Why Is The U.S. Determined To Remove Assad?

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In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald examines U.S. foreign policy in Syria. Greenwald and Middle East-Expert Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi explore the geopolitical motivations behind American strategies, including economic sanctions, partnerships with Syrian Democratic Forces, and the influence of broader Middle Eastern dynamics, such as Iran and Israel’s regional interests.

This video was produced by System Update and published on their YouTube channel on the 5th of December, 2024.

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ABOUT AYMENN JAWAD AL-TAMIMI

Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi is an independent analyst and a doctoral candidate at Swansea University, where he focuses on the role of historical narratives in Islamic State propaganda. His public media work focuses primarily on the Islamic State, Iraq, and Syria, and he has been consulted as an expert by major media outlets including Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, and others.

ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020.