Judge Napolitano hosts Scott Ritter, who describes the past of Syria that led to the current situation.
Video summary:
In 2000 Assad took over a rotten structure. He was
not even nearly able to clean Syria as successfully as Putin cleaned Russia. Equivalent of corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine were and still are corrupt - self-enriching - generals and governors in Syria organically tied to the sensitive economy, which wasn't a real economy to begin with.
When Assad shut down the corrupt general that was running
the Syrian Operation in Lebanon - to move the troops out - that almost cost Assad his life. In doing so Assad disrupted not only the economy of the corrupt generals and governors but the dodgy economy of Syria as well.
Assad in 2014-2015 during the Russian-Iranian liberation
had to let these corrupt military and local leaders continue to enrich themselves in order to preserve his power base. When Syria was liberated by Russia, this corruption kept going on. Western sanctions only made Syria's dodgy economy ruled by the black market more corrupt. Nobody focused doing their job in government, but concentrated on enriching themselves. They stopped training their military, they stopped organizing. Assad was doing all the tours this summer in Arab states to collect money to rebuild Syria and it went to the usual corrupt pockets.
-- Here Scott risks mentioning his personal assumption about the possibility that exact money influx - maybe - was CIA controlled. These corrupt Syrian officials and generals possibly assured Assad that:
- Don't worry, everything is going smooth!
..Yeah, smooth for their pockets! --
Russians pointed out Syrian army corruption to Assad in 2018, but he didn't have the power to reform and take the Syrian corrupt generals out, so he pushed the Russians back.
{Therefore the excellent Russian geopolitical chess move planners already must have seen, where the Assad government & Syria was going: down the drain.}
So Assad was essentially a puppet president of a House of Cards country and corrupt military of 200K "troops" that just collapsed on its own - without crucial Iranian help -, when it was hit by ISIS last week. That's why the only thing powerless Assad could say:
- Don't fight. Peaceful transition please..
The majority of the Syrian population, the Sunnis, didn't like where things were going with Iran pushing its national aims in Syria in the past years anyway. Sunnis didn't like Russians that much for the same reason. Russia stated they aren't in Syria to do the work that Syrians should be doing themselves.
((My personal opinion:
Everybody in Syria probably was used to the Black Market Economy, which was running "just good" in past years. But utterly missing brick-wall strong unity and incapable to defend itself.))
The Western propaganda about the reason why Syria fell so fast is
that Putin let it go, is utter BS.
Same why US had to leave Afghanistan.
Corruption like this is rampant in the Middle-East and everywhere. You just have to clean your own house, like Russia did.
((Assad & Family now will rest and learn. When The Multipolar World Order develops and allows, then populist Russia may urge Syrians to vote. If they want Assad in a Stabilized New World, they can have him back.))
In the meantime, let's see how Syria's Black Market loving population loves their Headchopper ISIS government: The True Nightmare.
1. Isolated Hezbollah in Lebanon - fighting Israel - now doesn't have the supporting land bridge to Iran. Israel's major threat was Hezbollah, until now..
2. Russia and Iran [MAYBE with the recent new Iranian leadership MAYBE] want zero US-sponsored chaos spreading in the region.
3. ISIS allegedly captured Russian Pantsir air defense system. Will they give it back to Russia without the hardware getting into US hands?
4. Israel is destroying Syrian military infrastructure and - SCUD missiles - right now, because they don't want it to fall into the hands of ISIS.
5. ISIS wasn't bombed by Western jets in the past, but instead was supported by jets doing Air Drops of critical supplies.
6. Loyal Syrian Army soldiers, who weren't able to get out of Syria now will be executed / beheaded. Christian villages will now be pillaged and raped, priests killed.
{Like 2000 years ago.}
7. In stark contrast to corrupted Syria, Iran was able to clean house to an enough extent so they can call themselves unified. Including the Snakes in Politics there, who murdered General Qasem Soleimani. Will Iran's new leadership ditch BRICS and go with Trump now??
8. Trump will have achieved two major victories by the time he comes into power: Over Syria - "I regret we didn't take THE OIL" (Trump said) - and over the new situation with Iran-Hezbollah.
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