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PREVIEW: SYRIA: FDD Executive Director President Jonathan Spyer analyzes Russia's potential accommodation with the Damascus jihadists. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: SYRIA: FDD Executive Director President Jonathan Spyer analyzes Russia's potential accommodation with the Damascus jihadists. More later.

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0:28.4

listening. Terms apply. This is John Batchelor speaking with colleague Joseph Sternberg,

0:35.4

editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. He's in London. He writes political

0:38.3

economics, his most recent columnist, on Syria. The Syria refugees, migrants, the people who fled

0:44.9

Syria over the last more than a dozen years since the revolution, rebellion, collapse started

0:53.1

in 2011.

0:58.7

The expectation across Europe, and including the United Kingdom,

1:02.6

is that they will go home now that Syria is liberated,

1:08.5

which, of course, is a presumption that is not based on the evidence so far.

1:13.0

That's al-Qaeda in Damascus, not an NGO.

1:20.7

However, Joe and I get into talking about, does Europe want to shape events or endure them?

1:24.8

Apparently, endurance is what Europe does best.

1:27.5

Joseph Sternberg, Editorial board of the Wall Street Journal,

1:29.0

explaining how passive Europe has become.

1:33.4

More of this later.

1:34.8

Well, I mean, they did devote several billion euros of foreign aid

1:39.0

to what they describe as, quote, unquote,

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