‘Don’t let us stand alone in our darkest hour’: Watch as Christians in Syria plead for help

If you follow the mainstream media, you’ve probably read stories about the plucky freedom fighters dubbed the “Syrian rebels” and heard that they just vanquished the forces of a wicked, dangerous tyrant, Bashar al-Assad. If you ever took John McCain seriously, you might have believed him when he vouched for these groups as “moderates.” If you watched the Republican presidential debates in 2016, you’d have heard all but three of those seasoned GOP leaders (Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump) agree that it was so important to America that these rebels prevail that the U.S. ought to shoot down Russian planes, risking a nuclear war.

To Christians around the world:

I beg you, please stand with us—Syrian Christians—just once in history.

We are being torn from our ancestral lands, our people are being ethnically cleansed, and our heritage is slipping away. Don’t let us stand alone in our darkest hour. pic.twitter.com/xsHarK91YQ

— sarkis yousef (@assyrian_army) December 5, 2024

Those rebels must be great guys, akin to the colonial militias that fought at Bunker Hill. They must be trying to establish some tolerant democracy and keep the Russian Bear from rebuilding the Eastern Bloc on the shores of the Mediterranean. And anyone who opposes them, such as Tulsi Gabbard, is likely to be a “Russian agent” who deserves to be tailed by federal marshals every time she gets on a plane. (That has been happening for more than a year and is still happening now.)

For those who don’t remember just how chaotic the Syrian Civil War was.

13 years of war in 2 minutes

Assad
Syrian rebels
Kurdish-led SDF
ISIS

ISIS really controlled a huge areas back in 2015-2016 pic.twitter.com/MNFiYKovSy

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 8, 2024

Right?

Not exactly. Well, actually, no. The Stream has already reported what’s actually happening in Syria: