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It was a guilty pleasure, watching her melt down over the loss of her beloved dictator. All those years of lying and parroting regime rhetoric (while remaining safe and comfy in Australia, never having had to live under Assad), undone in less than two weeks.
Brother, thank you for disabusing those people who have been oddly supportive (or willfully ignorant of) the nature of the Assad regime. If you are really against oppression in all forms, you really should be at least glad this regime has been dumped in the dung-heap of history.
I would say it's too early to say that's a positive or not. Not because Assad wasn't bad, but because we don't know what the aftermath will be yet. It could be great, or it could be far worse.
Bashar was so painfully normal. Looking at his family photos as his house was being looted, all I could think was, "This man could've been my own father." Banality of evil and all that.......
I do find amusing how fast the tone on syria has shifted in such a short time that this video feels like it's from another time (because it kinda is) I can't imagine how different the tone would be if the writing process had been shifted to just two months later I hope the future is bright for the syrians
Syria is being occupied by Israel Their military depos and bases are destroyed The kurds are fighting to keep their land Minorities are already being killed. The leader of HTS loves Israel and wears Israeli provided combat garments. I don't see anything great happening unless Israel falls. Shit has gotten worse. And I fail to understand what kind of horseshit mainstream media has been feeding people to ignore all the actual news.
As someone whose parents come from a developing country and has an understanding of macroecon, I can say that food and fuel subsidies are typically very expensive subsidies to maintain. Countries often resort to issuing US dollar-denominated Eurobonds to fund these subsidies. While these subsidies are among the most cherished benefits by the citizens, they are also the most costly to sustain. It's very common for developing countries to chose to cut food & fuel subsidies when they are making reforms or need to do austerity. It also means riots on the street. However, the decision to reduce food and fuel subsidies rather than military or surveillance budgets speaks volumes about a government's priorities. It highlights a preference for maintaining security and control over ensuring the basic welfare of its populace.
As a Nigerian, I absolutely agree with you. You clearly understand economics more than this video's uploader. In my country, we have had many subsidies in place since the 70s: fuel subsidies, forex subsidies, agricultural subsidies etc. While they are useful in the short-term, especially for an underdeveloped country, they are terrible in the long-term😞 They stiffle economic development, encourage corruption and embezzlement, and they increase debt. We recently had economic reforms where the fuel and forex subsidies were finally stopped and, as expected, it has led to serious economic hardships but is also a good thing since our debt profile has dropped from over 90% to 61% and our cash reserves are increasing and more industrial privatization is happening. The reforms should have come early but at least they came. Plus, our government is, thankfully, not spending that new money on pointless military stuff but more on investing in national development.
first of all that only makes since to non oil producing countries, syria, which has many oil and gas reserves can easily produce its own barrels at a higher cost to satisfy directly home demand by selling based on cost rather than global market prices second of all, no subsidies are unbelievably useful, Morocco had subsidies in almost all important goods up to 2014, and still has subsidies on many goods, actually the removal of subsidies led in many cases to a weaker industry, because many smaller companies can't compete with international competition, except when subsidies roll in subsidies themselves aren't a problem, how you distribute them and use them is
@@thedeadwarrior1828yes there's this idea that the four asian tiger countries became so successful because of free Market capitalism is bs Taiwan Japan and Singapore all had heavy state intervention in the economy and subsidies to their people and industry Japan in particular used a practice called window guidance and used their central bank to lend and set quotes for certain industries and led to their economic boom in the 80s but of course it all came crumbling down in the 90s once once those asian countries started to liberalize their economys
Man I love your videos, they are so well made and I genuinely feel like I learn a new perspective on the middle east every time you drop a new video. Stay safe out there my guy, you are doing the world a huge favor.
>Beacebrocess decides to make a video about assad > assad immediately falls bruh i didn't know you had super powers, make a video about sisi or qays sa'id please
~33:44 This headline is from a 2012 article in The Times of Israel, and Hayan's framing does not accurately represent what the article says. The article did not establish that Assad "relied on PKK to take care of the region for him." Instead, what the article suggested was that Assad was A. Attempting to prevent Kurdish rebellion by giving citizenship to Kurds who'd been stripped of it under his father and allowing the establishment of Kurdish language schools, and B. allowing the PKK to operate in Syria to deter Turkey from aiding the rebels (or, as the cited author suggests in his original article for the Washington Institute, in retaliation for Turkey hosting members of the FSA) and to carry out assassinations against Kurdish leaders within Syria who wanted to join the rebellion (an accusation I have not been able to find ANY supporting evidence for). Perhaps the footnote is a citation for a different article, but if so the headline on screen is misleading, being both wildly outdated and making points that aren't accurately represented in Hayan's statements.
Trying to organize this as best as I can: 1) Hayan characterized the PKK and Assad's relationship as being one where Assad allowed the PKK to "take care" of northern Syria for him. The article as you mentioned contains information that Assad allowed the PKK to operate in Syria, but also that he invited a number of their fighters into Syrian territory. I think given both of those pieces of information I don't think Hayan's characterization is inaccurate. 2) The article mentions nothing regarding Assad's attempt to prevent a Kurdish rebellion, just that he offered them citizenship. This is an assumption on your part, not to say that its necessarily inaccurate, but its unfair to Hayan to suggest he was inaccurate where he made his own conclusion based on the source. 3) I have found some evidence for Kurdish leaders being assassinated if you'd like I can dm it to you. 4) Is it outdated? It seems Hayan is discussing the early period of the war, so its not surprising he used an article from that time. If I did not address your concerns to my fullest ability please let me know.
13:00 small correction, it was syrians who actually pushed for unity with Egypt, not the other way around. Abd El-Nasser himself was surprised by the delegation, which refused to leave until the unity was concluded. Furthermore, Gamal had the option to reject the baathist military coup by employing the military he had stationed in Syria, but refused to do so to avoid casualties. Furthermore, the United Arab States, which included Syria and Yemen was formed in 1958, dissolved in 1961 and the reason behind the Egyptian involvement in the Yemeni civil war prior to the 1967 war. The new United Arab Republic which is what is being referred to in the video was formed in the same time between only Egypt and Syria. Gamal saw that the union was still too early as Egypt was still being modernized, Syria had no infrastructure or military to speak of.
random art commission since you seem to be drawing cartoon style pictures: there's a photograph/video screenshot making the rounds of dr. husam abu safia of the kamal adwan hospital walking away to get disappeared, and that picture would be great if you added, either to the picture or also to his cartoon-traced figure, a little handala holding his hand and looking up at him (with the double function of also representing his d°°d son). I think a simple cartoon version of that image with just the two figures would be a great symbol to honour the incredibly heroic work of medics in g°z°.
I remember first hearing the news about aleppo falling. I thought north and southern syria would be formed. But insted assad military barely fought. They all gave away weapon.
Let this be a reminder to the so called leftists in the ‘west’ who acted as outriders and apologists for Assad because they can only remember when he virtue signalled his anti-Americanism; you defended a monster and a butcher for ‘leftwing’ brownie points. You are a disgrace to a movement which is supposed to be dedicated to peace, democracy and human rights. I’m glad he’s gone. From my experiences with Syrians I have met so far, I can only conclude that we can only be more hopeful for the future of their country after the fall of this awful regime. Thanks for another well thought out considered video.
As for the future of syria, I have mixed feelings, I bet it won't be afganistan 2.0 but something more like a theocratic republic like Iran Syria is a more developed country than Afghanistan, plus there are many ethnic and religious minorities there olso I never supported assad, I was ideologically closer to the people of rojava
I'm Syrian, and my father was detained just for being a Marxist back in 2008. Had it not been for the rest of the family helping us we would've never seen him again and he would've been jailed and tortured. If these people knew that if they were Syrians holding the exact same views they would've been thrown in brutal prisons maybe they'd change their tones. Assad wasn't a leftist, he wasn't resisting shit, he arrested a lot of actual communists and leftists. Hell there's a village in the predominantly Alawite Syrian coast that was neglected and punished by the regime because it had a big socialist presence (بسنادا) It makes me so angry when I have to deal with these ignorant tankie assholes. It's so annoying. These people are hypocrites.
@@janjanbinks1710 Thank you so much for this. I've been trying to tell these people this for years yet they'd rather believe Russian and 'alternative' propaganda when the truth is staring them in the face. Wishing you all the best in the years ahead.
I'd really love to see a follow-up that goes deeper into the HTS, what lies ahead for Kurdish people, and the state of Syria's democracy now that Syria has been freed.
Took you 3 months to make this video, but only a week and a half to kick out Assad? In all seriousness this video was needed to counter foreign narratives about Assad's Syria, thank you.
This is AMAZING!!! You focused on all tge most important details that are always left out. I love it. THANK YOU SO MUCH! 💚💚💚 و بدنا نشيلو لبشار و بهمتنا القوية سوريا بدها حرية 💚💚💚💚💚 Those lyrics proved true.
Pls use something to stop the mic from popping. Its possible to make something at home for very cheap. Everything else in your video, the production quality, editing, referencing sources, all sets you up to be one of the leading youtubers covering history. Thanks for your great videos.
Good analysis overall. However, It is a bit hard to believe that Russia intervened partly to gain access to Syrias natural resources. The Assad government was a net importer of Iranian oil and Russian grain after the US together with the Kurds controlled the north eastern oil and wheat fields. I think the main reason they intervened was to combat test their weapons systems and to have access to Syrias warm-water ports for their navy.
Worth noting that Syria's own pre-war oil production was never enough for its domestic needs, and that it had to import oil from neighboring countries in order to make up for it.
23:32 Iraq invaded and annexed a entire country . That is unacceptable that’s why there was a United Nations coalition to push a Iraq out of Kuwait (the Soviet Union and China voted in favour for this coalition) 32:26 LOL that’s ignoring the international head choppers 34:44 that’s what happens when one side is blockaded & the other is subsidised
1- why are you making it sound like he defended Iraq invasion of Kuwait, he didn't. 2- international head choppers? do you mean isis? they were very useful to the regime, they made it look like it was countering terrorism and ruined the rebels image. 3- good.
@@HM-vy5puHis point was that Hafez did what was the international consensus you can't just invade Kuwait litterallly the soviet union America and china all agreed that this was an extreme overreach. Jahbat Al Nusatra are you being purposely dumb Ok yeah because being a western puppet is going to be so much better ask your brothers in Iraq how that went.
@@HM-vy5pu 1 he was saying it like it was a bad thing 2 they all do head chopping not just isis I don’t know about you but being in Assad dungeons isn’t as bad as losing your hand
Kid's won't remember this but last time we had a dramatic statue removal in the middle east no one had smartphones yet so instead everyone at the event had shoes to hit the head of the fallen statue with as an insult as is tradition. I miss those days. Everyone just has phones now and it's much less charismatic and endearing
Jazakallahu khayran for this video one can’t support the liberation of Palestine if they support the oppression of the Syrians or any people for that matter this was great . A video you can work on is how Iran worked with America to invade Iraq and Afghanistan inshallah.
Chapter 2 (or whichever one you started by mentioning the Arab Spring) has the wrong title. It reads "the Rise of the Assads", which was the previous chapter's title.
Wow. I can't believe you did not explain the conflict of the 10s and glossed over it. I went through the entire video hoping you'd stop and talk about the other issues plaguing the region, which have directly led to the current situation today. You only mentioned what you needed to make your point and ignore the rest, framing the issue as clearly one sided with assad being the big baddie and now with him gone, Syria is gonna be A-ok. As if the one person holds the regins of an entire people. Fantastic journalistic integrity. I wish to never see another video from you again
16:09 u put a lot of work into this man but no that was correct and incorrect statement Syria did attempt a military intervention into Jordan under the cover of the PLA one of their client militia groups a division of Syrian tanks crossed the border to aid the PLO but king Hussein asked the Israelis for help and the IAF bombed the tank Column the survivors crossed back into Syria. It was only thanks to the pretense of plausible deniability Assad agreed to no longer intervene in Jordan without loosing public face which seems to be common tactic he would employ when came to meddling in Lebanon
Assad's fall is totally understandable, his system was inherently corrupt, but i wouldn't start celebrating just yet, since people like to forget is that hts is a rebranding of al nusra front, which has heavy isis elements, so expect syria not to be a safe place for minorities in the foreseeable future, and given how some syrian sunnis go out of their way to celebrate hts' "victory over the rawafidh", it's safe to assume sectarian violence will be on the rise.
I dont know why, but I'm fairly sure If things start with people yelling Allah hu Akbar and firing automatic weapons, things are about to get bad really fast.
That phrase is used by Arabs in all kinds of contexts, such as celebration, congratulation or just relief. Just because you're used to hearing it from Islamists doesn't mean it's solely about violence.
Tell me yoi don't know anything about muslims without telling me you don't know anything about muslims "Man saying words in Arabic loudly = terrorism" huh?
Why is "Islamist" being used in the derogatory western fashion here? Utterly bizarre. Where are the judaists and the christianists (the former being the inventors of the term) ?
Good effort, but you were not specific enough with respect to the borders of the middle east and how they were formed. and why they were formed in that way. Also not specific enough in terms of names and dates.
CaspianReport's claim that the situation in Syria could spark a regional war: Valid, wrong, "Ethiopia is positioned to be an African superpower *two months later* Explaining why Ethiopia collapsed into civil war" level of wrong?
Before Abiy Ahmed took office, Ethiopia experienced the highest economic growth rate in Africa. However, he chose to prioritize Oromo nationalism, which led to significant discontent among both the Tigray and Amhara communities. His decision to delay elections due to COVID-19 resulted in a civil war, where the Tigray and Amhara groups fought against each other and the government in an attempt to regain power.
@xaveircombs2690 Yes, I know, but I'm referring to Shirvan from CaspianReport's infamous dual videos where he claimed Ethiopia was on track to be the great power of Africa and then only a few months later explaining why the country had collapsed into civil war because he only focused on the economics and geopolitics but neglected researching what the leadership was actually doing domestically.
BULL SHIT. you people went on for years saying that America and Israel were doing a regime change war in Syria and now you're saying that they supported Assad?
i personally think that the alliance of rojava with assad was rather a result of pure calculation, something like the ribentrop-molotov pact between the ussr and the third reich
I believe their was a window back in 2013 or 14 in which support could of came without worrying about Islamic infiltration of the rebels. Correct about the fact over time Syria worked into creating a narrative of, its brutal dictatorship vs Islamist state. Keep also in mind what happen in Egypt during the Arab Spring. 1st Coup with support of the people was against the Secular Dictatorship, which brought the Muslim Brotherhood into power. Then years later the Muslim Brotherhood leader was disposed!
because obviously theres no reason why anybody would oppose Assad other than by being paid by the West, right? That's why hundreds of thousands of people revolted against him, they were all paid by the CIA, I bet Assad's own military was on the CIA payroll too when they threw in with the rebels in 2011?
Having to add the history to have the run time longer isnt ideal ngl, people are gonna click off like me. it doesnt really help how your voice sounds like a highschool lecturer that is also bored in life, id rather just have you get to the point than waste 15 to 20 minutes of the run time on dead kings
I would say that it is more changing into something like a theocratic Iran, after all, the Syrian and Afghan realities are very different, Afghanistan is more conservative due to its difficult terrain, and Syria itself is less so, looking at its people, and there are many religious and ethnic minorities in Syria So I would predict the future of Syria in such a way that it will be a theocratic state in the style of Iran.
ALBANIANS MENTIONED as a albanian i find muhamed ali pasha fascinating seeing how systematiclly continiously opressed my people have olways been its bizare seeing what empire we created with a bunch of skirt wearing mercenarys ..look it up ...still the man was a bit of a monster in sudan and even in egypt he was quite brutal and probably antisemetic and naser britalised albanians when he came to power but no one seems to bring that up
I apologize for the wait, here are the sources:
[1] James A Reilly, Fragile Nation, Shattered Land:The Modern History of Syria 1-25 (2019).
[2] Id., at 10.
[3] Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires 413 (2019); Reilly, supra, note 1 at 65.
[4] Id., at 414; Reilly, supra, note 1 at 49.
[5] William L Cleveland, Martin Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East: Fourth Edition 65-66 (2008).
[6] Mackintosh-Smith, supra, note 3 at 419.
[7] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 51-53.
[8] Id., at 54.
[9] Id., at 56.
[10] Id., at 59-60.
[11] Victor Taki, Limits of Protection: Russia and the Orthodox Coreligionists in the Ottoman Empire, 3 (April 2015); Klose F. The Protection of Christian Minorities in the Ottoman Empire as a Selective Practice of Imperial Intervention. In: In the Cause of Humanity: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century. Human Rights in History 162-207. (2021).
[12] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 59.
[13] Mackintosh-Smith, supra, note 3 at 425-427.
[14] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 75-76.
[15] Mackintosh-Smith, supra, note 3 at 425.
[16] Id., at 10.
[17] Reilly, supra, note 14.
[18] Id., at 92.
[19] Id., at 98-99.
[20] Id., at 100-101.
[21] Id., at 96-97.
[22] Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami, Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War 21 (2018).
[23] PHILIP S.KHOURY, Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945, 81-82 (1987).
[24] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 102-103.
[25] Id., at 117-119.
[26] Id., at 110.
[27] Khoury, supra, note 23 at 629-630.
[28] Patrick Seale, Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East 5-7 (1990)
[29] Id., at 11.
[30] Id., at 11-12.
[31] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 121-122.
[32] Kathy Zahler, The Assads' Syria 29-31 (2009).
[33] Seale, supra, note 28 at 25-30.
[34] Id., at 37- 39.
[35] DIETER NOHLEN et. al., Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook VOLUME I The Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia 225 (2001)
[36] Mackintosh-Smith, supra, note 3 at 466-468.
[37] Id., at 472-473.
[38] Yassin-Kassab, supra, note 22 at 36; Reilly, supra, note 1 at 134.
[39] Reilly, id., at 135-136.
[40] Seale, supra, note 28 at 68-69.
[41] Id., at 69.
[42] Yassin-Kassab, supra, note 22 at 26.
[43] Seale, supra, note 28 at 81-82.
[44] Id., at 82.
[45] Id., at 84.
[46] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 138.
[47] Seale, supra, note 28 at 93.
[48] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 142.
[49] Id., at 144.
[50] Yassin-Kassab, supra, note 22 at 26-27
[51] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 145.
[52] Id., at 146.
[53] Id., at 153.
[54] Id., at 160.
[55] Id., at 151.
[56] Id., at 156.
[57] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 156.
[58] Fawwaz Traboulsi, A History of Modern Lebanon 197 (2007).
[59] Id., at 194-201.
[60] Abbas Assi, Democracy in Lebanon: Political Parties and the Struggle for Power Since Syrian Withdrawal 50-72 (2019).
[61] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 154-159.
[62] Id., at 155-`57.
[63] Id., at 158.
[64] www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/6/27/remembering-syrias-tadmur-prison-massacre-44-years-on.
[65] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 159.
[66] Amin Saikal, Iran Rising 84 (2019).
[67] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 162-163.
[68] Id.
[69] www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/18/bashar-al-assad-trained-as-a-doctor-how-did-he-become-a-mass-murderer.
[70] Yassin-Kassab, supra, note 22 at 30-31.
[71] Samuel Roller, The Damascus Spring: Assessing its Fragility and Stagnation 86 (2023).
[72] Yassin-Kassab, supra, note 22 at 36.
[73] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 175.
[74] www.hrw.org/legacy/summaries/s.syria9610.html
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[76] Id., at 38-39.
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[79] Reilly, supra, note 1 at 186-187.
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[85] Yassin-Kassab, supra, note 22 at 47.
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Moscow has a new ophthalmology office opening; the poor man is an unemployed Syrian refugee.
I know your joking but Assad owns several mansions in Moscow. He kept much of his money
@AL-lh2ht I know most former dictators in exile tend to live in relative luxury. Tbh I'm poaching an Onion article.
@@AL-lh2ht at least his wife left him lol
Assads a billionaire lol
@@inanna1997 Unless you're Mussolini, let's say when his people got a hold him, he did not have a fun end.
thumbnail is top-tier and so is the video
Lol
Didn't expect Mr. Eye Doctor from London to be in a manga artstyle after all
Watching his biggest Twitter simp fight for her life after Damascus fell was a level of catharsis I can't begin to describe
It was a guilty pleasure, watching her melt down over the loss of her beloved dictator. All those years of lying and parroting regime rhetoric (while remaining safe and comfy in Australia, never having had to live under Assad), undone in less than two weeks.
Silly woman lives in Australia... 😂
Brother, thank you for disabusing those people who have been oddly supportive (or willfully ignorant of) the nature of the Assad regime. If you are really against oppression in all forms, you really should be at least glad this regime has been dumped in the dung-heap of history.
It has been replaced by... an oppressive regime. In the absence of promising alternatives people tend to support the status quo
You shouldn’t cheer for the new people either. Assad was a two faced liar and so are they.
I would say it's too early to say that's a positive or not. Not because Assad wasn't bad, but because we don't know what the aftermath will be yet.
It could be great, or it could be far worse.
Those same organizations that fought assad will now start fighting against each other.
You could say the same about Hussein and Gaddafi, but that doesn’t mean the situation after their deaths was a positive one,
Bashar was so painfully normal. Looking at his family photos as his house was being looted, all I could think was, "This man could've been my own father."
Banality of evil and all that.......
Doing something worthwhile always takes time, you did an excellent job. Well done and thank you !
Dear all, I need a couple more days to sort out the footnotes. Sorry for the inconvenience. Expect them all by Sunday. I'm so tired lol.
What do you think will happen to the kurds now
Great work man 👏
A great, well-researched and refreshing insightful video on Syria
Hayan endorsement acquired
It really REALLY is.
Hello @Hayanomie 😊💚💚💚
I do find amusing how fast the tone on syria has shifted in such a short time that this video feels like it's from another time (because it kinda is)
I can't imagine how different the tone would be if the writing process had been shifted to just two months later
I hope the future is bright for the syrians
Syria is being occupied by Israel
Their military depos and bases are destroyed
The kurds are fighting to keep their land
Minorities are already being killed.
The leader of HTS loves Israel and wears Israeli provided combat garments.
I don't see anything great happening unless Israel falls. Shit has gotten worse. And I fail to understand what kind of horseshit mainstream media has been feeding people to ignore all the actual news.
As someone whose parents come from a developing country and has an understanding of macroecon, I can say that food and fuel subsidies are typically very expensive subsidies to maintain. Countries often resort to issuing US dollar-denominated Eurobonds to fund these subsidies. While these subsidies are among the most cherished benefits by the citizens, they are also the most costly to sustain. It's very common for developing countries to chose to cut food & fuel subsidies when they are making reforms or need to do austerity. It also means riots on the street.
However, the decision to reduce food and fuel subsidies rather than military or surveillance budgets speaks volumes about a government's priorities. It highlights a preference for maintaining security and control over ensuring the basic welfare of its populace.
As a Nigerian, I absolutely agree with you. You clearly understand economics more than this video's uploader. In my country, we have had many subsidies in place since the 70s: fuel subsidies, forex subsidies, agricultural subsidies etc. While they are useful in the short-term, especially for an underdeveloped country, they are terrible in the long-term😞 They stiffle economic development, encourage corruption and embezzlement, and they increase debt. We recently had economic reforms where the fuel and forex subsidies were finally stopped and, as expected, it has led to serious economic hardships but is also a good thing since our debt profile has dropped from over 90% to 61% and our cash reserves are increasing and more industrial privatization is happening. The reforms should have come early but at least they came. Plus, our government is, thankfully, not spending that new money on pointless military stuff but more on investing in national development.
first of all
that only makes since to non oil producing countries, syria, which has many oil and gas reserves can easily produce its own barrels at a higher cost to satisfy directly home demand by selling based on cost rather than global market prices
second of all, no subsidies are unbelievably useful, Morocco had subsidies in almost all important goods up to 2014, and still has subsidies on many goods, actually the removal of subsidies led in many cases to a weaker industry, because many smaller companies can't compete with international competition, except when subsidies roll in
subsidies themselves aren't a problem, how you distribute them and use them is
@@thedeadwarrior1828yes there's this idea that the four asian tiger countries became so successful because of free Market capitalism is bs Taiwan Japan and Singapore all had heavy state intervention in the economy and subsidies to their people and industry Japan in particular used a practice called window guidance and used their central bank to lend and set quotes for certain industries and led to their economic boom in the 80s but of course it all came crumbling down in the 90s once once those asian countries started to liberalize their economys
@@thedeadwarrior1828window guidance when you read into it is pretty much a form of central planning
Extremely necessary video. Thank you.
The art on the thumbnail is very good
Man I love your videos, they are so well made and I genuinely feel like I learn a new perspective on the middle east every time you drop a new video.
Stay safe out there my guy, you are doing the world a huge favor.
I'm only halfway through and I feel the need to say, Masha Allah! This is an extremely informational listen
Best video from you by far
babe wake up beace just dropped a new video
Well, now Assad can finally pursue his ophthalmology trade.
>Beacebrocess decides to make a video about assad
> assad immediately falls
bruh i didn't know you had super powers, make a video about sisi or qays sa'id please
you have this syrian's respect
thank you so much for this video, you’re amazing
~33:44 This headline is from a 2012 article in The Times of Israel, and Hayan's framing does not accurately represent what the article says. The article did not establish that Assad "relied on PKK to take care of the region for him." Instead, what the article suggested was that Assad was A. Attempting to prevent Kurdish rebellion by giving citizenship to Kurds who'd been stripped of it under his father and allowing the establishment of Kurdish language schools, and B. allowing the PKK to operate in Syria to deter Turkey from aiding the rebels (or, as the cited author suggests in his original article for the Washington Institute, in retaliation for Turkey hosting members of the FSA) and to carry out assassinations against Kurdish leaders within Syria who wanted to join the rebellion (an accusation I have not been able to find ANY supporting evidence for). Perhaps the footnote is a citation for a different article, but if so the headline on screen is misleading, being both wildly outdated and making points that aren't accurately represented in Hayan's statements.
Trying to organize this as best as I can:
1) Hayan characterized the PKK and Assad's relationship as being one where Assad allowed the PKK to "take care" of northern Syria for him. The article as you mentioned contains information that Assad allowed the PKK to operate in Syria, but also that he invited a number of their fighters into Syrian territory. I think given both of those pieces of information I don't think Hayan's characterization is inaccurate.
2) The article mentions nothing regarding Assad's attempt to prevent a Kurdish rebellion, just that he offered them citizenship. This is an assumption on your part, not to say that its necessarily inaccurate, but its unfair to Hayan to suggest he was inaccurate where he made his own conclusion based on the source.
3) I have found some evidence for Kurdish leaders being assassinated if you'd like I can dm it to you.
4) Is it outdated? It seems Hayan is discussing the early period of the war, so its not surprising he used an article from that time.
If I did not address your concerns to my fullest ability please let me know.
13:00 small correction, it was syrians who actually pushed for unity with Egypt, not the other way around. Abd El-Nasser himself was surprised by the delegation, which refused to leave until the unity was concluded. Furthermore, Gamal had the option to reject the baathist military coup by employing the military he had stationed in Syria, but refused to do so to avoid casualties. Furthermore, the United Arab States, which included Syria and Yemen was formed in 1958, dissolved in 1961 and the reason behind the Egyptian involvement in the Yemeni civil war prior to the 1967 war. The new United Arab Republic which is what is being referred to in the video was formed in the same time between only Egypt and Syria. Gamal saw that the union was still too early as Egypt was still being modernized, Syria had no infrastructure or military to speak of.
“Kneel or starve”… really puts into perspective the struggles the Syrian people have gone through.
That picture of Bashar al-Assad in his underwear 😂
Is that photo legit?
@carltomacruz9138 It is.
He looks like a teenage girl playing volleyball 😂
They found so, so many embarrassing underwear pictures of Assad in his residence
random art commission since you seem to be drawing cartoon style pictures:
there's a photograph/video screenshot making the rounds of dr. husam abu safia of the kamal adwan hospital walking away to get disappeared, and that picture would be great if you added, either to the picture or also to his cartoon-traced figure, a little handala holding his hand and looking up at him (with the double function of also representing his d°°d son).
I think a simple cartoon version of that image with just the two figures would be a great symbol to honour the incredibly heroic work of medics in g°z°.
Great video, you’ve earned a subscriber!
I remember first hearing the news about aleppo falling. I thought north and southern syria would be formed. But insted assad military barely fought. They all gave away weapon.
Hafez al-Assad was crucial to the Syrian Air Force, particularly for his role as an Airstrip.
Let this be a reminder to the so called leftists in the ‘west’ who acted as outriders and apologists for Assad because they can only remember when he virtue signalled his anti-Americanism; you defended a monster and a butcher for ‘leftwing’ brownie points. You are a disgrace to a movement which is supposed to be dedicated to peace, democracy and human rights.
I’m glad he’s gone. From my experiences with Syrians I have met so far, I can only conclude that we can only be more hopeful for the future of their country after the fall of this awful regime. Thanks for another well thought out considered video.
As for the future of syria, I have mixed feelings, I bet it won't be afganistan 2.0 but something more like a theocratic republic like Iran
Syria is a more developed country than Afghanistan, plus there are many ethnic and religious minorities there
olso I never supported assad, I was ideologically closer to the people of rojava
I'm Syrian, and my father was detained just for being a Marxist back in 2008. Had it not been for the rest of the family helping us we would've never seen him again and he would've been jailed and tortured.
If these people knew that if they were Syrians holding the exact same views they would've been thrown in brutal prisons maybe they'd change their tones.
Assad wasn't a leftist, he wasn't resisting shit, he arrested a lot of actual communists and leftists. Hell there's a village in the predominantly Alawite Syrian coast that was neglected and punished by the regime because it had a big socialist presence (بسنادا)
It makes me so angry when I have to deal with these ignorant tankie assholes. It's so annoying. These people are hypocrites.
Assad baathism may claim he is a socialist but he is action say otherwise. He has nothing but self-interest at heart.
@@janjanbinks1710 Thank you so much for this. I've been trying to tell these people this for years yet they'd rather believe Russian and 'alternative' propaganda when the truth is staring them in the face. Wishing you all the best in the years ahead.
@@centercannothold the Assads in reality were more akin to mafia dons rather than communists. It's all slogans in the end. Empty hollow slogans
At 27:00 that’s mainly because former president Ben Ali had severely crippled and downturned the Tunisian military’s former might.
After all is said and done
Assad has went
I'd really love to see a follow-up that goes deeper into the HTS, what lies ahead for Kurdish people, and the state of Syria's democracy now that Syria has been freed.
I did some interviews delving into these topics with various creators if you'd like to check the community posts 🙂
Took you 3 months to make this video, but only a week and a half to kick out Assad?
In all seriousness this video was needed to counter foreign narratives about Assad's Syria, thank you.
This is AMAZING!!!
You focused on all tge most important details that are always left out. I love it. THANK YOU SO MUCH! 💚💚💚
و بدنا نشيلو لبشار و بهمتنا القوية
سوريا بدها حرية
💚💚💚💚💚
Those lyrics proved true.
You either have the best timing or the worse
Exams r exams r exams lol
great video
just discovered your channel, reminds me of Sam Aronows presentation style a lot which is great!
"Ophthalmologist" = "eye doctor". Nothing _"INSANELY SPECIFIC"_ about it.
In English we normally call that an optician.
@@moritamikamikara3879 No, we don't. An "optician" isn't a medical doctor at all.
Pls use something to stop the mic from popping. Its possible to make something at home for very cheap. Everything else in your video, the production quality, editing, referencing sources, all sets you up to be one of the leading youtubers covering history. Thanks for your great videos.
Good analysis overall. However, It is a bit hard to believe that Russia intervened partly to gain access to Syrias natural resources. The Assad government was a net importer of Iranian oil and Russian grain after the US together with the Kurds controlled the north eastern oil and wheat fields. I think the main reason they intervened was to combat test their weapons systems and to have access to Syrias warm-water ports for their navy.
Worth noting that Syria's own pre-war oil production was never enough for its domestic needs, and that it had to import oil from neighboring countries in order to make up for it.
Warm water ports and as a sign of power.
23:32 Iraq invaded and annexed a entire country . That is unacceptable that’s why there was a United Nations coalition to push a Iraq out of Kuwait (the Soviet Union and China voted in favour for this coalition)
32:26 LOL that’s ignoring the international head choppers
34:44 that’s what happens when one side is blockaded & the other is subsidised
1- why are you making it sound like he defended Iraq invasion of Kuwait, he didn't.
2- international head choppers? do you mean isis? they were very useful to the regime, they made it look like it was countering terrorism and ruined the rebels image.
3- good.
@@HM-vy5puHis point was that Hafez did what was the international consensus you can't just invade Kuwait litterallly the soviet union America and china all agreed that this was an extreme overreach.
Jahbat Al Nusatra are you being purposely dumb
Ok yeah because being a western puppet is going to be so much better ask your brothers in Iraq how that went.
Kuwait stole Iraqi oil and had us bases on its soil 😂
@@HM-vy5pu
1 he was saying it like it was a bad thing
2 they all do head chopping not just isis
I don’t know about you but being in Assad dungeons isn’t as bad as losing your hand
@@terrorgaming459 yes . That doesn’t mean conquer the entire country
Kid's won't remember this but last time we had a dramatic statue removal in the middle east no one had smartphones yet so instead everyone at the event had shoes to hit the head of the fallen statue with as an insult as is tradition. I miss those days. Everyone just has phones now and it's much less charismatic and endearing
Now the fall of Damascus is what i would call a speedrun
>Video about syria civil war in 2024
3:06 So Napoleon in 1798-
One day I will comment first, Inshallah
Chapter:2 the rise of the Assads; Chapter:2 the rise of the Assads ; Chapter:2 the rise of the Assads, I'm going crazy
I laughed out loud of the thumbnail 😂😂😂
babe wake up
Jazakallahu khayran for this video one can’t support the liberation of Palestine if they support the oppression of the Syrians or any people for that matter this was great . A video you can work on is how Iran worked with America to invade Iraq and Afghanistan inshallah.
17:28 Is it really fair to say that the PLO and its allies "opposed sectarianism" when the Damour and Shouf massacres happens?
Good observance. The fact is PLO structure itself is actually sectarian.
No, it is not, but because he is baised he sees PLO as Angels who do no wrong
@@mostfire8764 He might be biased but the second half of your statement isn't true
always gets me when you insert bashar in underwear 😂😂
Whoah that photo of Assad at the beginning in shorts shows he has the smaaaaallllleeeest bits I've seen in a while, like dayumn
Chapter 2 (or whichever one you started by mentioning the Arab Spring) has the wrong title. It reads "the Rise of the Assads", which was the previous chapter's title.
piss!
Me making a video about how the Assad regime survives and then it dies
Wow. I can't believe you did not explain the conflict of the 10s and glossed over it. I went through the entire video hoping you'd stop and talk about the other issues plaguing the region, which have directly led to the current situation today. You only mentioned what you needed to make your point and ignore the rest, framing the issue as clearly one sided with assad being the big baddie and now with him gone, Syria is gonna be A-ok. As if the one person holds the regins of an entire people.
Fantastic journalistic integrity. I wish to never see another video from you again
Inshallah a new video! Also Assad is no more fled to Russia like the wife and son of Milošević.
beace should collab up with jreg and his Canadian content house
algo boost
this is a really good video, i will watch this channel for new content with great interest
27:00 sounds familiar
Chapter 2: The Rise of the Assads
Oh let see how taking guns away works out for the new gvt.
16:09 u put a lot of work into this man but no that was correct and incorrect statement
Syria did attempt a military intervention into Jordan under the cover of the PLA one of their client militia groups a division of Syrian tanks crossed the border to aid the PLO but king Hussein asked the Israelis for help and the IAF bombed the tank Column the survivors crossed back into Syria.
It was only thanks to the pretense of plausible deniability Assad agreed to no longer intervene in Jordan without loosing public face which seems to be common tactic he would employ when came to meddling in Lebanon
Interesting correction, pls send me a source
Are you the one who made this Drawing of Al Asad ? If no who's tte arrist ? Thanks
19:18 it wasn't despite it was because of them
Assad's fall is totally understandable, his system was inherently corrupt, but i wouldn't start celebrating just yet, since people like to forget is that hts is a rebranding of al nusra front, which has heavy isis elements, so expect syria not to be a safe place for minorities in the foreseeable future, and given how some syrian sunnis go out of their way to celebrate hts' "victory over the rawafidh", it's safe to assume sectarian violence will be on the rise.
I'm an Alawite and so far all the violence is just separated incidents of individuals or just plain ol' robbery and chaos
I dont know why, but I'm fairly sure If things start with people yelling Allah hu Akbar and firing automatic weapons, things are about to get bad really fast.
That phrase is used by Arabs in all kinds of contexts, such as celebration, congratulation or just relief. Just because you're used to hearing it from Islamists doesn't mean it's solely about violence.
That's just any celebration in the middle east - when a child is born, for example. That sort of thing doesn't make global news, though.
Tell me yoi don't know anything about muslims without telling me you don't know anything about muslims
"Man saying words in Arabic loudly = terrorism" huh?
You should definitely not play the first seconds loud in the subway.
Why is "Islamist" being used in the derogatory western fashion here? Utterly bizarre. Where are the judaists and the christianists (the former being the inventors of the term) ?
For Jews, they just say "zionist" and for Christians, they say "imperialist" or "evangelist".
Good effort, but you were not specific enough with respect to the borders of the middle east and how they were formed. and why they were formed in that way. Also not specific enough in terms of names and dates.
CaspianReport's claim that the situation in Syria could spark a regional war: Valid, wrong, "Ethiopia is positioned to be an African superpower *two months later* Explaining why Ethiopia collapsed into civil war" level of wrong?
Before Abiy Ahmed took office, Ethiopia experienced the highest economic growth rate in Africa. However, he chose to prioritize Oromo nationalism, which led to significant discontent among both the Tigray and Amhara communities. His decision to delay elections due to COVID-19 resulted in a civil war, where the Tigray and Amhara groups fought against each other and the government in an attempt to regain power.
@xaveircombs2690 Yes, I know, but I'm referring to Shirvan from CaspianReport's infamous dual videos where he claimed Ethiopia was on track to be the great power of Africa and then only a few months later explaining why the country had collapsed into civil war because he only focused on the economics and geopolitics but neglected researching what the leadership was actually doing domestically.
Fun fact America and Israel did not want Bashar's government to fall
Seeing all the land gains Israel is making I find that very hard to believe but Israel is also the ones who would capitalize on any situation
BULL SHIT. you people went on for years saying that America and Israel were doing a regime change war in Syria and now you're saying that they supported Assad?
Uuuh when was this supposed to be published. I dont think sdf is going to integrate into assads army anymore
This was supposed to be published in October, I feel like I finished it some time around then and had to stop to do exams
@beacebrocess hate when the world keeps turning.
i personally think that the alliance of rojava with assad was rather a result of pure calculation, something like the ribentrop-molotov pact between the ussr and the third reich
the drawing of you is very distracting in the video
FREE ROJAVA
You think the majority Arabs want to be part of rojava lol
Rojava is not arab majority @@IMaSUPERman2
Does this mean ManLove is illegal again in Syria?
Yes. USA corruption is illegal
was it legal before ?
Allah Syria Bashar
May Allah guide you
Blud didn’t get the latest news
Yalla erhal ya Bashar
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I believe their was a window back in 2013 or 14 in which support could of came without worrying about Islamic infiltration of the rebels. Correct about the fact over time Syria worked into creating a narrative of, its brutal dictatorship vs Islamist state. Keep also in mind what happen in Egypt during the Arab Spring. 1st Coup with support of the people was against the Secular Dictatorship, which brought the Muslim Brotherhood into power. Then years later the Muslim Brotherhood leader was disposed!
Westintel budget just plummeting. This is so lazy
because obviously theres no reason why anybody would oppose Assad other than by being paid by the West, right? That's why hundreds of thousands of people revolted against him, they were all paid by the CIA, I bet Assad's own military was on the CIA payroll too when they threw in with the rebels in 2011?
The propaganda in this video is insane, try to at least make it less obvious
Cope harder fascist Shia tankie
Cope more che. ¡Viva Milei!
tankie cope is insane, how do you guys take so many L's every day and keep going still?
Cry harder tankie
@@gabber_because we view things materially not emotionally dooming us to be hated at the moment but always proven right.
Having to add the history to have the run time longer isnt ideal ngl, people are gonna click off like me. it doesnt really help how your voice sounds like a highschool lecturer that is also bored in life, id rather just have you get to the point than waste 15 to 20 minutes of the run time on dead kings
Syria has gone from Assad to Taliban.
I would say that it is more changing into something like a theocratic Iran, after all, the Syrian and Afghan realities are very different, Afghanistan is more conservative due to its difficult terrain, and Syria itself is less so, looking at its people, and there are many religious and ethnic minorities in Syria
So I would predict the future of Syria in such a way that it will be a theocratic state in the style of Iran.
ALBANIANS MENTIONED as a albanian i find muhamed ali pasha fascinating seeing how systematiclly continiously opressed my people have olways been its bizare seeing what empire we created with a bunch of skirt wearing mercenarys ..look it up ...still the man was a bit of a monster in sudan and even in egypt he was quite brutal and probably antisemetic and naser britalised albanians when he came to power but no one seems to bring that up
great video
Chapter 2: The Rise of the Assads