World daily update July 22, 2025

Sometimes everything is exposed, and you see the whole theater scene in full light with the actors standing there blinking in the clear spotlight. This happened now because the new Sunni regime in Syria has initiated a small ethnic cleansing of Druze, Shia, Alawites, Christians, and Kurds last week.

The films are terrible – mass murder, torture, old and children murdered, and laughing and singing men holding up severed heads and praising the gods for the opportunity to show what they are made of.

Religious leaders for Druze and Christians appeal in anguished statements for help to stop the ethnic cleansing, and films are broadcast from religious premises being demolished where the priest lies in a pool of his own blood.

Terrorists travel from Europe to participate in this festive genocide; if you miss this, you are not a real man.

ISIS atrocities back with a bang, therefore, only steel cages and gasoline plus the occasional slave market are missing.

All the usual suspects remain silent, those who scream every day about Israel’s genocide in Gaza say nothing at all.

Europe is at a loss – I must say that this was the most expected outcome of all, and Europe welcomed Al Jalani, gave him billions in aid, only to turn around, which was quite naive – but that word is starting to become very worn out.

If they had read Johan No.1, they would have known because we wrote about this when it happened, and I still cannot understand why the Alawites and the Christians on the coast did not hold the mountain range, which is an easily defensible fort. They did not lack militias, military fled there, they had the equipment, and knew who the opponents were – sprung from ISIS. For example, the Kurds did not make that mistake and fought their way to a sensible position in the northeast, and then they had both Al Jalani’s henchmen and Turkish regular forces to contend with.

The Peshmerga are tough, and their women’s battalions were the only ones ISIS feared because if you die by a woman’s hand, you do not go to heaven. It is a bit unclear why one goes to heaven if one collects severed heads and grills prisoners in steel cages, but they say faith is the last to die, and it is necessary for them to die to make them understand where they have ended up.

The Druze have lived in symbiosis with the regime in Damascus and live within a larger area in southwestern Syria on the border with Israel.

Yes – I think Israel has gone too far in Gaza, but unfortunately, there are hawks and hardliners in Israel as well who never let a good crisis go to waste. However, one must not forget that October 7 was a Russian influence operation, and the only reason Gaza is suffering today is because Russia initiated this.

I have posted the evidence before – Russian weapons, Chinese-built tunnels, HAMAS in Russia in the spring of 2023, large money transactions, and last but not least, Russian voices in some films from the October 7 attack.

Israel has tried to combat the flood in Syria as best they could, and the Druze are quite tough – it is called toxic masculinity, but right now, it is helping women, children, and the elderly avoid genocide, so maybe it can be forgiven just this once?

They have survived round one and avoided a coastal massacre like the Alawites and Christians had a while ago, which also passed by relatively unnoticed.

First point – we are showered with films on the Druze genocide, and in the case of Gaza, we are showered with statements that are not backed by film, and in between, films can be decided to be created rather than filming an event.

But yes – things are happening there too, absolutely, but serious readers understand the point I am trying to make, which is not to diminish Gaza but to show that the ethnic cleansing of the Druze should evoke the same will to stop it with demonstrations as Gaza does.

Second point – this entire PR machine that started in 2015 and has been going since October 7, where parliamentarians, political parties, public debaters, demonstrators, and “broad popular layers” demonstrate against genocide, is completely absent in the case of the Druze, isn’t it?

They were also not seen when the Yazidis were exterminated, the Kurds have not had much help from them, and they were not interested in the coastal massacre of the Alawites and Christians.

However, these demonstrations for Palestine have now also embraced Iran as a victim that must be demonstrated for, and not infrequently, Hamas or ISIS flags are waved in the demonstrations.

Now I really want to clarify this before anyone gets upset – I am not saying that the situation in Gaza is not precarious, but the point is not to belittle it but to show that the Druze murder is also commendable, and the demonstrators should have been inclusive – and all serious readers understand this.

So, I want to highlight the phenomenon of Russian subversive activity now when we have an excellent example to discuss.

Yasir Arafat was created by Russia, which essentially created the conflict in the MENA region between Israel and the other states, and Russia has fueled it over the years when needed, just like on October 7, 2023, when things started to calm down, and there was a risk of peace.

In 1967, the Soviets tricked Syria into believing that Israel was about to attack them, and to survive, they had to attack first – which the Syrians did and received a thorough beating. Israel had no plans to attack, and the Soviet evidence was falsified.

In 1973, the Soviets helped Syria and Egypt to attack Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday (similar to being attacked on Christmas Day or Midsummer Day), and with the latest Soviet weapons, they were dangerously close to succeeding in overpowering Israel that time.

The Syrians were shut down, and Israel loosened up – as an old mech soldier, I understand why they got beaten, and for those who are not old mech legends, you can try running around the house with a pillowcase over your head to understand too.

The Soviets managed to get the USA to remain passive, but Israel managed to turn the war around so that they ended up at the Suez Canal on the wrong side, and Sadat panicked when the hunter became the hunted.

So, the Soviets, along with the USA, agreed that Israel should not be allowed to deliver any consequences to Egypt or Syria – the countries had to withdraw and lick their wounds in peace, a second chance for peace.

And of course, everything was Israel’s fault, even though they had a genuinely feminist government unlike all the others – Golda Meir was a tough cookie, chain-smoking with frizzy hair who took no prisoners in cabinet meetings.

This PR apparatus that kicks in always does so when Russia wants it – no, not everyone is paid pro-Russians, and many in the demonstrations are passionate about Gaza, but Russia controls which way they go and what they should demonstrate for.

It is in these few unique moments that we can see it so clearly because it always takes a while before new orders come out, so the entire PR apparatus continues to scream about Israel while a serious attempt at genocide unfolds, which they should have jumped on instead, or simultaneously demonstrated for, but the silence echoes in the squares because no one is there.

Completely silent.

All those who tear up their university diplomas, hold a Palestinian flag so they get arrested, boycott, spend time every day supporting Palestine, go there by boat or in other ways demonstrate against Israel and for Palestine.

They don’t lift a finger, yawn and fall asleep when the Druze jump from rooftops or when the elderly in wheelchairs get a liter of gasoline poured over them and set on fire in front of the cameras.

Yes, we have had a few major demonstrations around Europe in the last few days, but they are in support of the genocide, not against it. They are spontaneous expressions of joy, not condemnations.

I don’t know what more you would need to understand how this all fits together. I have followed the Cold War for a long time and knew this already, but now you have experienced it for yourselves and documented it – you can form your own opinion based on the information you now have without taking the shortcut through the media and getting a pre-packaged narrative that is incorrect.

By the way, Nixon had Watergate to deal with just as the Yom Kippur War broke out, even though no one can be accused of serving Soviet interests there, and I have really checked, so it all came quite conveniently in hindsight. The war was planned long in advance, so Watergate was the moving part. The echoes of fate resound, but there is no evidence that I have been able to find at least.

Another occasion was the USA and the Vietnam War. In the USA, a formidable grassroots movement formed against the Vietnam War, which essentially ended with the USA being forced to abandon South Vietnam – it became politically too contagious.

North Vietnam started the war – South Vietnam was innocent. Have you ever heard that or just that everything was the fault of the USA?

The USA intervened to try to prevent South Vietnam from being overrun, and of course to prevent communism from advancing in the world.

Yes, the USA is not our friend and is not driven by noble and noble purposes at all, but that is not the point I am trying to make, and again I hope all serious readers understand that.

The war went so-so, and North Vietnam was guilty of more atrocities than the USA in the war overall, even though the USA made efforts with all sorts of terrible weapons such as napalm, white phosphorus, herbicides, and nerve gas.

Almost on the day the war ended, the protests in the USA quieted down, and calm settled on the universities and squares.

South Vietnam was then invaded by North Vietnam as they immediately broke the ceasefire they had agreed upon with the USA for them to leave – which the USA had anticipated.

The universities and squares were eerily silent.

North Vietnam then initiated a reign of terror in the south, and the boat refugees in the 80s were never as I thought due to US involvement in Vietnam but because the aftermath became a bloody story where North Vietnam was harsh in the south.

Throughout that period, the universities and squares were silent and calm.

Several million murdered South Vietnamese later, Vietnam is now a decent country but still a dictatorship.

Something that had been the No. 1 reason for demonstrations until the day the USA left Vietnam became completely uninteresting the same day the USA left – even though Vietnam’s population was murdered even more than before.

So what is the point I wanted to make with this extensive digression – do not underestimate the explosive power of Russian, former Soviet, subversive activities because they win wars.

The pro-Palestinian demonstrations you see today are controlled by Russia, and they also control the UN, Amnesty, and many other organizations together with China for a very simple reason.

The West has financed all these organizations, but Russia and China have, for a fraction of that cost, directly bought the loyalty of these organizations.

These protesters and organizations have also occasionally been passionate about other injustices – such as disarmament and not using landmines or cluster weapons. As if by chance, they have never demonstrated against Russia, which unlike us, has retained all its landmines and cluster weapons that they have effectively used against Ukraine.

During an entire war in Ukraine, you have hardly heard Amnesty and the UN criticize Russia, but they scream every day about Israel’s genocide.

For a while, they got it completely wrong and started accusing Ukraine of the genocide instead, but Russia quickly understood that it wouldn’t fly and adjusted the narrative a bit before the damage became too great, and now it’s forgotten.

They are completely silent about the Druze’s final battle because it is not in Russia’s or China’s interest at all to allocate resources to that.

This turned out a bit longer than I intended, tomorrow there will be a post about Russian subversive activities.

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