Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
🚨12-HOUR NEWS RECAP
1. 🇺🇸Biden grants “full and unconditional” pardon for Hunter, covering past and future accusations from 2014–2024.
2. 🇺🇸Trump slams Hunter’s pardon, calling it a “miscarriage of justice” and asking if Jan 6th participants will get similar treatment.
3. 🇸🇾 Syrian rebels seize an air defense system with missiles and radar near Aleppo, marking a major gain.
4. 🇮🇶Iranian-backed Hashd al Shaabi fighters cross into Syria to support government forces against rebel advances.
5. 🇬🇪Georgia arrests opposition leader Zurab Japaridze after protests over the government’s EU suspension decision.
6. 🇷🇺Russia rejects Trump’s tariff threats, claiming the dollar’s global dominance is fading as BRICS explore alternatives.
7. 🇬🇳Over 100 killed in violent clashes between fans at a football match in Guinea’s N’Zerekore.
8. 🇩🇪German Chancellor Scholz announces $650M in aid to Ukraine during an unexpected Kyiv visit.
9. 🇵🇭Philippine VP Sara Duterte faces impeachment for corruption, betrayal of trust, and constitutional violations.
10. 🇬🇧Elton John reveals he’s lost his eyesight during the West End debut of “The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical.”
Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
🚨🇬🇧BRITS LOVE TRUMP (MORE THAN THEIR OWN PM)
In a not-so-major shocker, a poll shows Trump (-24 favorability) is more popular in Britain than Keir Starmer (-30). Ouch.
Starmer’s steep fall from grace raises eyebrows about his leadership, while Brits still gush over Jeremy Clarkson (+15) and King Charles III (+27).
Source: Telegraph\\\
Lord Bebo
@MyLordBebo
🇹🇷🇸🇾‼️🚨 Assad’s fault the conflict escalated?
In July Erdogan tried to come close to Assad and invited him for possible talks to restore relations any time:
“I have already called on Mr. Assad for a visit to Turkey or a meeting in a third country and I have instructed my foreign minister on this matter.
We want to start a new process by overcoming this resentment.”
‼️ Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (splinter branch of Al Qaeda) rebels, who started an offensive now, were angry!
HTS in Idlib were burning Turkish flags in dissatisfaction with Erdogan plan to restart diplomatic relations with Assad.
-> But Assad decided not to go down this path and refused to start talks with Erdogan, unless Erdogan abides by his conditions of fully sovereignty and retreats from Syria fully. Which essentially is impossible before talks, but could have been part of the agreement.
Erdogan said: “The door is open to Assad but their approach is important. Assad wants Türkiye out of Northern Syria. This is out of the question. We are fighting terrorism there.”
The important part is, that Assad decided not to open a diplomatic path with Erdogan.
-> Now Erdogan decided to actually escalate and enforce either talks, or remove Assad.
Assad was able to establish good relations with other Arab states and join the Arab league again, the last bit he missed is the normalized of relations with Turkey.
It’s a shame Assad did not do that, Russia and Iran were pressuring Assad to make peace.
It is rumored that Bashar is emotional and upset with Erdogan, so he was waiting for him to go and wanted to make peace with the next president. Assad and Erdogan were close, they even went on family vacations together and Bashar never forgave Erdogan that he turned on him that much.
‼️ Now … whenever you want to blame Assad or not, likely he could have averted the current escalation by meeting Erdogan and working on a peace plan, with a slow withdrawal of Turkey from Syria.
