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🗓️ 10 December 2024
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0:19.2 | Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American power, politics and prejudices. |
0:28.0 | The election is over, but the Americano never stops, and there will be a lot to talk about with the second Trump administration. |
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0:50.0 | I am delighted to be joined by Michael Weiss, who is an editor at The Insider magazine, and our very own Owen Matthews, who is our Russia editor. |
1:04.6 | Michael, I'll start with you. I think what struck most people about this is the speed at which it's happened. |
1:15.0 | Assad may have been a brutal dictator. |
1:19.5 | He may have been very, very unpopular, but as far as we knew until recently, he had a pretty sizable army, strong support from Russia, and that appears to have collapsed dramatically |
1:26.4 | and suddenly. |
1:30.0 | Why has it been so sudden and so dramatic? I think historians are going to be studying this for years. If you had told me two |
1:37.5 | weeks ago that the Republican Guard, the fourth division, which are two of the most formidable |
1:42.2 | or seemingly formidable military units of the |
1:46.0 | Assad regime would simply melt into the air. Damascus was taken without much of a fight. |
1:53.4 | It was sort of given over to the rebels in advance of their invasion. It's extraordinary. |
1:59.6 | To be honest with you, I don't know. I think we all kind of have to |
2:03.0 | scratch our heads and wonder just how brittle, how fragile this regime was all along. But I want to |
2:09.8 | get into sort of how this came to be because it's quite interesting. There's a geopolitical sort of |
2:16.2 | set of circumstances and a very opportunistic moment that allowed |
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