Colonel Macgregor at Neutrality Studies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18nE5j9F3tU

Laity Marouf on balkanisation in various parts of North Africa and neighbours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4-YGO6S3yA

CGTN documentary on Joseph Needham in six parts

https://www.jnfschk.org/cctv-coverage

Waiting for Godot

It seems to me that people are waiting for the unpredictable Trump to see what he will do and the globalists are trying to tie his hands and do as much damage as possible before he arrives and are prepared for even a limited nuclear war. So there is a bit of pause in Russian activity in Ukraine despite provocations. A discussion of this topic from Garland Nixon with Andre Martyanov and Scott Ritter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P6cu2dAvuw

Book Review of ‘Eating and Being’ by Steven Shapin

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-melons-and-melancholy/

Scott Ritter’s assessment of Syria, Iran and others

Fairly strong assertions, may be plausible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxgjymiOD8 But Larry Johnson has a somewhat different assessment "Turning to the situation in Syria. With each passing day I’m more convinced that Putin had good intel on the Western plan to take out Assad and, based on intel provided in part from China, correctly assessed that in light of Assad’s refusal to listen to Russian and Iranian advice that Turkey and the West were going to create for themselves a shit sandwich. Neither was prepared to deal with the consequences of a rapid collapse of Syria. I believe that Putin correctly calculated that the West and Turkey were creating a level of chaos in Syria it could neither control nor contain. While Russia could have intervened militarily and defeated HTS and its Turkish/Western backers, Putin and his advisors believed this would ultimately turn out to be a nightmare for Turkey and the West, and Russia was happy to let them eat it." from https://sonar21.com/ukraine-and-syria-a-western-plan-goes-awry/ Anda different perspetive from Colonel Macgregor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItRBk6Q_RBc

Alastair Crooke on the Syrian situation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSrzdVdG-Pg

Assessments of Syria ollapse continue

This from Larry Johnson https://sonar21.com/ukraine-and-syria-a-western-plan-goes-awry/ a bitter one from Laith Marouf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oea9i3EB1-k

From John Helmer

https://johnhelmer.net/the-new-time-of-troubles-part-ii-putin-overruled-the-general-staff/#more-90814

Another theory about the Syrian surprise from Alex Krainer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pUV-Ijh8zc&t=4039s via https://sonar21.com/my-chat-with-alex-krainer-on-syria-ukraine-and-the-future-of-europe/ see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0FQeGjPSc0

Scott Ritter on the current situation in Syria and neighbourhood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vazdsqqybR0

The aftermath of Syrian collapse from Scott Ritter, somewhat trenchant support of Türkiye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mIAJTVxtq A different take from Colonel Douglas Macgregor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEcoaMvlHcg Another https://sonar21.com/chinese-hack-means-beijing-reading-and-hearing-all-us-military-and-intelligence-classified-phone-communications/

Marat Khairullin sees it differently

https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/lessons-from-syria-assad-and-putin A discussion of the post https://karlof1.substack.com/p/marat-khairullens-counterpoint-essay/comments

Big changes in a week

it seems that Trump already won on two issues even before he came to power with the collapse in Syria. A sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96iFzYABE0w https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom

Chas Freeman on the current collapse in Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA30KfpuXGM

Mike Benz on the origin and workings of the Security State

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/09/24/mike_benz_the_history_of_the_intelligence_state.html

Syria falls

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/12/syria-falls.html#more

Mark Sweboda is pessimistic about Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqQE8kjcxo A different perspective from Alastair Crooke and Marat Khairullin https://www.eurasiareview.com/07122024-erdogans-idlib-shock-shadows-kursk-oped/

Colonel Douglas Macgregor on South Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Xuo4Jf_lw

The Duran on Erdogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjlsrp9toPQ

Alastair Crooke on Syrian conflict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEvZlTYpsz4 see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VoYUKELBY

Desperate escalations from Alastair Crooke at Duran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD9ZD0DLUHQ

Laith Marouf with Dimitri Lascaris on the situation in Lebanon and Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za_aJ8-3ySY