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He's also involved with George Galloway's Workers Party, Peter Ford.

Welcome back to geopolitics and empire, Peter.

I'm delighted to be back with you.

Thanks for the invite.

Yeah, you know, I follow your work.

I very much enjoy your analysis and commentary.

We last spoke, I think, something like six years ago.

I was in Kazakhstan at a time.

I'm back in Mexico now.

And we discussed Syria.

You called it an imperial war on Syria and the world.

And it appears, you know, Damascus has fallen.

And I want to get your sort of download on that.

You know, just to start, how is it that Syria fell under Assad who was purportedly backed by Russia?

Well, one word.

Sanctions.

Sanctions were horrendous.

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