Kevork Almassian
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Imagine the significance of what Donald Trump said about the Golan! The President of the United States effectively reaffirmed Israel's occupation and annexation of the Golan Heights while Abu Mohammad al-Julani sat beside him without a single objection, not even a reminder that the Golan is occupied Syrian territory. Silence at a moment like this is state policy. When the U.S. president declares the Golan to be Israeli territory and the self-proclaimed "President of Syria" says nothing, the world is bound to interpret that silence as acceptance of the status quo.
Kevork Almassian646,087 views • 18 days ago
In this video, ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi describes dispatching Abu Mohammad al-Jolani from Iraq to establish Jabhat al-Nusra as an extension of ISIS in Syria. Jolani, in turn, thanks Baghdadi for his approval, support, and funding. A suit doesn't erase that history. The United States ultimately handed Syria to a man who once led al-Qaeda's branch in the country.
Kevork Almassian335,203 views • 12 days ago
🚨 TARIK’S MESSAGE TO U.S. MILITARY FAMILIES 🚨 I asked Historian Tarik Cyril Amar what he would say to American families whose sons and daughters are deployed abroad and may be pulled into another ground invasion, this time against Iran. Military service can be understood when it is genuinely about defending one’s own country. But if American soldiers are sent to die for Israel’s regional objectives, then the moral and strategic equation changes. Tarik’s point is not only that families should worry about their children being killed, wounded, or captured. They should also worry about their children being placed in a position where they may participate in the bombing of civilians and carry the moral burden of policies they did not create. Therefore, the question becomes where the line is drawn when service becomes participation in aggression in someone else’s war. .Tarik Cyril Amar .Syriana Analysis
Kevork Almassian20,898 views • 1 day ago
🚨 WHO ARE U.S. SOLDIERS REALLY DEFENDING? 🚨 When American soldiers are killed in the Middle East, the public is told they died “defending the nation.” But if the battlefield is more than 10,000 kilometers from American soil, the question becomes unavoidable: what exactly were they defending? Since 2001, Americans have heard the same language again and again, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and now Iran. Every war is framed as a fight against “evil.” But the outcome for ordinary Americans has not been security or prosperity. It has been higher costs, deeper instability, and more families paying the price while political elites and the military-industrial complex continue their lives untouched and further enriched. Maybe the real divide in America is not left versus right. Maybe it is vertical: ordinary people versus an elite class that sends them to fight wars of empire.
Kevork Almassian30,451 views • 5 days ago
🚨 TRUMP WANTS JOLANI TO FIGHT HEZBOLLAH 🚨 Donald Trump wants Abu Mohammad al-Jolani — now presented as “Ahmad al-Sharaa” — to move against Hezbollah in Lebanon, because he believes Jolani can “handle” Hezbollah better than Israel. When Hezbollah entered the Syrian war, its argument was that if Syria fell to the so-called rebels, Damascus would become a U.S. satellite, and Hezbollah’s logistical depth toward Syria, Iraq, and Iran would be cut. Now, regime change has happened, Syria is moving into the American orbit, and Washington wants the new Damascus to become a weapon against Hezbollah. If this scenario materializes, we may witness one of the most dangerous sectarian conflicts in the region in decades. Because Jolani’s forces are not motivated by Lebanese sovereignty or regional stability. Their ideological hatred of Shias could turn Lebanon into a battlefield of revenge, not politics. Some analysts believe Turkey will restrain Jolani, but what if Washington offers Ankara a bigger prize? Aleppo. Tripoli. A greater role in the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Even the F-35 file. Would Turkey still stop him? .Syriana Analysis
Kevork Almassian35,101 views • 7 days ago
🚨 DONALD TRUMP APPROVES NUCLEAR DEAL WITH SAUDI ARABIA 🚨 Iran is punished for enriching uranium under the argument that it cannot be trusted with a peaceful nuclear program. Saudi Arabia, however, can be offered a nuclear deal, as long as Washington and American corporations remain involved in building and profiting from it. So, the issue is not simply enriching uranium, but who controls it, who profits from it, and whether the country is politically obedient to Washington. Sanctions, assassinations, sabotage, and war are justified against Iran in the name of “security.” But when a U.S.-aligned state wants similar capabilities, the language changes. The same pattern appears in energy, sanctions, and regime-change politics: countries are promised prosperity if they cooperate, but the real beneficiaries are often foreign corporations and political elites. The question for Americans is simple: Are these policies serving your interests or the interests of the "elite" that keeps asking your sons and daughters to go to war and die for an empire?
Kevork Almassian13,132 views • 2 days ago
🚨 WHEN JUILANI'S SILENCE BECOMES SURRENDER 🚨 Trump sat next to Abu Mohammad al-Julani — now presented to the world as “Ahmad al-Sharaa” — and openly bragged about how much he has done for Israel. One of his examples? Recognizing the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as Israeli territory. The shocking part is not Trump. We know what American presidents do when it comes to Israel. The shocking part is that Julani, sitting there as the supposed leader of Syria, said nothing. No objection. No correction. No defense of Syrian sovereignty. And when the man claiming to represent Syria remains silent while occupied Syrian land is casually handed to Israel, that silence becomes political recognition of the humiliation. But this is not only about Syria. This is the disease of modern politics. Leaders no longer behave like servants of their nations. They behave like executive directors managing someone else’s project. Mark Rutte sits quietly while Trump insults Spain. Western leaders nod while Greenland is spoken of as if it belongs to Washington. A German chancellor once stood beside Biden as Nord Stream was threatened and later destroyed. The pattern is clear. Politicians who surrender national interests are called “democrats.” Those who defend sovereignty are called “dictators.” Maybe I am wrong, but I see a world full of leaders who have lost the most basic requirement of political life: self-respect.
Kevork Almassian62,453 views • 17 days ago
🚨 WHY ISRAEL NO LONGER HIDES ITS CRIMES 🚨 I asked Elijah Magnier a question that few people seem to ask: Why did Israeli officials once deny massacres, cover up crimes, and call everything “propaganda”, but now openly brag about destroying homes, villages, and civilian infrastructure? Elijah believes Israel no longer feels the need to hide what it does because Western protection has made impunity feel permanent. Israeli soldiers film destruction. Officials speak openly about wiping out villages. Ministers admit the scale of devastation. And instead of facing consequences, Israeli leaders are received by Western governments, protected diplomatically, and shielded from international justice. Elijah argues that after October 7, Israel began acting as if borders no longer matter — in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond — using “national security” as a blank cheque for expansion and destruction. But the deeper scandal is not only Israeli behavior. It is the American umbrella that makes it possible. When Washington recognizes occupied Syrian land as Israeli, defends Israeli military expansions, and sanctions international legal bodies, what message does Israel receive? That it can do almost anything. That is why the mentality changed. .Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 .Syriana Analysis
Kevork Almassian38,190 views • 10 days ago
💥 As a descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors, I reject Benjamin Netanyahu's politicization of the Armenian Genocide 💥 Armenians should remain deeply skeptical of this sudden moral awakening. We must not allow our history, our trauma, or the memory of our ancestors to become bargaining chips for politicians who ignored our cause when Turkey was strategically useful, armed Azerbaijan when it served their interests, and now invoke the Armenian Genocide because it suits today's geopolitical agenda. Recognition matters. But recognition that appears only when history becomes strategically convenient is not solidarity. It is the instrumentalization of genocide memory, and Armenians must not become pawns in someone else's geopolitical struggle.
Kevork Almassian61,576 views • 23 days ago
🚨 WHO PAYS THE PRICE FOR AMERICA’S WARS? 🚨 I asked Mats Nilsson how we should think about U.S. soldiers killed in the Middle East: we do not want them to die, but we also know they are deployed in a region where American power inflicts enormous damage. Mats compares their position to Vietnam and Beirut in 1983. Different circumstances, but the same strategic problem: soldiers placed in unwinnable situations, serving unclear objectives, and paying the price for political failure in Washington. They are presented as defenders of the nation, yet often function as instruments of an empire whose goals are rarely explained honestly to the public. The real question is why they are sent into conflicts where the national interest is vague, the risks are obvious, and the consequences are paid by everyone except the decision-makers. That is the contradiction Mats addresses in this clip. .Mats Nilsson .Syriana Analysis
Kevork Almassian10,792 views • 4 days ago
🚨 ALBANIA, ARMENIA, LEBANON: THE SAME PATTERN 🚨 In all three countries, we are seeing political elites accused by their own people of serving outside powers while their own nations are pushed toward the edge. In Albania, a strategic and ecologically preserved island is being handed to Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and the billionaire class for “exclusive investment.” In Armenia, part of the country’s sovereignty is being opened to American control through a corridor project that could serve Turkey, Azerbaijan, and NATO. And in Lebanon, while Israel occupies parts of the south, destroys towns, and speaks openly about expansion and settlement, the Joseph Aoun and Nawaf Salam government is moving against the only armed force on the ground that actually can stop the Israeli military advance. Different countries. Same script. Elite capture. Soft occupation. Namely, governments that no longer behave like guardians of their nations, but like managers of someone else’s geopolitical project. The Albanian people are already in the streets resisting the sale of their land. Armenians and Lebanese should pay close attention. Because when a political class is captured, the country is not conquered with tanks first. It is conquered through contracts, corridors, “security deals,” and leaders who sell surrender as reform.
Kevork Almassian86,244 views • 1 month ago
Neil Oliver says the quiet part out loud in this segment and the direction of what he’s describing is hard to ignore. He argues the project isn’t just “left vs right” or one crisis after another, but a long campaign to break what makes people human — identity, heritage, faith, national cohesion, even basic trust in reality — until societies are so exhausted they’ll accept “solutions” they’d never accept in a healthy world. And then he names what many still treat as science fiction: the transhumanist agenda and the push toward a managed future of biometric control, digital identity, algorithmic governance, and ultimately a post-human model where the citizen becomes a data point, and the body becomes an upgradeable platform. Watch this clip and tell me: is this paranoia… or the blueprint of the era we’re already entering? .Neil Oliver
Kevork Almassian261,762 views • 5 months ago
Who gave them the right to assassinate leaders, kidnap presidents, and overthrow governments—then call it “order” and “democracy”? Because if Iran did to Israel what the U.S. and its allies keep doing to others, the entire world would explode overnight. But when it’s them—when it’s Khamenei, Maduro, Assad, Gaddafi, Saddam—suddenly it’s framed as “necessary” or “strategic.” And here’s the part people don’t want to admit: negotiations often get used as a smokescreen, buy time, move assets, prepare the strike, then stab you in the back while you’re still “at the table.” Yes, countries like Iran and Russia still have to talk, because they don't want total war. But the lie is that Iran is the aggressor. The truth is that Iran has been showing flexibility because it wants to avoid war, while the escalation machine keeps moving anyway.
Kevork Almassian239,550 views • 4 months ago
