Hi everyone and welcome. My name is Glenn Dyson and I'm joined today by Alexander Mercurice and Professor John

Meersheimer. So John, the world has changed a lot in the last month, especially in the Middle East.

So the defeat of Syria obviously has disrupted the regional balance of power. We have a H, a terrorist organization, to a large extent now replacing Assad,

Turkey invading from the north, Israel invading from the south,

while also bombing the so-called liberated Syria.

Espolam appears to be weakened, also less support for Palestine.

The media now, of course, suggests that peace has arrived in Syria,

in an overly strange, if not misleading, at least simplistic presentation.

So, yeah, we've been looking forward to speak with you to shed some light on what's been

happening.

How should we read the current situation with all this complexity?

Well, it's a multi-dimensional issue.

So if I were to address all the issues at once, it would make me

probably about an hour to lay them all out. So I'll just begin to cut in to the issue by raising

a few points. I think that if you look at what Syria looked like before the fall of Assad, it was a hodgepodge of different locations that were occupied by different groups.

It was not a unified country before Assad fell, and it's not a unified

country anymore. You want to remember the Americans and the Kurds controlled a huge swath

of the eastern part of Syria before Assad fell.

And they're still there.

The Turks were involved in the northern part of the country

before Assad fell and they're still there.

What's changed is that the Israelis now have occupied a reasonably large slice of territory in the

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