Jose Luis Rodriguez 🇨🇴

🇸🇾🇺🇸 The empire just packed up and left Syria with a straight face. After 11 years of “fighting terrorism,” the last U.S. troops rolled out of Qasrak air base in Hasakah yesterday. Syrian army units and SDF fighters moved in together while American convoys torched equipment on the way out — the classic imperial exit: burn what you can’t steal. The man now running Syria as president is Ahmed al-Sharaa or better known to the world as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the former leader of al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch (Jabhat al-Nusra/HTS). Yes, the same guy the U.S. once put a $10 million fake bounty on. The same networks Washington spent over a decade pretending to bomb, sanctioning, and calling an existential threat. Now they hand the country over to him and call it mission accomplished. Eleven years of bases, drones, and endless “counter-terror” talk… only to leave the keys with a rebranded Salafist jihadist who was literally once on their own terrorist list. That’s the empire admitting its proxies are perfectly capable of running the show once the Stars and Stripes are gone. America isn't truly leaving Syria. It just stopped pretending.

Probably the biggest attack on a Russian oil refinery to date. Rosneft’s Tuapse Oil Depot and Export Facility in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. This after days (weeks) of attacks on oil and port infrastructure. Russia will have to re-establish deterrence one way or another.