Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha was in Damascus on Monday and met with Syria’s de facto leader and other senior members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the al-Qaeda offshoot that led the offensive to oust former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Ukrainian intelligence supported the HTS offensive against Assad by providing drones and drone operators weeks before it was launched. Assad was allied with Moscow and recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk Republics in eastern Ukraine in 2022, which led to Kyiv ending diplomatic relations with Damascus.
Sybiha said Ukraine was ready to restore relations with the new HTS-led Syrian government and expressed hope that “mutual recognition of territorial integrity and sovereignty will pave the way for the restoration of diplomatic relations, political dialogue, and the work of diplomatic institutions.”
Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, the foreign minister for the HTS-led “transitional” government, said he hoped for “strategic partnerships” with Ukraine. “Certainly, the Syrian people and the Ukrainian people have the same experience and the same suffering that we endured over 14 years,” he said.
In a post on X, Sybhia said he delivered a message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Syria’s de facto leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, who has been going by his real name, Ahmed al-Sharaa, since taking over the country.
Sybhia said he “personally conveyed the message of Ukraine’s President
[Zelensky] to the Syrian people: we are with you and ready to assist in restoring normal life, stability, and food security.”
Julani previously led the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, known as the al-Nusra Front, which he merged with other Islamist factions in 2017 to form HTS. The US still considers HTS a “foreign terrorist organization” but celebrated the group’s takeover of Damascus and removed a $10 million bounty on Julani’s head.
This means US $$ funneling to HTS via Ukraine. We already do it directly, so why not? Shoot ourselves in one foot, then the other. Let's dance!
Ukraine has been flooding the international black market for weapons ever since the 2014 coup, probably al Qaeda is excited to be able to buy them at a government discount now.
True… and US knew all about it and let it happened…! Exactly like Nine Eleven…!
Trump needs to release the 9/11 data!
The Deep State won't let him…!
I doubt he’d want to release it. It’d make the US look bad.
You know how the data would be released…?! By accident or intentional leak, many many years from now…!
By that time US public wouldn't remember it…! So there wouldn't be much reaction…!
Maybe if it becomes useful to someone to release it. It might become useful to a ruling elite group at some point. Or someone could want to do the right thing also.
A ruling elite group who wants to bring down US hegemony…!
Or that identifies with some “new” identity to replace the old. So, “The empire is dead; long live the empire!”
It's more like “The empire is dead; long live the empire memories!”
You could have a situation where Thomas Knapp and a band of anarchists take power, release all the data, and then establish a new empire, the mirror image of the old but under a new flag and identity.
You have a wild imagination…!
But no empire has been resurrected in history…! Would US be the first…?! I certainly doubt it…!
No, you couldn’t have such a situation.
The two forum members RBE and Brian_Bixby are speculating as geopolitical strategists in the zone of war weapons trade. This raises the questions of who needs weapons of war here, and whether two parties injured by the Russian military are allying against Russia?
If you’d been paying attention to the situation you’d have read that Ukraine also sent a bunch of drones and their “pilots” to Syria before al Qaeda’s push into Aleppo, so yeah, they’re allies (inasmuch as any puppet of the US war machine can have allies). When Ukraine has such a dire shortage of equipment and personnel it seems odd that they would send their only effective weapons somewhere else, but I suppose when the hegemon says “Jump” you’re just supposed to ask “How high?”
Is Ukraine speculating against the Russian weapons of war stored in Syria?
https://gur.gov.ua/en/content/iz-syrii-v-liviiu-rosiiany-planuiut-perekynuty-chastynu-viiskovoi-tekhniky-v-afryku From Syria to Libya: Russians plan to move some military equipment to Africa
Russia says that it intends to expand its port access in North Africa, since no one trusts the US-sponsored al Qaeda to keep their word to leave Tartus alone.
https://kyivindependent.com/fall-of-assads-regime-disrupts-russian-recruitment-in-syria/
Many Islamic scholars reject dancing. A Dervish, Sufi, dances himself into a trance.
https://aboutislam.net/counseling/ask-the-scholar/morals-manners/dancing-what-is-allowed-and-what-is-not/
https://www.alislam.org/book/quest-of-curious-muslim/why-is-dancing-forbidden-in-islam/
https://madeinturkeytours.com/whirling-dervishes/
Rumi’s whirling dervishes
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/143924/is-there-any-proven-hadeeth-to-suggest-that-the-sahaabah-danced-that-is-quoted-as-evidence-for-dancing-in-dhikr-circles
https://theahlesunnah.wordpress.com/literature/companions-2/the-sufi-raqs-dance-in-light-of-shariah/
https://islamanswers.co.uk/question/is-sufi-dancing-hadra-mentioned-in-the-quran/
What next, will it never end?
" he hoped for “strategic partnerships” with Ukraine." What for, don't they have enough problems they need to take care of? Failed nations without any legal representation, and civil wars likely to happen,
see Libya.
Inconsistency is pervasive….
Send us your soldiers.
If it were not so sad this is almost hilarious. But is is only natural. The US paid ISIS fighters to fight in the Ukraine against Russia. So the Nazis and ISIS or AlQaeda, or HTS ( all the same just name changes) are becoming bosom friends and Biden just emptied our coffers of more billions to send to both of them. How glorious.
What is wrong with this exactly?
It's just like Russia being cute and cuddly with Hungary and Slovakia
Even if it is… annoying.. and disgusting…. and misrepresentative of the goals of a union…. did i say annoying yet…. people can chose their own alliances.
Great…. Nazi meets Terrorist…!
Blackrock puppets on a string. Did I read somewhere that Blackrock has 6 trillion in assets invested worldwide, greater than most countries and on par almost to Germany, and how much in the "rebuilding" of Ukraine? And now Syria, and enabling the globalist strategy "creative chaos" and dominating the rebuilding and ensuing markets
The greater irony is al-Qaida (militant Islamic fundamentalism) allied with the great unbelievers against Hezbollah & Hamas, genuinely militant brotherhood.
Was he carrying the usual suitcase stuffed with American dollars, or was he towing American weapons and ammunition in a trailer?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Added: My first thought on seeing them together was Beavis and Butthead.