Karim Franceschi
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Asymmetric warfare & decolonial military history | tracking liberation movements across Kurdistan, Balochistan, and beyond
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That’s Mazloum Abdi, the Kurdish commander and military hero who spent 12 years fighting and helping defeat ISIS as the U.S.’s most reliable ally in Syria. Instead of medals, he wears pictures of his fallen comrades on his chest. He was betrayed by Trump.
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This video won’t be shown on Al Jazeera or by Qatari-funded think tanks. But the streets of #Turkey tonight echo Maidan Square; millions rising, resisting, refusing to be silenced. The world may look away, but history won’t. Erdogan’s Neoliberal klepto-sultanate is crumbling ↓
Karim Franceschi499,158 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
From a military analyst’s point of view, this could hardly be labeled as a coup attempt against Venezuela. Either it was a deliberate distraction, or the people around Trump were so incompetent they genuinely thought this would work. What happened next: the Vice President immediately convened the Council of Defense of the Nation, invokes extraordinary powers within the constitutional framework, and appears publicly with the entire civilian and military leadership. That’s not a regime in free fall, that’s leadership closing ranks and buying time to rally support. More importantly, there’s no military fracture. No rogue colonel. No brigade or division moving against the government. No seizure of state media. No competing authority inside the country claiming legitimacy. Nothing. What you have instead is institutional shelling-up, coordinated signaling, and a rally effect, while the U.S. side offers nothing but banditry, rhetoric, and Elon Musk tweeting nonsense. If this looks more like a pantomime than regime change, it's because it is one.
Karim Franceschi186,549 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
A Syrian govt soldier, captured by Druze resistance in Suwayda, has confirmed what many knew but few dared to say: the govt ordered its forces to hide their role in the massacre to avoid Israeli airstrikes. He identify his commander as Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Jassem (Abu Amsha), recently sanctioned by the EU for his role in the 6–27 March Alawite massacre. Damascus unleashed the jihadist horde, then tried to vanish behind it. The Druze stood alone.
Karim Franceschi315,930 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
#Syria / Mario Nawfal (a Qatari-funded grifter) tried to boot me from his propaganda Space after I exposed his hero al-Julani's recent history of massacres of Kurds, Alawites, & Druze. He FAILED spectacularly: a mysterious "glitch" stopped the kick, so they panicked & SHUT DOWN THE WHOLE SPACE to silence me. Raw recording attached, hear them squirm. Share if you're done with terrorist-laundering propaganda. This is how they operate when exposed.
Karim Franceschi118,178 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
Unedited footage from Tabqa, my unit leading the push before Raqqa. The Kurdish-led SDF lost 12 000 fighters defeating ISIS. Now Washington hands their victory flag to the people they fought. The Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS has finally been defeated by irony.
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SDF general Mazloum Abdi carries the coffin of his fallen comrade Nureddin Sofi.
Karim Franceschi195,126 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
6/ But the most outstanding part is Jolani's "too good to be true" proposal for a decentralized Syria ruled by councils that recognize Syria’s ethnic, religious, and sectarian diversity—essentially what AANES proposed from day one, only to be rejected by Assad at every turn.
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I spent the past few months screaming to whoever was willing to listen that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham couldn't be allowed to rule Syria—that they would butcher minorities and that genocide would inevitably take place. That Jolani might have rebranded himself as Ahmed al-Sharaa, but 20 years as an al-Qaeda emir don’t just wash off. And that his troops, the ones everyone calls the Syrian security forces, are literally ISIS militants. This blood is on your hands—the world leaders who rushed to endorse Jolani’s takeover of the Syrian government: 🇺🇸 Barbara Leaf U.S. State Dept - Near Eastern Affairs 🇺🇳 Geir O. Pedersen 🇫🇷 Jean-Noël Barrot 🇩🇪 @ABaerbock 🇮🇹 Antonio Tajani ⚖️ Karim A. A. Khan KC and Int'l Criminal Court 🏦 Tony Blair World Economic Forum
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"It is possible they may keep the Alawites... and never release them." A heartbreaking look at the sectarian dynamics of the recent prisoner exchanges. This survivor details how Alawites were singled out for "tadell" (cruelty) and calls on his Kurdish comrades to prioritize their rescue. Faithful translation and subtitles of the latest testimony.
Karim Franceschi33,377 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce