Well, folks, the Assad regime in Syria is gone. We'll bring you all the details, how it happened,

what it means. First, I have some major news to share with you today. Starting in January,

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coming up later in the show. Very cool stuff. All righty, So a tectonic shift in the Middle East just happened over the weekend.

On Sunday morning, Syrian rebels finally took Damascus. They took Bashar al-Assad's palace.

The Assad regime is no more. Assad has fled to Moscow where he is being granted some sort of

asylum because the Russians, of course,

backed the Assad regime.

There's a lightning campaign that basically came from nowhere.

I'm going to show you a couple of maps.

You understand exactly what's going on because when we talk about what's happening in Syria,

what we have to understand is that Syria is an artificial creation post-World War I by the

West, by the French, by the British. And because of that,

like many other states in the Middle East, it is unworkable and has been unworkable for a very long time.

You have a large number of groups of various religious belief systems, many of them unbelievably

radical, many of them terrorists, all fighting one another.

And the Assad regime was a secularist, bathist regime like Saddam Hussein, with a wild left-wing

view of economics. Essentially, it was just a fascist dictatorship, engaged in mass human rights abuses

at scale. Over the course of the Assad regime, some 12 million Syrians were

displaced. Many of them ended up in Turkey. Many of them ended up in Jordan. Many of them ended up in

Europe. The Syrian refugee crisis had massive ramifications for European politics. And that was

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