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Hello everyone. I’m creating this post to share my experiences, not as a political statement, but as a human one. For years, I was a soldier serving in the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) under Bashar al-Assad. Like many in my community, I was born into an Alawite family, and the narrative I was fed was simple: the Assad regime was the protector of minorities, the guarantor of stability in a chaotic region, and the only thing standing between us and the abyss. The rebels, we were told, were nothing more than radical Islamist terrorists who wanted to slaughter us in our beds.

I believed it. I enlisted. I served. And I saw things that will haunt me until my dying day.

I eventually deserted, not because I suddenly loved the rebels, but because I realized I was a cog in a machine that was creating the very hell it claimed to be fighting. I saw the horrifying, depraved actions of the regime I served, and I also witnessed the brutality and fanaticism of the rebels I was sent to fight. I am not a victim, I was a participant in one side of a conflict where there were no good guys, only survivors and perpetrators, and often, the same people were both.

This is an anonymous account for my own safety and the safety of my family. I will not be sharing my specific unit, my location, or the exact dates of my service. I will answer what I can to the best of my ability.
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>>521653252 (OP)
What was the most fun you had in the SAA?
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Do you like Demolition Man starring Wesley Snipes
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>>521653252 (OP)
When you rape goats are you required to wed them?
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>>521653252 (OP)
Interesting.
I guess my first question is do regret serving? Or do you stand by your younger self’s decision making based on the knowledge available at the time? What would you do differently if given the chance? I admittedly know less about Syria than I should but also know that the reality on the ground is worlds away from whatever drivel the show on tv
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>>521653252 (OP)
>I did so many bad things yada yada ChatGPT answer
Sage in all fields it goes.
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>>521653605
crazy how western humour is different from the east , your humour tastes very dry and lame
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>>521653252 (OP)
List a few depraved actions by the regime that you were witness to?
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>>521653816
That's a jeet
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>>521653252 (OP)

1) What were some bad atrocities committed by SAA that you saw?

2) Do you have any hope that Syria under Julani will get better

3) Do you know many Alawites killed in the purges since Assad government fell

4) Do you have any thoughts on Alawite esoterism/mysticism?
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>>521653252 (OP)
Well looks like the narrative you were fed was correct, now your county will be picked apart by jews and turks and you probably won't even end up with a little alawite coastal city, just another completely harmless (to jews) failed state and another death blow to Arab nationalism in favour of radical Jewish islamism. Oh wells
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What do Alawites even believe? Also why Egypt?
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>>521653252 (OP)
Why did the toppling happen so fast? All they took was a highway from the north to the capital. That whole endgame was nonsense. Are you a member of Assad's religious group? Why didn't those guys fight harder?
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How many Isis fighters turned out to be CIA/Mossad?
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>>521653540
this is me
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How exactly were you creating ‘the very hell [the Assad regime] claimed to be fighting’? Look at Syria today, an Israeli client-state completely neutered as a military power wherein the Alawites are persecuted and demonised. Was it worth it?
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>>521653252 (OP)
tell us your alawi secrets
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>>521653449

I'll tell you what was fun.

One time, we'd be holding a position on a dusty hilltop, the sun baking the steel of our BMP until it was too hot to touch. and for hours, there would be nothing. Just the wind and the flies and the taste of stale water from a canteen. The fear is always there, a low hum under your skin, but after a while, you get used to it.

Then, someone would start, maybe the guy on the right would pull out his battered oud and pick out a few melancholic notes, or the other dude would start telling one of his endless, dirty jokes that he'd told a hundred times before, while drinking a bottle of vodka. And for a few minutes, we would laugh, a real laugh. It was the laugh of men who knew they were dead men walking, but for those five minutes, they forgot about the walking part.

We’d pass around a cigarette, smoking it down to the filter in three drags. That was the fun, the feeling of being completely disconnected from the person I was before, from the world I grew up in. There was a strange, terrible freedom in it. No bills to pay, no family to disappoint, no future to worry about, alll of that was gone, there was only the next five minutes. The next cigarette, the next joke. It was a clean, empty feeling, like being a ghost (ironic since the rebels used to call us "shabeeha", which literally meant "ghosts).

Sometimes, after a firefight, when the adrenaline was still buzzing in your veins like a hornet's nest, there was a high, a shaky, god-like feeling, that w =e were still alive. The other guys weren't, we'd kick the shell casings with our boots, and the sound would echo in the sudden, ringing silence. We wouldn't talk about the men we'd just killed, we'd talk about what food we missed, our mothers' cooking, a specific type of fruit.

That was the fun, I think, just pure unthinking animal existence. You miss that clarity, that's the part that stays with you, the part that makes you feel like you're the ghost now.
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>>521653252 (OP)
ai generated OP
you're a hindu rape rat
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>>521654180
are you using AI because your english is bad
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>>521653724
>I guess my first question is do regret serving?

Regret is a luxury I can't afford, because it means I had a real choice, and I'm not sure I did, you know?
My younger self? I stand by his decision-making, because he was operating with the information he had, I just saw myself as a product of my community and the state, but deep down at the time, I knew something was very, very wrong with the infrastructure around me.

The protests originally rose because of many factors, one of which include the fact that the government was basically fucking people over economically even before the war.

But, to simplify it, the world was presented to me as a simple equation: Assad equals life and stability for people like us, and opposition equals death and chaos. They showed us videos of beheadings, of churches being destroyed, of entire villages being slaughtered. They told us, "This will be your fate if you do not fight."

And they're right, this was the fate, but something was misrepresented, and that is the fact that the earlier factions that rose against the regime (early FSA) was very, very different from the later factions, which was backed by different countries, extremely radicalized, and were agents for foreign agendas.

The earlier opposition rebels were honest people, didn't take long for them to disappear and the animals to begin full control.
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>>521654559
>FSA was real narrative in current year
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>>521653886

1) What were some bad atrocities committed by SAA that you saw?

Homs and Aleppo operations for sure, they were also the home for FSA fuckfests, such as the 2015-2016 decapitation of a child in Aleppo by the FSA.

I personally saw the aftermath of a cleansing operation in a small village near Homs, the mukhabarat (intelligence) officers claimed fighters were hiding there, so we went in, and after a brief firefight, it was over. The intel officers rounded up every male between the ages of 14 and 50. No interrogation, just the same thing current HTS regime does to minorities. They were said to be terrorists, so just got beat up and executed in the head one by one, and at the time I was on perimeter security. I could hear the shots and their female relatives rushing and crying, they left the bodies there for days rotting (this is a common phenomenon between all factions of Syrian, they leave the bodies lying for days untouched for people to look at).

The pro-Assad militias enjoyed the chaos though, some fighters were once taken from a smaller FSA brigade, handed over to thugs, and got taken to an abandoned building and God knows what happened there.
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>>521653252 (OP)
>And I saw things that will haunt me until my dying day.

Syria was a war so brutal I am thankful for the proliferation of FPV drones, fiber optic drones, Shaheds, glide bombs and laser guided artillery shells. 99 percent of people just randomly explode long before they can get close enough to be within shooting range, nevermind trying to cut your head off
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>>521653252 (OP)
Everything on this site is fake and gay, but in the rare occurrence that this is legit...

What was your favorite meal growing up? Something that your parent(s) would cook for you that would make you happy? Do you cook it yourself now?

>inb4 Amerilard asking about food
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>>521653252 (OP)
Would you eat this tomato?
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>alawite
>types in near perfect english
Almost got me you faggot
SAGE
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>>521653886

>2) Do you have any hope that Syria under Julani will get better

The country has everything but hope, because hope is what gets you killed there. I look at a man like Jolani, and I don't see a reformer, I see a cynical man that knows how to play political chess. He was the leader of the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, then he broke with them, now he talks about governance and fighting off ISIS.

He is doing what is necessary to seize and hold power, he is putting on a moderate face for the West because he needs their support and their money. He still stands by his past values, all of them do.

The ideology remains the same, and the methods don't change, only the flag.

3) Do you know many Alawites killed in the purges since Assad government fell?

I don't know the exact numbers, no one does, but yes, there have been at the very least more than a thousand killings post-Assad. When opposition forces, especially the more hardline Islamist factions, would take an Alawite-majority village or neighborhood, it wasn't a gentle process, there were revenge killings. They would go house to house, checking IDs, pulling out men and boys, they were just killing for what they were, not what they had done, while the government offered reconciliation to the real criminals.
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>>521653918

Both sides have blood on their hands, both sides were brutal, both sides were ugly, both sides deserve to be cleansed from earth and pay their due.
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>>521653950

Syrians that live here have a better lifestyle and easier adaptation to society than, say, Europe.
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>>521653540
what's your bogle
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>>521653975

The regime didn't fall, that's BS narrative fed to the world by the rebels who were just desperate for anything to consider a "win". The regime was sold, not even Bashar himself knew what was going on, but this was accounted for given the fact a lot of the army deserted the government, were on the run, or were considering deserting it as of 2024.

So basically the ruling power was handed over, not fallen. A regime that stood for 14 years against factions funded by different regional powers is not going to fall in a few days, it's literally impossible.
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>>521654533

I am going to take this as a compliment. I just speak English fluently is all.
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>>521655032
>What was your favorite meal growing up? Something that your parent(s) would cook for you that would make you happy? Do you cook it yourself now?

Makdous, a meal that, although took time to prepare, was very good.

Do I cook it now? No, I can't. I tried once a few years ago, I found some small eggplants at a market and bought the walnuts and the chili paste. I went through the motions, by boiling them, I pressed them, I stuffed them, but it wasn't right, the smell was wrong. The taste was hollow, and it just didn't have my mother's hands in it, nor did it have the olive oil from our trees, nor the safety of our kitchen.

I guess I just miss mom.x
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Can you give me a job reference? I have a huge gap in my resume and no one wants to hire me because I've got no experience and kinda autistic/weird to be around. I reckon this could be solved by just saying I was doing shit in/for Syria.

Is this possible?
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>>521655872
Very cool, anon

If you're legit, peace and love to you.
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>>521654993

Assad-regime was failing as a government, which led to protests, which led to severed control, which led to rebellion, which led to war, which led to radicalization, which led to more brutalness from the regime's side, and it just became an endless cycle.

Both sides suffered from each other's crimes, so both hate each other more at each killing, and it will never, ever end. It just shows we aren't monsters, rather we manifest the true face of what a sinful human is, this is our nature.

HTS raided hospitals post-regime collapse, and they dragged civilians from their homes and executed them, killed the volunteers at the hospitals, and shot the patients. Most public hospitals are now closed in Syria.
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>>521654180
Being a rebel is even more fun. Just look at these lads.
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>>521654118

Listen, the propaganda about them wanting to kill minorities isn't wrong, they justify it religiously anyways. I saw it with my own eyes, in one village we were entering, fighters from the Nusra front rounded up Alawites and Shi'as who were innocent civilians, and they got executed in the town square. They had left after knowing of our coming.

They carved "Nusayri" on the chests of the Alawites, and "Rafidhi" on the Shi'a. Houses were clearly vandalized, and there were drawings on the wall praising the Islamic state and calling the civilians they killed "dogs of bashar".

But you have to understand that at the beginning of the war, many of the rebels were just ordinary people, farmers, teachers, mechanics, who had taken up arms against a brutal regime. But as the war dragged on, the most radical, best-funded, and best-armed groups took over. Groups like ISIS and Nusra Front didn’t just fight the regime, they consumed the other rebel factions, they imposed the Islamic law.

I saw them publicly execute people for smoking, for listening to music, for "not going to prayer when the azan called." They were creating their own state of terror, similar to the one they were supposedly fighting.
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>>521656860

And also them decapitating a child in Aleppo.
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Nice try Mossad
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Anyways, I had my short-lived fun in making this thread, I've projected my thoughts to the world and used the Internet in its intended manner. Now I will vanish, but before I do, I want you to know I am not a hero, I am a sinful man who did terrible things and who saw terrible things done. I live with the ghosts of the people we killed and the people I couldn’t save.

I wish you all the best in your material and spiritual strives, but other than that, try not to kill each other, y'know? Just like the Chechen said to the Russian.

حياكم الله
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>>521657162
Thanks for stopping by to share, anon. I hope you find peace in what's left of your life.
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>>521657162
Thank you anon.
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>>521657698
>>521657722
It is a obvious llm, dumb shitskins
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>>521657162
If you know anything about the Kurds, or the foreign volunteers that served under them or have and funny stories, that'd be cool.

I remember one girl in the YPG blew herself up to take out a tank,
A Palestinian did the same with a gopro recently, kek.
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>>521653252 (OP)
Fuck off jihadi nigger
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>>521653252 (OP)
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>>521653252 (OP)
>deserted
fucking loser
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>>521653252 (OP)
> I eventually deserted, not because I suddenly loved the rebels, but because I realized I was a cog in a machine that was creating the very hell it claimed to be fighting.
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>>521653252 (OP)
how was the mess hall food in SAA and what about field rations. Describe
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>>521654180
>adrenaline was still buzzing in your veins like a hornet's nest
AI goyslop typed by jewish hands behind VPN
/thread
Glory to Assad
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>>521653252 (OP)
I have a few questions, as I find learning from other peoples across the world interesting.
What were told about Americans? What were you told about Israelis?
Was the SAA well organized?
How are the Alawites faring now?
Do you like horses?
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>>521658167
you’re a gullible faggot. do you know that? no? well, now you do.
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>>521653816
It's because they have no culture. I lived in Canada and never laughed at a Canadian's "joke".
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What are the rebels fighting for? What is Assad's vision ?
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>>521653252 (OP)
any sort of... proof? you're just a queer on a vpn. just one picture of ANYTHING inside syria would suffice.
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>>521653252 (OP)
Here's a fact: most syrians are corrupt sub humans, yet everyone pretend to be otherwise, and I say this as an arab/muslim too, I actually firmly believe they have 50IQ too. Since last year, I was happy for them that they finally got rid of that regime, over the first few months, I realized that despite 14y of civil war they are still just like how they were before, a whole generation change and millions killed/left the country yet the corruptions is inherited through and through, and every single one regardless of their ethnicity or religion, so I stopped caring and wish them all to suffer
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>>521657162
do you think the recent revelations of al zutt would have prevented the war if it was revealed before 2010?
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>>521653252 (OP)
why are you all such faggots?
religion isn't real, and all you're doing is killing yourself for others who will benefit from your demise. You stupid fuck
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>>521653252 (OP)
you're welcome brother, fights be tough. humans be evil
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>>521653252 (OP)
Tell us some interesting facts about your experiences that probably no one else would know about. Sorry about all the terrible things America and the Jews have caused your people. Thanks for posting!



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