What’s Next for Syria?

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben discuss the latest developments in Syria after the fall of the Assad regime, including the debate in Washington and European capitals about whether to talk with the new Syrian government, remove sanctions, or remove Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham’s terrorist designation. They also cover Trump’s trip to France and meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump’s loyalty test for those seeking national security jobs in his new administration, whether South Korea’s president will be impeached after declaring martial law, the collapse of the French government, a court order canceling Romania’s election results, and the corruption trials of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Then Ben speaks to Dareen Khalifa, Senior Advisor at the International Crisis Group, about what’s next for Syria and her insights into rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Pottae the World. I'm Tommy Vitor. I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.5	Ben, huge news this week. The Mets landed Juan Soto. Yes, we did. A steel at $765 million over 15 years? 15 years, yes. The largest
0:25.0	contract in, I think, American professional sports history. Tell the people who Juan Soto is,
0:28.7	I'm sure, 90% of our audience. So, Juan Soto, the best part about it is he was recently
0:33.3	an outfielder for the New York Yankees. Yeah, they suck. He's young. He's in his mid-20s, but he's been around for a few years because he broke in really early
0:41.4	with the Washington Nationals won a World Series there.
0:43.9	You know, five tool players, we like to say, can hit for power, can hit for average, can
0:47.6	run, can field.
0:49.0	The best part about this is we now have the owner that is spending all the money.
0:52.5	He's a real shit. And so the fact that we took this guy away from the Yankees.
0:55.7	Insider trading.
0:56.6	Well, you know what?
0:58.1	It's working for good now.
1:00.6	He's putting that money to good use now.
1:02.0	I heard his wife's the real driver behind the Mets organization.
1:04.4	She really cares, like, is great to the players.
1:06.4	They love her.
1:07.1	The players love her. The players love her. We're assembling a mini-Dominican national team here. Juan Soto
1:11.3	Dominican, Francisco Lindora, best player of Dominican. We've got other Dominican players that
1:15.4	I think was part of the draw here. So the future is bright for the Mets. Bright, albeit
1:19.5	expensive. And we could be regretting that conflict when Wonseil was in his 40s, you know.
1:25.9	Yeah. But hey, that's Steve Cohen's money, not mine.
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