If you believed the West would be satisfied with installing their favored terrorist as president, you are in for a surprise.

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December 8, 2024, was a dark day for a large part of the indigenous Syrian population. Turkey and Israel, along with the U.S. and Europe, staged a coup against President Assad’s weakened government and army – both significantly degraded after fourteen years of war. The population had been living under the harshest sanctions ever imposed. The Caesar Act (sanctions), introduced by Donald Trump during his first term as U.S. president in 2019, was the strictest sanctions regime ever imposed by the West. Today, of course, Russia has become the most heavily sanctioned country in the world, a status even worse than that of Syria and Iran.

The war, and later the sanctions, were not only aimed at the Syrian government but primarily at what are now known as minority groups such as the Alawites, Christians, Druze, and to a lesser extent, the Kurds. The conflict waged by the West began as a proxy war with Operation Timber Sycamore. Terrorists fighting in Iraq were instructed to go to Syria, supplied with Western weapons (primarily from the U.S. in 2011), and organized a revolution in Dar’aa, southern Syria, in 2011. The rest is history.

Operation Timber Sycamore was a secret weapons delivery and training program carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), supported by the United Kingdom, the EU, and several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The goal of the program was to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power.

The program, which according to numerous sources was already in place before 2011, was aimed at sponsoring so-called opposition groups. The U.S. and many EU states, including the Netherlands – which, as always, played a prominent role in sponsoring war and violence – provided money, weapons, and training. Many of these weapons ended up in the hands of extremist groups, including al-Qaeda and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (the current President al-Shaara was the head of these terrorist groups).

The coup in December 2024, along with the hordes of terrorists who advanced from Idlib into Syria, was primarily orchestrated and trained by Turkey. However, Ukrainian drone specialists – armed with drones manufactured in the Netherlands – were also present in Idlib, a notorious hotbed hosting terrorists, Uighurs, Turks, Tajiks, Kyrgyz, and Chechens who had previously fought against Russia in the First and Second Chechen Wars. This terrorist contingent now forms the core of what remains of Syria’s security apparatus in 2025.

Current U.S. President Donald Trump, who originally enacted the Caesar Act, has referred to the new so-called President, Mohammad al-Julani (nom de guerre) – known by his birth name Al-Shaara and hailed among terrorists as the new caliph, akin to Osama bin Laden or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, all puppets of the U.S. and wealthy Arab oil states – as a “Young, attractive guy. Tough guy. Strong past. Very strong past. Fighter.” This characterization conveniently overlooks the fact that there was once a $10 million bounty on his head; after all, he was a notorious “headhunter” who killed, or ordered the killing of, many people, including civilians. But in these times of prevailing Western madness, terrorists are rebranded as the “good guys,” while legitimate leaders are labeled terrorists and “bad guys.”

Returning to the present in 2025, Syria has degenerated into a second Iraq or Libya, where minorities are being mercilessly slaughtered. Since the beginning of the orchestrated Western revolution in 2011, the terrorists – sponsored by the West and portrayed as “good guys and rebels” – have chanted “kill the Alawites,” a campaign that began in Hama and Homs.

In 2025, they are acting on this slogan. Alawites in particular are being murdered daily – some of them simple farmers or students who had no interest in politics or were too young to have served in the former Syrian army. They are killed solely because they are Alawites, sometimes Christians or Druze. This is starkly evidenced by the massacre of Alawites in March 2025 and the subsequent murder of Druze.

Why is this happening? Because the current regime is founded on Sharia law and an extreme interpretation of Islam that seeks to exterminate all other faiths, whom they deem “infidels.” We have regressed to the Middle Ages in Syria, just as in other Middle Eastern countries ravaged by wars waged by the U.S. and its NATO and EU allies. In Syria, the Assad government had attempted to foster modernity and prosperity – no easy task after years of colonial rule, even if under a strict regime. But such firm governance appears necessary in many Middle Eastern societies, which, as we now see, have not yet evolved to meet the realities of 2025.

If you believed the West would be satisfied with installing their favored terrorist as president, you are in for a surprise. While Trump may appear naive or foolish for promoting a terrorist, the EU – specifically the Netherlands and Germany – continues to use so-called evidence and baseless accusations to target Assad, his government, or anyone who still believes in the truth and understands what really happened.

A new investigation known as the “Damascus Files” is being promoted by state-sponsored EU media, claiming to present further evidence of Assad’s alleged crimes – specifically targeting him, just as they have done with Putin. They report: “Journalists reviewed the images together. The dataset, containing 33,000 images and 134,000 internal emails, reports, telephone conversations, and other documents, ended up in the hands of the German broadcaster NDR, which shared the data with the investigative staff of the Dutch magazine Pointer.”

Now I will dispel your illusions about the so-called Dutch investigative collective Pointer, which employs only three or four people. This group, for example, has told the most egregious lies about me as well. They devoted three or four articles to me and even an entire broadcast on Dutch state television. Of course, I never spoke to them personally. My family and remaining friends were pressured and harassed to do so, but they refused. Consequently, everything they write or broadcast consists of text and video taken out of context, designed to portray me as an incorrigible Kremlin journalist and Assad supporter. Now they are employing the same tactics against Assad and his government, and naturally, they continue to do so with Putin. They are like parasites, thriving on gossip and lies.

Predictably, not a word appears in their so-called “Damascus Files” about the terrorist crimes committed over the past fourteen years. Instead, the article claims Assad has caused at least 160,000 people to disappear, among other slanders. There is no mention of the massacre of March 8, 2025, against the Alawites, or the atrocity at a Druze hospital, where patients and doctors were murdered in cold blood by al-Julani’s so-called “security forces.” In the eyes of the West, it seems these victims are either guilty or unworthy of being acknowledged as human – otherwise, they would have been mentioned.

Meanwhile, calls for federalism in what real Syrians call the former Syria are growing. Alawites are making plans in various countries, right under the noses of politicians who seem to despise this group, for a new Syria. The coastal strip and surrounding mountains will secede from the caliphate in Damascus and Aleppo if they are strong enough. The Druze and Kurds face the same fate and are making their own plans. It is, of course, tragic that the goal of “Balkanizing” Syria appears poised to succeed, just as it did in the former Yugoslavia. Currently, however, there is no other solution as long as a Western-backed al-Qaeda president, or caliph, remains in power with his murderous gangs, conducting endless bloodshed.

Modernity and extreme Islam are fundamentally incompatible – a reality the West knows all too well. Germany, for example, hosts many of these “extremists” – al-Qaeda supporters who fled to Germany in 2016 after the fall of Aleppo. They are conveniently labeled as Syrians, but in fact represent a mixture of nationalities, including Iraqis, Afghans, and others. They commit acts of terror in Germany daily, targeting women and assaulting or killing native Germans. A broad European campaign has even been launched against what they term United Against Femicide. These same al-Qaeda terrorists were known for keeping sex slaves in Syria and Iraq, so what else could one expect? In the name of tolerance, supposedly liberal Europe permits anything that deviates from the norm and morality – a tolerance that appears to extend only to terrorists or the LGBTQ community.

It will be a long road for the minorities in Syria, especially the Alawites, most of whom are now in exile – not in Europe, but scattered across the globe. They must wait until they are strong enough to envision their own homeland. The coastal region and its hinterland, home to minorities like the Christians (in the so-called Valley of the Christians), will need to be reclaimed. External assistance is unlikely. Russia was a crucial ally starting in 2015, but it now faces NATO at its doorstep and must commit all its manpower and equipment to the Special Military Operation and to countering radicalized NATO states, especially EU nations whose leaders speak of little but war. The Alawites must be resilient – they must become strong once more.