Trump, Syria, and the Breaking of the Binary in the Middle East

May 28, 2025 9:05 am

The dance continues. And just when maybe you’re thinking the choreography can’t possibly get any more nuanced, another narrative pirouettes onto the stage.

This time, it comes from Reuters: Israel and Syria—historical blood-rivals—have entered into face-to-face talks. Not shell games. Not backchannels. Actual meetings, reportedly within Israeli-controlled territory, between senior security officials. Aimed at what, you ask? Easing tensions. Preventing border conflict. Possibly, down the line, even broader agreements.

For those of us who’ve watched the Middle East narrative shift like desert sands beneath a mirage sun, this is no surprise—though it remains deeply significant.

Remember, while this piece won’t delve into it, Syria involves Bashar Hafez al-Assad, and Assad involves Russia. Assad is a figure I have invited all of us to consider in a more nuanced way, considering how difficult it is to know the truth, and considering what sinister government-media apparatus has been feeding us the (supposed truth) about him all of these years.

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Over the course of several articles since October 7, 2023, we have explored the America and Israel and the curious bromance unraveling between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, spotlighting the seemingly-but-not-really sudden friction in what had long been touted as an unbreakable alliance. Mark Levin’s angry defense of Israel and Trump’s subtle but notable pivot away from unequivocal support sparked a thousand hot takes—and a thousand more accusations against anyone daring to point out the cracks. What we suggested then is even more relevant now: the old Overton Window of Middle East loyalty is shattering.

That crack has widened into something seismic.

Trump leaning into strategic détente with once-vilified regional actors like Syria, specifically with Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa. The outcome? A reduction in Israeli military pressure on Syrian targets, and—get this—a Syrian willingness to engage with Jewish representatives on cultural and historical matters.

Now pause. Consider the weight of that.

And let it sink in realizing that that whole Assad exit to Russia and this new interim president may all be part of a narrative as well.

To grasp the full picture, you must engage on multiple levels of narrative warfare—zooming out to see the scope, and zooming in to read the fine print, particularly when it comes to the strangest of Trump’s moves.

We’re not just watching military shifts or new alliances. We are witnessing the continued, relentless introduction of complexity into the collective American mind—true, unpredictable, perhaps uncomfortable complexity—into a narrative that has been flattened by decades of binary thinking.

That is how they’ve trapped us. That is how they’ve brainwashed us into fighting with our brothers into something that should be so obvious, so intrinsic to free thought.

The American Right has long treated support for Israel as a litmus test. So much so that even a breath of nuance brings a fusillade of accusations: Liberal! Terrorist sympathizer! Globalist!

Anti——-!

But now we see something far more subtle and potentially transformative. Syria, under new leadership–supposedly at least–is open to conversations. Israel, under immense pressure, is reciprocating. And Germany—yes, Germany—is beginning to articulate what has long been whispered in European corridors and is all over the comments under X posts concerning Israel: historic support for Israel must not be a blank check.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul didn’t mince words. Air strikes on Gaza, he said, are becoming intolerable. Chancellor Merz added that military actions lacking humanitarian accountability are, in his words, unjustifiable. No, Germany hasn’t severed ties. But their moral calculus is shifting.

It is something I personally have called out for a long time now, perhaps in the face of some dissenting conservative voices.

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The tremors are everywhere, but they didn’t just begin. Are you paying attention to the “AUTOPEN!” story? Who was really in charge from 2021 to 2025? Was Trump and the military right there in the background allowing just enough to crumble, but all the while there making sure it didn’t crash?

Consider the notion of Continuity of Government, especially during wartime.

But even if you don’t go there with it, the ground is still shaking. What do we do with that shaking? Do we run? Do we fight?

Or do we slowly stand like Bruce Wayne does inside the cave in Batman Begins, and absorb the blows with eyes closed and a mind intent on peace, on change?

It all depends on whether we’re willing to stop thinking in the ineffective, fraudulent binaries we’ve been trapped in by our overlords. Trump-good, Bibi-good. Syria-bad, Gaza-bad. Right-true, Left-false. These are the simplifications of a people desperate for clarity—but allergic to wisdom.

The only binary that matters is not political but spiritual: God or not-God. Good or evil. The seed of the Woman versus the seed of the serpent in Genesis 3:15.

Wisdom waits. Wisdom watches–even if it’s with eyes closed against the bats. Wisdom understands that today’s adversary may become tomorrow’s strange bedfellow in a geopolitical chess match where the board keeps flipping.

Remember, it wasn’t long ago that the Trump team was working the Abraham Accords. But even then, there were signs that Israel wasn’t always the epicenter. Saudi Arabia has taken center stage. Even Iran is right there skirting the edges. And now Syria is in the wings. This isn’t betrayal. It’s not Trump suddenly changing. If you know about his 2017 foreign tour, you know that all of this is in exact conjunction with a long range plan.

It’s evolution. It’s strategy. It’s the art of war.

By introducing nuance into an arena long dominated by tribal loyalty tests, Trump and others are forcing a recalibration. Not just among diplomats, but among voters. Among influencers. Among us.

Do we panic because our sacred cows are being questioned? Or do we do the harder thing—stand in the discomfort and take it?

Patience is not passivity. Discernment is not disloyalty.

If we rush to defend yesterday’s alliances with today’s talking points, we will miss the emerging terrain completely. And if the ground is shifting beneath our feet, wouldn’t it be better to notice than to pretend it’s not?

The story of Trump, Netanyahu, Syria, and the reshaping of the Middle East is far from over. And no, it’s not clean. It’s not easy. Especially if you follow ancient, consistent end times prophecies and wonder exactly what Trump’s motives are. But if we’re willing to delay our judgment, resist the binary trap, and embrace the complexity—then maybe, just maybe, we can navigate the coming storms with eyes wide open.

Maybe, just maybe, we can see what God is working so lovingly to expose us to–

Decades-long deception.

What’s happening isn’t betrayal. It’s a recalibration. A rechoreograph.

And sometimes, the path to peace begins with a broken pattern, a splintered toe, a curious fracture we instinctively want to mend before anything even happens.

This isn’t just a story about them. It’s the latest call to action–for us.

Let it break.

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May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.