The incoming American President is a deal maker. Al-Jolani looks like a guy who wants to cut deals, and that is someone the Americans will work with. The FSA are a bunch of losers who will fold anyway and even the USA knows this. Jolani is the future ruler of Syria and its lunacy to assume otherwise at this point.
I can taste the fear in this video, I hope for the innocents sake it's a tidy transition but I know better than to expect one.
It's gone. It was approaching the مطار الضيعة Airport nearby Homs after falling, guess we'll know in a while what it was about.
Dunno how much Trump is going to want to help out al Qaeda. Maybe if Erdogan asks real nice.
Honestly, if that's what his capital still looks like after 13 fucking years, it's no wonder Assad couldn't retain any popular support here at the end. I expect we'll be seeing videos similar to that time HTS took a stroll in the Aleppo gov't palace soon enough.
I found it interesting that in Trump's official statement, he calls HTS 'opposition fighters' and not terrorists. I can't really imagine Mr. 'BTFOing Ted Cruz With New York Values' ever forgiving an AQ emir for 9/11, even if the latter claims he's a good guy now. But I think there is a non-zero chance that he might be willing to settle into the same sort of coldly hostile peace Israel likely expects with Al-Jolani if it means he can finally get US forces & money out of Syria after his generals backstabbed him on that last time, especially since there's now really no reason to keep any of them in there (well, so long as Al-Jolani is willing to deal over the oil & gas, which he probably is because HTS will need outside money if it hopes to govern effectively). Ironically, this would also come right after the al-Tanf rebels just proved themselves to be literally the first good investment America has made in Syria this entire time; probably those guys will just melt away or fall in with the Southern Front/FSA after January 20 2025.
