Syria

“Hamas is degraded to defeat. I thought that was a very good article in the foreign affairs on this point. Hezbollah is cornered. Damascus and Syria has been lost, and the Iraqi president seems to be making a pretty good headway, not all the way there, on deali…”

“It's a great thesis if you're in Chad, or if you're in Syria. It's a horrible thesis if you're in New York City or San Francisco.”

“I expect that the president's lifting of the sanctions on Syria probably gives way to the Saudis signing the Abraham Accords and other positive developments in this part of the world.”

“They have now taken over or besieged another city called Homs, and next thing you know, They might be in Damascus.”

“The Joint Chiefs of Staff Didn't obey the president of the United States on troop redeployments in Syria, which actually happened during Trump's administration.”

“I think it's a big part of the reason that single event, big part of the reason we didn't have much warfare during Trump's whole administration.”

“You don't need to make a fake image. The fake is in the fake is in the caption. There's not a shortage of, there's not a fake is in the. Yeah. What is it that I'm saying? What is it that I'm seeing here? So, you know, if you want to make a picture of an airstr…”

“We are there without a congressional authorization. For military force. I mean, what are we doing in Syria? We're just occupying that country without, again, without a war being ever declared against the Assad regime.”

“Every single one of our bases in Syria and Iraq, and we have a lot, are going to be sitting ducks.”

“The price of a basket of basic products in Sudan is up 1900%. In Syria, it's up 700%. In Ethiopia, it's up 175%. In Argentina, it's up 300%. Even in the U.S., it's up 67%. Europe, 80%.”

“The moment I asked it to adopt the personality of a farmer in Middle Eastern countries, its answers stopped being answers which are stereotypical to farmers and started being stereotypical to people who live in violent places.”

“Lucky for me, MOCUS, I built it when you know, without venture backing, so I built it all by myself. So I didn't have to you know, deal with complexities of closing down shop. I had to close it down because I needed to change country.”

“Obama pulled the plug and he de-escalated in Syria over the objections of his staff.”

“And we've never seen that level of UGC content of that kind of war before. Obviously we had it in Syria, but Yemen and so on, but not with this kind of war in this kind of place. So this is new.”

“The real reason was climate change caused that year the drought in Syria. So they didn't have any harvest that year because of like the increased heat compared to previous years. That was the first step in the whole revolt against the Bashar regime in Syria be…”

“And I think, you know, you have to have some measure of that wherever it comes from to work on those kinds of issues and not, you know, be crushed, for example, by the weight of the humanitarian crisis in Syria.”

“We can take a set of 17,000 Russian language documents talking about Syria, and we can write a one-page report as an output.”

“Adversary foreign power. Don't confuse it with anything else. It is led by a person who does not have the United States' best interests at heart, and who wants to reestablish hegemony over a region that involves a lot of countries that don't want to be subject…”

“We have over five million Syrian refugees outside the country, over six million internally displaced, which means that there are more than half of the original population of Syria now does not live in their homes.”

“Civil wars, like the one in Syria, don't end overnight. On average, we're looking at a decade. And in the case of something as complex as Syria, when you have multiple actors involved, well beyond a decade”

“I'll give you an example that happened this month. YouTube decided to take down hundreds of thousands of videos that documented the war in Syria.”