Aaron Maté once again claims the Syrian chemical weapons attack in Douma was a false flag:
"The false flag I'm focused on and forever will be focused on is Douma, that was in Syria. I will stand by that forever as a false flag."
This response by @Jacob_Rees_Mogg to @TuckerCarlson claiming that Russia isn't suppressing dissidents is my favorite moment of any Tucker interview, full stop: "Whaaaat?"
Magnificent. This clip will serve as the response to most of Tucker's blathering going forward.
Tucker Carlson's favourite "political scientist", John Mearsheimer, and his ATROCIOUS predictions on the war in Ukraine:
Feb. 2022: "I don't think Russia is going to invade."
Sep. 2023: "The Ukrainians are doomed to lose."
Jan. 2024: "It's ridiculous to think Ukraine can hold the line in 2024."
Apr. 2025: "It's unimaginable Ukraine will hang on beyond 2025."
Jul. 2026: "The Russians are slowly moving forward."
The Jim Cramer of foreign policy predictions.
Pour en revenir plus concrètement à l'actualité syrienne, al-Charaa a consolidé son emprise sur le pays et le parlement qu'il a constitué n'est qu'un outil pour asseoir son autorité.
Al-Charaa avait, à son arrivée au pouvoir, adopté une déclaration constitutionnelle censée régir le pays le temps d'adopter une constitution en cours d'élaboration par un comité qu'il a directement nommé. La déclaration lui offre une immunité totale, avec de très larges pouvoirs.
Il dispose d'une armée et de forces de sécurité qui sont totalement à sa botte ; l'intégration de quelques officiers des FDS sans pouvoir réel n'y changera rien. Le commandement et les officiers supérieurs, comme beaucoup de combattants, sont tous des fidèles de HTS et ont fait allégeance à al-Charaa.
Il a nommé par décret un proche, Issam el-Khalife, à la présidence de la Haute Cour constitutionnelle du pays — un homme sans compétence en droit constitutionnel, qui a obtenu un doctorat en droit à l'université d'Idlib, connue pour délivrer des diplômes aux leaders islamistes de HTS. Sa mission est de veiller au respect de la déclaration constitutionnelle adoptée par le président syrien, et qu'il a déjà bafouée à de multiples reprises.
Le plus significatif reste la mise en place du parlement, dont un tiers des membres a été nommé directement par al-Charaa. Les deux autres tiers sont le résultat de l'élection d'un collège de 8 000 électeurs censés représenter les 15 millions de Syriens en âge de voter. Ce collège a été désigné par une commission dont les membres ont été désignés par le président par intérim. Les candidats au poste de député ont eux aussi été préalablement validés et désignés par cette commission.
Le président du parlement a été imposé par al-Charaa : il s'agit d'Abdel Halim al-Awwak, qui est aussi l'un des rédacteurs de la Déclaration constitutionnelle… Le parlement n'a pas le pouvoir de destituer le président, ni de déposer une motion de censure contre le gouvernement, ni même de voter l'approbation des ministres nommés. Pour ce qui est censé être l'organe de contre-pouvoir du président, c'est raté.
Et, tout aussi important, le nouveau régime contrôle les principaux médias et bénéficie aussi du soutien de la machine de propagande du Qatar. Il a été récemment présenté par Al Jazeera comme le libérateur de la Syrie et le leader de la Révolution.
Cette complaisance médiatique trouve un écho jusque dans une partie de l'opinion : la majorité arabe sunnite semble se satisfaire du fait qu'al-Charaa soit lui-même arabe sunnite, une identification confessionnelle qui tient lieu, pour beaucoup, de blanc-seing — au détriment d'un examen plus exigeant de ses pratiques de pouvoir.
On s'oriente tout droit vers un poste de guide suprême, qui placerait al-Charaa au-dessus de l'État, au-dessus de la République. Et qui l'en empêcherait ?
Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the leader of the rebel Al-Nusra Front in Syria, reveals his face publicly for the first time.
He announces that al-Nusra is splitting from al-Qaeda and rebranding as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham
The fund Nassim Taleb advises returned 4,144% in a single quarter - while the S&P 500 was crashing
"A high Sharpe ratio is the best indicator of a bankruptcy of a fund."
Correlation, standard deviation, portfolio theory - in a fat-tailed world Taleb says they don't just fail, they fail backwards.
~20-min talk, free. Greenwich Economic Forum, Miami - the Black Swan author
$1 in his fund in 1988 turned into ~$14M. 66% a year for 30 years. Zero losing years
Jim Simons didn't hire bankers. He hired physicists, astronomers and mathematicians - "you can teach a physicist finance, but you can't teach a finance person physics."
Renaissance ran on the
Nassim Taleb explaining the math behind every trader who profits from fear
The crowd overpays for tail risk that almost never resolves. The other side of that overpayment is where the money is.
The post above is that exact trade running on Polymarket - selling No on extreme BTC dips at 99¢ and collecting the premium
1 hour from the man who built his career on this idea ↓
A trader on Polymarket hasn't lost a single trade in 158 attempts and made $286,403 doing it
He's not predicting prices. He's selling fear premium back to the crowd
What he actually does:
When BTC sits at $80K, the market still prices "BTC dips to $15K this month" at 1¢ -
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Why Are the Saudis Sitting Out the War With Iran? - A more active approach would help cement Riyadh’s regional clout.
By Me
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A Syrian artist living in Berlin posted a video now trending across Germany.
Germany welcomed Syrian refugees during and after the civil war and have no colonial past in Syria to atone for. What do they get in return? Resentment, a Third-Worldist rant basically about Western colonizers as eternal oppressors.
The contrast with Syria itself is what makes this interesting. Syrians inside Syria today want the West. They want a peaceful Damascus, a functioning banking system, trade, integration into the global economy. The loudest anticolonial voices and movements now sit in Western capitals advocating for things their own people aren’t aligned with.
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