Syria, Russia, and Iran’s Complicated Relationship

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to the final episode of War College.

Don’t worry, we’re not going anywhere. We’re just becoming Angry Planet.

From time to time we record things that, for whatever reason, don’t quite work. Sometimes the audio is bad. Sometimes the news cycle destroys the story. Sometimes the the very famous, big name podcast host you have on as a guest is clearly drunk and loses his end of the audio. Sometimes you find out the guest is a CIA agent who never set foot in the country he’s talking about and decide to scrap the episode.

The following audio is almost one of those episodes, but I think it’s still worth a listen. Back in May just before Jason returned to the show I talked with the British journalist Gareth Browne about Syria, Russia, and Iran. We talked the geopolitics of the region and what’s been happening since Solemani’s death.

Some of the information here is out of date, and there’s places where the audio is a little … scratchy. But I think this was a good conversation about some vital stuff and I thought it’d be nice to go out on something like this before we officially launch Angry Planet.

We’re clearing the backlog, so to speak.

Thanks for listening, we’ll miss War College but we know we’ll be happier as Angry Planet.

Recording 5/26/20
Russia’s goals in Syria
The roots of Russia and the Assad family’s relationship
How much of the country does Assad still control?
Iran backed militias in Syria
“War has changed”
How the death of Qasem Soleimani changes everything
The court politics of Russia, Syria, and Iran
The legacy of Hafez al-Assad

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0:00.0	Love this podcast.
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0:05.0	It's up to you how much you give,
0:07.0	and there's no regular commitment.
0:09.0	Just click the link in the show description to support now. Hello and welcome to the final episode of War College.
0:19.0	Don't worry, we're not going anywhere, we're just becoming angry planet.
0:22.0	From time to time we record things that... We're just becoming angry planet.
0:23.0	From time to time, we record things that, for whatever reason, don't quite work.
0:27.0	Sometimes the audio is bad, sometimes the news cycle destroys the story,
0:31.0	sometimes the very famous big name podcast host you have on as a guest is clearly drunk and loses his end of the audio.
0:37.0	Sometimes you find out the guest is a CIA agent who never set foot in the country he's talking about and you decide it's best just to scrap the whole thing.
0:43.7	Following audio is almost one of those episodes but I still think it's worth a listen.
0:48.9	Back in May just before Jason returned to the show I talked with the British journalist Gareth Brown about
0:53.4	Syria, Russia, and Iran. We talked the geopolitics of the region and what's been happening
0:57.7	since Solomani's death. Some of the information here is out of date and there's places where the audio is a little scratchy.
1:04.8	But I think this was a good conversation about some vital stuff,
1:08.3	and I thought it'd be nice to go out on something like this before we officially launch Angry Planet. We're clearing the backlog, so to speak. So
1:16.3	thank you for listening. We will miss War College, but we're going to be much happier as Angry Planet.
1:23.4	You're listening to War College, a weekly.
1:31.2	You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the
1:36.8	front lines.
1:37.8	Here are your hosts. Gareth Brown, thank you so much for coming on to War College and walking us through this topic.
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