Navigate Select ESC Close

Al-Qaeda in the White House and its Implications Far Beyond it

2025-11-23 Entertainment
25.0k
3.4k
468
The New Atlas
The New Atlas
312.0k subscribers

US Policy Shifts: Rehabilitating Terrorist Proxies to Confront Global Rivals

Uncover the consistent, decades-long pattern of US foreign policy that recycles designated terrorist organizations—from Al Qaeda roots to current Syrian allies—to secure global military primacy against adversaries like China and Russia.

Short Summary

  • Rehabilitate Proxies: The US now openly allies with formerly designated terrorist leaders, exemplified by Abu Mohammed al-Jolani's visit to the White House.
  • Strategic Pivot: This shift repurposes Syrian-based groups to directly challenge Iran, Hezbollah, and expand operations toward Russia's and China's peripheries.
  • Information Warfare: Officials mask these tactical maneuvers using manufactured narratives, relying on the public's short memory to justify continuous military intervention.

This document dissects the declared transformation of groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from US-labeled terrorists into client regimes. Understand why this pattern repeats across decades—from Afghanistan to Syria—and how current actions directly target Eurasian competitors by attacking economic infrastructure like the Belt and Road Initiative.

Unlock all features

FREE: Get instant access to 10 AI summaries, chats, or transcripts per day.

Description

- The US has once again changed the status of terrorists of its own creation to open allies with the head of Al Qaeda in Syria (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham aka Jabhat al-Nusra), Abu Mohammed al-Jolani (now “Ahmed al-Sharaa”) recent visit to the White House; - The new narrative includes US-al-Jolani cooperation to “fight” the so-called Islamic State, a pretext to maintain US military forces in Syria well into the future, ensuring the survival of the nascent terrorist-led client regime; - The narrative change reflects past US pivots where Al Qaeda was hailed as “heroes” during their war with the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s before being rebranded as terrorists turning them into a convenient, global pretext for US military interventions from Africa to Asia and everywhere in between (including Afghanistan); - Having used Al Qaeda and its subsidiaries/adjacent organizations including the so-called “Islamic State,” as both proxies and a pretext to invade, occupy, and overthrow both the Iraqi government from 2003-present and Syria from 2014-present, the organization and its leadership including al-Jolani, are being transformed into open allies of the US for use in a much larger campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran, and Iranian-friendly militias across Iraq; - The US also plans on employing its state-sponsored terrorists-turned-allies to export terrorism targeting Russia and China’s peripheries; - This includes thousands of Uyghur extremists the US exported to Syria and now plan on redeploying across Eurasia to target Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure as well as China itself; References: Judicial Watch - DIA report on US backing of a “Salafist principality” (Islamic State) in Syria (2015): https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf Washington Post - Syrian president meets with Trump in White House after unlikely ascent (Nov. 2025): https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/10/sharaa-trump-white-house-syria/ US State Dept. - Foreign Terrorist Organizations (HTS): https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations Business Insider - This Mind-Boggling Profile Of Osama Bin Laden Came Out Exactly 20 Years Ago Today (2013): https://www.businessinsider.com/1993-independent-article-about-osama-bin-laden-2013-12 Independent - Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace: The Saudi businessman who recruited mujahedin now uses them for large-scale building projects in Sudan. Robert Fisk met him in Almatig (1993): https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/antisoviet-warrior-puts-his-army-on-the-road-to-peace-the-saudi-businessman-who-recruited-mujahedin-now-uses-them-for-largescale-building-projects-in-sudan-robert-fisk-met-him-in-almatig-1465715.html\ BBC - US scraps $10m bounty for arrest of Syria's new leader Sharaa (Dec. 2024): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07gv3j818ko Guardian - US removes shadowy group from terror list blamed by China for attacks (2020): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/06/us-removes-shadowy-group-from-terror-list-blamed-by-china-for-attacks Where to Find My Work: Website: https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/ Telegram: https://t.me/brianlovethailand Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianJBerletic Rumble (YouTube alternative): https://rumble.com/c/c-1459863 How to Support my Work (and thank you!): Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheNewAtlas Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/landdestroyer PromptPay: 0851547235

Top Comments (10)

@nahlasenienahlasenie5273 2025-11-23

We all knew ISIS is a US and Israel proxy.

194 8 replies
@catsuperhighway1294 2025-11-23

They don't even try to hide the evil they do now......

137 3 replies
@NickName-v1v 2025-11-23

The US is far worse than Al-Qaeda . Far worse. Why people act shocked? One big terrorist and one little terrorist.

134 10 replies
@sixpack4me 2025-11-23

The US/NATO/Israeli axis of evil is an existential threat to all people everywhere.

128 3 replies
@acm8258 2025-11-23

What is the surprise here ? Al Qaeda is a project of Mossad and CIA

105 2 replies
@Almir_SLOVENIJA 2025-11-23

Congratulations on 300k subscribers! Well deserved.

93 1 replies
@Ellfman 2025-11-23

Hillary said that the US/UK created AlQaeda in Pakistan using Wahabbi Islam. Since then, the Pentagon has misplaced over $21Trillion.

73 2 replies
@vaska1999 2025-11-23

Brian's articles are a storehouse of carefully researched and factually backed material future historians will benefit from.

61
@fredericdalmas9195 2025-11-23

He also met Macron at Elysée Palace, but no media talked about the fact the guy was the leader al-Qaeda in Syria, when they talk every day on how muslims are supposedly supporting terrorism.

54
@TheNewAtlas 2025-11-23

Read the article here: https://journal-neo.su/2025/11/18/al-qaeda-in-the-white-house-and-its-implications-far-beyond-it/

36 6 replies

Unlock the Data Inside
Turn Videos into Knowledge

  • Get FREE 10/day: transcripts, summaries, chats
  • Chat with videos, export text & PDF
  • $1 free API credit for RAG, chatbots & research

Free forever plan • All features unlocked

App screenshot