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Thank you. Good evening. It's Monday, December 9th.

Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern, exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech

alternative to YouTube. Tonight, Bashar al-Assad, who has ruled Syria for the last 24 years,

was forced out of the country over the weekend by anti-government rebels, who, with remarkable

speed, advanced from their stronghold in the northwest all the way to the capital in damascus

Assad fled the middle eastern capital for russia where he and his family have been given safe refuge

and thus the long-time goal of major powers including the u.s Israel and turkey has finally come to

fruition as both harran and moscow have lost a key ally in the region, leaving a power

vacuum in Syria for those other countries and all sorts of other factions in the country

itself.

Now, the situation on the ground, meaning who exactly these factions are, who is supporting

them and arming them, what their real goals are, all of that is complex and unclear, but what is not complex and most definitely not unclear

is American and Western discourse about the events in Syria.

We all are rejoicing this narrative holds because we hate tyranny and we hate repression.

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