Vladimir von Wilgenburg
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Yeah, very difficult situation.
Yeah, very difficult situation.
Yeah, very difficult situation.
Yeah, you meet like in northeast Syria, you meet sometimes like either former regime soldiers or people who have left regime areas and like they've made their lives there. Yeah. So now we have the situation, right? Well, yeah, we have these two little islands. We'll just call them YPG for the ease of, to not introduce another acronym, right? Of like Kurdish armed folks in Aleppo.
Yeah, you meet like in northeast Syria, you meet sometimes like either former regime soldiers or people who have left regime areas and like they've made their lives there. Yeah. So now we have the situation, right? Well, yeah, we have these two little islands. We'll just call them YPG for the ease of, to not introduce another acronym, right? Of like Kurdish armed folks in Aleppo.
Yeah, you meet like in northeast Syria, you meet sometimes like either former regime soldiers or people who have left regime areas and like they've made their lives there. Yeah. So now we have the situation, right? Well, yeah, we have these two little islands. We'll just call them YPG for the ease of, to not introduce another acronym, right? Of like Kurdish armed folks in Aleppo.
To complicate this further, and people will probably have seen this, so I want to explain it. In Deir ez-Zor, we have a different situation, right? We have the SDF attacking Iranian-backed militias and the regime. Do you feel comfortable explaining what's going on in Deir ez-Zor and why that's a different calculus?
To complicate this further, and people will probably have seen this, so I want to explain it. In Deir ez-Zor, we have a different situation, right? We have the SDF attacking Iranian-backed militias and the regime. Do you feel comfortable explaining what's going on in Deir ez-Zor and why that's a different calculus?
To complicate this further, and people will probably have seen this, so I want to explain it. In Deir ez-Zor, we have a different situation, right? We have the SDF attacking Iranian-backed militias and the regime. Do you feel comfortable explaining what's going on in Deir ez-Zor and why that's a different calculus?
No, not at all. Very small footprint.
No, not at all. Very small footprint.
No, not at all. Very small footprint.
Yeah, okay, so that leaves us with, I guess, ANES getting a little bit larger in the south and then smaller in the west.
Yeah, okay, so that leaves us with, I guess, ANES getting a little bit larger in the south and then smaller in the west.
Yeah, okay, so that leaves us with, I guess, ANES getting a little bit larger in the south and then smaller in the west.
Yeah. That gives us a pretty good summary of the situation, I think. So let's talk about HTS a bit, because I think you're going to see one of two things, right? When we talk about the SNA and HTS, a lot of outlets will just collapse them under the same descriptor. They will just say Syrian rebels. And I think people will think of the original largely secular uprising in Syria in 2011.