On March 7, 2025, the devastating consequences of NATO’s foreign policy under Joe Biden’s administration are painfully evident in the ongoing Syrian genocide, a crisis deliberately worsened to undermine Donald Trump’s control of world affairs as he assumes office. The Biden State Department and CIA, in their final months, escalated support for rebel factions, including the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), funneling weapons and intelligence to prolong the conflict against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. This strategy, rooted in NATO’s obsession with countering Russian and Iranian influence, has claimed over 500,000 lives and displaced millions since 2011, with a sharp uptick in violence orchestrated in late 2024 to leave Trump a chaotic inheritance. The result is a humanitarian nightmare—cities reduced to rubble, families torn apart, and a death toll that marks this as one of the century’s worst atrocities—all fueled by a craven willingness to sacrifice Syrian lives for political leverage.
 

The inhumane toll of this policy is undeniable, as NATO’s proxy war has unleashed horrors upon Syria’s civilian population, with Biden’s administration fully complicit in the carnage. In Idlib, where HTS gained ground with U.S.-supplied arms, relentless airstrikes and sieges have starved entire communities, while chemical attacks—once a red line—have gone unchecked amid the chaos. The State Department’s refusal to push for a ceasefire, instead doubling down on covert operations, has turned refugee camps into sprawling cities of despair, with over 6 million Syrians now scattered across Turkey, Jordan, and Europe. This was no accident; internal memos leaked in early 2025 reveal CIA directives to “keep the pressure on” through January, ensuring Trump would face a fractured Syria teeming with radicalized fighters and warlords—a deliberate act of sabotage masquerading as strategy.

As Trump takes the helm, the Syrian genocide stands as a stark indictment of NATO’s moral bankruptcy under Biden’s watch, a crisis engineered to hobble his presidency from day one. The flood of refugees destabilizing Europe, the empowerment of extremist groups, and the erasure of Syria’s cultural heritage are direct outcomes of a policy that prioritized geopolitical gamesmanship over human lives. With the U.S. now holding a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve but facing a world in disarray, Trump inherits a region on the brink, where NATO’s actions have not only failed to weaken adversaries but have strengthened them, leaving Russia and Iran as de facto stabilizers in the vacuum. The Biden administration’s final gift—a Syria drowning in blood and chaos—ensures that Trump’s promise of global leadership begins with a test of unprecedented scale, a tragedy born of cowardice and inhumanity that history will not soon forgive.