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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is my interview on recent developments in Syria with scholar Basam Haddad.

We put Bashar al-Assad's fall into many levels of historical and geopolitical context,

which is exactly what's necessary to think through the fall of a brutally repressive regime,

a development that's also facilitated the consolidation of U.S.-backed Israeli military

dominance over the region amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

That, alongside the increasing power over Syria's future, claimed by Turkish president

Recep Tayyip Erdogan. These are the contradictions that we must think through, honoring the joy felt

by Syrians at Assad's ouster,

while simultaneously taking stock of a truly bad geopolitical outcome.

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