Im sure the US have got hundreds of think tanks, 5 stories deep just trying to make sense of the scrambled egg brain matter of a jihadist mindset, notwithstanding 4-5 differing extremes in one arena. As a med student, im having a hell of a time trying to learn the inner workings of a single pathological disease state. Syria have hundreds of psychotics, a slightly different variant as you drive from one household to another. hmmm, go figure
Which I guess will make sure Europe gets the energy it desperately needs but also makes sure that Europe isn't tempted to try and normalise relations with Russia for their energy needs. A win for the US, Israel, Europe, Qatar and Turkey. Sickening what great powers will sacrifice for power and greed and energy.
@@myla6135not greedy. It's called survival of the fittest. How do you not understand that? It's how the world has been run since the dawn of time. Nations will always do what's in their interest over other nations if they have the means to do it. It's called progress. The most dominant societies will always prevail. That's why nations and peoples come and go. Look at Europe. It's nothing like it was 500 years ago. Also going from one dictatorship to another isn't progress. Another thing is Muslims. If they can't be moderate to a certain extent then they are just enemies to everyone. Even their own people.
Russia is next if you are not paying attention, soon it wont even exist, Russia is going to break up into multiple new territories, its inevitable, you people think their strong but its obvious their weak, demographically speaking they have very little time left, a bunch of old people is all that is left in Russia and hey also China
What a load of rubbish! Since when a NATO member Türkiye was an ally of Russia? To claim such rubbish is to have zero knowledge of history. Just recently didn't Turkish made drones destroy hundreds of Russian tanks in Ukraine? Didn't Turks help Azerbajian to win Karabagh war?..
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If the USA didn't have Israel, they would need to invent it. Biden said that because he can't keep his mouth shut. Israel is the perfect cover for US geo-strategic ambitions.
@@happymelon7129 Congress allocates money for interventionist war, sends weapons to warzones, sends money to arms manufacturers. Most of the military aid money never leaves the USA. It's a perfect system for an empire.
@@guapochino140 Calling it an "Empire" is an insult to past empires. As ruthless as the Roman Empire could be, for example, it benefited it's populace and spread civilization. Americans don't benefit at all from these schemes. The US is simply the MIC/mercenary arm of the red sea pedestrian NWO.
This is the best analysis of middle eastern crises I have ever heard. I know many Syrian christian that have migrated to Australia not because of Assad but fear of ISIS. As a matter of fact almost all of them have expressed their love and respect to Assad.
Indeed. Assad held the country together. From being a secular state, Syria is now going to degenerate into a failed Islamist state with various murderous Jihadist groups running amok.
So much love and respect for Assad they have chosen not to stand and fight for him but flee to the other side of the world..That like an Aussie in WW2 saying how they admire Churchill from the safety of Chile
No it is not an alternative..It is the mainstream media narrative from Russia and China..Or are you naive enough to believe there is only a Western one..There is a third position,that my enemy's enemy can also be my enemy..Deep down most know this,which is why Russia and China don't have a migration problem..
All declining empires follow a similar pattern. They will become more irrational, aggressive n violent in their desperate attempt to hang on to their fast declining world dominance n in the process commit one silly blunder after another which will only backfire n hasten their decline
Too bad the US is anything but declining, the only declining major powers today are Russia and China both are in epic demographic death spirals and have zero chance of supplanting the UNited States
Actually, that's not true. Great civilizations usually die by lack of drive, lack of single purpose that they had in their formation phase. Look at the short book The Fate of civilization by Sir john Glubb. They all fail from within just like our own western civilization currently failing mostly from internal division. Maga vs the left, women vs men, immigrationists vs isolationists, capitalists vs socialists. What empires are you thinking of?
Iran and Russia send troops to Syria to help! But Assad changed his mind in 48 hours twice and decided not to fight! both Russia and Iran withdrew their troops immediately. He also asked his military not to resist.
That pipeline is a fantasy. Pipelines only work in highly stable places. They’re impossible to defend against sabotage. 1. Unlike Syria will be that stable any time soon. 2. If miraculously Syria becomes that stable with a powerful and popular central government, then the pipeline is even more impossible. Why would such a Syria allow energy competition put gas and oil transit through their country. Those pipelines won’t be happening
Don't forget the Shia-Sunni and Kurdish factors which will also come into play when the victorious euphoria settles down and then the slippery slope path of divisionary politics of who rules over whom may lead towards disintegration.
all three will unite in syria :) Kurds will abandon the US. Istanbul will reconcile with the Kurds. They are both sunnis mainly. If this were to take place, Israel will soon be gone.
@@Dee-JayW perhaps. But i think it will happen for sure. Why? Because Jesus will descend in Damascus. And the prediction of the black flagged army came true. One evil the other noble. Perhaps this is the beginning of the creation of the nobler black flagged army.
@@dingo8babym20What are you talking about? By the end of 2017, Russia had defeated the terrorists in Syria, but some of them were saved by Türkiye in Idlib, and this was the end of Russia’s active participation. What Syria has come to now is the result of Assad’s policies.
Wow! Great to see an American look at China & Russia in a level headed & realistic fashion. I hear so many times an underlying wish from some observers to turn Russia away from China. This ultimately leading to the Balkanization of both. As if China & Russia have conveniently forgotten the last 200+ years of their history. They haven't.
You seem to have forgotten that for the first 100 years of that history the Russians were busy seizing way more Chinese territory in Manchuria than the Western powers put together..And the first part of the next turning Mongolia which had been part of the Chinese Empire into a Soviet puppet state..
Jew wars? Islamic wars! You do not have ANY IDEA of history and I am NOT a Jew saying this to you. The jihadis will always win as long as we are so ignorant about the truth.
Not only would US have tried to tie down Russia in Syria and use their involvement as a ruse to bomb their naval base. Russia not being involved stopped that play and also preserved focus on Ukraine, which would have been another weakness in Russian defense. Had they lost focus in Ukraine they would have been exploited.
@@briangriffiths937 I wouldn't be too excited about your AHA. The empire of the us of a is having their asses kicked by this particular "regional power".
Yea... you don't have your thumb on the pulse of this. Russia is not the one who avoided the trap... the US/UK/Israel are the ones who fell into the trap. They vacated Syria on purpose.
Erdogan sacrificed joining BRICS and hoped that the Qatar Europe pipeline will make turkey 🇹🇷 rich and self sufficient. However, Syrian terrain is not a safe region to put pipeline
It's a billion times less safe right now than the ones in Ukraine are. Which, if it weren't for the fact that they're barely used directly now, I'd say are not safe at all So yep.
Really an interesting and enlightening conversation that throws some light on the evolving situation in the otherwise murky scenario in the Middle East!
Assad is 59 yrs old only. He is smart, intelligent and educated. Assad took an intelligent retreat. He came after his father. He tried to make the country and inclusive and modern society. He led the country for 8 years. He has to fight a war since 2011 which he led with skill and bravery. For not finishing the war by recovering the whole territory was deadly mistake. Further more what could he do when his army refused to fight? The Syrian have now the opportunity to try something else. Assad is a Syrian he will be looking from far. We know those UA-cam revolutions results. All we should wish best luck to Syria and its people. Assad and his family were not murdered as we saw with Saddam and Gaddafi. He went to a country where people have wisdom and led by someone who is wish.
@@barbaraarndt5293Have you?? Are you also aware that the sanctions destroyed whatever economy it had. Then the US robbed it of its oil. If your country is in tatters, there would naturally be revolts, violence, and consequent crackdowns. Actually he actually didn’t want to take over after his father. But since his brother had died, he inherited this position. I don’t think he wanted it. After all, he had studied to be an ophthalmologist.
Wednesday night in Malaysia now. This is my 4th lesson on geopolitic for today. I am listening an analysis on geopolitic of the Middle East and the Syrian civil war and the role of jihadists groups in these conflicts. Thank you Mr Graham Fuller and Mr Pascal for sharing your knowledge on geopolitic of the world.
Thankyou Pascal & Graham, for this excellent analysis of the Syria situation. Russia might well decide to close down it's Syrian military bases thereby distancing itself from an increasingly unstable and dangerous Middle East; leaving it to be dealt with by those Atlanticists who are responsible for having divided the region into antagonistic states and for provoking the mess it has been in ever since.
@@Firehawk95 You appear to be confusing the military bases with the forced withdraw of the Wagner group and regulat Russian infantry that were enroute to help at Alepo and saw Syrian infantry retreating in opposite direction. Same re Damascus Russian attempts to assist were dashed by Syrian decision to retreat; hence these Russian infantry needed to get out of Syria.
Pepe Escobar thinks that Netanyahu and IDF have been on a roll in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Iran, so Israel with U.S. and UK and Germany and NATO kept rolling from Idlib to Aleppo to Hama, Homs and Damascus! Now! Now! Now!
Oh, IDF have got to be sooo spent right now. The majority just being kids , fresh out of school. Who once had a great deal of youthful energy and idealism to conquer the world, right? That was before they were forced to experience, first hand, the horrors of war. Israel was once a happy people. Extraordinarily happy youth, holding hands and singing in circling dance. Isnt that where this attrocity all started? at a rave concert, yet, another party to celebrate life. I guarantee after all this is finally over, that the once exuberantly jorful tone will be likened to that of the aftermaths of Aushwitz. But then again, like you just said, will this ever be over ?
Graham Fuller - the ONLY real expert who understands reality. All the other muppets saying that Russia was duped/betrayed/beaten etc. Putin didn't fall for it and avoided the trap.
@@Firehawk95Get bogged down for minimal potential gain and maximum potential overextension? lol and ironically you're the one telling others to "educate themselves"
@@Firehawk95 "Strategic assets" Elaborate. What does the Syrian territory have that the Russian Federation needs and cannot acquire someplace else for less cost?
Russia has learnt from Afghanistan. Brezhnev sent in the Soviet Army to prop up the Communists in Afghanistan. The West armed the Mujahedeen. The Soviets got bogged down in a protracted war, which ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. This time Russia didn’t take the bait.
You're implying the dissolution of the USSR was caused by the failures of the Soviet Afghanistan intervention. That couldn't be more delusional. The USSR dissolved because the US and their man, Gorbachev ordered it. Anything else is exaggerated nonsense and propaganda. Also, to "prop up" is such a bad choice of words. They were literally defending the country from US funded and imported Saudi and Pakistani extremists. And the decision to accept the call for military intervention wasn't taken lightly. With the US training, arming up, importing and propping up extremists in Afghanistan at least 6 MONTHS BEFORE the Soviet intervention even got greenlit. The day the Soviets withdrew was also the last day Afghani women had any semblance of rights. And it was also the day extremist jihadi groups started thinking "worldwide" in terms of their terror campaigns ("if we can take on the Soviets we can take on anyone")
@@robertstan298 I wonder where did you study. Your grasp of history is betraying you. Yet, there is still time to learn and follow a star leading to Light. Starting with Carr perhaps "what is history". Add some handy languages also.
Graham Fuller's ex-son-in-law is Ruslan Tsarni, who is the uncle of the Tsarnaev brothers who were framed for the Boston Marathon Bombing. Even after divorse, Ruslan lived at Fuller's house from where he ran a Chechen terrorist group. The Boston Marathon was a CIA controlled event with Kraft Intl. as security (not Boston Police). The entire insident stinks to high hell including the Rodeo clown who administered tourniquets on the crisis actor who had already been sitting on the ground legless unattended for 15 minutes. (while EMTs assisted other lesser injuries. go figure).
Interesting analysis as usual. I cannot believe the level of myopia that now occupies Western and Turkish geopolitical thinking. The usual alliance with McJihad and extremists is not new. We saw that during the Western orchestrated "Arab spring". What is new is the wilful lack of awareness of the complexities involved. The Kurdish and Turkish is one aspect but we shouldn't forget that Turkey created this problem by participating in the balkanization of Iraq. So, basically two failed states are at its border. Syria will become a magnet for global Jihadist and Israel, Turkey, Jordon and Lebanon will become highly unstable. The kicker here is actually the factions within the Jihadists themselves. There are three main flash points there. One is the multiethnic international Jihadist. The other is the local national ones and the regional ones connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. So, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are automatically involved. The uncontrolled removal of Assad is the worst option for West Asia. Finally, for the US and Russia, or the West and BRICs, this is another geopolitical game that would cost the West more. First, it is Nazis in Ukraine, now, McJihad in Syria. Both of these will "blow" back badly once the common enemy is gone. The ironic 'winners' here are Russia and Iran because the 'axis of resistance' will be forced to merge and consolidate while those that merged on the basis of Assad as a common enemy will fragment and drag their sponsors into internal civil and terrorism.
Rubbish! Turkey has won this war in Syria. And it's now busy destroying PKK-YPG strongholds on it's border one by one. Tel Rıfat, Mümbiç, Deyrizor is already taken. Next on the line is Kobani and others. PKK-YPG is finished in Syria forever.
@@zensamui2409 Horribly wrong analysis. Orientalism at it's worst. No knowledge of Turkey's history, Ottoman empire, Syrian social and democraphic structure, Turkish-Syrian relations, the fact that Turkey was hosting more than 8 million Syrian refugees for more than 14 years. The structure of Free Syrian Army, the presence of Turkmen minority in Syria, Syrian minority in Turkey, Kurds who're loyal to Turkey, Kurdish separatist PKK-YPG, PKK's links to both USA and Russia. The list is endless...
Assad wasn't present in Syria to assist, by the time these decisions were made. The various 'rebels' came armed with bribery, not artillery. This weapon was fully devastating and possibly reached Assad himself in his office. 🤔
Allawite Shia Assad probably knew he had to make an exit fast before the overwhelming majority Sunni Syrians were instigated enough to storm his palace.
Assad abandoned his own military, the last message the military received from Assad was to withdraw from Hama (pop 1 million) he called them from the Russian airbase , minutes before boarding his flight to Moscow. this was the first hand account of a christian Syrian army officer of the 4th division. the dialogue of this Syrian officer and this British journalist has been ongoing for many months now.
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Pascal Thank you again- you give the space to breathe in intellectual oxygen . You give us a window of honest and iinsightful intellectual discussions unlike the clatter of corrupt, dishonest, unethical and repulsive Western propaganda machines where truth and honesty are the biggest causalities.
The Russian "Federation" is about to be "Unfederated" its obvious, ive been right this entire time while people like you and MacGregor just keep reapting the same bs and wrong over and over and over
@@ajc5479of course Russia is smiling. She doesn't need to keep stability in Syria any more. Syria with Al Qaeda in charge is now a problem for the West to solve. In fact Russia is more than just smiling, it's laughing.
Unless the US relinquishes the oil producing, and rich agricultural Syrian territory it occupies, how is the HTS going to generate income and food to support the economy of Syria?
It occupies a desert wasteland..The only abundant rich agricultural territory anywhere close is in Russia and Ukraine which they are trying to grab control of..If they succeed the Arab world either plays ball with them or starves !
It won't, and that's likely the point. HTS and the other minor factions at play in Syria are pawns for larger foreign powers, and those powers would prefer to not let their pawns attain any degree of autonomy.
First time watching Mr. Fuller. And after 5 min watching I am commenting. I agree fully. These HTS people don't know how to govern. They know fighting, but it is big leap to govern the country. Idlip was like kalifate. But to be a prince in the middle east and get space and time to develop, you need do be crowned by Washington crowd. So they will need at least 2 years to learn the governing process. And they will need to do their homework demanded by Washington and Tel Aviv . But, once they feel comfortable they will try to use the Americans to join forces to destabilise Iraq. But if one of the two pro American countries change the leadership(Jordan or Egypt).Egypt is crucial. Then Israel will be surrounded. Then they will join an alliance and turn against Israel interest. That is for sure. It just needs time. They hate Israel. And they can't hide their true feeling forever. Shia Iran was never the biggest treat to Israel, because they are need to cross 2 countries to reach Israel. But the neighbouring sunnies countries if they go against Israel, then it will become very dangerous game. Anyway, this will be even advantages for Iran, because they will try to improve their relations with the West. The ball will now be in the Sunni countries. So far, they have sold the Palestinians. But it can change, and in my opinion it will change in a few years time. Israel will regret bringing the islamists in Damascus. Asad was no treat to Israel. The time will tell. Macedonian
@@jamjinn786 As weak states without support (even the SU/USSR was on the side of Israel). Israel was supported by empires and monied interest groups. Now it is loosely organized hybrid warfare groupings without a clear command structure. The USA/collective West (incl. Israel) have created these groups themselves for the past 100 years.
Ostracized how? By patroling Poland's airspace or creating a trade corridor through Kuwait+Iraq to Istanbul? Lets not forget Turkey has the biggest airbase in Qatar and another big one in Tripoli.
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@@moHmd4002supposing that a leader with dementia, waging wars and other policies and laws nobody wants, bitterly divided, is supposed to be a better system of government. Less corrupt, the good guys. Best thing about a king is they can't be bribed
I just wonder how sustainable the position of the US Shamocracy is with its own populations. Trust must be at an all time low. UK and US regimes keep exposing their complete indifference or complicity in genicide, terrorism etc.
Just throwing up after witnessing non-censored speech Starmer gave in Cyprus to RAF, basically triumphalist and endorsing complicity with Geno*ide and 'covert' operations...emperor really divests their clothes more and more...reminds me of the BLIAR with Iraq...to think I voted Labour with some hope of 'justice' since 1979...all this old woman can do now is pray that youngsters won't take so long to wake up!
@@kazab873 It is so disgusting and only puts UK soliders at risk in these bases. Are any of these leaders willing to put their sons or daughters into the wars they are trying to start?????
Turkey cannot join brics. If you have scantions against a country you cannot join. Turkey is a vassel of Israel and America. If they need more money they should ask their bosses for a raise not get a free ride off the global south.
In my opinion, Assad couldn't make up his mind and didn't take any actions. As far as I heard in these analysis on UA-cam, it seems like Iran wanted more support from Assad for the Hisbollah which he rejected. It seems like he didn't want to be involved with the Israel issue. Turkey seem to have had discussions with Assad regarding getting the Refugees back which Assad rejected, because seemingly he couldn't support them in the current state of Syria with all the sanctions and the annexiation of the oil fields by the US. But again, maybe the Refugees subject was only an excuse for Turkey and they wanted from Assard to work together against the Kurds. I don't know. Not sure whether Russia really was suprised and backstabbed by Turkey or they already were seeing it coming with there current situation in Ukraine. Russia must have known regarding the discussion with the Turkey and Assad. But it seems like Assad wanted to stay somehow neutral to the whole Israel conflict and in the end he lost. I guess he should have sided with Iran.
The people of Eurasia, including Western Europe (most of whom are Christians and linguistically related) and West Asia (most of whom follow Abrahamic religions and are linguistically related) have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. *Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common.* Strategically ambiguous outsiders make use of this, for own advantages. In the era of European Imperialism, first London dragging along her junior partner Paris, then after 1945 as European colonial powers' influence decreased, the role of divider was simply taken over by Washington DC (the entire world was the playground during the Cold War). Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in Eurasia, in order to "rule" over the dissent which is classical "divide and rule". "The primordial interest of the United States - over which for a century we have fought wars (the first, second, and Cold War) - has been the relationship between Germany and Russia. Because united they are the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn't happen. … For the United States … the primordial fear is German technology, German capital, and Russian natural resources, Russian manpower as the only combination that has for centuries scared the hell out of the United States. So how does this play out? Well, the US has already put its cards on the table. It is the line from the Baltics to the Black Sea." - George Friedman, Stratfor, Feb 2015 Reality? "Politicians are the best example of how idealists can become idiots, because it can only be an idiot who believes that peace can be forced through (ETERNAL crises and) war." - Stephanie Guss Today, Eurasian leaders are too weak to unite. Endless wars, constant dissent. Insert "levers" of lies, mistrust using POWER PLAYERS. *Create favourites: favouritism for the PROXIES who bow down.* Point the finger, everywhere else using the POWER of the MSM. *Divide and Rule.* Oldest trick in the book... Who wields the POWER? Who has had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to reach all the other little buck catchers (tools, and other Roman-era style instruments of POWER), but could not be reached itself, because of a geographical-, technological-, organisational-, military-, strategic-, political advantage at any given point of a historical timeline? *Divide-and-rule connects the dots on the timeline of history.* Who has had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of distance from the events resulting out of the own meddling and political activities, being able to reach all the other regions, but could not be reached itself as hegemony, at any given point of a historical timeline? Pax Romana. Pax Britannica. Pax Americana. All they want is *peace,* and because they say so it must be true. But who picks up the *pieces* of great wealth and the systemic gains when all others failed to unite? *Today we see millions of followers of Islam, praying in their mosques in West Asia, being set up against each other by the clout of OUTSIDERS, and 125 years ago we saw millions of followers of Christ, praying in their churches, being set up against each other by the clout of OUTSIDERS. Oh, wait...we didn't see it...* We, the people, were enamoured by the story the dividers told us, of "good guys" vs. "bad guys", and _"as seen on TV."_ *Different Empires. Different eras. Same games.* The "empire" and "divider" is ALWAYS the "good guy". The opposition which want unity in a region are the "bad guys". Also it only works within a technological timeframe: for the British Empire it was while naval power "ruled the world", and the own core heartland was "unreachable", and from this unbreakable fort, could "divide" all others, avoiding them from uniting. After WW2 and today, it will only work for as long as the combination of political clout, nuclear weapons, and cultural hegemony can overpower all others, and avoid all others from uniting. The American "heartland" is already not unreachable anymore, so the USA is playing a dangerous game. Intentions to divide others, might just achieve the opposite effect.
Remember, before all of this happens , turkey, Russia , and Iran are talking in bricks . That's why Russia already removed all their air defence system in Syria. I think this will favour Iran and Russia in the long term .
It is completely naive to think Russia didn't know what was going on....they had contacts on the inside and have top notch satellite spying capabilities and know every phone call made in the region of note....so it's impossible they were surprised by this takeover of Syria....they made a strategic decision on how they would play their hand and it will be what works best for them.
Turkey, the USA, Israel should all have their Nations renamed! 1) 'USA The Back Stabbers.' 2) 'Israel The Back Stabbers.' 3) 'Turkey The Back Stabbers.' Theses three nations should form their own private alliance, named 'The Back Stabbers.'
I don’t know why so many are ignoring all the reports that HTS is only about 30,000 men and that Syria is 185,00 square Km or 25,000,000 people. Clearly it’s going to be a mess.
How will Erdogan and his AKP Party fall then? Neither mainstream opposition parties led by the Iyi (Good) Party and Republicans are any better. Why do minorities and left wing groups are under represented?
Graham Fuller as a CIA agent brought the Chechen rebels to fight against Russia, in the 90's. They were trained in Georgia, in the Paankisi Gorge, if I remember it well. The goal was: destroy the oil pipeline that went from Bkaaoe to Moscow and turn the ooil towards a Turkish harbour. All to weaken Russia , and to get the oil, of course. Ask Chas Freeman if my story is true !
How can this be a win for the US and Israel -- we spent 20 years fighting AQ after 9/11 and now they have their own country -- with resources and a competent fighting force ?
The general did not recognize the strong European ties Turkey has, in the past ardently seeking EU membership, and that it is a NATO country. Its population is growing and dynamic versus the Russian citizenry. Did Erdogan renounce his decision to not seek re-election? All of his current actions would need to be furthered by a protege. Is there one? Once fiercely secular in the image of Attuturk, Erdogan has muslimized the nation. But to which extreme?
Türkiye has always been a Muslim country by the way. Atatürk too was a Muslim. Since the establishment of Ottoman Empire in 1071, Turkish Islam has always been secular and has nothing to do with Selefism.
@@mariadamen7886 Russia had nothing to do with it. It was the heroic ordinary Turkish people who stood up against the American puppet coupsters on 15 July 2016 and won. Russia claimed to have helped Turkey but it was a bloody lie.
Graham Fuller's ex-son-in-law is Ruslan Tsarni, who is the uncle of the Tsarnaev brothers who were framed for the Boston Marathon Bombing. Even after divorse, Ruslan lived at Fuller's DC house from where he ran a Chechen terrorist group. The Boston Marathon was a CIA controlled event with Kraft Intl. as security (not Boston Police). The entire insident stinks to high hell including the Rodeo clown who administered tourniquets on the crisis actor who had already been sitting on the ground legless unattended for 15 minutes. (while EMTs assisted other lesser injuries. go figure).
Your wrong turkey is a nato member. Consider Israel attacks Turkish forces, now nato article 5 say EU and USA must mobilize to challenge israel or nato falls
Assad had refused help from Russia and Iran, and for the good and unification of Syria, he decided to leave suddenly. Why now and not 10 years ago? Syria didn't fall, Assad resigned and abandoned his people. Someday, historians will say if it was a good move or a foolish strategy.
Pascal, this guy was the chief of the Coupes of 1980 military and 2016 islamic in Türkiye ! Vulnerable countries in the region all created by him to realize what Elon Musk mentioned in a cultural religion!
Excellent observation on American dilemma. I think it is because it relies so much on British Petroleum for intelligence and it ends up fighting an American War of Independence in the Middle East.
This kind of reasoning is an after the fact construction, which is totally false. If Russia didnt want to be in Syria, they could have left a long time ago. Nobody forced them to stay there. Despite the fact that they needed all their resources in Ukraine, they still decided to stay in Syria, because they deemed it to be strategically important for them, but they lost because they were outsmarted by the other powers there, primarily by Erdogan.
Outsnarting one does with a hostile party. "Outsnarting" a non hostile is stupidity. But we can count on it, there to be multiple layers we are unaware of, which would sketch a different picture.
It does not matter who the rebels are or who they represent, as long as the us is involved, the outcome will not be good.
Im sure the US have got hundreds of think tanks, 5 stories deep just trying to make sense of the scrambled egg brain matter of a jihadist mindset, notwithstanding 4-5 differing extremes in one arena.
As a med student, im having a hell of a time trying to learn the inner workings of a single pathological disease state.
Syria have hundreds of psychotics, a slightly different variant as you drive from one household to another.
hmmm, go figure
It will be good for Western Oil companies.
The HTS terror group is rebranded as "rebels"...
Good for who?
The Rich?
That's your prejudice.
This is not about democracy or human rights, it's about greater Israel and the Qatar-Turkey gas pipeline project.
Which I guess will make sure Europe gets the energy it desperately needs but also makes sure that Europe isn't tempted to try and normalise relations with Russia for their energy needs. A win for the US, Israel, Europe, Qatar and Turkey.
Sickening what great powers will sacrifice for power and greed and energy.
Very, very true my friend. 👍🏻
@@ahmetepik grow up
@@myla6135not greedy. It's called survival of the fittest. How do you not understand that? It's how the world has been run since the dawn of time. Nations will always do what's in their interest over other nations if they have the means to do it. It's called progress. The most dominant societies will always prevail. That's why nations and peoples come and go. Look at Europe. It's nothing like it was 500 years ago. Also going from one dictatorship to another isn't progress. Another thing is Muslims. If they can't be moderate to a certain extent then they are just enemies to everyone. Even their own people.
@@ahmetepik Democracy is really working in Libya today.......Right?
Russia will be more cautious about Turkey, and so will others because Erdogan can backstab both sides if he sees a short-term benefit.
Russia is next if you are not paying attention, soon it wont even exist, Russia is going to break up into multiple new territories, its inevitable, you people think their strong but its obvious their weak, demographically speaking they have very little time left, a bunch of old people is all that is left in Russia and hey also China
Russian politicians are already saying that Turkey will pay for its betrayal
What a load of rubbish! Since when a NATO member Türkiye was an ally of Russia? To claim such rubbish is to have zero knowledge of history. Just recently didn't Turkish made drones destroy hundreds of Russian tanks in Ukraine? Didn't Turks help Azerbajian to win Karabagh war?..
Yeap. Turkey is demonstrating to the world its deceptive nature.
I agree that Erdogan is playing both sides. People who study this closely realise that
Free America from AIPAC.
profits model .
1. Congress allocates money to 11srxe111..
2. 11srxe111 allocates money to AIPAC..
3. A1PAC makes "campaign donations" to Congress..
4. These "campaign donations" used to pay media company. Guess who own media company ?
5. Loop back to 1..
@@happymelon7129those money stolen from your own people!!
If the USA didn't have Israel, they would need to invent it. Biden said that because he can't keep his mouth shut. Israel is the perfect cover for US geo-strategic ambitions.
@@happymelon7129 Congress allocates money for interventionist war, sends weapons to warzones, sends money to arms manufacturers. Most of the military aid money never leaves the USA. It's a perfect system for an empire.
@@guapochino140 Calling it an "Empire" is an insult to past empires. As ruthless as the Roman Empire could be, for example, it benefited it's populace and spread civilization. Americans don't benefit at all from these schemes. The US is simply the MIC/mercenary arm of the red sea pedestrian NWO.
This is the best analysis of middle eastern crises I have ever heard. I know many Syrian christian that have migrated to Australia not because of Assad but fear of ISIS. As a matter of fact almost all of them have expressed their love and respect to Assad.
Australia do not need non Europeans...
Indeed. Assad held the country together. From being a secular state, Syria is now going to degenerate into a failed Islamist state with various murderous Jihadist groups running amok.
Assad protected Christians because Putin protected him. Only dupes get emotionally involved thinking these murderers are good people.
So much love and respect for Assad they have chosen not to stand and fight for him but flee to the other side of the world..That like an Aussie in WW2 saying how they admire Churchill from the safety of Chile
@@eddiemilne4989
You could say the same for the milions of sunni syrians in europe
For Assad there was the choice: leaving by himself and rescue his family’s life or to have to be the victim of regime change like in Irac and Libia.
That’s the 'choice-he-couldn’t-refuse' with which the us always presents its less-compliant customers...
@wardropper I don't know how these butchers live and sleep after so much of torchers to the innocent lives
He fled like a coward 😂 like a little girl
@@niigatha2010 you mean butchers like assad ?
@@niigatha2010 you mean botchers like bashar with their endless list of human rights abuses ?
USA uniparty is not the republic or democrats ,its Israel and the pentagon.
MIC wants nothing more than more set ups for more wars and that's by creating as many factions as possible in the region against each other.
Just all the ones involved behind removing the Assad leadership
That's a lot of loose ends to please their demands
Then there's the other side.
united states of Israel 😉
Fuller is right, it ain't over until is over.
Thank you Pascal for consistently producing these high quality content and give us an alternative viewpoint from the mainstream media.
The offical russian viewpoint. Sponsored by the FSB.
Complete rubbish to scam moronic ORC/CCP simps 😅
No it is not an alternative..It is the mainstream media narrative from Russia and China..Or are you naive enough to believe there is only a Western one..There is a third position,that my enemy's enemy can also be my enemy..Deep down most know this,which is why Russia and China don't have a migration problem..
@@hermanmattheus9455 Right, all these hundreds of people across the world, on the payroll of the FSB. 🤡
All declining empires follow a similar pattern. They will become more irrational, aggressive n violent in their desperate attempt to hang on to their fast declining world dominance n in the process commit one silly blunder after another which will only backfire n hasten their decline
Too bad the US is anything but declining, the only declining major powers today are Russia and China both are in epic demographic death spirals and have zero chance of supplanting the UNited States
Well said!
Imperialism at his last
You nailed it
Well said
Bravo🎉🎉🎉
Actually, that's not true. Great civilizations usually die by lack of drive, lack of single purpose that they had in their formation phase. Look at the short book The Fate of civilization by Sir john Glubb. They all fail from within just like our own western civilization currently failing mostly from internal division. Maga vs the left, women vs men, immigrationists vs isolationists, capitalists vs socialists.
What empires are you thinking of?
I'm guessing there was a deal done. Why would Russia, or any country, fight for a country where its own army won't?
Iran and Russia send troops to Syria to help! But Assad changed his mind in 48 hours twice and decided not to fight! both Russia and Iran withdrew their troops immediately. He also asked his military not to resist.
Source, please
Why they should fight for the Russian and Iranian what they gained? Nothing!!! Putin playing on all sides!!
You forgot to mention the planned Turkey-Syria-Qatar gas pipeline to Europe - which is what this is really about.
To build pipelines it’s big task, time , technology and money.
Plus vulnerability
Pipelinestan is a term coined by Pepe Escobar
That pipeline is a fantasy.
Pipelines only work in highly stable places. They’re impossible to defend against sabotage.
1. Unlike Syria will be that stable any time soon.
2. If miraculously Syria becomes that stable with a powerful and popular central government, then the pipeline is even more impossible. Why would such a Syria allow energy competition put gas and oil transit through their country.
Those pipelines won’t be happening
You have no idea what this is about
Excellent discussion and analysis. Thank you from Australia.
Ignorance is a bliss!.. Terrible discussion!..
Most Aussies have no clue & probably watching footy.
@@SagittarianArrows Not just the footy… 😂 They are watching independent journalists and media too.
Don't forget the Shia-Sunni and Kurdish factors which will also come into play when the victorious euphoria settles down and then the slippery slope path of divisionary politics of who rules over whom may lead towards disintegration.
all three will unite in syria :) Kurds will abandon the US. Istanbul will reconcile with the Kurds. They are both sunnis mainly. If this were to take place, Israel will soon be gone.
@@asrulismail1513that’s the hope. I’m losing that hope
@@asrulismail1513Kurds are in Erdogan’s sight
@@asrulismail1513😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I’m anti-z!0n!$t as they come and still laugh at this.
Your disunity is your curse.
@@Dee-JayW perhaps. But i think it will happen for sure. Why? Because Jesus will descend in Damascus. And the prediction of the black flagged army came true. One evil the other noble. Perhaps this is the beginning of the creation of the nobler black flagged army.
Thanks for a calm assessment of a situation very complicated for those of us not expert in Syrian politics.
Pertinent questions by Pascal always worth pondering over. Distressing times!
The SAA refused to fight. Russia was wise not to try and save them.
Hahaha! They fought them for years, 'saving' Assads regimen. When they FINALLY became unable, and then cut and run, THAT makes them WISE ??
@@dingo8babym20What are you talking about? By the end of 2017, Russia had defeated the terrorists in Syria, but some of them were saved by Türkiye in Idlib, and this was the end of Russia’s active participation. What Syria has come to now is the result of Assad’s policies.
Wow! Great to see an American look at China & Russia in a level headed & realistic fashion. I hear so many times an underlying wish from some observers to turn Russia away from China. This ultimately leading to the Balkanization of both. As if China & Russia have conveniently forgotten the last 200+ years of their history.
They haven't.
Omg Lol
You seem to have forgotten that for the first 100 years of that history the Russians were busy seizing way more Chinese territory in Manchuria than the Western powers put together..And the first part of the next turning Mongolia which had been part of the Chinese Empire into a Soviet puppet state..
,,,,STOP THE AMERIFUKAN JEW WARS!!!
Jew wars? Islamic wars! You do not have ANY IDEA of history and I am NOT a Jew saying this to you.
The jihadis will always win as long as we are so ignorant about the truth.
Exactly ! You got it !
Yup! That’s it pretty much.
100%
Not only would US have tried to tie down Russia in Syria and use their involvement as a ruse to bomb their naval base. Russia not being involved stopped that play and also preserved focus on Ukraine, which would have been another weakness in Russian defense. Had they lost focus in Ukraine they would have been exploited.
Yep. Western involvement is the touch of d…th around the globe.
Interesting take on things. You just admitted that russia are a regional player at best, and are nowhere near to being a superpower.
@@briangriffiths937 I wouldn't be too excited about your AHA. The empire of the us of a is having their asses kicked by this particular "regional power".
Putin is not naive. Russian interests first. Slava Russia
Yea... you don't have your thumb on the pulse of this. Russia is not the one who avoided the trap... the US/UK/Israel are the ones who fell into the trap. They vacated Syria on purpose.
Erdogan sacrificed joining BRICS and hoped that the Qatar Europe pipeline will make turkey 🇹🇷 rich and self sufficient. However, Syrian terrain is not a safe region to put pipeline
It's a billion times less safe right now than the ones in Ukraine are. Which, if it weren't for the fact that they're barely used directly now, I'd say are not safe at all
So yep.
My honest reply taken down by YT just now.
THIS CHANNEL is just on another level -- very informative
I kinda hoping that White House staffers will review these vids.
@@user-T.Baldwin Why would they, they'll just scoff it off as "russi-an pr-opa-g-and-a" just like dozens of commenters here.
Really an interesting and enlightening conversation that throws some light on the evolving situation in the otherwise murky scenario in the Middle East!
Great programme. Thank you.
Assad is 59 yrs old only. He is smart, intelligent and educated. Assad took an intelligent retreat. He came after his father. He tried to make the country and inclusive and modern society. He led the country for 8 years. He has to fight a war since 2011 which he led with skill and bravery. For not finishing the war by recovering the whole territory was deadly mistake. Further more what could he do when his army refused to fight? The Syrian have now the opportunity to try something else. Assad is a Syrian he will be looking from far. We know those UA-cam revolutions results. All we should wish best luck to Syria and its people. Assad and his family were not murdered as we saw with Saddam and Gaddafi. He went to a country where people have wisdom and led by someone who is wish.
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Perhaps a new Syria at a later time?
Good grief. Have you visited Assad's jails? Have you got any morals?????
He's an Optometrist (Eye Surgeon) educated in london
@@barbaraarndt5293Have you?? Are you also aware that the sanctions destroyed whatever economy it had. Then the US robbed it of its oil. If your country is in tatters, there would naturally be revolts, violence, and consequent crackdowns. Actually he actually didn’t want to take over after his father. But since his brother had died, he inherited this position. I don’t think he wanted it. After all, he had studied to be an ophthalmologist.
Wednesday night in Malaysia now. This is my 4th lesson on geopolitic for today. I am listening an analysis on geopolitic of the Middle East and the Syrian civil war and the role of jihadists groups in these conflicts. Thank you Mr Graham Fuller and Mr Pascal for sharing your knowledge on geopolitic of the world.
Thankyou Pascal & Graham, for this excellent analysis of the Syria situation. Russia might well decide to close down it's Syrian military bases thereby distancing itself from an increasingly unstable and dangerous Middle East; leaving it to be dealt with by those Atlanticists who are responsible for having divided the region into antagonistic states and for provoking the mess it has been in ever since.
"might well decide"? you believe Russia has some say in the matter? Putin's opinion is completely irrelevant, he has been forced out of Syria.
@@Firehawk95hey, whatever lies help you sleep 🤷♀️
@@Firehawk95it is obvious you are not good at geopolitics. If you wipe the biased hate you can begin to see.
U need to visit specsavers@@Firehawk95
@@Firehawk95 You appear to be confusing the military bases with the forced withdraw of the Wagner group and regulat Russian infantry that were enroute to help at Alepo and saw Syrian infantry retreating in opposite direction. Same re Damascus Russian attempts to assist were dashed by Syrian decision to retreat; hence these Russian infantry needed to get out of Syria.
I was wondering why Israel had that surpise Cease Fire agreement with Hezbollah. Now we know the IDF was going to have a new war on it's plate.
Pepe Escobar thinks that Netanyahu and IDF have been on a roll in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Iran, so Israel with U.S. and UK and Germany and NATO kept rolling from Idlib to Aleppo to Hama, Homs and Damascus! Now! Now! Now!
israel controlls these so called jihadis..
Oh, IDF have got to be sooo spent right now. The majority just being kids , fresh out of school. Who once had a great deal of youthful energy and idealism to conquer the world, right?
That was before they were forced to experience, first hand, the horrors of war.
Israel was once a happy people. Extraordinarily happy youth, holding hands and singing in circling dance. Isnt that where this attrocity all started? at a rave concert, yet, another party to celebrate life.
I guarantee after all this is finally over, that the once exuberantly jorful tone will be likened to that of the aftermaths of Aushwitz. But then again, like you just said, will this ever be over ?
Something wasn't right but it looks like Russia and Iran was ahead of that.
@@RogerDosithee-r2ytrue sir
Graham Fuller - the ONLY real expert who understands reality.
All the other muppets saying that Russia was duped/betrayed/beaten etc.
Putin didn't fall for it and avoided the trap.
If Asad run away, Syria army run away, so why would Russia do anything?
Military bases, strategic assets - educate yourself.
@@Firehawk95fight for only a base far away?
@@Firehawk95Get bogged down for minimal potential gain and maximum potential overextension?
lol and ironically you're the one telling others to "educate themselves"
@@robertstan298 No, really, educate yourself. Try something other than Russian propaganda.
@@Firehawk95
"Strategic assets"
Elaborate. What does the Syrian territory have that the Russian Federation needs and cannot acquire someplace else for less cost?
I absolutely do not like betrayal.
Russia has learnt from Afghanistan. Brezhnev sent in the Soviet Army to prop up the Communists in Afghanistan. The West armed the Mujahedeen. The Soviets got bogged down in a protracted war, which ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. This time Russia didn’t take the bait.
You're implying the dissolution of the USSR was caused by the failures of the Soviet Afghanistan intervention. That couldn't be more delusional.
The USSR dissolved because the US and their man, Gorbachev ordered it. Anything else is exaggerated nonsense and propaganda.
Also, to "prop up" is such a bad choice of words. They were literally defending the country from US funded and imported Saudi and Pakistani extremists. And the decision to accept the call for military intervention wasn't taken lightly. With the US training, arming up, importing and propping up extremists in Afghanistan at least 6 MONTHS BEFORE the Soviet intervention even got greenlit.
The day the Soviets withdrew was also the last day Afghani women had any semblance of rights. And it was also the day extremist jihadi groups started thinking "worldwide" in terms of their terror campaigns ("if we can take on the Soviets we can take on anyone")
@@robertstan298so you just confirmed his point yourself! 😉😂
@@robertstan298 I wonder where did you study. Your grasp of history is betraying you. Yet, there is still time to learn and follow a star leading to Light. Starting with Carr perhaps "what is history". Add some handy languages also.
@@danielculpepper9258 Great summary! And the central point well said. God bless❤
When will US learn?
This guy is one of the people that orchestrated military coup in Turkey in 2016.
Graham Fuller's ex-son-in-law is Ruslan Tsarni, who is the uncle of the Tsarnaev brothers who were framed for the Boston Marathon Bombing. Even after divorse, Ruslan lived at Fuller's house from where he ran a Chechen terrorist group. The Boston Marathon was a CIA controlled event with Kraft Intl. as security (not Boston Police). The entire insident stinks to high hell including the Rodeo clown who administered tourniquets on the crisis actor who had already been sitting on the ground legless unattended for 15 minutes. (while EMTs assisted other lesser injuries. go figure).
Interesting analysis as usual. I cannot believe the level of myopia that now occupies Western and Turkish geopolitical thinking. The usual alliance with McJihad and extremists is not new. We saw that during the Western orchestrated "Arab spring". What is new is the wilful lack of awareness of the complexities involved. The Kurdish and Turkish is one aspect but we shouldn't forget that Turkey created this problem by participating in the balkanization of Iraq. So, basically two failed states are at its border. Syria will become a magnet for global Jihadist and Israel, Turkey, Jordon and Lebanon will become highly unstable. The kicker here is actually the factions within the Jihadists themselves. There are three main flash points there. One is the multiethnic international Jihadist. The other is the local national ones and the regional ones connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. So, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are automatically involved. The uncontrolled removal of Assad is the worst option for West Asia. Finally, for the US and Russia, or the West and BRICs, this is another geopolitical game that would cost the West more. First, it is Nazis in Ukraine, now, McJihad in Syria. Both of these will "blow" back badly once the common enemy is gone. The ironic 'winners' here are Russia and Iran because the 'axis of resistance' will be forced to merge and consolidate while those that merged on the basis of Assad as a common enemy will fragment and drag their sponsors into internal civil and terrorism.
Rubbish! Turkey has won this war in Syria. And it's now busy destroying PKK-YPG strongholds on it's border one by one. Tel Rıfat, Mümbiç, Deyrizor is already taken. Next on the line is Kobani and others. PKK-YPG is finished in Syria forever.
Absolutely right. Exactly my analyse.
That was a big post for you, Ivan. Pity the ruble so low, ask for a few potatoes to make up for inflation.
What a load of rubbish!..
@@zensamui2409 Horribly wrong analysis. Orientalism at it's worst. No knowledge of Turkey's history, Ottoman empire, Syrian social and democraphic structure, Turkish-Syrian relations, the fact that Turkey was hosting more than 8 million Syrian refugees for more than 14 years. The structure of Free Syrian Army, the presence of Turkmen minority in Syria, Syrian minority in Turkey, Kurds who're loyal to Turkey, Kurdish separatist PKK-YPG, PKK's links to both USA and Russia. The list is endless...
Assad wasn't present in Syria to assist, by the time these decisions were made. The various 'rebels' came armed with bribery, not artillery. This weapon was fully devastating and possibly reached Assad himself in his office. 🤔
Why was the withdrawal and disbandment of the army so organized? Where are they and their weapons? This looks like Ru/Iran/ Syria acted as planned.
Allawite Shia Assad probably knew he had to make an exit fast before the overwhelming majority Sunni Syrians were instigated enough to storm his palace.
Of course it was planned. Russia is the chess master! ❤❤❤
Russia❤ is a chess master indeed. What you eyes can't see and your mind does not know.....
Assad abandoned his own military, the last message the military received from Assad was to withdraw from Hama (pop 1 million) he called them from the Russian airbase , minutes before boarding his flight to Moscow. this was the first hand account of a christian Syrian army officer of the 4th division. the dialogue of this Syrian officer and this British journalist has been ongoing for many months now.
Neutrality Studies est sans doute une chaîne indépendante et donc credible. Les invités de marque sur NS en est une preuve additionnelle de sa crédibilté ayx yeux des nous, les assoifés et les affamés des vrais reportages impartiaux.
Merci à NS et à tous vos intérêts de marque !
Russia threw the US and Israel a bone.
And then,what is russias benefit in what sense..?.
Russia betrayed his allies by letting tuckey and Israel to bomb syria for 12 yrs !!!
Pascal
Thank you again- you give the space to breathe in intellectual oxygen . You give us a window of honest and iinsightful intellectual discussions unlike the clatter of corrupt, dishonest, unethical and repulsive Western propaganda machines where truth and honesty are the biggest causalities.
Intellectual rubbish to be more exact!..
He who smiles the last, smiles the best! Give it to Russian Federation!
The Russian "Federation" is about to be "Unfederated" its obvious, ive been right this entire time while people like you and MacGregor just keep reapting the same bs and wrong over and over and over
@@adairjanney7109and ?
Is there any Ruzzian smiling? lol
@@ajc5479 losing a battle doesn't mean you lose the war
@@ajc5479of course Russia is smiling. She doesn't need to keep stability in Syria any more. Syria with Al Qaeda in charge is now a problem for the West to solve. In fact Russia is more than just smiling, it's laughing.
Thank you Pascal and Mr. Fuller for your excellent analysis and discussion.
They laid a trap against Russia but they fell into it. God bless Russia and its leaders.
Russia was brief about what was going on in Syria the trap is for Israel and America a fail Syria
Russia smart by losing, awesome strategy
@@raf7665😂
@@raf7665 Strategic retreat
Very smart the Russians
Unless the US relinquishes the oil producing, and rich agricultural Syrian territory it occupies, how is the HTS going to generate income and food to support the economy of Syria?
It occupies a desert wasteland..The only abundant rich agricultural territory anywhere close is in Russia and Ukraine which they are trying to grab control of..If they succeed the Arab world either plays ball with them or starves !
It won't, and that's likely the point. HTS and the other minor factions at play in Syria are pawns for larger foreign powers, and those powers would prefer to not let their pawns attain any degree of autonomy.
@@LordGrandKaiserbingo!
Why russia didn't stop that?
@@jhingoorpatima237 And start WWIII?
Russian withdrawal from Syria is a tactic, not a defeat. Time will tell if it was a wise idea or not. That's how I perceive it.
Russia is weak after 3 years fighting Ukraine Now they will loose their only airfield and harbour in the Mediterranean.
First time watching Mr. Fuller.
And after 5 min watching I am commenting.
I agree fully.
These HTS people don't know how to govern. They know fighting, but it is big leap to govern the country. Idlip was like kalifate.
But to be a prince in the middle east and get space and time to develop, you need do be crowned by Washington crowd.
So they will need at least 2 years to learn the governing process.
And they will need to do their homework demanded by Washington and Tel Aviv .
But, once they feel comfortable they will try to use the Americans to join forces to destabilise Iraq.
But if one of the two pro American countries change the leadership(Jordan or Egypt).Egypt is crucial. Then Israel will be surrounded.
Then they will join an alliance and turn against Israel interest. That is for sure. It just needs time.
They hate Israel. And they can't hide their true feeling forever.
Shia Iran was never the biggest treat to Israel, because they are need to cross 2 countries to reach Israel.
But the neighbouring sunnies countries if they go against Israel, then it will become very dangerous game.
Anyway, this will be even advantages for Iran, because they will try to improve their relations with the West.
The ball will now be in the Sunni countries.
So far, they have sold the Palestinians. But it can change, and in my opinion it will change in a few years time.
Israel will regret bringing the islamists in Damascus.
Asad was no treat to Israel.
The time will tell.
Macedonian
Not the first time the Arabs ganged up on Israel, consult some history books...lol
@@jamjinn786 As weak states without support (even the SU/USSR was on the side of Israel).
Israel was supported by empires and monied interest groups.
Now it is loosely organized hybrid warfare groupings without a clear command structure.
The USA/collective West (incl. Israel) have created these groups themselves for the past 100 years.
And yet, hasn't we seen that if you rule by terror you don't really need a managerial government?
"Turkey is jack of all trade master in none", that's why Turkey remains an ostracized nation by Europeans but also by Arabs.
Worse, they fucked up with the US, EU and Russia...Erdogans ego is ruining Turkey.
Ostracized how? By patroling Poland's airspace or creating a trade corridor through Kuwait+Iraq to Istanbul? Lets not forget Turkey has the biggest airbase in Qatar and another big one in Tripoli.
erdogan has do good politics that Turks have more kids in Germany than in turkey 😂
@@ÖSA-q4w message of türkiye is clear ...ıf you men come to battlefield......
@@ÖSA-q4w really?Backward state!
Henry Kissinger said Assad was his most difficult opponent. Let that sink in.
Father or son?
Thanks
You are the generous one. A whole 5 dollars in real money.
This media deserves more subscribers
I think we should all share this media to our friends and community members, so that people can be better informed.
I'm " briefing my team". (Sharing with anyone), that has an interest on how else we can screw up the planet.
Most westerners don't want to be informed of the truth. Their truth is Kardashian truth; don't bother them.
So you can just show up with guns, without an agreement, and take over the country. Yad think that might be illegal and go unrewarded.
You are talking like assad took it by elections and popular support, not by inheritance and forceful usurpation.
@@moHmd4002supposing that a leader with dementia, waging wars and other policies and laws nobody wants, bitterly divided, is supposed to be a better system of government. Less corrupt, the good guys. Best thing about a king is they can't be bribed
To me it seems 95% for Assad was greatly exaggerated.
@@moHmd4002 It is (was?) a souverain country, Syria, like Ukraine. Who's talking about a illegal war in Syria?
You can only do that when the west have abandoned all pretence of believing in international law
I just wonder how sustainable the position of the US Shamocracy is with its own populations. Trust must be at an all time low.
UK and US regimes keep exposing their complete indifference or complicity in genicide, terrorism etc.
Just throwing up after witnessing non-censored speech Starmer gave in Cyprus to RAF, basically triumphalist and endorsing complicity with Geno*ide and 'covert' operations...emperor really divests their clothes more and more...reminds me of the BLIAR with Iraq...to think I voted Labour with some hope of 'justice' since 1979...all this old woman can do now is pray that youngsters won't take so long to wake up!
@@kazab873
It is so disgusting and only puts UK soliders at risk in these bases.
Are any of these leaders willing to put their sons or daughters into the wars they are trying to start?????
@@kazab873Ha, Ha this is bullshit
Turkiye is not a member, or partner in BRICS at the Kazan Summit recently, any decision was deferred.
Turkey cannot join brics. If you have scantions against a country you cannot join. Turkey is a vassel of Israel and America. If they need more money they should ask their bosses for a raise not get a free ride off the global south.
Second time I watch pascal lottaz. I really like who you invite. Thank you.
We do NOT hear about how the Turkish population sees this barbaric action… just saying. The people do not count, these days nowhere.
I am so proud of you and what you have achieved here in your channel. Thank you both 💓
Thanks Mr Graham and Pascal.
Very good analyst this Graham guy.
To be Americas friend is dangerous but to be its friend is fatal.
"Henry Kissinger"
Kissinger said "To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.
If you border Russia or China countries would like America as their friend
Thank you for sharing 😊
Thank you for a sophisticated analysis!
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I found this channel accidentally
It is very informative
Different from the main stream media
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Me too !!!!
It's about The construction of gas pipe line from Qatar pass through Syria to Europe.
Lol. Boom boom. 😁
Yes that is not talked about much. Lot more going on than we know. 🤔
Assad don't agree to build, so he need to be ......
Let’s free you have no idea what happening shall we?
Assad reject the proposal , so he need to be ...
Gracias por esta conversación tan educativa.
Saludos desde chile
Hah. My compliments to the channel and all the guests. One knows one is on the right path when there are so many sore critics in the feed😘
Much Love ❤ from Italy 🇮🇹 to Russia 🇷🇺 and to Multipolar World 🌎 ❤️ 💪🚩
@@AndreaDeLu78 Russia who has murdered thousands of civilians and children in Ukraine & Syria?. Why are you living in beautiful Italy? Go to Russia.
👍 agree 💯
Anti-globalist American here, also agree!
@@ronlanter6906 Good to know, my friend. 😉🤝
@@AndreaDeLu78 Likewise my friend. There are many of us US citizens who desire a multi-polar world. God ✝bless you 🙏🏻🙏🏻
There is a russian saying ' Smile those who smile in the end '.
After retirement Graham Fuller is more peaceful than when he was on duty.
The Evil Empire is unstoppable, sadly.😔
Russia can be stopped
@@Andy-P You upvoted your own comment!
Amerikka is unstoppable! 🇺🇲👹🇺🇲
@@tumslucks9781 No I didn't. Doesn't bother me if not upped Just sharing my views. I like yours
@@Andy-PHe is talking about Israel, the evil vampire
@@Andy-P....he gave them eyes..but they cannot see
In my opinion, Assad couldn't make up his mind and didn't take any actions. As far as I heard in these analysis on UA-cam, it seems like Iran wanted more support from Assad for the Hisbollah which he rejected. It seems like he didn't want to be involved with the Israel issue.
Turkey seem to have had discussions with Assad regarding getting the Refugees back which Assad rejected, because seemingly he couldn't support them in the current state of Syria with all the sanctions and the annexiation of the oil fields by the US. But again, maybe the Refugees subject was only an excuse for Turkey and they wanted from Assard to work together against the Kurds. I don't know.
Not sure whether Russia really was suprised and backstabbed by Turkey or they already were seeing it coming with there current situation in Ukraine. Russia must have known regarding the discussion with the Turkey and Assad. But it seems like Assad wanted to stay somehow neutral to the whole Israel conflict and in the end he lost.
I guess he should have sided with Iran.
If losing everything is smart, you may want to redefine the word "smart" .
Thanks for your journalism work. cheers from Canada.
This is all going to backfire sooner than later . .. ...😂😂😂🇬🇧
How
Excellent interview!
The people of Eurasia, including Western Europe (most of whom are Christians and linguistically related) and West Asia (most of whom follow Abrahamic religions and are linguistically related) have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries.
*Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common.* Strategically ambiguous outsiders make use of this, for own advantages. In the era of European Imperialism, first London dragging along her junior partner Paris, then after 1945 as European colonial powers' influence decreased, the role of divider was simply taken over by Washington DC (the entire world was the playground during the Cold War). Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in Eurasia, in order to "rule" over the dissent which is classical "divide and rule".
"The primordial interest of the United States - over which for a century we have fought wars (the first, second, and Cold War) - has been the relationship between Germany and Russia. Because united they are the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn't happen. … For the United States … the primordial fear is German technology, German capital, and Russian natural resources, Russian manpower as the only combination that has for centuries scared the hell out of the United States. So how does this play out? Well, the US has already put its cards on the table. It is the line from the Baltics to the Black Sea." - George Friedman, Stratfor, Feb 2015
Reality? "Politicians are the best example of how idealists can become idiots, because it can only be an idiot who believes that peace can be forced through (ETERNAL crises and) war." - Stephanie Guss
Today, Eurasian leaders are too weak to unite.
Endless wars, constant dissent.
Insert "levers" of lies, mistrust using POWER PLAYERS.
*Create favourites: favouritism for the PROXIES who bow down.*
Point the finger, everywhere else using the POWER of the MSM.
*Divide and Rule.*
Oldest trick in the book...
Who wields the POWER? Who has had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to reach all the other little buck catchers (tools, and other Roman-era style instruments of POWER), but could not be reached itself, because of a geographical-, technological-, organisational-, military-, strategic-, political advantage at any given point of a historical timeline?
*Divide-and-rule connects the dots on the timeline of history.*
Who has had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of distance from the events resulting out of the own meddling and political activities, being able to reach all the other regions, but could not be reached itself as hegemony, at any given point of a historical timeline?
Pax Romana. Pax Britannica. Pax Americana. All they want is *peace,* and because they say so it must be true. But who picks up the *pieces* of great wealth and the systemic gains when all others failed to unite?
*Today we see millions of followers of Islam, praying in their mosques in West Asia, being set up against each other by the clout of OUTSIDERS, and 125 years ago we saw millions of followers of Christ, praying in their churches, being set up against each other by the clout of OUTSIDERS. Oh, wait...we didn't see it...*
We, the people, were enamoured by the story the dividers told us, of "good guys" vs. "bad guys", and _"as seen on TV."_
*Different Empires. Different eras. Same games.*
The "empire" and "divider" is ALWAYS the "good guy".
The opposition which want unity in a region are the "bad guys".
Also it only works within a technological timeframe: for the British Empire it was while naval power "ruled the world", and the own core heartland was "unreachable", and from this unbreakable fort, could "divide" all others, avoiding them from uniting. After WW2 and today, it will only work for as long as the combination of political clout, nuclear weapons, and cultural hegemony can overpower all others, and avoid all others from uniting.
The American "heartland" is already not unreachable anymore, so the USA is playing a dangerous game. Intentions to divide others, might just achieve the opposite effect.
Excellent points of view, thx so much!
The US tried to open up a second war front for Russia.
Putin didn't take the bait.
Putin is too soft and weak!!!
Remember, before all of this happens , turkey, Russia , and Iran are talking in bricks . That's why Russia already removed all their air defence system in Syria. I think this will favour Iran and Russia in the long term .
The air defense was of no use!!
Turkey won't become full member of BTICS now.
Turkey was never going to BRICS 🤣 They're Murica's lil bih. Have been for decades.
You mean BRICS
BRICS says goodbye to Turkeys, this time Putin will not forgive bee trails.
@mladenmatosevic4591 of course they won't ,because BTICS doesn't exist 😂.
@@greendragonspirit1646 uuuu, we have serios buthurt denier of reality here 😅
It is completely naive to think Russia didn't know what was going on....they had contacts on the inside and have top notch satellite spying capabilities and know every phone call made in the region of note....so it's impossible they were surprised by this takeover of Syria....they made a strategic decision on how they would play their hand and it will be what works best for them.
Russia can't fight on 2 front!!!
It's still very much in motion
While Putin plays 3D strategic chess, Biden and trump haven't worked out Checkers or simple math.
Turkey, the USA, Israel should all have their Nations renamed! 1) 'USA The Back Stabbers.' 2) 'Israel The Back Stabbers.' 3) 'Turkey The Back Stabbers.'
Theses three nations should form their own private alliance, named 'The Back Stabbers.'
Maybe a theme song by the O'Jay's?
You maybe think they're back stabbers or something?
I don’t know why so many are ignoring all the reports that HTS is only about 30,000 men and that Syria is 185,00 square Km or 25,000,000 people. Clearly it’s going to be a mess.
2024 is End
Erdodog is End also,
How will Erdogan and his AKP Party fall then?
Neither mainstream opposition parties led by the Iyi (Good) Party and Republicans are any better.
Why do minorities and left wing groups are under represented?
Graham Fuller as a CIA agent brought the Chechen rebels to fight against Russia, in the 90's. They were trained in Georgia, in the Paankisi Gorge, if I remember it well.
The goal was: destroy the oil pipeline that went from Bkaaoe to Moscow and turn the ooil towards a Turkish harbour.
All to weaken Russia , and to get the oil, of course.
Ask Chas Freeman if my story is true !
I believe it.
@@GARRY3754
I believe it too.✅
Who is playing into who's hands? Somet😊hing much bigger is around the corner!
Thanks for this important interview.
Look at a map, Russia can touch any part of Syria they want from naval and air asserts based safely and deep inside Russia.
How can this be a win for the US and Israel -- we spent 20 years fighting AQ after 9/11 and now they have their own country -- with resources and a competent fighting force ?
US only cares for elite, so they can be pleased to extract Sirian's resources.
The general did not recognize the strong European ties Turkey has, in the past ardently seeking EU membership, and that it is a NATO country. Its population is growing and dynamic versus the Russian citizenry. Did Erdogan renounce his decision to not seek re-election? All of his current actions would need to be furthered by a protege. Is there one? Once fiercely secular in the image of Attuturk, Erdogan has muslimized the nation. But to which extreme?
Türkiye has always been a Muslim country by the way. Atatürk too was a Muslim. Since the establishment of Ottoman Empire in 1071, Turkish Islam has always been secular and has nothing to do with Selefism.
Turkey knows it will never join the EU
Thank you for your reportage .
Terrible chaos .
I'd like to know what Mr. Fuller thinks about the failed 2016 US coup attempt in Türkiye, which left 300 dead and 2500 wounded behind...
When Russia saved Erdogan's ass?
@@mariadamen7886 Russia had nothing to do with it. It was the heroic ordinary Turkish people who stood up against the American puppet coupsters on 15 July 2016 and won. Russia claimed to have helped Turkey but it was a bloody lie.
@@mariadamen7886 Putin must now try to save his own ass and not to interfere with anybody else's!..
Graham Fuller's ex-son-in-law is Ruslan Tsarni, who is the uncle of the Tsarnaev brothers who were framed for the Boston Marathon Bombing. Even after divorse, Ruslan lived at Fuller's DC house from where he ran a Chechen terrorist group. The Boston Marathon was a CIA controlled event with Kraft Intl. as security (not Boston Police). The entire insident stinks to high hell including the Rodeo clown who administered tourniquets on the crisis actor who had already been sitting on the ground legless unattended for 15 minutes. (while EMTs assisted other lesser injuries. go figure).
@@mariadamen7886Turkish people prevented it, not anyone else!
Graham Fuller is the architect in what happened to Syria
Turkeys think it’s a great power,must be kidding itself it’s more stupid to compare it with Russia, very foolish.
Your wrong turkey is a nato member. Consider Israel attacks Turkish forces, now nato article 5 say EU and USA must mobilize to challenge israel or nato falls
Russia should be compared to Ukraine. Turkey is out of their league.
@@af5070 doesn't matter a member is a member all with full protections
@@odinymir4274"protections"😂😂😂😂😂
Assad had refused help from Russia and Iran, and for the good and unification of Syria, he decided to leave suddenly. Why now and not 10 years ago? Syria didn't fall, Assad resigned and abandoned his people. Someday, historians will say if it was a good move or a foolish strategy.
Pascal, this guy was the chief of the Coupes of 1980 military and 2016 islamic in Türkiye ! Vulnerable countries in the region all created by him to realize what Elon Musk mentioned in a cultural religion!
Just watched an old episode of the Corbett Report and one featuring Sibyl Edmonds - he pops up there
Excellent observation on American dilemma. I think it is because it relies so much on British Petroleum for intelligence and it ends up fighting an American War of Independence in the Middle East.
This kind of reasoning is an after the fact construction, which is totally false. If Russia didnt want to be in Syria, they could have left a long time ago. Nobody forced them to stay there. Despite the fact that they needed all their resources in Ukraine, they still decided to stay in Syria, because they deemed it to be strategically important for them, but they lost because they were outsmarted by the other powers there, primarily by Erdogan.
Thats a fact!
Outsnarting one does with a hostile party. "Outsnarting" a non hostile is stupidity. But we can count on it, there to be multiple layers we are unaware of, which would sketch a different picture.
Russia still has a large base in Syria.
What outsmarted if Russia has its base normal there in Siria.
Putin playin 5D-chess, uh? 😂
Think he should master 2D first.
Saddened by the failure of so many commentators to put the genocide of Palestine at the centre of their concerns