Dr. Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president and senior counterterrorism director in the soon-to-be-inaugurated Trump administration, said this on a special program. founders roundtable above Breitbart Fight Club The fall of the Assad regime in Syria will be a major blow to Iran.
During a nearly hour-and-a-half discussion Tuesday with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlowe and Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle, multiple Breitbart Fight Club subscribers spoke to Gorka via chat. I asked a question about Syria.
One subscriber, Eric Cadeau, asked Gorka, who is trying to take control of Syria now that there is a power vacuum, if it was possible that the person taking over Syria would be friendly to the United States. . another fight club A subscriber asked Mr. Gorka how the fall of the Assad regime would affect both the Ukraine war and the Middle East war, and how that would change regional arms movements.
Gorka said no one knows who will seize power in Syria and anyone who claims to know is “a total liar.”
“It's al-Qaeda that they're praising as the new person in charge. He's the bad guy. Someone who says, 'Oh, don't worry, I'll protect the minority.' No, he is actually a jihadist,” Gorka said.
Gorka said that the impact of the fall of the Assad regime on peace in the Middle East will depend on what happens before Trump takes office, but that the fall of the Assad regime is a problem for Iran and a potential opportunity for regional stability. emphasized.
“The fall of the Iranian regime is, in military terms, a terrible wound,” Gorka said. “Iran needed Syria not just as a client state, but as a client state that would siphon weapons and proxies to Israel and threaten other Arab Sunni states throughout the region.”
“If the Syrian people can take advantage of the collapse of the regime and get some kind of representative government established by themselves rather than the jihadists, the Kurds in the north will not be weakened, and Israel can continue its attacks on the Kurds.”Jihadists in the south When that happens, I don't want to tempt fate, but we may see stability in the Middle East that we haven't seen in generations. ”
“So if you do it right, you have everything to play for.The only question is, what is Joe? [Biden] Are you going to do it for the next 43 days? ” he concluded.
