The fall of Assad in Syria and its impact on the Middle East

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 8 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Today on the show: after Syrian rebels took Damascus, Fareed is joined by Natasha Hall, senior fellow at the CSIS Middle East Program, and Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss what the fall of Assad’s regime means for Syria and the region. Then, former senior CIA and State Department official Jung Pak speaks with Fareed about South Korea’s brief period of martial law this week, why President Yoon decided to make the declaration, and what might come next. Finally, Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins the show to discuss the unrest in Georgia and Romania, and Russia’s widening influence in Europe. GUEST: Natasha Hall (@NatashaHallDC), Karim Sadjadpour (@ksadjadpour), Jung Pak (@junghpak1), Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.1	and around the world. I'm Faris
0:37.7	Zakaria coming to you live from New York. On today's program, it is game over for Bashar al-Assad.
0:45.7	His family's 54 years of repressive rule in Syria is done, taken down by rebels who captured the
0:52.6	country in a matter of days.
0:55.0	We'll dig deep into this extraordinary story that will roil the already war-torn Middle East.
1:01.0	Then to South Korea, where the President briefly declared martial law late Tuesday night,
1:07.0	shocking South Koreans and observers around the globe.
1:10.0	We'll explore what happened and what
1:12.2	comes next. Finally, to Georgia, where protests have rocked the capital, Tbilisi and other cities.
1:19.6	It is all part of an ongoing tug of war in Eastern Europe between Russia and the West.
1:27.2	But first, here's my take.
1:29.9	It's been quite a week across the world.
1:32.3	South Korea's president placed the country under martial law,
1:35.2	but was rebuffed by parliament.
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