I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekiniano show.

Thomas is right back.

Two episodes in a row with Thomas.

We are blessed.

How you doing Thomas?

I'm done well, thank you.

I'm glad people aren't suffering Thomas overdose I guess but yeah

I don't think that's possible.

All right so the last time we recorded had mentioned, we were talking about Russia, you had mentioned

Russian-Syrian relations, and I'm just obsessed with Syria, have been for a while now.

I got kicked off a podcast ones for saying that Assad

was probably one of the best leaders in the world right now.

And when you look at the post-Nuremberg order,

these are two countries that you're supposed to hate.

So I have great interest in them and you have information

on their relations since this,

since this order kicked off and I want to hear about that so start anywhere you want.

Yeah, I mean there's two there's two variables that even people who are generally dissident adjacent don't fully grasp regarding the relationship between Russia and Syria.

Syria's got outsized significance for a small country for a lot of reasons.

Okay?

Some of those are cultural, some of those are geospheric.

You know, some of them, Oda,

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