What's up everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of The Problem. I am Dave Smith. He is Robbie the Fire, Bernstein. How are you doing, sir?

I'm excited for this Al-Qaeda comeback for the end of the Biden presidency.

Oh, man, you really like, life comes at you fail. for this al-Qaeda comeback for the end of the Biden presidency.

Oh, man, you really like, life comes at you fast.

You can't get a, I mean, there's just always some crazy story.

This one, I guess, yeah, we could just get right into it.

I assumed we were going to talk about that at some point.

Yeah, sure.

Well, yeah, I mean, this is probably going to be the whole episode because it's just,

it's, you know, it's for people who know, if you followed me for a long time,

Syria has been a pretty, it's been a big focus of mine for quite a while. You know, when I worked for S.E. C.C.C.

over at CNN, that was like one of the main issues we'd always, like, argue about.

That was, like, my first, like, viral internet clips were back in 2017 when they were

trying to drag us back into this conflict and arguing against it back then.

And it's been a major theme of the show for years that I've talked about how much I think Syria was really at the heart of what turned the entire U.S. establishment, both against Donald Trump and against Vladimir Putin.

You know, like that was the real thing that made both of those guys, like, toxic,

must be stopped by the regime.

And, you know, this is a regime change that the U.S. has been flirting with for quite a long time.

And it's wild to see it.

It finally happened.

This did feel like the one who got away from the U.S. Empire for a little while there.

And finally, they get their man because that is what they tend to do.

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