Roy Casagranda on The Origins of the Syrian Crisis

Roy Casagranda speaks to the historic realities that have lead to the current situation in Syria and explains the larger political environment created by the world's largest players.
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Video produced by Jeff Zavala
Videography / Editing by Grace Alfar

[@FishingAdventuresDubai]

It is recommended not to watch Dr Roy's videos at bed time. I always start it when im in bed and im left awake until 4am listening to it 😂

[@mhdmurad1]

Same here 😅

[@saeedm7085]

As a Syrian refugee, this guy is incredibly accurate with his explanation. There is some stuff that i had to fact check but he is spot on with all the refugee matter for sure. I love listening to his lectures, this is my third so far but i would like to see his viewpoint on the future of Syria now.

[@Punande]

What is surprising to me is how in a country with so many people with college loans are ignorant/complicit with American war crimes on people in the middle east . Great lecture thank you .

[@PercocetPete]

It only shows how a well made propaganda can dictate the opinion

[@mostafahassaballa5922]

Honestly, the most baffling for someone who lived in both regions is how almost everyone in USA religiously own guns! When over there black market is very accessible but it’s just not in their culture. Also no gang organizations at all(of course there’s thugs everywhere in world) Yet they’re the terrorists!!! Lol

[@helloiambaymaxblablabla8268]

@@PercocetPete you have literally watched the whole video. You can really fact check everything that he said. And you still say that its a propaganda??? R u dumb?

[@muradjelassi3974]

@@bassamaloubari7469 ٧

[@kumarg3598]

@@M1fee_ couldnt it just be laziness and the fact that many college degrees are scams (like personal training and art history). How many iranians are aware of the 2008 housing crisis? Also, what exactly did America do that the arabs or iranians did themselves. Americans didnt kill the kurds or the druze.

[@springhillgolfer878]

Listened to his 2014 lecture about Iraq last night. He's one of the best History lecturers I've ever heard.

[@bokshil]

I love how he tries to say Arabic names correctly

[@TheKamperfoelie]

But strange, he wouldn’t pronounce Paris the French do, but he does with Mosul, Baghdad, Hezbollah and AlQaida, for example, the way Iraqi / Arabs would.

[@parkerpennington208]

@@TheKamperfoelieit’s almost like he doesn’t specialize in French studies or something… he lectures about Arab history for a reason

[@TheKamperfoelie]

@@parkerpennington208 you mean he’s gone native? An English speaking French scholar wouldn’t pronounce Paris like the French do.

[@shafiqishaq4566]

A man’s integrity is his honesty. Thank you sir. Kind regards from Pakistan 🇵🇰

[@ShakeOneOfficial]

Do you actually believe 700 men with ak47's controlled a land mass larger than Great Britain, 80 times the size of Qatar for 5 years. Obviously, they had support on the ground. He did mot mention 151L was called 1.5 of Iraq for years before the Syrian war. Also, the American backed Shia persecution of Sunnis which gave 151L Iraqi sunni support.

[@shafiqishaq4566]

@@ShakeOneOfficial The ones who operate from amongst the shadows, with blackened hearts they are the ones who are from among the army of satan. But they have only a terrible fate that awaits them for eternity.

[@alishehab190]

I am really interested in a similar lecture 9 years later now in 2023. Thank you for the knowledge Doctor

[@timtunnel1996]

I'd love to sit in his class watching live presentation. Prof Casagandra is a great historian and a charismatic lecturer

[@MeboNahdim]

Thank you for your videos Professor. I am a Canadian and I am very grateful for you sharing the true history of the world with the everyone! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

[@montiswiss]

For us the inhabitants of arabic counties we suffered so much from europeans all over the history.

[@wailinburnin]

Roy’s like the Jerry Garcia of history professors. We’re watching a form of genius.

[@alexanderspear9464]

You were also involved in the white slave trade and attacking the West. Until, you were destroyed at the gates of Vienna. You started it. You lost. Simply deal with it.

[@RahellOmer]

As a Kurd, living in Iraq, I have only one qualm with this lecture: Prof. Casagandra paints a very rosey picture of the Kuwait invasion. There was a lot of pillaging, there were Kuwaiti cars on sale in freaking north of Iraq (Kurdistan)

[@lameezdavids7130]

Thats the same what I think

[@TeeTee-zm2re]

Wealthy Kuwait's had their vehicles stolen...big deal. Who cares.

[@mikhoyan5997]

No wonder why his videos are not spread across youtube that much. Because they don't want people to know the truth.

[@jabartibainah4588]

Thank you for sharing your incredible knowledge of political history through your KZbin channel. Your lectures are truly amazing, and the fact that you offer them for free is truly inspiring. Your passion for the subject matter shines through in every video, and I am grateful for the opportunity to learn from someone as knowledgeable and passionate as you. Thank you again for your generosity in sharing your knowledge with the world. You are making a significant impact on the lives of countless individuals, and I am proud to be one of them.

[@AbdulKhader-786]

great lecture. Content presented in a charismatic non-boring way

[@mostafadada9442]

As a Syrian, it's truly remarkable for me to encounter someone who can convey such intricate details with impartiality. This lecture stands out as one of the most exceptional I've ever attended. P.S: "ISIL" was fewer in numbers but remarkably effective during the short period from 2013 to 2015. At one point as a Syrian we thought, they were funded by the USA "most likely", which is puzzling considering they had the newest equipment compared to other groups, despite the widespread shortage of equipment and ammunition among most factions. In Aleppo, they primarily engaged in conflicts with other groups rather than directly confronting the government, unlike in the eastern part of Syria. I believe I can be considered an eyewitness for Aleppo because I've lived there for most of my life and currently pursue my PhD as a student in Europe.

[@Someone-gd5zx]

One minute of silence for the man monitoring camera as he walks here and there constantly 😅 Great lecture and I’m wondering the size of his brain, brilliant. It’s really tough to engage people in two hours history lecture and Roy does it so naturally.

[@williamkao5747]

I worked on a project for Syrian refugees and it took me to the refugee camps in Jordan. The veteran members on the team used to work for UNHCR and led the supply convey into Bosnia. The numbers are eye opening. Average lifespan on UN refugee camps is 25 years, in Jordan there are cities that are still legally Palestinian refugee camps, where there are 3-4 generations of Palestinian refugees. The first refugees to arrive in Jordan are Armenians from WWI. Middle East is really screwed up

[@SaddamHussain-we9ec]

Appreciate whatever you've done but middle east is screwed up because of whom?

[@MartineReed]

@@SaddamHussain-we9ec The conflict between Sunni and Shi’a is thousands of years old, as is the Jewish-Muslim conflict and wars, so I’ll leave it to you to come up with your own answer. When peace is not an option, chaos ensues.

[@FishingAdventuresDubai]

​@@MartineReedinstead of colonialism and neo colonialism you stick it on intra religious conflict 😂 still blind to it ?

[@MartineReed]

@@FishingAdventuresDubai so you are going to blame colonialism and neo-colonialism? Cool. Now come up with a solution rather than attacking someone online that you don’t even know. Arm chair warrior. 😂😂😂😂

[@FishingAdventuresDubai]

@@MartineReed it is clear who is the keyboard warrior here. I never attacked you.

[@abearawad1985]

These lectures needs to be circulating and shared Thanks Roy for these lectures

[@jamesgraham4242]

If you want to know about Syria ask the Syrians.

[@chrismast5626]

good idea

[@jasonh2469]

yep very true thats what i got from this dude!! so stupid! embarrasing and egotistical

[@jasonh2469]

Cheryl Brandon its sad isnt it the fact you have to explain this to people! the fact they have the internet could look it up! but instead prefer making stupid statements

[@jasonh2469]

Cheryl Brandon I am just fed up having to spend my time and energy doing this! I feel like it is a losing battle! For every person who realises they are being scammed there are millions more waiting in line!

[@jamesgraham4242]

Penny Neiman You got your war and you lost. I'd go home and get on with the rest of my life and leave the Syrians to get on with their's and stop meddling and interfering in other people's affairs. Nobody "died fighting for their independence from a dictator." They died for a lie. The true Syrians fought and died to save their people and their country. They won. Think about that the next time you play the Devil's Advocate. Careless talk costs lives.

[@mohammedalikhan6834]

The Syrian people enthused with Arab spring began to struggle for democracy but America and Israel had different strategy to destabilise Syria by supporting the revolutionary Assad and people of Syria sensed that started the crisis leading to Syrian disaster.

[@arwudhasan7609]

Iraq has always been called Iraq in Arabic. When Al Hajjaj was sent to Iraq to govern them by Abdul Aziz bin Marwan, he famously gave a speech in Arabic that is taught in classical Arabic classes; in it he explicitly mentions Iraq by name.

[@raminsour]

A number of Hadith of Muhammad ﷺ mention Iraq as well.

[@ibrahimhossain8489]

The "carved like a thanksgiving turkey" example remined me of the famous prophecy of the last hour in which its reported to be foretold by the Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW that the Muslim nation will be incredibly huge yet so weak and powerless that the disbelievers will dine upon us. He compared us to foam on the rivers...😔

[@ibrahimas.ceesay6735]

Whoever is from Northern Africa to modern day Iraq I hope you learn something from this! Whoever is a Muslim, I hope learn from this!

[@SocialJusticeNOW]

Great info in here for sure!

[@Technique787]

Arabs need to relearn their history. We were indoctrinating to hate each other

[@CanaryKin]

Maybe North Africa should unify with the rest of Africa.

[@Easterlingofrhun]

you know it's a good lecture when you're talking about Syrian Crisis and started it in 633AD

[@babstar]

Pretty good speciay the pre arab spring part but today we know that there are much more aspects to the Syrian Coup than met this gentelmans eyes in 2015.

[@yasseraltamimi6171]

1:11:00 Alqaeda doesn't actually mean the general, you're mistaking القائد which means the general with القاعدة which means the fundamental. The General word uses Hamzah letter which is part of Alif the first letter in Arabic for English speaking people, it might sound the same but the ع letter actually comes more from down the thought.

[@monshamad5581]

It means "The Base" actually, which can be understood, because there are the US base in Middle east.

[@yasseraltamimi6171]

@@monshamad5581 yeah, this makes more sense than the fundamental although both meanings use the same word.

[@bu3adel944]

Alqaeda means the base. It was the base that received the arab mujahdeen to fight USSR in Afghanistan 1979

[@ShakeOneOfficial]

Do you actually believe 700 men with ak47's controlled a land mass larger than Great Britain, 80 times the size of Qatar for 5 years. Obviously, they had support on the ground. He did mot mention 151L was called 1.5 of Iraq for years before the Syrian war. Also, the American backed Shia persecution of Sunnis which gave 151L Iraqi sunni support.

[@zahidullahaslamy7441]

you are explaining the history really good that I can set and watch your videos for hours

[@Baraa.K.Mohammad]

This is amazing... I haven't finished it yet I'm still like 25 minutes in but I had to make this correction in case someone is interested and maybe try to look a bit more into it and get confused : 23:35 the Professor says that the US plotted assassination in 1949, actually it was a Coup d'état and the first democratically elected president was "Shukri Al-Quwatli" who then was imprisoned by "AlZa'im" (the Military leader) and then exiled to Egypt where he built good relations with King Farouq, only to come back to Syria years later and run for a third term (he was firs elected in 1943-1948 then 1948-Coup of 1949)... I still haven't finished so I think I'll come back and edit this comment to add whatever I think about the rest of the lecture, which I think was more than amazing up to this point! Edit: this is one of the most informative and enjoyable lectures I've seen in a while. There's the occasional lecture where the professor offers a not that much of info but is really good at cracking jokes and satisfying the students with some silly trivias, and there's this real yawner of a lecture where the professor bombards you with so much info that you actually start thinking it was a bad choice to wake up this morning... This is neither boring nor uninformative, I learned a lot and honestly you have your way of narrating history I could listen to you all day! I also think you remind me of this great author who I've been reading for a while now and he also has the same spirit you have and is really funny! Anyways, as a Syrian I appreciate your approach and I can say that it was very accurate, but as a fellow revolutionary I'd say you didn't give the public uprising that happened in almost every city for a really - relatively - significant duration its due right. Syrians didn't just start arming up the day after Al-Assad tortured those kids you mentioned. Peaceful protests (with no accompanying militarization) persisted for more than half a year before things took the route Al-Assad forced it to take (even after that the demonstrations kept going). Syrians fought with their voices much longer before they took arms, and for much longer than anyone in history could do, I'd argue, and they did it very well at that time. I know being a Syrian may delude someone to think that I'm just being biased but if you only look up for example "Homs 2011 demonstration" / "Hama 2011 demonstration" on YT you'll be shocked, even if you think you saw and know everything that happened you'll still be shocked... Alas, it all had to turn the way Al-Assad wanted it to!

[@momoffour5885]

I agree with everything you said, but outside powers took over and destroyed anything the original syrians started. That's why leaders have to lead with brutality bc the spies and outside powers are always looking for the way in to destroy Syria. Syria has always been the light of intelligence and arab class. The unity of the Syrians (no religious sectarism) Was something amazing. In the end, tearing the country apart has done nothing for the strains. Foreigners occupy the oil rich areas and society has been tore apart 😢it seems like there is no way to be truly independent with economic growth and civil society outside powers will always crush it unless you submit to their rules. Sometimes evenif you submit to their rules the crush you.

[@omarnw7824]

I noticed that too ,thanks for clarifying it in a comment

[@Baraa.K.Mohammad]

@@omarnw7824 Dude! What are the odds! I've seen you in another comment section! Nice to see you here too!

[@omarnw7824]

@@Baraa.K.Mohammad 🤣😜

[@rody995]

if I remember right it was more than half a year maybe it was even more than a year Syria was in peaceful protest, if you remember president morsy said " لبيك ياسوريا", mabye i wrong , and by then I believe the alayes "Russia,Iran...ecs" of al asad made their move with weaponizing to make everything go wrong

[@eljumaidilbinahmad2464]

There will be Western people or Christians who dislike Prof.Dr. Roy Casagranda for talking straight about the history of Syrian and the Middle East.

[@ArnoldTeras]

But it must be said, admittedly, most Arab Christians in Syria do seem to prefer Assad.

[@yaserbatal6474]

Because they were ordered by France to do so

[@moeuramo]

This man is helping me understand thanks better. Still a really complicated world but thank you 🙏

[@jerrybriardy]

He is an amazing teacher. He does not appear to be using any notes, this is all off the top of his head. He knows his material. I've studied this region myself and of everything he has said I've heard no mistakes and certainly much I never knew. Amazing how much I lived through that the media told us almost nothing about while it was going on or thereafter.

[@tomfala]

You almost covered everything. You didn't mention Russian involvement in the current Syrian conflict.

[@staticcouch135]

This lecture was before Russia got involved

[@jagga309]

Amazing prophecy of prophet Muhammad peace be upon him A time will come when nations gather like at a dinner and share you with each other. I'm paraphrasing but this is exactly what happened

[@kunaiflex491]

I like the info and the style of which it's relayed

[@AudioPervert1]

Spain absorbed 740,000 migrants (including refugees) in the last 10 years. The demographics made of Morrocans, Pakistani, Chinese, Columbian, Panama, Puerto Rico, Congolese, Nigerian, Libya, Western Saharawi and a few from Syria and Yemen. This year approx 78,000.

[@josephjacoub9856]

Professor Roy Casagranda, is worthy to watch every second of his videos! A true historian genius, who delivers historical facts in a highly entertaining manner!

[@FirdousAhmedLone]

4:53 Ottomans weren't arabs but their empire was arab 10:55 world's first aerial bombardment of a major city 13:37 origin of word iraq 🇮🇶 🇬🇧 15:35 the borders of middle east were a mess 31:41 flags of iraq 🇮🇶 syria 🇸🇾 Egypt 🇪🇬 32:40 UN & Palestine (Palestine choppéd into 8 parts) 35:55 Democracy & tyranny in African States 37:37 seuz canal cost as an excuse to invade 52:40 Iran iraq & US 1:01:17 abab spring ; that one ignite 1:12:28 isil is so insane that alqeada saves americans from them 1:34:00 refugee data & crises (US destroyed middle east & left europe to handle the refugee crisis)

[@khelifimohamedzakaria776]

I am Half Algerian half Moroccan. yes dialects are different even in Algeria : people from Oran have some specific words compared to people from Tébessa or Ghardaïa. but I can assure you that most Algerians can understand at least 90% of other Arab dialects, especially Syrian and Egyptian thanks to Cinéma and TV. I have contact with many Syrian construction workers and we can dialogue easily except some technical words because we are also french speakers while they are not. On the other hand the exception is Iraqis, I can hardly understand anything they say ! another fun fact, People from the Maghreb ( Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Libya ) seem to have more sophisticated formal Arabic words in their dialects compared to the east. we also tend to learn and speak easily other languages.

[@MsGorter]

What is the music at the beginning of the video?

[@romlyn99]

One thing I understand about Tunisia is that women’s rights were a big part of the reforms... and this is why the results of the revolution was better than other springs... and there is a socialist core to the reforms too. And my opinion is that if we let men make the bulk of the decisions for revolution it results in violence, but if you have women play a big role in the revolution and give women more rights in society it can have better results

[@romelben8207]

One of the best lectures ive seen. thanks alot.

[@tereliberty8714]

I'm unable to see maps behind which are critical to understand/follow information

[@suhaibal-rawhani5218]

Small correction Dr. yemeni flag does not have a triangle on the side, but during the 60s it had a single star in the middle

[@sea_clicks]

Very deep and conclusive event talk...learnt a lot..brilliant!

[@Rocco-fp5id]

One of the best Teachers i have come across in my life 🇮🇳

[@SocialJusticeNOW]

100% agree!

[@ehsanali9023]

Some corrections: Alqaeda means the base, not the leader. Alqaeda fought Iraqi civilians, and not US troops. In fact, the US wanted Alqaeda to cause damage to Iraq, so the Iraqis would think that they need America. There were other militias fighting the US troops, but the West just portrays all of them as Alqaeda. Also, Bashar Alasad never hosted Alqaeda, He might have hosted and supported other militias that were fighting the US, but not Alqaeda.

[@mirnasrullahkhan6588]

This was a master class in history, many thanks to the channel and Dr Casagranda!

[@arongitis]

so no mention of the gas pipeline... hmm

[@bash676]

1:12:50 the name Al-Kaida or Al-Qaida means the Foundation because they see themselves as the Foundation of the universal Jihad of Muslims against the infidels and imperialism and the name Taliban goes back to the golden age of Arabic Civilisation, where the students or Talabat Al-Ilem or seekers of knowledge, as the literal translation goes, were very respected in the arabic/Islamic society. very informative lecture, thank you roy. i'm a syrian living in your ancestral land germany by the way 😅.

[@nagamnsera50]

شاركو هذا الفيديو نحن نحتاجه ب الوضع الآن

[@Echov1bes]

Did KZbin take down the original video on the Austin School’s channel??

[@elfatihhumeida3059]

Fantastic thanks very impressive please use a map

[@brutromgaming2502]

yeah he have very terrible maps

[@maharaslan6983]

I am from Syria . Many mistakes but overall great job.

[@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810]

Yup but you expect from the US?

[@ba__con]

Can u share the mistakes please ?

[@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810]

@@ba__con -The first airplane was used in Libya by Italians, 23 October 1911 -Mongols were brutal at wars but very tolerant ruler, never forced people to change their language or religion(how many countries spoke Mongolian or believed in Tengri religion during Mongol reign) when Arabs forced and changed the language and religion wherever they went, see Syria, Egypt,Morocco. They could not change the language of Iranians-in a degree- and Turks which they are the muslim states Arabs has difficult relations. ... Too many mistakes, I stopped after few minutes. He looks like a brain-washed good guy. A good guy speaks lots of rubbish.

[@ba__con]

@@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810 thanks ... I've been recently trying to learn about different political science lectures about the region ... I'd hate to listen to someone who's brain washed though. how exactly is he brainwashed because I'm really curious to understand more about the truth on the middle east.

[@Technique787]

@@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810Western Puppet

[@matheuscarvalhais954]

Thank God al-Assad came out the victor! Long live the Tiger!

[@matheuscarvalhais954]

Benjamin Zamora broken link

[@jukesdisco8042]

Matheus Cruz know

[@raybulla]

ASS-ad and his father before him are bloodthirsty war criminals, who destroyed the country and most of its citizens too, Pol-Pot of Cambodia is a boy scout in comparison, check it out if you well... True as the Sun shines in the sky above

[@jamesgraham4242]

Ray Cosmo Bad loser. Ho! Ho! Ho! Who's got the last laugh now?

[@maracohen5930]

Assad had to win, or there will be no more Alawhite.

[@Modi2020]

Excellent video. Just a correction. Alqaydah means the "base" not the general.

[@ernestbailey6617]

Every speaker got its own story and the best is find out for yourself

[@mosaka1471]

The word iraq is what arabs call the land of mesopotamia, rivers tend to zig zag that has made them look like a plant root (many rivers with many curves) عروق اعراق عراق some other explanation says that they think its the origin which is the same word in Arabic Mohammed in one of his sayings call it iraq. syria Jordan Lebanon and Palestine are called Beelad Alsham (levant).

[@waynedem468]

Thank you and bless you Sir. I’m painfully aware how right you are.

[@TheMrlandman]

What an amazing lecture.

[@AbdulSattar-mp9de]

Please turn on the subtitles

[@stuartwray6175]

'Iran was maybe our best friend...even more than Britain, maybe.' He failed to mention the CIA coup of 1953 was done at Britain's (BP oil) request.

[@staticcouch135]

He mentions it during his contemporary Iran lecture

[@sarapatricius8473]

Thank you! ... I highly enjoyed this lecture!

[@zvonko57]

When was this published???

[@DArceVaderBJJAimanZinbi]

The word "iraq" has been used since before the 6th century AD. In the middle ages, arabs would use "iraq arabi" and "iraq 'ajami" for instance.

[@davidk5569]

I liked most of your talk. You started to loose me as you moved into current events, it could I be have my own views. I guess the truth will be left for those of the future to look back and discuss. Funnily I sat through the wars Afghanistan, Yugoslavia and Falklands on TV, I ate up the narrative. I look back and question my zeal for wars in those countries. i guess when people worry about age it is in a stable safe society, I hope i can live out my days before war comes to me.

[@rmt1594]

Roy Casagranda gives a brilliant and interesting perspective. People in the comments only want to hear what they want to hear. Although he did jump a few specific events.

[@minatohid7855]

Thank you so much for teaching unbiased history ماشالله

[@GBlonjohn]

The single most interesting video I’ve watched in a while. Thank you Prof. Casagrande.

[@muhammadsaalih5109]

But I’m not surprised that the British would edit history like that and take all credits to themselves…..

[@SocialJusticeNOW]

😮 To the victors go the spoils and write the history!

[@defsfeelblessed1068]

"They are gonna carve up the Ottoman Empire like a thanksgiving day Turkey " hahaha don`t know if this was on purpose but the Ottoman Empire = Turkey (back in the day) hahahaha. Need more pple like minded! Thank you for offering us drop outs this lecture for free.

[@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810]

He also made a mistake for Sykes-Picot. It was during WW1, just after British failure and surrender in Kut-ul-Amare. Too many mistakes, a kindergarten level joke but it is still good for ignorant US audience.

[@anthonyzabala2093]

i think as far as the options of true things you have a kind of study for the ones that have a prominent intellect of the sense of conversation giving us the intermittance of the authentic version of our minds, the body is obviously without a form for the images in the worlds sense of undoing, we make parts of these meanings, like names are to theyre indistinctions, or so this language seemingly is the popular reptuation of the way we live in these kinds of circumstances. so what i keep, i have the more deliberate affirmation of what i think i have to do. Somewhere in the exactness of elements is that we know life as a symbol of the chains of the secondary influences of sacraments or religions of the forces in the movements of the life around me. As though what is a fundamental example of the nature and the synthoms of a kind of written form of agreement of the intentions of the worldly moral of a comparitive understanding. is not of the distortions that you know of the land and the country of the way we perecieve that truth, in as such what we define as the crimes instituted in disruptions of change a way in which to stop the resolve of the indefintions of crime and a poverty of the will to do them. in is which not by admittance that in the occurance of the act that you can become without resoloution of the truth. to make the trials and tribulations of test a secret of the revelations of the virtue, the principal of the thinking that is greater of the aim and rituality of the agrievance of incidences telling the story of the unwritten sacraments of the rituality that is greater in the expectations of the unwilling circumstance to overcome them. for without the anticpations of the willlingness there is no admission of the working experiences to know of the reason or purpose for a thoughtless indifference to overcome these odds

[@imamburque]

He is too romantic to tell us how the world works

[@monshamad5581]

I wish you allow us to put all 5 UN languages to these lectures, it’s really good content I want everyone to watch it

[@mastergong8515]

thanks for this video great history knowledge, and very good research the world should honor you for this work

[@karaeyed5057]

What an eye opener

[@TheKamperfoelie]

‘You cannot keep a population down by terror for 100 years’ Russia: ‘hold my beer’

[@mandefu007]

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant: Informed, considered, with humour, anger and above all, intellectual weight. Roy Casagranda is brilliant. I am old, know this subject, and am in admiration.

[@hildataylor7998]

From 1:14:00 the professor provides a very sound argument against uncontrolled immigration of nationalities and particular ideologies that cannot easily assimilate with Western cultures.

[@HAMDANKARIEM]

anybody know the music sound at beginning?

[@mahmoudibra5822]

the lecturer is ignorant about our history !!! Iraq name was used by Arabs the time Britain was nobody at the time, a lot of mistakes , shallow discourse

[@kiarabickers9609]

Where can someone go to read acurate arab history? Very diffiuct to get his information in english.

[@pax2902]

Although simplistic Casagranda presents a fairly informed background of the Syria conflict. I presume his talk is directed at undergraduates.

[@brentnokes4365]

ITS DIRECTED AT YOUNG IDEALISTIC SOCIALISTS TO BE

[@HughCurranAedh]

That's good to hear. Socialist was a great ideal for our grandparents after the gilded age of hyper capitalists ruined the country and brought the Great Depression.

[@ransertu7630]

What do you expect from an hour or two. He's the only one giving us the complete background or can you link us a better lecture?

[@vinozarazzi5633]

Did the first name of kansler Angelas father also start with an A? And was he also a kansler?

[@begumbulbulia7486]

Why wasn’t the USS Liberty mentioned during the discussion on the 1967 Arab Israeli conflict?

[@shandani7215]

His pacing is distracting

[@mecanopasensa660]

It is so nice to make or imagine history our way, taking the real truth out, we can teach and make politics work in our favor. Historian must have a nobel prize, for making the world what really is today, a box of Pandora. "Full of lies"

[@abdiqanihashi484]

Context. Elaboration. Very eloquent.

[@fabiobcm]

Why the video was edited on 59:24???

[@samielkhayri9272]

The subject matter is really depressing but the oratory style more than compensates for it and creates an insatiable desire to keep listening.

[@mederkurd1762]

With this information, human beings can have a politically just order and reverse the injustice committed to the nations

[@user-jp3of7hu9b]

The word Iraq is the official name in Arabic language of Iraq in the pre-Islamic and post Islamic era, it's ancient. Another thing as a Moroccan i can say that the population in here is genetically mostly Arabic. Thank you

[@TJ-hs1qm]

no we are Imazigh. Arabized but Imazigh.

[@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810]

Who told you that Moroccan were Arabs?

[@TIWNGAF]

@@TJ-hs1qm i‘m arab from iraq, we love our imazigh brothers ❤️

[@zainaljerrde2885]

كلام جميل وصحيح

[@bucketiii7581]

I'd love to hear Prof explain the difference between Al Qaeda translated as "The General" and what we see more commonly, Al Qaeda translated as "The Base"

[@SzymonWeiss]

You are a hero, Roy.

[@fabiobcm]

Arab spring never happened in Brazil, it was United States hand for the coup d'etat we are facing now. Here in Brazil, we don't have any mass media news on what was really happening in the Arab world at that time. Except for the controlled movement in New York, following the examples the professor gave us, the so-called Arab spring just happened in countries where the United States has reasons to intervein.

[@AllenGraetz]

The flag referenced is one of many Confederate battle flags and was not the flag of the CSA.

[@jamesgraham4242]

ALL HAIL ASSAD UNITY, FREEDOM, SOCIALISM

[@ionezgb]

Assad is socialist? You got to be kidding me.

[@jamesgraham4242]

ionezgb Straight up. I thought everyone knew. "Unity, Freedom, Socialism" is the Syrian national motto. It's a secular state, Assad is a Baathist and they are socialists. Everyday the kids in Syrian schools pledge their allegiance for the Syrian Constitution and repeat the motto, "Unity, Freedom, Socialism." Same as US kids pledge allegiance for the US Constitution. That's what the war is all about....the capitalist dollar versus the commies. The Cold War never ended. Don't tell me you believed it was about religion, good Vs evil, Allah, freedom, democracy and human rights and all of that hogwash? It's always the dollars. Wall St hates the commies...and the commies hate the warmongering Wall St profit mongers.

[@ionezgb]

+James Graham I know that this isn't religious war but it isn't war over ideology. Baath party is misusing socialism and their ideology isn't based on Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Luxemburg, etc. Their ideology is more inline with fascism with their Arab nationalism and suppression of Kurdish autonomy that led even to genocide of the Kurds. Even Wikipedia says this: "Socialism in Ba'athist ideology does not mean state socialism or economic equality, but modernisation and Ba'athists believe that socialism is the only way to develop an Arab society which is truly free and united."* Syrian president Bashar al-Assad even allied with Syrian Social Nationalist Part(SSNP)** which is openly Nazi and even their flag and logo resembles Nazi swastika. I don't claim SSNP is full Nazi but they clearly have sympathies toward Nazis and true socialist regime would never ally with fascists and nazis because of their ideological differences especially since SSNP isn't a major factor in Syrian War and Assad doesn't gain much in the alliance with them. This is clearly imperialists trying to gain ground in anti-imperialist nation. Cold war have ended and communist bloc have failed, sadly, because of the multiple reasons I could spend years explaining. Clearly some remanents of communist revolutions are left in the world like China and Cuba but Syria is not one of them and Syria had never had real socialism. * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%27athism ** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Social_Nationalist_Party

[@thepincushionman7063]

No more wars for oil! Pull out Trump!

[@jamestcatcato7132]

ionezb Are you SERIOUS? "Wiki" is NOT a reliable source

[@razeetaushif6858]

I learned alot by this lecture... Thank you.

[@geoffreysmith49]

you rock, Roy. Much love and respect

[@christiansmith-of7dt]

Is there any way to stop it from hurting so much , not that I know of

[@uschurch]

There's very little history in this talk - most of which is common knowledge - and more often than not it is falsely or inaccurately retold by the speaker. There's also a lot of narrative in the talk. Very unprofessional. Is Casagranda supposed to be a scholar?

[@glenngerrard8124]

Urs Schuerch and he falsely claims Shukri al-Quwatli was assassinated by the CIA. Shukri al-Quwatli was not killed in the coup.

[@ralphvandereb66]

oh really do tell then your eloquent version. very few understand the middle east and its history but of course its commeon knowledge. were you upset by anychance that the us or uk didnt come off too well, i wonder

[@gilberttessier604]

Yes, there is a lot of short cuts in his lecture...but, he does state where his biais is...and he reveals lots of incongruities in the 'official' narrative. Good man! Not perfect, but I'm not myself, perfect! Excellent background info into this catastrophe and the dreadful consequences for civilians (millions) there, who are the descendants of the creators of 'our' civilisation. They were there before the Muslims, and before the early Christians. Actually, the Christians were there, 600 years before the Muslims, creating a sumptous civilization...Casagranda is a historian and a Community College Instructor. Congratulations, you deserve them, and more.. He's doing a great job educating a youth, although curious and attentive, that only kowns what they hear and see daily on television, through the lens of a well-oiled propagada machine(with sinister motives)...I wish he would have explained the help Syria provided in settling the civil war in Lebanon and keeping it civil war free for 20 years + to the 'commendation' and encouragement of the UN and its Security Council, until a recent war, started by Israel, and the two Iraq wars... I would have like to hear his description and thoughts about the disgraceful way Syria was chased out of Lebanon through the dark machinations of Western and neighbouring countries. Thank you Mr. Casagranda

[@goatvision6908]

Kuwait invasion was done in a quiet and calm manner? My Kuwaiti friends claim the Iraqi troops even took their window frames and doors from the houses. They said the Iraqis would have taken the roads if the asphalt could have been rolled. This man is speaking nonsense.

[@rayzimmerman6740]

@@goatvision6908 So your anecdotal evidence disproves everything. Well done.

[@potosifinance2481]

Guy has not one idea of what's going on in Syria.