The paradox of flows
Six news pieces verified one by one, six different governments (Israel, the United States, Russia, Turkey, China, Iran) and the same mechanism: funding, arming or protecting an armed group they do not directly control. At the end, the opinion that ties them together.
From 2018 to October 7, 2023, Israel approved and encouraged the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars from Qatar to Hamas, following a strategy Netanyahu himself declared was meant to prevent Palestinian national unity. A month before the attack, Israel asked for more.
From 2013 to 2017, the CIA ran a secret program worth over a billion dollars to arm Syrian rebels. The weapons ended up partly in the Islamic State's arsenal. The program was shut down not for these consequences, but as a gesture of détente toward Putin.
Between 2012 and 2018, the European Court of Human Rights condemned four countries for hosting secret CIA prisons. The woman who ran one of the harshest sites, where waterboarding was practiced, later became CIA Director. No American official has ever answered for that torture.
On June 23, 2026, near Timbuktu, a joint patrol of the Malian army and Russia's Africa Corps kills four civilians and arranges one victim's dismembered body into a swastika — while Mali has already withdrawn from the Rome Statute.
Satellite imagery analysed by Reuters (April 2, 2026) shows Turkish Bayraktar TB2 and Chinese Feilong-1 drones at Al Khadim, in the territory of General Haftar in eastern Libya — a violation of the UN arms embargo (res. 1970/2011) now documented on both sides of the Libyan conflict.
US Treasury Under Secretary John Hurley (November 9, 2025) confirms Iran funnelled roughly a billion dollars to Hezbollah in 2025 despite sanctions. Together with Atlantic Council, State Department and Treasury data on Hamas and the Houthis, the picture shows a systematic funding network behind the Axis of Resistance.
Six news pieces verified by this site — Qatar-Hamas, Timber Sycamore, the CIA black sites, Russia's Africa Corps in Mali, Turkish and Chinese drones in Libya, Iran's billion dollars to Hezbollah — show the same mechanism at work across six different governments: funding an armed group you don't directly control.