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This appears to be the order of events. There are readers to this site far more knowledgable about events in the region, so I direct people to the comments in advance of them in case there are important corrections or updates in the comments.

First, there was an attack on the Druze people within Syria by the new regime, which is ISIS/Al Qaeda, both ideologically and the actual people at the lead of the armed revolution within Syria.

The Tweet below was in response to that attack.

The Syrians appear to have an answer to that threat:

https://twitter.com/realMaalouf/status/1945546745917628562

UPDATE: The Tweet is no longer available There is no way to tell of course if this is because it wasn’t true, or because it was too horrific to show, or because it interfered with the agenda of powerful agencies.

For some reason the Tweet still loads for me on Twitter using this link: https://twitter.com/realMaalouf/status/1945546745917628562 but it will not embed. Below is a screen grab.

Un-blurred versions of this are out there should it be necessary.

Here is the video in the Tweet I can’t embed in case they remove it altogether from Twitter.

CAUTION: This video is not blurred but doesn’t show anything really graphic, but lots of dead people and the voice of a highly distressed person video recording it. I won’t embed it here, but here is the link.

Assuming any and all of it is true, the Israeli response to this should be spectacular. And very soon. The Israelis tend to fiercely defend the Druze people. In part because if the Druze defend themselves, it will go way off the Geneva Convention. Way off.

UPDATES: July 17, 2025

 

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1945792779822543325?t=k74awseW2_tfh27UWa-18w&s=19

 

Ottawa: Protest against actual genocide in Syria gets about 150 people

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First, a note to everyone who has been kind enough to sign up to get notifications from this site.

This is an issue that comes up a lot, but I don’t often remember it because I don’t check the emails as I know what post I just made. But many people do not visit the site and just read the emails. The problem there is the emails will show you the text, and maybe an image. But the embedded videos do NOT show up in the site emails. This means that a lot of people cannot make heads or tails of the posts since they are often, perhaps even usually about a video, or an event shown in a video embedded in the post.

Also the numbers of people who visit this site has been sinking hard. I think this is because people who like to read it, do so by just reading the emails the site sends out. To repeat, you are not getting the post if you don’t click through to the site and see what the post is talking about. And this one will be the same. A few words about an event, and the event can only be seen here on the site, or at RAIR, by looking at the video.

The event was maybe 150 people if I am being generous, marching up Elgin St. on Saturday, March 15th 2025 protesting the actual genocide of religious minorities in Syria.

There are a lot of angles I could take on this issue. And I am hoping that readers to this site will add their own observations about the attitudes of some of these groups towards other religious minorities in the region. Even ones that don’t exist within Syria.

But the three ways this post will deal with it for the moment are:

A: An actual genocide gets practically no response from most people, and a tiny one from those affected. like Christians and Alawite Muslims.

B: The left, which has been occupying campuses and other locations for years now, creating chaos and violence and destruction everywhere and attacking Jewish targets claiming to oppose a non-existent genocide of the ‘Palestinians’, are no where even near this protest.

This must not be looked at as hypocrisy, but as a very conscious preconceived strategy to achieve a very specific outcome by the use of selective magnification and minification/diminution to replace reality with state narratives, and enforce those narratives.

C: When the Arab Spring happened, (an Obama euphemism for the reestablishment of an Islamic Caliphate starting from Tunisia and ending in Syria), the plan was to start a major war with all non-Islamic powers as Sunnis see it, in order to bring on the end of the world in a Syrian city called, Dabiq. Those same jihadis, I don’t even mean in terms of the ideology, but some of the same individuals from the Islamic State/Al-Qaeda/Al Nusra front/Muslim Brotherhood are now in control of Syria and consequently Dabiq.

So we must do what none of the media is doing. Pay close attention to events there, as they will, not may, but will, attempt events that will bring on the end of the world. It is their eschatology and greatest ambition. And Islam, exactly unlike Christianity, believes that the end of the world must be brought on by human, and not divine action. That Muslims are the agents of “Allah”. While Christians believe that the world will end and Jesus will return. but while there are nebulous signs which more or less are always happening, there is no way to know, or more importantly, to cause them to happen.

I don’t know if Judaism even has an eschatology.

The protest seems to have had at the head of it, an Eastern or Syrian orthodox priest, going by the vestments.

Ottawa: Protest against the genocide in Syria yesterday

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An interesting protest against the genocide being committed against ethnic and religious minorities by the new Sunni Muslim regime in Syria. For all intents and purposes. we may as well call them ISIS. Many of them are the same people, have the same goals, and ended up where the Arab Spring was meant to end up for the purpose of starting the Great War they want for their eschatology fabled to be in the Syrian city of Dabiq.

Video to follow. for the moment, here is a photo from the march. Note that it is led by what appears to be a Syrian Orthodox priest.

 

A massive explosion at a weapons depot in Syria has alarming implications

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The tale of the tape:

So I asked Chat GPT what size bomb is required to create a 3.0 magnitude on the Richter scale:

What size bomb would be required to create a 3.0 on the richter scale
ChatGPT said:
ChatGPT

The size of a bomb required to create a 3.0 magnitude event on the Richter scale depends on several factors, including the bomb’s energy yield, how it’s detonated, and the geology of the area. Here’s a general idea:

Energy Equivalent

A 3.0 earthquake releases approximately 2 gigajoules (2 billion joules) of energy. This is roughly equivalent to:

  • 500 tons of TNT or
  • A small tactical nuclear bomb (0.5 kiloton yield).

Factors Influencing the Effect:

  1. Type of Explosion: Underground explosions are much more efficient at generating seismic waves than above-ground detonations.
  2. Depth: Shallow explosions generally cause higher seismic readings.
  3. Geology: Softer ground will absorb more energy and reduce seismic effects, while harder rock transmits energy more efficiently.

Historical Comparison

  • The largest non-nuclear bomb ever detonated, Russia’s FOAB (Father of All Bombs), has a yield equivalent to ~44 tons of TNT, which would not reach a 3.0 magnitude.
  • A 3.0 magnitude seismic event is more in line with a small nuclear explosion, such as early nuclear tests like the Trinity Test in 1945 (~20 kilotons), which registered as high as 5.0 magnitude on seismic readings.

Maybe there is some subtle linguistic distinction between local seismic detectors and the Richter scale. But if they are the same thing, then the answer above is very interesting, no matter how you interpret it.

Even so, if Chat GPT is correct and the largest ever non-nuclear bomb had a 44MT yield, then 500 MT has got to have meaning beyond the usual.

UPDATE:

There are reports of a 3.0 magnitude event at a weapons depot in Syria after an Israeli bombing. Is there news or confirmation of that?
ChatGPT said:
ChatGPT

Yes, recent reports confirm that Israeli airstrikes on Syrian military sites have resulted in explosions registering as a 3.0 magnitude earthquake. These strikes, among the most intense in over a decade, targeted munitions depots and military facilities near Tartus and other regions in Syria.

The Sun

 

The Israeli Defense Forces conducted these operations to prevent advanced weaponry from falling into extremist hands, especially following the recent fall of President Assad’s regime. The airstrikes have drawn international condemnation from countries like Iran and Qatar, citing violations of Syrian sovereignty.

The Sun

 

In addition to airstrikes, there are reports of Israeli ground operations, with tanks reportedly advancing close to Damascus. Israeli officials justify these actions as necessary measures to secure their borders and ensure regional stability.

The Sun

 

For a visual perspective, here’s a video capturing the moment of the Israeli airstrike in Syria:

Ballisitc Missile hits oil tankers at Al Hamran northwest of Manbij in Syria

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Ballistic missile strikes have hit oil tankers and markets across northern Syria on Friday, according to reports.

At the time of publication, reports are indicating that strikes were carried out by either Russian or Syrian government forces, specifically against oil markets controlled by opposition forces in northern Syria. Moreover, the reports are conflicting about whether the missiles were the Syrian Army’s OTR-21 Tochka-U or the Russian’s Iskander.

<b>The strikes killed one person and injured 10 others</b>, a war monitor and a source from the Turkey-backed faction that controls the region told The Jerusalem Post.

One strike reportedly hit oil tankers in al-Hamran, which is near Jarablus and northwest of the northern Syria town of Manbij, resulting in a massive explosion.

The exact location of theses strikes was determined as the al-Hamran crossing between the TFSA (Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army) and SDF-controlled (Syrian Democratic Forces) areas, according to a report. The supposed target were reportedly trucks smuggling oil.

Three missiles hit the al-Hamran crossing, according to Syrian journalist Mohamed Rasheed, “causing huge explosions and burning fuel vehicles at the targeted place.”

(There is more of importance at source link. Please click through)

 

What is this?

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Let’s hope this is a plot to defang Iran

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RT article

“US President Donald Trump has approved military strikes in Syria in retaliation for the alleged chemical attack by the Assad government in Douma, near Damascus, last week.

“A short time ago, I ordered the United States Armed Forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad,” Trump said in a televised address from the White House. He added that a combined military operation by the US, the UK and France is already underway in Syria.

Explosions Heard in Damascus Region – Reports (sputniknews, Apr 14, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/world/201804141063539038-explosions-heard-damascus-reports/

“According to reports, explosions have been heard within Syria’s Damascus region as US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he was ordering to “launch precision strikes on Syria.”

Multiples unconfirmed reported have surfaced of Syrian military bases being struck by US, UK and French airstrikes.

Netizens on social media have reported hearing “big explosions.”

Syrian Army Uncovers Chemical Lab in Eastern Ghouta – State Media (sputniknews, Apr 13, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/news/201804131063535441-syrian-army-uncovers-lab-ghouta/

“The Syrian Army has discovered a facility in Eastern Ghouta used for making toxic biochemical weapons, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported Friday.

The “Syrian Arab army units found a large lab for making toxic materials” and a workshop for producing artillery shells of various sizes while inspecting towns where terrorists were recently evacuated from in Eastern Ghouta, located just east of Damascus, SANA noted.

Thank you M., Wrath of Khan and all.

Chemical weapons attack, maybe, by someone possibly

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The first casualty of war is truth. And we are pretty much always at war. So… yeah.

Here is a clip from the Syrian Army showing a chemical weapons factory they found belonging to the terrorists in Ghouta.

The Russians claim not to have found any trace of a chemical weapons attack at all, and are making rather clear threats to retaliate against a US strike on Syria to any platform that launches the strike. This would mean US naval assets. The US takes that sort of attack rather seriously with the notable exception of Barack Obama who seemed to encourage them.

From Iranian propaganda outlet, Farsnews:

The Arabic service of RT news channel quoted a Russian military diplomatic source as warning that any increased military build-up in the Mediterranean will intensify tensions, adding that Moscow is pursuing and assessing the developments.

 

He stressed that the Russian A-50 reconnaissance planes have been monitoring the guided-missile destroyer the USS Donald Cook’s voyage in the past few days, saying, “The Russian warships are able to give a rapid response if necessary.”

 

The source noted that the Russian navy also has deployed submarines in the Mediterranean equipped with torpedoes and missiles to destroy marine and ground targets.

Meantime, Russia’s Humeimim airbase in Syria’s Lattakia province is equipped with anti-ship cruise missiles of Kh-35 type.

 

The US newspaper, Wall Street Journal, reported earlier that the US already has one guided-missile destroyer, the USS Donald Cook, in the eastern Mediterranean, where it could take part in any strike on Syria, according to US defense officials. A second, the USS Porter could get there in a few days.

 

Russia has maintained that there has been no evidence of any chemical attack in Douma and sees Washington’s threats to “punish” Syria with military force as a pretext for intervention.

 

On March 13, Russia’s military chief of staff, General Valery Gerasimov, said that Moscow had intelligence about militants in Eastern Ghouta preparing a false-flag chemical attack in the area.

The senior official added that the US could use the fake attack as a pretext for striking out at government quarters in Damascus.

Mirror.UK: Russia will shoot down US missiles fired at Syria and target launch sites, warns ambassador

US missiles fired at Syria will be shot down, and launch sites targeted, a Russian ambassador warned today.

The measures threatened by Alexander Zasypkin, Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon, could trigger a major escalation in the Syrian conflict.

 

In comments broadcast on Tuesday evening, said he was referring to a statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian armed forces chief of staff.

The Russian military said on March 13 that it would respond to any U.S. strike on Syria, targeting any missiles and launchers involved in such an attack. Russia is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s most powerful ally.

 

The United States and its allies are considering whether to hit Syria over a suspected poison gas attack that medical relief organisations say killed dozens of people in the rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus on Saturday.

Many years ago, this site posted videos taken by the pre-Islamic state groups, Al-Qaeda or Nusra front or whatever Muslim Brotherhood front group of jihadis you want to name in the region, where they were developing chemical weapons and testing them on rabbits with grotesque success. Those videos are likely scrubbed off the internet but in an emergency can likely be found and reposted.

Shortly after the Islamic State was declared, there were other videos of Islamic terrorist groups using fairly crude home made or adapted weapons systems to launch chemical weapon containers into neighbourhoods. So the evidence of these groups using these weapons against civilians is very strong. While the likelihood of the optometrist, Assad, leader of Syria, launching a pointless WMD attack against his own population hours or days after the US president announces he is planning a troop withdrawal seems counter-intuitive.

Clearly it would result in an undesirable outcome for Syria.

Unless it doesn’t.

The only thing that fits the puzzle to me would be if the US hit Iranian assets in the area, freeing Al Assad from the yoke of that tyranny using the weapons attack as a false flag to do that.

Its possible that Assad could be a good partner in the region if he was free of the pressure from Iran which I am certain is large and undesired.

But then again, the first casualty of war, right? Just speculating really.

Looking forward to all your reasoned responses.

Eeyore for VladTepesBlog.