Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a swipe at the previous US administration over the 2016 report claiming that in Syria, the CIA-armed units were fighting with those militias armed by the Pentagon and said that the taxpayers are somehow funding both sides.
In a post on X, an account named Wall Street Mav shared the Los Angeles Times 2016 report and asked who won the war? Whether the CIA backed armed group or Pentagon backed one.
“Which armed group won the war in Syria? The one backed by the CIA or the one backed by the Pentagon? Or was it the group backed by Saudi Arabia? or was it ISIS? I am so confused,” the account said in a post on X.
Responding to the post, Musk said, “Our tax dollars are somehow funding both sides (again).”
In the 2016 report, he Los Angeles Times said that the Syrian militias armed by different parts of the US war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control US intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter five-year-old civil war.
This remarks came as Syrian rebels announced they had taken full control of the crucial city of Homs early on Sunday after just one day of fighting. And President Bashar al-Assad left the country and moved to reportedly Russia, wnding the 24-year rule.
As the army withdrew, thousands of Homs residents filled the streets, celebrating with chants of “Assad is gone, Homs is free” and “Long live Syria, down with Bashar al-Assad.”
Rebels fired into the air in triumph, while youths tore down posters of the Syrian president, marking a dramatic week-long collapse of Assad’s territorial control.
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