This is the same “gamification of jihad” that DAESH perfected: nasheeds paired with GoPro combat footage, designed to mobilize, radicalize, and sustain a terror narrative. From 2015 to 2017, as an international volunteer fighting ISIS during the siege of Kobani and the liberation of Raqqa, I watched this material... closely. We studied it to understand their tactics, extract intelligence, and anticipate their moves. Back then, we were in their crosshairs. Today, we are again. The Kurds. Nothing has changed. Then, they called the Kurds “PKK” and “kuffar.” They still do. Then, they were Salafi jihadists. They still are. The difference is not ideology. It is presentation. Now they have Western backing, a UN seat, and when they speak to foreign press they adopt Western legalism. They talk about state sovereignty. They label Kurds as “rebels” and “separatists.” They frame their actions as “security operations.” Their fighters are no longer called mujahideen but “internal security services.” Yet when they speak to their base, they release this footage. And the language, imagery, and intent are identical to when they called themselves the Islamic State instead of the Syrian Arab Republic. I keep pointing to this, over and over, like a madman. But the truth is not hidden. It is visible to anyone willing to look. When von der Leyen goes to Damascus with hundreds of millions of euros while Jolani’s forces siege Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo and kill the same people who stood with the world to defeat ISIS, she knows exactly who he is. When Trump calls him a “tough cookie,” he knows exactly who he is. There is no illusion here. This is not a mystery. They all know he is a Salafi jihadist. They all know his forces are a whitewashed band of killers. They simply chose convenience. They silenced their own media. They played along. And they all took part in the dismantling and annihilation of Kurdish-led autonomy in northern Syria. They are all complicit.show more

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