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Syria has Nukes? 0:00
Hunting WMDs 1:12
History of Syria's WMD Programs 4:45
The US gets Involved 6:24
North Korea 8:04
Avoiding a Second Iraq 9:29
We'll Do it Ourselves 14:51
Planning 18:31
Operation Orchard 21:27
Failed Peace 23:50
Conclusions 24:50

[@hypercomms2001]

You left out the train explosion in North Korea in which many Syrian scientists had died of radiation poisoning...

[@hypercomms2001]

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[@LordBitememan]

I've met Meir Dagan before. This dude was totally the kind of guy who you would expect to run an intelligence agancy.

[@takeda780]

He was the kind of guy that you want on your side, but never be on his bad side... Real life 007.

[@LordBitememan]

@@takeda780 Certainly. I'd just pass on dinner with him. The long and the short of it, he offered me a slice of pizza and I about gagged. Vegetarian.

[@iz5772]

Decades before, he's the commander who kidnapped Adolf eichmann half way around the world and brought him silently to be trialed. 007 is Mr bean next to him.

[@tinycockjock1967]

How was it?

[@Kissingerzones1311]

How and where

[@tscottme]

This event was wrapped in a lot of mystery at the time. Thanks for telling the story. BTW, The Israeli aircraft were F-15 I (EYE) for Israel, not F-151. #AirplaneNerd

[@thomasbell7033]

As a veteran aviation writer, I fully endorse this post.

[@gabrieljoseph6310]

You are wrong F15I is F15 Israel

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

​@@gabrieljoseph6310Read his comment a second time. He says this. Israel has its own unique requirements for military procurement.

[@stavage7342]

@@gabrieljoseph6310 Im pretty sure they said EYE to explain that it is the letter I and not lowercase L which looks similar

[@lucakrokrowinkel9576]

I thought it was f16s

[@JVentura3]

Impressive video! Quick correction, while these events were occurring, Erdogan was the prime minister of Turkey, not the president. He became president in 2014.

[@edgzta]

Oh crap I thought he always had been president. Good to know 👍

[@jtgd]

He probably conflated His presidency with his Prime Ministership

[@jackwalker9492]

Absolutely brilliant channel that I just found. Thank you staff that makes it happen.

[@AbstractAimOfficial]

I mean is Bashar really that paranoid if Israel was actually spying on him. seems like the handwritten notes were pretty smart.

[@HistoryandHeadlines]

Nice job! Thanks for including my mom's voice acting.

[@vxrdrummer]

I was there in Lebannon in 2006 as part of the UK military removing non-combatants. It was pretty brutal to see what happened in that city.

[@historydocumentary]

Dude, I'm not ussually into history this recent, but this video absolutely captured me!

[@Insanestsage]

same here bro im a man of antiquity, but I love videos structured like this

[@eliezra6098]

Very well made with excellent in-depth insights into the dynamics of the countries and leaders

[@theamazing2435]

the reason the ground invasion went very bad in the second lebnon war was at the time the commander and chief of the Israeli army was from the Air Force and literally had no idea what to do

[@natedubin8944]

That's one of the many reasons

[@theamazing2435]

@@UncleAlf1889 that's also true but commander in chief was also just incompetent

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

Beautiful love that you covered this

[@prof.platypus2103]

I like what you said at the end. Bush’s first term was when I was in highschool. I remember thinking he was a buffoon who just wanted to finish his daddy’s dispute with Saddam. It often felt like he was a clown trying to make the SNL writers’ job easier. Hearing about what happened behind the scenes with this event gives a different outlook. The careful discussions don’t sound like the Will Farrell caricature I thought he was. He made some very big mistakes; but unlike most people in such high positions, it sounds like he didn’t refuse to learn from them.

[@therealuncleowen2588]

W had a personal humility that made him well suited to being President. He could be stubborn. He wasn't a genius. But he was willing to listen and learn. He also didn't automatically view anyone who disagreed with him as an enemy. You could do a lot worse in a President, cough (trump) cough.

[@TheBear710]

@@therealuncleowen2588 damn you just had to bring up trump? as far as i can tell literally every president has seen the other as a enemy.... ever seen a election debate? they certainly don't seem like friends.. bidden divides the country just as much as trump sadly did.... biden calls out "maga supporters" every fucking speech lmao

[@stevenschwartzhoff1703]

He did learn from mistakes, but this is a bit like "I had a crash while driving drunk, so I decided to stop smoking in the car to mitigate future damage."

[@ripley7222]

Neocons/Zionists ran rings around Bush and bent him entirely to their will. Scratch the surface and most things wrong in modern America can be directly attributed to the jew, who has infected the upper echelons of politics and defense and owns most of the media. Ably aided by rats like chenyne and Rumsfeld who only care about money. Bush senior had more sense or better advisors than to do the jews bidding.

[@JUANO510]

He was evil and worked for Israel like all other presidents smh these monsters are told to start wars and they follow orders plain n simple

[@bread1187]

I love your videos and your perspective! Love your thoughtfulness and ability to take unpopular stances given sufficient evidence.

[@jaycorwin1625]

Very interesting and very well-researched. Good job.

[@eerusowi]

Incredibly detailed and informative, thanks!

[@bobg9]

"retired for health reasons" he literally got a stroke and was comatose until his death

[@shimonbiton2163]

I remeber he woke up though, at least for a several days and then he fell into a coma.

[@amitkenan3878]

And half of the Jewish population considers him a traitor for the disengagement from Gaza

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

Not Jewish, but I DO know how God told His Jews to treat "alien residents"... it's the only thing Israel hasn't tried...

[@TwoTreesStudio]

jesus christ you know you've completely lost the plot when connie is the voice of reason

[@aqmorisny]

Thank you for making valuable contents.

[@AsherBKNY]

Was a great video. Thank you.

[@seekeroftruth5389]

5:57 so I guess he was right not to trust tech

[@runnquickyy6298]

Wow! Excellent presentation.

[@MrOhdead]

Very good as always.

[@rambo8wradio]

21:33 I believe planes were F-15i (variant of F-15e), not F-151 (lowercase for clarity).

[@jacobbengera7035]

👍👍🇺🇸❤

[@DumbSkippy]

Thank you for a fantastic video!

[@indeedrandomname7937]

You are extremely objective with your history. Thank you!

[@prophet1782]

Excellent Analysis. !!

[@josephdaniel563]

Your videos are very well researched and made. Happy to subscribe

[@aberodriguez4086]

Very informative. Thank you.

[@PulmaFingoPees]

man your really doing an awsome job with your videos

[@theshenpartei]

Oh I remember hearing about the Syria’s reactor. it’s nice to see a video about this.

[@lancep9394]

Thanks for the video

[@idantal1641]

This is history guys without the lies, Just the truth

[@Carlos.Grande]

Lol

[@yakov95000]

Good video,Yea I never got this comparisons of Mossad with CIA and Mi6,Aman is the main agency in Israel and been like that since more or less Israeli founding,it has the most people and has the largest influance and it works directly from the military so it gets one of the best conscripts/officers all the time from the larger population,Shabak(Shin Bet)is also elite mainly focused on homeland and Palestinians areas(which are big part of Israeli security concerns)and it mainly connected to the police/border police it is also very very big and potent organization,Mossad from my understanding is more the special forces very small but probably the highest trained,none of those are like CIA and MI6,diffrent countries need diffrent organization.

[@bloodyplebs]

Mossad is like the cia and the mi6 because the cia and mi6 are civilian agencies tasked with foreign intelligence, just like mossad.

[@Armed-Forever]

great propaganda u mean

[@PopeSixtusVI]

I also feel the need to point out that the primary source for all their Intel are Arabs ratting out every single mother's son from Morocco to Indonesia for a chunk of change. They're the opposite of the stereotypical Mafioso who refuses to talk even as they're dangling him off a bridge.

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

Thank you for this explanation. Interesting to think that having Palestinians as an internal "evil empire" supports a lot of organizations, a lot of jobs...

[@yakov95000]

@@RogerLewis-ey2tt Palestinians "earned" everything and more on thier constant attempts to genocide the Jews of Israel,this is not "jobs" or whatever bullshit you said.

[@WeAreNotSheep2023]

Another excellent video!

[@stevearchtoe7039]

Very well done.

[@landon6326]

These videos are amazing bro

[@MrBumbo90]

You have improved a lot. Especially your presentation skills. It is good that you took the feedback seriously.

[@jordanmacleod3688]

It’s scary at any point how close it could all be over

[@captainspacebones3795]

I learned something new today.

[@osmiumsoul9535]

All the sudden I hear Mr.Beat reading to me, woke my ass up lol

[@user-op4qn6rg2x]

Bashar was not in an English Medical school when his brother died he was a registrar (the English equivalent of an American resident) at Moorfields studying to be an ophthalmologist (eye surgeon) not optometrist (not a medical doctor) who only prescribes glasses.

[@coast2coast84]

So he wasn’t in medical school, he was a English resident in medical studying to be a eye surgeon? So was he in medical school or not?

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

Still surprises me that such a finely-tuned medical craftsman can be such a brutal oppressor

[@rickeyferguson5935]

That was a very informative video. I enjoyed it very much.

[@CaptainTowll]

San Aronow's cameos absolutely cracked me up

[@MaxIsStrange1]

Great video. Also, I totally agree with your take on Bush. I used to believe what’s been said in the media but at some point I started getting the feeling that the narrative didn’t actually add up so I read up on it and I arrived at basically the same conclusion to yours.

[@Ruder6163]

Of course it doesn’t add up. Bush combated Islamic fundamentalist extremism by toppling or attempting to topple secular Arab governments in Iraq, Syria and Libya. Those governments were/are an asset against Al-Qaeda and ISIS. They are ideological opposes. Yet some how the American public continues to buy into this nonsense.

[@yohaneschristianp]

Iraq is like : Ffffffffffffffffff

[@jtgd]

@@yohaneschristianp uuuuuucccckkk

[@dylankkboss]

Good video!

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

I have to say, they certainly knew how to keep a secret.

[@ericadar]

Bashar al-Assad is not an optometrist. He was trained as a medical doctor at Damascus University and has postgraduate training in ophthalmology in London.

[@yonisamber8169]

Two points- The aircraft were launched just after midnight. I know this because I heard them take off. Second- Bush took his duty seriously, despite not being the sharpest tool in the shed. His biggest problems were Rumsfeld and Cheney.

[@spearfisherman308]

Not really according to a fact check of the movie vice gw was running things Cheney being the puppet master is a media myth.

[@Steve-yf9my]

Thanks!

[@ProperZen]

Great research and a clear presentation. Really well done. Continue playing to your strengths.

[@lucakrokrowinkel9576]

That avoiding a second Iraq thing really changes the Bush legacy.

[@swedhgemoni8092]

That was a reactor in development, not a site where nuclear warheads were being developed and stored.

[@mightymo-ij9pz]

It was obviously not for electricity generation, which kind of narrows things down

[@swedhgemoni8092]

@@mightymo-ij9pz Kikeroaches aren't the only ones entitled to the power of the atom, no matter what their chutzpah states. If you don't like that, you can slob on eloheinu's micropeenu.

[@Boogieman00000]

Please do more videos

[@112deeps]

Never knew about this . Thanks for the history lesson. Israeli intel you can count on ..

[@mattcero1]

Do the hand written notes indicate paranoia or a realistic and smart approach? After years of people getting hacked, I'd say he was spot on smart about communicating.

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

Assad is still certifiably paranoid, though

[@danielsilverman8053]

Very informative As an Israeli myself I would love to see more videos like this It helps to understand my country’s history even further

[@jerrydeem8845]

Pretty good, up to the 26 minute mark......js. Overall, the content of all your episodes are really interesting . Kudos.

[@gracianogarciaguerrero9123]

Excellent work! Very informative! Being a history fean can’t get enough

[@Very_Nice_and_Polite_Person]

If you're a history fan then I'd recommend looking into some real historians who actually do research.

[@Mreye45]

I learned a ton of new stuff

[@RoytheLevy]

Think about Iraq and Syria with nuclear weapons... Or Isis 😱

[@mxkinist]

right? now imagine a settler colonial state built on land theft and genocide having nukes too... oh wait...

[@hell5457]

If those countries gad nukes there wouldn't be any chances for tiny western created groups like isis to survive.

[@NH-bn8xn]

This is definitely one of the moments of the bush regime that I respect heavily. They made mistakes but walked with caution and understanding after, and that is what a mature administration is supposed to do.

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

You're kidding, right? Tell me how we'll get all this blood off our hands

[@NH-bn8xn]

@@RogerLewis-ey2tt by apologizing and moving forward

[@iskandar7354]

​@NH-bn8xn yeah.... definitely just say oops we're sorry for committing a crime that should put most of our country's leaders on an international trial, caused massive casualties and showed once again our ugly face to the world and that we'll never do it again while having your fingers crossed behind your back. Time is running out, we might get a worse bully but your time as the bully is ending. Maybe Europe can finally wake the fuck up and we can finally mind our own business without being your lackeys and helping other disgusting countries. But the most important thing I hope Americans one day will make their corrupt leaders pay for what they did to the rest of the world

[@casparcoaster1936]

Kudos dude... i was never pro Bush 2... but, well researched, presented, and COMMENTARY. My respect & gratitude

[@andrewstevens2133]

Long live Israel

[@ThiccPhoenix]

🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@paruparuno8887]

the fact that a lot of us lebanese dont want war with israel but iran is using us and giving us a horrible image (hezbollah)

[@menahem-mendelg]

We don’t want any war with our neighbors, but sometimes we just have no other choice. Hope you’ll be safe.

[@brucelee5576]

Syria : I won’t tell if you don’t tell. Israel : Bet.

[@tFighterPilot]

It's OLMERT. The T isn't silent. What's the deal with Americans and silent Ts? They do the same with Gal Gadot.

[@craigime]

had no idea that Bush, Condelizza and Cheney wrote books

[@MrTeeri4]

Misleading title. They destroyed a construction site for nuclear energy which could eventually become a site to refine nuclear weapons.

[@user-yb9sf5io4h]

Geniálne

[@yotk1406]

Imagine a world where Syria would have nukes. Thank you Israel for saving the world.

[@kopernikpolski60]

If that was the case, then maybe israelis would at least rethink their illegal occupation and bombings in southern Syria

[@jtgd]

I’d do the Iran video at the end of the year, since they’re supposedly nearly finished with weapons grade enrichment

[@ananmuadi31]

I actually fell into the rabbithole of Bush being either incompetant or evil, but not anymore, thanks for this awesome video, it also explains better why my country did these thing...

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

No, W. was incompetent and evil. See "The Prosecution of George W Bush for Murder", by Vincent Bugliosi

[@earl2348]

You deserve more dude

[@Armed-Forever]

as long as he keeps pumping out pro israel’s fake news, he will

[@Larkinchance]

A nuclear free zone was proposed for the Middle East but it was vetoed by Israel and the US.

[@RubenKelevra]

Please switch your production to 60 fps. 24 fps looks awful.

[@tuckercarlsonrules4972]

I. Did. Not. Know. This. :OOOO

[@wardaddyindustries4348]

Funny I remember watching a video a few years ago maybe where president Bush said with confidence historians will look back at this with a better light.

[@pieterveenders9793]

I wonder why they didn't build a subterranean nuclear reactor at the Al Kibar site, and dig underground tunnels towards the Euphrates for the cooling water. Although costing a lot more time, moeny and effort, the Syrians could probably have kept the entire thing from ever being discovered until it was too late and they succesfully had produced nukes. Maybe I just don't know enough about the local geography, but considering Iran ended up building a substantial part of it's massive nuclear program underground as well, I don't see why the Syrians couldn't have done the same. Even if they somehow wouldn't have been able to prevent foreign intelligence agencies from finding out, it would have made it very difficult if not impossible for them to bomb and thus neutralise their nuclear program, which is a large part of the reason for the Iranians having gone underground.

[@brucelee5576]

Abu Hajaar got a quick cameo in the video . If you know you know.

[@gsadow]

Excellent job summarizing what happened.

[@rogerdiogo6893]

At the time of the invasion of Iraq, there was satellite footage showing Saddam moving such weapons to Syria.😢

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

....you mean, so Saddam could be clean for the inspectors?

[@rogerdiogo6893]

@@RogerLewis-ey2tt The WMD existed, scuds filled with sarin, Assad use them on his own people.

[@rogerdiogo6893]

@@RogerLewis-ey2tt the idiot Arabs had to prove the UN inspectors wrong at any cost 😭

[@nategus1012]

this seems oddly like whats happening now

[@drgeorgek]

5:16 Bashar was studying to be an ophthalmologist (not optometrist)

[@eladh.brooke5460]

Not shin bet but shin bet kaf - shabbak 😂 General Confidence Service

[@theMOCmaster]

do the promised china episode on how the usa was duped by the CCP!

[@CasualHistorian]

That video will take time. I need all my ducks in a row before tackling it

[@dodovomitory3496]

Kinda stupid to admire Bush when his pretext for war was false. Not a fan of Hussein or his ideology but Bush starting the war on terror was extremely reckless and shrugging it off after by saying he learned from his mistakes is kinda foolish.

[@prw56]

My takeaway wasn't that this vindicated bush of his mistakes, nor did it come off to me that the host was excusing him for them, but that his administration recognized those mistakes and made attempts to not repeat them (at least in this case). The host summed it up well at the end, I've always heard nothing about bush except his terrible, terrible mistakes, so its interesting to hear about something that implies lessons were learned.

[@carolusrex5305]

@05:20 He is an Ophthalmologist, NOT an Optometrist. He is a Doctor.

[@rubenfernandez9554]

He's good.

[@CHMichael]

Syria at no point had "nukes"

[@JDJay1]

Don’t forget that it’s very difficult expensive and defensible to deliver nuclear weapons against any advanced military, while biological and chemical weapons are cheap, easy to deliver and difficult to defense against so the whole thing is not exactly related to the nuclear weapons defense but mostly about preventing other nations from advancing technologically, which increases their strategic significance. So I would not raise too much stake on the relationship between two countries where one is acting as the horse and the other acting as the jockey you always need the horse to be moving so how much does the jockey really care about the horse if the horse stops moving, just saying i’ll leave it to your imagination think about it.

[@rogerdiogo6893]

Yellow Cake was found in Iraq, the weapons have to be somewhere, Happy hunting 😊

[@TheKoderius]

Imagine a murderous regime such as Assad`s with nuclear weapons. The first people who should thank Israel are the Syrian people. Thanks for telling the truth and sticking to the real details!

[@Blue-mi1yh]

You’re completely delusional about reality

[@m.dthedemon4076]

And so Israel is not a murderous regime? 😂

[@charriot9666]

Thank the Israelis whom bombs Syria for using were gonna white phosphorus when they used on Palestinian protesters or giving medical aid to syrian rebels links to all qaeda? The Israelis was going to nuke Egypt if they lost the war or when they going to blow up Baghdad over scud missiles that isn't murderous to you?

[@proudkaafir5126]

@@m.dthedemon4076 israel is not a threat to the current world. Unfortunately cant say the same for all the terror outfits masquerading as the prophets mujhaheeds and murdering random people in the name of their imaginary sky daddy.

[@nochillz8876]

Syrian here, both Israel and Assad are war criminals and both should be put on trail in-front of the international community to expose their ugly crimes!

[@NPC-bs3pm]

I find Left-wing establishment (Clinton) and Right-wing Establishment (Bush) so interesting in how they operate. One likes peace accords and the other subtle military/financial support (secretive when it comes to Israel because optics is important to the established order of Liberal hegemony which funds Right-wingers).

[@adamadler5411]

Different prime ministers also don't forget, different parties. Clintons idol was Yitzhak Rabin who was assasinated during Clintons term. He was left wing and thought peace was the only way forward even at heavy costs. Bush dealt with the more right wing Ariel Sharon until he got sick.

[@NPC-bs3pm]

@@adamadler5411 It's true the Israeli parties need to be taken into consideration of the times

[@karamkdm3029]

Very neutral video

[@priesttrash6338]

Anybody who paid any attention know that Libya nuclear weapon was just some political theater but overall as a Syrian good job.

[@mattcero1]

Even nuclear power plants that are close to rivers have cooling towers. This story is NOT spot on. I can think of the one in SW WA state that has cooling towers and is right next to a river. Three Mile Island has cooling towers and is right on a river. You need water,,,PERIOD!

[@MA-rc2eo]

Juicy.

[@milomilosavage2793]

Who made you the gods to watch out the world of nuclear weapon.

[@beautifulsoulblue]

Powerful video that seems much more relevant for people who are not aware of this information, than entertainment videos one does not learn anything from. Finding myself feeling very uneducated about this subject matter, after your presentation, which is making me realize the importance of an educated population concerning matters, that effect the freedoms and security, of the Untied Stares and Israel. At 54 how is it I did not know these things, before today, is actually scary to me for this type knowledge does sway a persons viewpoints. Today I try to stay on top of what’s going on that effects the security of Israel, because it’s clear our destinies are intertwined by design, and this information concerning the way you laid it out pretty much pulls it all together for me. This battle has been going on throughout history between communism that embraces hate and control, and Judaism and Christianity that embraces love and freedom. In the end we know who wins this fight. Thank you 🙏🏼 and I appreciate your efforts to make more people aware of truth. Gods Blessings