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Speaker 2: I would never advocate for violence on they page, but

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Speaker 1: I think that would be funny. Not advocating for it,

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Speaker 4: Okay, so they've arrested our hot co assassin. Turns out

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Speaker 4: his name's Luigi's twenty six years old. He's an IVY

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Speaker 4: computer science. Sliptype, he's a little young for me, but ugh, babe,

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Speaker 4: what is you doing getting caught eating at McDonald's and

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Speaker 4: cursey u McDonald's employee for turning him in. But I

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Speaker 1: Now let's go to the transcript of the very first

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Speaker 1: attack us. We will respond forcefully and we will exact

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Speaker 1: a heavy price. What happens to the previous regime will

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Speaker 1: don't screw with us. Israel's primary concern they went on

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Speaker 1: to say, again is our own security. The Israeli government

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Speaker 1: spokesman also said that Israel has approached the US to

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Speaker 1: find ways to help minorities such as the Kurds who

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Speaker 1: are threatened by the Syrian rebels, who are backed by

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Speaker 1: Turkey and consist of a coalition that includes radical Islamic terrorists.

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Speaker 1: As you know, some of the people that have taken

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Speaker 1: individuals that are on terrorist lists and even have bounties

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Speaker 1: love that Israel is doing this right now. They absolutely should.

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Speaker 1: We also are getting worried right now that Russia confirms

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Speaker 1: that Putin quote personally approved the political asylum for Bashar As'ad,

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Speaker 1: Russia's top Kremlin spokesman confirming that the Strongman Putin made

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Speaker 1: the ultimate decision to grant political asylum to the former

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Speaker 1: Syrian tyrant and his family. As'ad disappeared in the late

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Speaker 1: hours off Saturday, shortly after the Sunni Jihadis affiliated with

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Speaker 1: a terrorist organization HTS, which you're going to hear a

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Speaker 1: that they were entering Damascus, HTS and al Qaeda shootof

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Speaker 1: mounted a surprise offensive to topp of the decades old

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Speaker 1: Asad family regime that resulted in the capture of Aleppo,

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Speaker 1: Syria's second largest city. That happening in late November. Reports

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Speaker 1: fatigued by low pei and little munitions. Some reports indicated

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Speaker 1: that Asad's tanks and fighter jets were unusable because they

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Speaker 1: had no fuel to run. But this guy had billions

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Speaker 1: of dollars that he had stolen from his own people.

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Speaker 1: The capture of Damascus had largely been accepted as the

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Speaker 1: end to the Syrian Civil War, which began all the

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Speaker 1: way back in twenty eleven when Asad violently repressed protests

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Speaker 1: against his rule by the Sunni Arab majority. Fighting continues, however,

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Speaker 1: in the northwest as of the country, where Turkish bag

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Speaker 1: Melissas are attempting to dismantle the Syrian Democratic Forces known

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Speaker 1: as the SDF. They are a US back coalition of

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Speaker 1: fighters consisting mostly of members of the Kurdish People's Protection

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Speaker 1: Unit known as the YPJ. The YPJ, by the way,

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Speaker 1: we're instrumental in the destruction of the Islamic State Caliphate

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Speaker 1: in Raka in twenty seventeen. Neither the pro Turkish Syrian

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Speaker 1: National Army known as NSA nor the YPG are in

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Speaker 1: active combat with HTS. If this sounds confusing, it is.

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Speaker 1: It's total chaos right now in Syria. The next day,

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Speaker 1: what we are told is the top Kremlin spokesman said

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Speaker 1: that Putin was personally involved in approving the asylum requests

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Speaker 1: from Assad. Russia invested years of military support for the

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Speaker 1: Rasad regime in Syria, alongside Asad's most influential patron, Iran.

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Speaker 1: Such decisions certainly cannot be made without the head of state.

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Speaker 1: It was his decision, is what the ksman said. They

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Speaker 1: also clarified that Asad chose to resign on his own,

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Speaker 1: refusing to elaborate now. The US outlet Politico noted that

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Speaker 1: in addition to Pescal, a Russian diplomat in Austria, there

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Speaker 1: was also another statement that was issued on social media

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Speaker 1: in which he proclaimed Russia does not betray friends in

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Speaker 1: difficult situations, referring to Assad. In other words, Russia was like, look,

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Speaker 1: this guy's our guy. We know he's a bad guy,

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Speaker 1: but so are we and if we back a bad

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Speaker 1: guy and keep him power and he works with us,

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Speaker 1: when they're about to kill you, we'll give you asylum.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty much the signal that Vladimir Putin is giving

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Speaker 1: to the rest of the world.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: In reality, the Russian government had a poor modern track

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Speaker 1: record of supporting allies such as Assad. The Russian military

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Speaker 1: did little to stop the rapid advance of HTS in

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Speaker 1: the past month. Prior to the collapse of the Assad regime.

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Speaker 1: Moscow entirely abandoned Armenia a long time ally when Turkish

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Speaker 1: ally invade the disputed region there, engaging the ethnic cleansing

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Speaker 1: of indigenous Armenian Christian population with the help of the

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Speaker 1: Turkish drones that they used. This is a perfect example

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Speaker 1: of just how much you never know what's really going

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Speaker 1: to happen until it comes down to it. Now, there's

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Speaker 1: also a good chance aside with siphoning off money to

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Speaker 1: Russia and giving Russia something so he would know that

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Speaker 1: he had a safe place to stay. Now, the reality

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Speaker 1: is the follow of the Assad regime will likely mean

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Speaker 1: that Russia's influence in Syria is significantly diminished. Russia operates

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Speaker 1: several military bases in the country and its ties to

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Speaker 1: a side granted access to the Mediterranean Sea, which international

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Speaker 1: observers expect no longer will be the case. The Kremlin

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Speaker 1: has insisted it is taking all necessary precautions with its

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Speaker 1: armed forces. Speaking to reporters today, Pescal gave away little

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Speaker 1: on how Russia views its future in Syria, but promise

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Speaker 1: that Moscow would play a role in the dialogue of

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Speaker 1: reconstructing the country. Now, of course, the best time for

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Speaker 1: a thorough analysis of the unfolding events. It is difficult

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Speaker 1: at the moment to predict what will follow after the

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Speaker 1: period of uncertainty. According to the news agency, He went

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Speaker 1: on to say, Russia spokesman said, we will continue this

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Speaker 1: dialogue and we have well coinciding interests with many countries,

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Speaker 1: with a number of countries in the region. So Russia

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Speaker 1: basically having to admit, yeah, we hung them out to dry,

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Speaker 1: but we gave him a place to show up. You're welcome,

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Speaker 1: and we are been too distracted by what's going on

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Speaker 1: with Ukraine. So that's our main focus right now, not Syria,

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Speaker 1: and that's why Asad is now living in Russia. Don't

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