in a political deal that history will judge. I never expected this from Putin's theorist, whom many saw as a leader, a czar, and a savior of what remains of humanity. In reality, we did not expect this from President Putin's theorist, the leader in whom we had hoped for prosperity and a new balance in the world.

Meanwhile, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin—whose moral compass has never faltered—spoke with clarity.

I will never forget his historic speech at the UN Security Council in 2003 against the war on Iraq, for which France later paid a heavy price. After the theatrical scene staged in the White House between Trump and Zelensky, which humiliated the European Union to court Moscow, De Villepin declared that the U.S. was no longer Europe's ally. One wonders: if Europe had stood with France's honorable stance back then, could Iraq and the region have been spared total destruction? Would Europe have preserved its dignity before its people and ours, rather than watching its values collapse before both?

Zelensky is a minor actor brought in by the Americans to challenge the Russian czar, an attempt to diminish Russia before a feeble character propped up by the EU and controlled by the U.S. Did the USA succeed in provoking Putin and sidelining Russia from its strategic position in the Mediterranean, forcing it to abandon its bases in Syria and its strategic role in protecting its vital interests, defending its doctrine, and preserving its historical influence in the East? Did it negotiate with Russia over Ukraine, ensuring that Ukraine would not join NATO? Yet, it seems clear now that there may not be a NATO at all, and perhaps not even a Ukraine. What price did Russia pay to abandon its doctrine and the East?

We fear that Russia may have lost its moral compass, just as the European Union did before it.

The Geopolitical Betrayal of Syria and the Levant

If Russia sympathizes with the Palestinian people but will not fight to defend Palestine because "it is not its battle," if "politics today no longer depends on humanitarian issues," if "ethnic cleansing is permissible for great powers," and if Russia intends to withdraw from Syria under the pretext that it is not a priority—considering that Islamic nations failed to defend Gaza—then surely, Russia has either lost its way or been forced out of the New Middle East, surrendering the region to global Zionism. Russia justified this retreat with political realism, disregarding its geopolitical doctrine and, more importantly, its Orthodox religious and cultural doctrine, which ties the state closely to the church. This doctrine has long preserved Russia's religious, social, and family values in the face of Western liberalism.

Europe, too, made a grave historical mistake when it allied with global Zionism and the United States to wage war on the East – the Levant – and divide it starting with Sykes-Picot and culminating in this destruction and dismantling of the region, the cradle of religions and civilizations. Europe participated in the plan to fragment and destroy the East, including its only genuinely secular state, which still protected the first Syrians and Orient Christians, the bearers of Levant heritage and culture. This culture, which illuminated the world with its human values, was stripped away along with the Catholic Church's values that had shaped Europe and served as the foundation of its legal, cultural, and intellectual thought. Even today, the Vatican faces the risk of social collapse in the West and bears moral and ethical responsibility in defending humanitarian causes, starting with the protection of the family.

Had these human values not been fundamental to both Eastern and Western societies, the historic 2016 meeting in Cuba between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill would never have taken place. That meeting, that had political and religious dimension, was a historic milestone in redefining the role of the church in the modern world and correcting human and moral values amid the collapse of societal principles and the disintegration of the family unit—the very foundation of societal cohesion. It also emphasized the role of the church in international relations and its stance on geopolitical conflicts. One of the key political aspects of that meeting was the recognition of Russian-European rapprochement despite their differences, as well as the role of both Eastern and Western churches in protecting Christians in the East, the Christians of the Levant, particularly in Iraq and Syria. That meeting effectively legitimized Russia's role in the region.

Without this shared Christian human doctrine in both the East and the West, societies would not have remained cohesive through faith.

A Region Under Siege: The Systematic Ethnic and Religious Cleansing of the Levant

I apologize, Mr. Dugin, but Russia should not merely sympathize with Palestinians—it must deploy its armies to defend its own faith. Russia must defend its mother church, which began in Palestine, the sacred land of Christ, the cradle of civilizations and values. Russia must defend its strategic depth in Syria, for in defending Syria, it protects its national, ideological, regional, and strategic security. Protecting Palestine, Syria, and the entire region from ethnic cleansing is a humanitarian, ethical, and political obligation for any great power that respects its values. It is not merely the responsibility of Islamic nations.

It is a strategic error to delegate the defense of Palestine to Muslim countries in the face of Judaization of the land. The defense of Palestine and its people must not be driven by religious bias; confronting territorial occupation under the pretext of religion with another religious ideology is a historic mistake. Otherwise, it would be more appropriate for Christian churches worldwide—both in the East and the West—to unite in its liberation, considering it the land of Christ. States should not be built on a religion.

The disregard and the loss of danger alert by great powers for the ongoing ethnic and religious cleansing in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq reveals their unworthiness of global leadership. Any power that fails to defend its doctrine, principles, and history—thus imposing its strength to restore world order—is nothing more than a beast in a jungle that will eventually be devoured, leading to global collapse.

The East is not experiencing a mere episode of ethnic cleansing. Palestine is not just the land of Christ and the birthplace of Christianity; it is the extension of ancient civilizations spanning thousands of years. Aleppo, the oldest continuously inhabited city, is 12,000 years old, while Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited capital, is 9,000 years old. The people of this region have carried forward a vast cultural and civilizational heritage long before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. They assimilated every culture that passed through their lands, making this region the wellspring of civilization for both the Arab and Western worlds. This is why its people—Syria's first inhabitants—carry the genes of civilization that enlightened humanity.

Today, they are facing ethnic cleansing in Gaza, displacement and killings in south of Lebanon, massacres and forced migration in Syria, and previous displacements in Iraq through coercion and enticement. This is part of a scheme to empty the East of its indigenous inhabitants preparing to create the "New Middle East" altering its identity, distorting its civilization, and undermining its three religions. This is facilitated through the support of extremist terrorist ideologies that kill in the name of Islam, Zionist policies that seek to erase the Palestinian people in the name of Judaism, and Western encouragement of Christian migration under the pretext of protecting "minorities" in the name of Christianity—while God is innocent of all these acts.

This Levant is the historical, natural, organic, and civilizational extension for both of you, the East and West. It alone carries the heritage of humanity in a unified social fabric, and it can only be safeguarded by civil states whose constitutions rise above religious and sectarian discrimination. States are not built on religion but on law and human justice.

As André Parrot once said:

"Every civilized person in this world has two homelands: the one he has born in, and Syria."

Any world leader who truly carries this culture and bears this heritage must put an end to the travesty unfolding in the world today.

The Hypocrisy of Western Intervention and the Fall of the Secular State Do You Know Why We Defend Palestine?

The world today rejoices in the fall of a secular state that not only protected the Christians of Syria but also safeguarded Christianity worldwide. It was not merely a defender of moderate Islam, but a teacher of its true essence to the world. Now, it is being replaced by a" religious emirate"—no, rather by terrorist factions ruling in the name of religion, though Islam is innocent of them. Their mission is to empty this East of its original inhabitants and dismantle its society, which carries its heritage, all while the so-called "great powers" remain silent about the ethnic cleansing in Palestine, and Iraq for decades.

Do you know why we defend Palestine? Why so many free nations and peoples have defended Palestine? It is not because it is Islamic, nor because it is Christian, but because it is the land of its indigenous Syrian people—your own civilizational extension—while the world leaders remained silent about the ethnic cleansing planned against the people of this land, who have carried the culture and values of humanity.

We defend Palestine because we defend ourselves and our survival. We defend the sovereignty of nations, the right of people to live on their land, to determine their own destiny, and their fundamental right to life. We defend all divine religions, protecting them from distortion and political exploitation. We stand for the sovereignty of law and international legitimacy in a world collapsing under the weight of greed, power, and wealth. We, the free peoples and societies, stand for humanity and human dignity wherever it may be—even for your own people—because humanity is indivisible.

But as for you, when you accept the ethnic cleansing of the Syrian people of the Levant—the world's first inhabitants, the bearers of its historical legacy and your own spiritual and cultural extension—you are bringing about the downfall of your own nations and dishonoring your own peoples. You have handed over the land to those who will eventually sell you out, just as they have betrayed others before. You are mistaken if you think otherwise, for in doing so, you seal the fate of the so-called "New Middle East" by purging the land of its original inhabitants, people who do not merely fight for their own survival but also for yours and for the survival of all humanity.

It seems that the world is in desperate need of a reorientation of political science, a reformulation of fundamental concepts to present to a new generation of world leaders, leaders who understand the power of history, the role of societies in shaping politics, and the true stakes in matters of loss and gain and major strategic issues.

A Europe That Has Lost Its Identity

We are Syrians first, long before we are Christians by thousands of years. We belong to this land, not to a religion or a sect, and the Christian culture we spread throughout the world is the original culture of Syria.

Do you realize that the Christianity that shaped your peoples with its values is, in fact, the historical culture and values of Syria, cultivated over thousands of years? That Christ came as a messenger of this mother culture, and that Christianity across the world is merely an extension of Syria's original culture? Do you know that Islam spread from Syria after being molded by its culture of peace and respect for others, rather than violence? And do you know that the original Jews of Syria, who were forcibly displaced from the region by an international decision in the 1980s, were among the strongest opponents of ethnic cleansing and killing in the name of religion? They firmly believed that nations should not be built on religious doctrine or the exclusion of others, but on coexistence – an essential part of Syrian culture for thousands of years.

Yet, you are displacing these native inhabitants to bring in extremists and radicals from all over the world, facilitating their passage under the banner of religion. Worse still, you have legitimized their arrival, giving them the authority to annihilate what remains of Syria's original people, those who enriched the Mediterranean with their civilization, industries, and arts. They were the seafarers who navigated the Mediterranean in Phoenician times. Syrians built Rome and contributed to Italy's civilization, like Apollodorus of Damascus, and played a major role in expanding Mediterranean trade, cultural exchange, and commerce in the Roman and Byzantine empires. They spread Christianity – Syrian culture, philosophy, arts, and sciences—throughout the Western world.

It was the first Syrians whom the Umayyad state relied upon, helping to spread Syria's rich culture, arts, and sciences throughout the Islamic world. They built Al-Andalus, the civilization of Spain, which thrived in its arts, architecture, and intellectual achievements, because it was, at its core, a Syrian civilization. The Ottoman Empire inherited its culture, trade, and industries from Syria, and to this day, in its greed and hunger for plunder, it continues to seek more. Syria, the land of Christ, was what inspired the Russian tsars to see themselves as saviors of humanity; it shaped Russia's history and Eastern identity.

Today, Syrians continue to excel in every country they have migrated to or sought refuge in. Perhaps Germany can testify to this; the most distinguished doctors in Germany today are of Syrian origin. The authentic inherited impacts the civilization of peoples.

Now, survival has become a matter of brute strength! Is this truly the language and logic upon which great nations are built?

It seems the shallow cowboy culture has taken over your deep-rooted legacies, selling them out for oil, gas, and rare minerals. You are all destroying humanity with your actions, delivering the ancient and noble people of Syria to slaughter, just as Judas handed over Christ, the very architect of your civilizations and values.

Today, we are ashamed, and all of humanity should be ashamed, that you have empowered internationally recognized terrorists to govern the world's oldest and most historic cities. What kind of people are you, so ignorant of your own history and devoid of humanity?!

You all united to bring down Great Syria, Sacred Syria—Syria of Palestine and Lebanon, Syria of Jerusalem, Beirut, Damascus, Aleppo, and Jaffa, and its vast extension.

I have not forgotten Sarkozy and Blair when they called on Syrian Christians to seek refuge in the West at the beginning of the war on Syria in 2011. Yet, they were incapable of protecting the Christians of Europe itself, as even the Pope of the Vatican admitted. Not only that, but they also appointed so-called representatives of the Syrian people—figures who had spent their entire lives in the West, not in Syria. At the time, their sectarian, racist rhetoric and double standards provoked me, and I decided to confront this logic that disrespected us.

We are Syrians first, long before we are Christians by thousands of years. We belong to this land, not to a religion or a sect, and the Christian culture we spread throughout the world is the original culture of Syria.

That is why I entered Parliament in 2012— I, the independent Christian Syrian from Damascus, the capital of history—to declare loudly and clearly:

"We, the Syrians, speak for ourselves, not you—the ones who preach democracy and freedom while deciding on our behalf, seizing our voice, and appointing our so-called representatives."

I entered to defend from within this legitimate platform, the concept of the "State"—the only guarantor for the survival of its people, against those who sought to destroy it as they had destroyed Iraq before. I entered to defend the land to which we belong, whose culture we carry. I entered to defend my identity, my survival, and my existence, not because I am Christian, but because I am Syrian, the bearer of thousands of years of civilization that you have failed to understand until now. For me, this was a matter of survival and existence.

But as for you, unfortunately, you do not know your own history, and Europe will pay a heavy price for its positions and policies. What has France gained after abandoning its historical interests and influence in Syria? What has Italy gained after losing part of its organic trade with Syria and the Mediterranean? What has Spain gained from severing ties with its historical extension? And what will Russia gain from handing over Damascus?

Is It the Ethics of Great Powers to Betray Their Allies? The U.S. Manipulation of NATO and the European Union

Yes, Dominique de Villepin was right when he said that the United States is no longer Europe's ally. And I tell you today that Europe no longer belongs to the Europe that once recognized its organic extension in the Mediterranean. It has failed to protect its culture, its societies, its trade, and the Western values it once fought for. Where is Germany today, with its factories and industrial greatness? Would it not have been better for it to deal with Russia, securing its gas and oil from its natural socio-economic extension? But instead, the United States seized control of its political decision-making, preventing it from doing so and forcing it to pay multiple times what it otherwise would have for years. The hatred toward Russia consumed European minds, and now Trump tells you: "Go on your own, for I will now become Russia's ally—the same Russia I once forbade you from aligning with, demonizing it in your minds."

This very same rhetoric of hatred is what poisoned your minds and drove you to unite against the so-called "devil." Your war was never just against the Syrian regime—it was against the Syrian state itself. You failed to grasp the consequences of its collapse. It was the secular state that fell, and with it, the only safeguard for our survival and for the protection of our first social fabric—your own organic extension—the one that carries within its genes the culture and civilization of humanity. It is embedded in its heritage, its historical landmarks, its religious symbols, and its sacred sites, which belong to all of humanity.

When we defended the state as an entity that guarantees the protection of our societies, it was because we understood that it is the foundation of our existence, while you remained ignorant of the politics of our region, its people, and its history. You failed to see your own civilizational extension in it, your cultural depth within it, and your organic interests that are directly tied to its stability. Your own national and regional security is linked to the balance of power in this region.

But know this: every individual, every entity, and every nation that participated in the selling and bartering of the Levant—the cradle of civilizations—for a cheap project, no matter how much wealth it promises, will be discarded by history.

Because true prosperity is not built on hatred, war, and hypocrisy.

Is It the Ethics of Great Powers, Mr. Dugin, to Stab Their Allies in the Back?

While Europe was seething with hostility toward Russia, the United States formed NATO as its military arm to reshape the Middle East and to establish a counterforce against your influence in the region. At the same time, it leveraged the votes of European countries in the United Nations and the Security Council to legitimize its wars. But once its wars were over and Syria—a pivotal axis in the region—had fallen, the U.S. turned its back on its European allies, now forging an alliance with Russia, without even ensuring that its former allies received their share of the spoils. Instead, it burdened them with the astronomical costs of financing Ukraine's defense.

Now, NATO is no longer needed, nor is the United Nations, and therefore, there will be no more funds allocated to them. Everyone took the bait—so what will you do now?

Great Powers do not betray their strategic allies, because strategic constants do not change. However, cheap politics is what shifts its colors, disguises, and alliances according to temporary interests, without regard to the act of history, the civilizations of nations, or the dignity of humanity.

It is no surprise that some so-called "leaders" of this contemporary world are openly revealing their hypocrisy on the stage of history. Many have mastered the art of manufacturing, arming, funding, and training terrorism. Hillary Clinton herself openly admitted this in the media, and in 2020, Senator Richard Black blatantly confirmed that "the United States began collaborating with Al-Qaeda and ISIS in 2011, using them as a proxy army in Syria to overthrow the regime, in addition to starving and freezing the Syrian people to death."

Not only that, but some European countries openly endorsed this terrorism and criminality. In 2013, then-French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius openly declared that "Jabhat al-Nusra is doing a good job."

And today, they have all conspired to bring these very extremists to power in one of the world's oldest and most historically rich nations—killing its authentical people in the process.

A Call for a Global Reassessment The United States Cannot Dictate the World's Future

Yes, the U.S.-Russia rapprochement can be understood from the perspective of addressing geopolitical issues as two major powers responsible for international security and peace, in partnership with other global powers, especially as we witness the rise of the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Likewise, we can comprehend new alliances that align the interests of the Eastern and Western poles. However, what is incomprehensible is the idea that victory comes through an American handshake that merely serves as a display of power at the expense of people's peace.

Everyone knows that the United States has no allies—only interests, pursued at the expense of nations and human dignity. I do not know if brute force, deception, terrorism, incitement, hatred, and the politics of imposed realities are truly the language of great powers. The one who turns his back on his allies today to shake your hand will turn his back on you tomorrow for the one who offers him more.

Unfortunately, the U.S. approach to its allies is ignorant of history and civilizations. It does not understand the impact of history on strategic interests, nor does it care about geography, organic relationships, or the value of societies and their evolution, all of which are fundamental elements in the science of politics. The U.S. believes it can design and shape the world as it pleases. Even the global capitalist system it leads is a fascist system that disregards the well-being of societies and the conditions necessary for sustainable life on this planet. It fails to recognize that those who defy nature will eventually face its wrath.

Despite its extensive think tanks and immense financial resources, the United States lacks the foresight to change the natural order of things. Any forced scheme to reshape the Middle East will be the beginning of the collapse of the global system itself, for those without history fail to understand history's power over societies.

We have said this repeatedly since 2011, and we say it again: What threatens our Levant will inevitably threaten the Mediterranean, the world, and international peace and security. Those who created terrorist monsters will not be able to eliminate them. You armed, trained, and supported groups under the banner of religion to overthrow Syria, but from Syria, your systems will begin to collapse, for you have lost all credibility among your own peoples.

The minds of great-power leaders should be dedicated to building the greatness of humanity not the so-called greatness of the United States, which builds its power through wars, the killing of nations, and the plundering of their resources. True great powers work for their own people and for the world's peoples, standing against oppression and tyranny, respecting beliefs, and fostering peace among all nations. The ethics of great-power politics are indivisible.

We look with respect and conviction to the great powers that stand on the honorable side of history—Russia among them—for its adherence to its sacred doctrine, which continues to remind it of its historical responsibility toward its people, its deep-rooted civilization, and the world at large. This is especially crucial now that the West has deviated from its historical path, lost its compass, and forfeited the trust of its own people.

As for those who claim to be protectors of Christianity in the Levant, they must first understand that only secular and civil states—those that safeguard all divine religions from distortion—can truly guarantee the survival of societies, civilizations, and faiths.

To Orthodox Imperial Russia, to the Vatican, which calls for a Catholic Europe, and to those who uphold noble values in the United States of America, the democratic state, do you know what is happening in Syria today? Are you aware of the ethnic cleansing plan that began in Gaza, then Lebanon, and is now unfolding in Syria? Are these just collateral damages?

What if, today, the East and the West united—leaving behind the grudges of nations, their prejudices, and the mountains of hatred—not only to save humanity but also to preserve the dignity of your own peoples before history? For true peace can only be achieved through partnership, mutual respect, and the upholding of human values.

We stand today at a critical moment in history, in a world on the brink of collapse. This demands a reassessment of alliances and a realignment toward the honorable side of history, to preserve humanity, values, and the world's natural resources for the service of all humankind.

The Path to Global Stability A Call for New Leadership

The world will not find balance until the Jews of Syria return to their homeland and defend their roots as Syrians belonging to this land, standing up for the social fabric from which they emerged, not for a Zionist ideology that is destroying the world today, justifying ethnic and religious cleansing, and permitting crimes against humanity.

The world will not find balance until the moderate Islam of Syria is restored—the Islam that was molded by this land, shaped by its culture and civilization, and from here spread and expanded across the world. An Islam that defends human dignity, speaks of forgiveness and love, not the extremist, Jihadist Islam that dehumanizes others, incites violence, and justifies the enslavement of women and the killing of children in the name of religion.

Neither the whole world, nor the Christian world, will find balance unless you protect the Levant—the land of divine religions and the first Syrians—not in the name of religion, but in the name of the culture and values that you carry in your heritage, history, and political doctrines. Civilized and Great Nations operate at the level of their civilizational responsibility in the world; without this, you will turn into lifeless corpses, fighting each other over shares of this land's minerals, oil, and gas—resources that belong to its people and to the prosperity of the world.

The world will not find balance without new leaders, leaders who shape history and understand its lessons well, leaders who will build the new world order with justice.

Can the Cezar restore the glory of Russia and the East?

Can De Villepin return to revive the legacy and history of France after France and the European Union abandoned their historical role?

Today, China's compass is set right, while the United States stands at its weakest, in both power and credibility, before the world. Great powers do not turn the world into bloodbaths and wars.

The balance of the world and its new order will be written in the blood of the Syrians.

Let those who have ears listen.

And those who defy nature will be cast out by nature itself.

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