I was in the Army during the War in Syria, I met with hackers and warfighters, I did joint exercises with IDF, we geared up and taught the Malaysians how to dismantle mines: and I don’t even know what the fuck happened out there. There are so many rabbit holes to go down in this place.
Above all else: this war was truly online. In every single way, this was as much a foreign digital war in the make-believe world of the internet, as it was a real-life fight on the ground.
Fake people like Digita Shadow were fighting fake people like AliMahmoud69 in the fake world of Twitter, but real world consequences resulted from it. Bombs were dropped on IP addresses.
“So, who are we bombing today?” A kid – a PV1 – asked me, jokingly. His reference was to the myriad of liaisons, relationships, alliances, and enmities that we had formed in Syria.
My response to him, as always; “Probably the people we had coffee with yesterday.”
The Syrian Revolution unfortunately cannot be un-twinned from the War that followed it. Obama cannot be untwined with Trump, Assad cannot be separated from Zarqawi, or Baghdadi who followed him. The Revolution cannot be separated from the gasses that killed them, and the goddamn Assad family cannot be separated from the army of white Toyota Hiluxes with black flags that came to kill them.
Here’s a tip for the future:
Whenever a Muslim wizard meets a drug-dealing pimp in a Jordanian prison run by the Mukhabarat??? Burn the prison down, or some prophecy shit is going to happen. Whatever you do, don’t let these men fight the KGB!
All this shit with the black flags is some prophecy from one of the Suras, I can barely remember. Something about roaming through the desert and conquering under an army of black flags.
The Red Line became a clusterfuck, and Timber Sycamore had my commanders running around the damn building in circles looking for the fire extinguishers – someone mortared the porta john, and now shit was flying. Netanyahu was up in the UN doing his “father professor” routine, pointing at some Iranian shit on a poster, and pretending that anyone cared.
Fred Kaplan was trying to warn us about Russian viruses, and under no circumstances should we let them in the game in Syria. But Assad
The war cannot be separated from its refugees. I’ve always thought it the saddest thing that the city that gave birth to Saladin, the greatest of the heroes of Islam, has been home to one of the largest Syrian refugee camps in the world.I was in the Army during the War in Syria, I met with hackers and warfighters, I did joint exercises with IDF, we geared up and taught the Malaysians how to dismantle mines: and I don’t even know what the fuck happened out there. There are so many rabbit holes to go down in this place.
Just some thoughts.
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