Episode 93: Syria II (teaser)

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🗓️ 24 August 2020

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To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod We are joined by investigative reporter Matthew Petti (twitter.com/matthew_petti) to talk about the recent alleged oil deal in Northern Syria, different factions in the State Department, Washington's possible desire for militiafication in the North, and what the future might portend. ---------- On the Trump/Pompeo team: nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/state-department-seeks-maximum-pressure-iran-syria-116666 On the history of rebels and Brett McGurk: nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/made-america-how-us-government-paid-turkeys-war-syria-94401 On the pencil incident: nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/exclusive-inside-state-departments-meltdown-kurds-90241 On the CIA analyst talking about an Arab SDF: nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/inside-iran-hawks-hijacking-trumps-syria-withdrawal-plan-90041 On the Bolton book the multicolored map: nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/exclusive-john-bolton-tells-how-iran-hawks-set-trump%E2%80%99s-syrian-kurdish-disaster-163062 On the oil and Assad: https://reason.com/2019/12/03/the-madcap-scheme-to-take-syrias-oil/ On Delta Crescent: nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/did-mike-pompeo-mislead-congress-about-syria%E2%80%99s-oil-166158 On Russia and the oil: nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/us-general-were-talking-russia-about-syrias-oil-166762 On the peace talks: nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/syria%E2%80%99s-kurds-we-were-cut-out-syrian-peace-negotiations-167396 plus other recommended reading The cursed photo of Rayburn and some other details on the oil by Zack Kopplin: newrepublic.com/article/158841/pompeo-trump-steal-oil-kurds-syria-iraq On the reason for being in Tanf: al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/06/us-tanf-base-syria-john-bolton-trump-troops.html On the corruption at Tanf: thedefensepost.com/2020/04/16/syria-rebels-defect-maghawir-al-thawra/ On Mazloum’s leaked message to US leaders: cnn.com/2019/10/12/politics/us-syria-meeting-doc/index.html

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0:00.0	The the YPG and the SDF went into Derazor and now Derazor is an area where there is not a lot of Kurdish people and and it was an area that was
0:12.0	filled with ISIS but also
0:14.2	contested by the Syrian government and the YPG and
0:17.9	Since they've been there, I think my suspicions have really started to blossom
0:23.1	Because there have been quite a lot of problems and it's almost turned into like a sort of like wild West type situation
0:29.1	And so what what I fear is is that this is actually happening like the YPG is sort of being
0:37.6	They're trying they're doing that. I think they're engaging this
0:41.4	militification sort of process
0:43.9	Right
0:45.1	See the thing is I don't think that there was a master plan from the beginning from what it seems to me from within
0:51.6	Washington the why the SDF project was really like
0:55.8	Turkey is spooked by these guys were working with we need a new label, but like it kind of evolved or people saw this as an option
1:03.0	I think the real
1:06.1	And I mean we don't know how successful this has been I think the real
1:10.4	Telling thing was in in summer or fall of
1:14.3	2019 there is the pencil incident where
1:19.1	Let me back up and say basically Mike Pompeo when he came into the Trump administration
1:23.7	He's like single-minded once Iran Iran Iran. That's everything. Yeah, yeah, and he brought these three guys into the Syria team
1:32.3	The trio who everybody should know their name ambassador James Jeffrey who is a former US ambassador to Turkey
1:40.4	Joel Rayburn who is a former US Army guy he wrote the Army's official history of the Iraq war and he's very much kind of like
1:49.8	Iran hawk I like to deal with the Syrian rebels and then there's a
1:55.3	Rich out sin another former army guy. I'm not really sure what is deal is but I he's probably gonna take his Twitter down after this
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