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Well, folks, the Assad regime in Syria is gone. We'll bring you all the details, how it happened, what it means. First, I have some major news to share with you today. Starting in January, Jeremy's Razors will become an official partner of UFC. That's right. The Daily Wire is stepping into the octagon with the world's premier mixed martial arts organization.
More details coming up later in the show. Very cool stuff. Alrighty, so... A tectonic shift in the Middle East just happened over the weekend. On Sunday morning, Syrian rebels finally took Damascus. They took Bashar al-Assad's palace. The Assad regime is no more. Assad has fled to Moscow where he is being granted some sort of asylum because the Russians, of course, backed the Assad regime.
There's a lightning campaign that basically came from nowhere. I want to show you a couple of maps so you understand exactly what's going on. Because when we talk about what's happening in Syria, what we have to understand is that Syria is an artificial creation post-World War I by the West, by the French, by the British.
And because of that, like many other states in the Middle East, it is unworkable and has been unworkable for a very long time. You have a large number of groups of various religious belief systems, many of them unbelievably radical, many of them terrorists, all fighting one another. And the Assad regime was a secularist, Ba'athist regime, like Saddam Hussein, with a wild,
left-wing view of economics. Essentially, it was just a fascist dictatorship engaged in mass human rights abuses at scale. Over the course of the Assad regime, some 12 million Syrians were displaced. Many of them ended up in Turkey. Many of them ended up in Jordan. Many of them ended up in Europe.
The Syrian refugee crisis had massive ramifications for European politics, and that was driven by the civil war that happened in Syria between 2011 and just ended over the weekend in Although, as we'll see, I think the civil war is likely to continue for a long time to come because this is an unworkable patchwork of various groups in various areas of the country.
But we'll start with the actual region, because in order to understand what's going on in Syria, you have to understand that there are a lot of hands in Syria, a lot of different countries, a lot of different interests who had their hands in Syria. So let's look at the regional map of the Middle East. So you understand where Syria is placed on the map.
So the regional map of the Middle East, you will see that Syria is located alongside the Mediterranean Sea. It stretches all the way from Iraq in its east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. The sort of southwestern border of Syria is Israel. The very tip of the southwest part of Syria borders Israel.
Because Syria had repeatedly invaded Israel in 1967, Israel won its war against Syria and ended up taking the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights have been annexed to Israel as recognized by the United States specifically because they're being used as basically a vantage point from which to shoot into Israel. So that is one border of Syria. Another border of Syria is Lebanon.
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