One of Russia's greatest successes in contemporary times has been its ability to accelerate polarization within the US through a "post-trutherism" approach. (1)

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In 2018–2019, Russia was systematically bombing hospitals and medical facilities in Syria by using coordinates obtained through a UN “no-strike list” designed to protect hospitals from attack. Through this method, Russia was able to strike 4 separate hospitals within a 12-hour period within Syria

My latest for Türkiye Today explores African American novelist & intellectual James Baldwin's decade in Istanbul, where he carved out a home for himself in the Beyoğlu neighborhood & how this particular neighborhood has always attracted the intellectual nomad www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/from...

During the height of the Syrian conflict, Turkey housed the largest population of Syrian refugees in the world (3.2 million), followed by Lebanon (1.5 million) and Jordan (620,900), not to mention Iraq and Egypt also hosted sizable refugee populations. (1)

Many Russia whitewashers live in a perpetual state of projection. In a recent podcast, Greenwald argues that EU countries want to send more people to become cannon fodder on the frontlines of Ukraine because “they are running out of people” to continue their warmongering “obsession” with Russia (1)

Translation: I view Palestinians (and anyone else impacted by Israel’s expansionist policies) as less than human, which allows me to rationalize the continued slaughter of civilians across the region.

In 2015, Tulsi Gabbard traveled to Egypt with Dana Rohrabacher, Putin’s favorite congressman.

Gabbard sided with Russia when she traveled to Syria in 2017 to meet with Assad and his Russian-backed allies and choosing to spend her trip whitewashing the crimes of the Syrian regime and its Russian backers.

One could write an entire thesis on the multitude of inaccuracies in Azealia’s understanding of Putin’s current geopolitical standing, but to argue that the EU and UK want “what Putin has” when Putin has lost influence in Syria and Hungary within a matter of years…

MTG has referenced preserving “uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions” & argued that white men “are the most mistreated group of people in the US.” She referred to Muslim lawmakers as the “Jihad Squad,” & has argued that the US is facing an “Islamic invasion.” (1)

So according to the dirtbag left, the threat of white nationalism is merely agitprop, just as they argued Assad’s chemical weapons use was a hoax and that blaming Russia for human rights violations within Ukraine is also some type of conspiracy. (1)

If sacrificing one’s political career means MTGs net worth surged from 700,000 USD before entering the House to approximately 25 million, then so be it. (1)

MTG and her immediate family have a long history of engaging in Islamophobia and racism, including her ex-husband who was caught on camera publicly harassing Muslim women with Islamophobic insults. (1)

When you realize a lot of contrarian foreign policy boils down to simple victim-blaming, it becomes much easier to digest the simplicity of the mindset behind it. (1)

Living within a “post-truth” society means willfully rejecting concrete evidence staring you dead in the face. (1)

Reminder that this same individual was promoted heavily in leftist anti-imperialist/anti-war spaces during the Syrian conflict and at the start of the invasion of Ukraine for his supposed sharp foreign policy analysis. (1)

The “facts don’t care about your feelings crowd” ignoring the fact that Turkey backed opposition groups in Syria that were actively fighting Russia. Or that Turkey shot down a Russian jet in 2015. (1)

This meme doesn’t even make sense given that we are four years into this war and there are essentially zero regular British combat troops on the ground in Ukraine. (1)

Anyone with an iota of understanding of foreign policy would recognize how insane this comparison is, given that Turkey has one of NATO’s largest standing militaries and a robust domestic defense industry spanning drones, air defense, and naval assets. (1)

Earlier this week Israel carried out a “triple tap,” killing three medical workers and wounding six in Lebanon. Triple tap strikes were/are not even standard practice of the Russians, who were notorious for perfecting the “double tap” strike in Syria and then adopting the practice in Ukraine. (1)

Keep in mind, this type of rhetoric is meant to stoke fear of Carlson amongst constituencies like the Christian evangelical base in the U.S. which has a strong symbiotic relationship with the current admin. (1)

I never thought I would live to see the day I defend Tucker Carlson’s image, but doctoring imagery to smear his legitimate anti-war views is below the belt. (1)

NEXTA has a tendency to align more with a pro-Israeli perspectives, so it’s not surprising to see them push this manufactured narrative, as this rhetoric is only serving Israel’s regional agendas. (1)

Over the past several weeks, the world has watched as Israel (with total impunity) has killed countless Christians in Lebanon and carried out double-tap airstrikes on civilian areas. Yet somehow, the manufactured outrage is directed at Turkey. Make it make sense…

If Loomer is so concerned about American lives, maybe she should stop her manufactured hysteria around Turkey. 33,577 American nationals reside in Turkey (including myself). She is not telling you the truth about the on-the-ground realities here. (1)

The only people who lied to you about Syria are figures like Stein who for years have pushed pro-Assad conspiracy theories that have whitewashed his worst atrocities, from mass his extermination campaigns to the his continued use of chemical weapons. (1)

Keep in mind this rhetoric didn’t just organically appear, it materialized both overnight and simultaneously around the same time US/Isreal entered into conflict with Iran. This is pure manufactured hysteria meant to preemptively justify Israel’s future expansionist moves in the region. (1)

After attending the 10th-anniversary gala of RT, Blumenthal went on to found The Grayzone and began doing PR for despots like Assad and Putin. This included him infamously donning a plastic bag over his head to mock Syrian children directly impacted by Assad’s chemical weapons attack. (1)

For all interested in critiques of the Western left in the academic realm, we got a paper with Selbi Durdiyeva on the history of selective anti-imperialism and what we conceptualise as the epistemic cleansing of dissenting knowledges in pursuit of utopian chimeras www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“What Russia has become?” Russia has been filming their torture for years. In 2017 in Syria, Wagner-linked mercenaries filmed themselves torturing and killing a Syrian army deserter with a sledgehammer. This is not new behavior…

The Western anti-imperialist left’s inability to grasp two coexisting realities at once will forever be the movement’s Achilles heel. Recognizing America’s very much flawed human rights record does not automatically make repressive regimes like Cuba the lesser of two evils. (1)

Cuba’s useful idiot convoy exposes the Left’s blind spot by @sophiefullerton.bsky.social unherd.com/newsroom/cub...

An important point of view, and an easy read 🙂

For @unherd.com I wrote about how segments of the Western anti-imperialist left continue to partake in regime-sponsored trips to places like Iran, Syria, and now Cuba, often at the expense of dissidents and diaspora voices, all in pursuit of a political/ideological utopia that simply does not exist

'Diaspora voices are readily dismissed when their lived experiences contradict the Left's preferred ideological framework' | Sophie Fullerton unherd.com/newsroom/cub...

My latest for Türkiye Today, during an onslaught of disinformation from Israeli political figures on religious realities within Turkish society, I draw on my years living in Türkiye as a Catholic to offer a different perspective. (1) www.turkiyetoday.com/opinion/my-r...

“Israel wants to be left alone,” but somehow keeps flying into Lebanese airspace to utilize double-tap airstrikes on civilians while they sleep. “Israel wants to be left alone,” but somehow just displaced a large swath of the MENA region due to their regime change efforts in Iran. (1)

How can Bennett claim this with a straight face when just yesterday Erdoğan stated, verbatim, “Antisemitism is a crime. It is an evil that cannot be considered reasonable or legitimate.”

Almost 10k likes on a post that is blatant atrocity denialism. You don’t have to support U.S. war crimes committed in Iran to acknowledge that Putin himself has been notorious for targeting children in both Ukraine and Syria. (1)

It’s exhausting to hear voices within the MAGA base justify this war as a mission to “protect Christians in the Middle East,” while simultaneously turning a blind eye to Israel’s continued killing of Christians in broad daylight. (1)

Reminder that Stein does not simply have a history of boosting Russian talking points, but she also dined at the same table as Putin in 2015 in Moscow. Her continued push of disinformation around this unfolding conflict (even after being corrected) should not be dismissed as a simple error (1)

These proclamations are so intellectually lazy. One can recognize that Gaddafi was a brutal madman without ignoring that Libya has gone through years of instability and lawlessness, including the emergence of migrant slave markets. (1)

This is one of Trump’s go-to confidants. A more pressing question is why is the sitting president taking geopolitical advice from a veteran conspiracist who was banned from Twitter, Uber, PayPal, Lyft, and other platforms for extreme discriminatory rhetoric against Muslims? (1)

Under Syria’s former dictatorship, the regime leveled Yarmouk refugee camp, once home to the largest Palestinian refugee population in Syria. To this day, Yarmouk remains vastly depopulated as a result of the Assad regime’s scorched-earth campaign. (1)

Reminder of who ends up dealing with this humanitarian cleanup. Here in Turkey, the country is already beginning to mitigate some of the civilian fallout created by U.S.–Israel regime-change miscalculations, as Iranians slowly start to trickle across the border. (1)

“Jihadists” is one of Graham’s go-to buzzwords he deploys to stoke flames of fear while hiding his own superficial understanding of the region A couple months ago he was threatening “bone-breaking” sanctions on Syria and insinuating they were acting “radical” with their policies in Raqqa.

Please keep in mind that while pro-Israeli voices attempt to manufacture consent for war with a NATO ally, one of these countries (Israel) is currently striking Lebanon & Iran, while Türkiye yesterday was busy neutralizing an ISIS attack in Syria in coordination with the new Syrian government. (1)

New blog video! Assessing U.S. Public Opinion on Trump’s War, a conversation in an Iranian restaurant with @sophiefullerton.bsky.social renanetjes.substack.com/p/assessing-...