Israel Bombs Syria as Government Collapses: What is Next For the Country? W/ Afeef Nessouli
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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No one predicted the rapid pace of events in the most recent iteration of the Syrian Civil war, beginning with the rapid advance of HTS and other forces from Idlib province into the to city of Aleppo, the unanticipated stand down orders given to the Syrian Army, and the rapid collapse and flight of Assad’s government. Rumors of backroom deals, internal corruption, and Western interference abound, so we may not have a clear picture for some time. What remains then is the potential fates of Syria and the Axis of Resistance.
The situation is balanced on a knife’s edge, and to help us unravel the complexities of this multi-faction, multi-ethnic socio-political development we are joined by Afeef Nessouli, journalist with years of experience, both in the UN and the Carter Institute, reporting on Syria
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| 0:00.0 | and the state of play of the entire West Asia region, as well as wider geostrategic concerns, |
| 0:18.2 | have shifted drastically. Iran and Russia are out of play. A generally |
| 0:23.1 | reviled regime in Syria has been ousted, and that's not CIA propaganda for those of you |
| 0:29.6 | who think it is. And the future of Syria is uncertain. This has been an unfortunately divisive issue, |
| 0:35.8 | but one thing we can all agree on is no one expected, even HTS, based on observable facts on the ground, that a nearly 200,000 man army with Russian air support, would be defeated by small arms within a week, with very few actual engagements. |
| 0:51.8 | We'll be getting into some fog of war theories about why that might |
| 0:55.5 | have happened later, i.e. not fighting, receiving stand-down orders, desertion, etc. So I'm taking |
| 1:02.7 | the L on that, and perhaps thinking that regime change wasn't a Western objective, may have been |
| 1:08.7 | pre-October 7th thinking, where U.S. policy was to, quote, |
| 1:12.6 | accept the unacceptable when it came to Iran on its proxies, i.e. containment of an entrenched Assad |
| 1:18.6 | regime and also the former Mossad byline, better the devil you know than the demons you don't. |
| 1:25.3 | However, this was a great opportunity for land grab, and that's what |
| 1:29.2 | the IDF is doing right now. Buffer zones. And as you know, I've resisted the narrative that this |
| 1:34.5 | was all a Western-backed plot, mostly because it's reductive and robs the Syrian people of any agency |
| 1:40.7 | or legitimate grievance against their government. Based on open source assessment, well, it was a doozy, the prediction that the Assad regime |
| 1:50.8 | would be able to resist for months or at least contain the advance into Aleppo. |
| 1:57.0 | But these things do happen. |
| 1:58.8 | So here's the ex-head of Massad, Britain's Foreign |
| 2:02.5 | Intelligence Service, on that. How much of a surprise? Sorry, not Massad, MI6. Britain's, |
| 2:10.7 | okay. Woo, off to a crazy start. Do you think this was to us, particularly our intelligence |
| 2:17.0 | services? Well, I think it was a us particularly our intelligence services well I |
| 2:18.9 | think it was a surprise to everyone Trevor it probably came as a surprise to |
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