Tales of Regime Change: Syria — The Arab Spring and Assad

Summary

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec

Episode: Tales of Regime Change: Syria — The Arab Spring and Assad
Date: January 2, 2026

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Episode Overview

Jack Posobiec, joined by Joshua Lysak, unpacks the true story behind the Syrian civil war, challenging mainstream narratives and exposing the Western role in Syria’s destabilization. The discussion traces the roots and consequences of regime change, focusing particularly on the CIA’s Operation Timber Sycamore, the role of the “Clean Break” doctrine, the catastrophic aftermath for both Syria and Europe, and how these interventions have fueled the ongoing migrant crisis and societal upheaval in the West.

Posobiec and Lysak argue that the Syrian civil war was not a native uprising, but an externally engineered conflict—driven by U.S. and allied interests—that has led to massive humanitarian disasters, demographic shifts in Europe, and profound unintended consequences.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Was Syria’s Civil War a Local Uprising or Foreign Engineered?

• Posobiec asserts the “civil war” in Syria was fundamentally a foreign intervention organized by the U.S., CIA, NATO, and regional partners.
• The largest, most expensive CIA operation ever mounted: Operation Timber Sycamore (09:05) funneled billions to “moderate rebels”—most of whom, in Posobiec’s view, were anything but moderate, with many later joining ISIS.

Quote:

"The Syrian civil war was never a Syrian civil war. The Syrian civil war was a neoliberal intervention into Syria backed by Barack Obama, his government, John Brennan, his CIA. The largest and most expensive CIA operation in history."
— Jack Posobiec [07:11]

2. Regime Change Doctrine: “A Clean Break”

• Lysak explains the “Clean Break” memo (09:54), developed for Benjamin Netanyahu in the 1990s, prescribed overthrowing secular Middle Eastern strongmen (Gaddafi, Saddam, Assad, eventually Iran) to secure Israel’s long-term position.
• America’s interventions in Iraq, Libya, and now Syria were all part of this playbook; the memo’s influence shaped bipartisan U.S. foreign policy for decades.

Quote:

"The idea was in order for Israel to have long term national sovereignty and security in the Middle Eastern region, its various strong men opponents...had to fall. And of course Iraq was on the list, Lebanon was on the list, Iran on the list, Syria on the list."
— Joshua Lysak [09:54]

3. Moral Framing, Media Narratives, and “Linguistic Dominance”

• Stage one of regime change, Lysak observes, involves demonizing the target regime for moral authority (“he’s gassing his own people!”).
• Posobiec and Lysak criticize Obama-era officials for using the term “ISIL” as a manipulative cue and a form of “neolinguistic dominance,” signaling policy loyalty and supposedly superior understanding.

Quote:

"If you use their words, they are in control of your reality. ... The use of ISIL was a way of saying, I am more intelligent and more informed than you because...the whole region is called the Levant."
— Joshua Lysak [14:39]

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"It's also a sign of loyalty, too, right? That we will make you say something that sounds stupid to prove that you're loyal."
— Jack Posobiec [14:48]

4. Christian Persecution and Unintended Consequences

• One repeated theme is that U.S.-backed interventions inevitably empower radical groups hostile to Christian minorities, fueling ethnic cleansing and massacres, as happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.

Quote:

"The great irony of American intervention is that American forces and proxies consistently align with those who slaughter Christian civilians every single time."
— Joshua Lysak [12:32]

5. The Manufactured European Migrant Crisis

• The Syrian war, according to both guests, was the main pretext for opening Europe’s borders to millions—many of whom, they claim, weren’t even Syrian refugees.

Quote:

"The Syrian civil war was used to create and manufacture the migrant crisis across Europe...many of whom didn’t even come from Syria. They came from North Africa, they came from Turkey, they came from places that did not have a civil war at all."
— Jack Posobiec [17:33]

• The infamous photo of the drowned boy on the beach is discussed as a manipulative tool, with Posobiec claiming that the child’s father was a human trafficker (23:11).

6. Role of NGOs and the Administrative-Global Complex

• Lysak describes a global “administrative NGO complex,” a revolving door of officials spanning U.S. political parties, multinational institutions, and charities, that consistently pushes mass migration and regime change, regardless of voter consent.

Quote:

"...An unelected bureaucratic worldwide network...sort of alliance of self appointed decision makers who believe themselves to be on the right side of history and are in a position to call the shots."
— Joshua Lysak [25:27]

7. Was Destabilization Deliberate or Naïve?

• Both agree: the migration wave was intentional. The goal, they argue, is to dissolve national identities, create "open societies," and forcibly spread Western (e.g., feminist, LGBTQ) values.

Quote:

"Yes, it was intentional. And it was a collaboration between and among various national governments, state governments, various aid agencies...the idea behind that, the justification from the neoliberal unelected elite is...anything that's not [open society] is bad."
— Joshua Lysak [29:24]

8. Broader Lessons: Empire, Hubris, and the Collapse of the West

• In an intense final monologue, Posobiec reflects on the dangers of imperial overreach, warning that regime change wars are inextricably linked with Western economic crises, demographic transformations, and cultural alienation.

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"Syria stands as one of the clearest warnings in modern history. A war that began with protests against corruption became a carousel of foreign interests and agendas, each one convinced it could bend the Middle east to its Will...Regime change is actually easy. Nation building is not."
— Jack Posobiec [36:22]

• He draws an explicit connection: George Bush launches the wars, George Soros manages the migration ("where the two Georges meet"), radically reshaping Europe’s demographic and political future (38:30).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Moderate Rebels:
  "I'm sorry, it's just not a thing." — Jack Posobiec [09:10]

• On the costs to Europe:
  "Was it worth it to get rid of Assad? Was it worth it to have your daughter raped and murdered? ... Is your life better now?" — Jack Posobiec [05:15]

• On democracy bypassed:
  "We were never asked, we were never asked once what we wanted... No, they gave up on that after Iraq." — Jack Posobiec [34:10]

• On migration and civilization:
  "All I have to say, Jack, is stay on track, they all go back." — Joshua Lysak [35:24] "Love it. Every single one." — Jack Posobiec [35:38]

• On the fate of Western nations:
  "Countries like London and France, excuse me, England and France may no longer be allies to the United States. They could become Muslim majority countries with nuclear weapons, totally destabilized..." — Jack Posobiec [38:35]

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Key Timestamps

• 00:52–01:31: Dramatic introduction, Assad dialogue (Posobiec & Lysak as Assad).
• 07:11–09:53: Operation Timber Sycamore; the real story of U.S. intervention.
• 09:54–14:11: “Clean Break” doctrine, the origins of regime change policy.
• 14:12–14:48: “Linguistic dominance”—the politics of calling ISIS “ISIL.”
• 17:33–20:00: The migrant crisis—how Syria’s war was used to open Europe’s borders.
• 23:11: Analysis of the “drowned boy” beach photo in migration debates.
• 25:27–26:33: The “administrative NGO complex” and deep state, global elite orchestration.
• 29:24–34:10: Was demographic transformation intentional?
• 36:00–38:30: Final reflections—Syria as a warning, the cycle of regime change, migration, and Western decline.

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Summary Conclusion

Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lysak lay out a hard-hitting, detailed critique of Western foreign policy, arguing that the Syrian civil war and its fallout are products of calculated, ideological projects by U.S. and Western elites. They pin blame for Europe’s destabilization, the surge in crime, and the erasure of Western cultural identity on regime change operations and the NGOs and politicians who facilitated weaponized migration. The episode closes as both a caution against hubris and a call to reclaim sovereignty, heritage, and a sense of national destiny.

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For those unfamiliar with the specifics of Syria, regime change, or the migrant crisis, this episode serves as a comprehensive, if highly opinionated, guide through the last decade and a half of Middle Eastern and European upheaval—told through the lens of those who see the official narratives as not just incomplete, but dangerously misleading.

Transcript

[Jack Posobiec]

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Christ is king.

Mr. President, you know the rhetoric of regime change is headed towards you from the United States. They are actively looking for a new Syrian leader. They're granting visas and visits to Syrian opposition politicians. They're talking about isolating you diplomatically and perhaps a coup d' etat or your regime crumbling. What are you thinking about that?

I feel very confident for one reason.

[Joshua Lysak]

Because I was made in Syria.

[Jack Posobiec]

I wasn't made in the United States. So I'm not worried. This is Syrian decision should be made by the Syrian people.

[Joshua Lysak]

Nobody else in this world.

[Jack Posobiec]

Syria's war is a mess. After six years, the conflict is divided between four sides, each side with foreign backers. And those foreign backers don't even agree with each other on who they're fighting for and who they're fighting against.

The Syrian Democratic Forces, another hodgepodge of rebel groups of primarily Kurdish fighters, an ethnic minority. They're backed by the US and often clash with the Turkish backed sna. They guard the prisons in the northeast that have ISIS fighters in them. So they're a really critical component to stability as well. And then there's the Hait Tarir Al Sham, or hts. This is who ultimately led the offensive to capture Damascus. They were originally established as an Al Qaeda affiliate led by a man who later led ISIS. They broke ties with Al Qaeda in 2016, but are still considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. turkey and others. It was in firm control of Idlib city and much of the province beforehand and had ruled that area with an iron fist. In late November, HTS advanced from Idlib to Aleppo, which they seized in just a few days with not just military and violence, but governance.

[Joshua Lysak]

After the fall of a brutal dictatorship in Syria, US Leaders say they will.

[Jack Posobiec]

Recognize and fully support a new Syrian government if it's credible, inclusive and non Sectarian. Now the come has come after rebel.

[Joshua Lysak]

Forces overthrew dictator Bashar al Assad this weekend.

[Jack Posobiec]

His regime had been in power for 50 years. He's been allied to Russia and Iran.

[Joshua Lysak]

And is accused of chemical attacks on his own people.

[Jack Posobiec]

The Defense Intelligence Agency in August 2012 said, and I quote, there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in eastern Syria. And this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want in order to isolate the Syrian regime. The US Saw the ISIL caliphate coming and did nothing. All right, folks, welcome back. Today got another episode of our series, Regime Change Tales of regime change, Syria, Arab Spring, Dirty War. We look at Syria. This is an interesting case because the regime change happened just a few months ago. And we're waiting to see what takes place. Since this is a case where a dictator was overthrown, massive civil war took place, millions of people were displaced. In the wake of this, a huge refugee crisis began. Europe has been completely destabilized because of Syria. And so this is something people need to understand and you cannot separate. We're going to get into in this episode with Joshua Lysek, the governments, particularly of Western Europe, the countries of Western Europe have been completely destabilized by the Syrian civil war, which was a regime change operation. We're going to walk you through that. Operation timber Sycamore. The U.S. government, NATO worked together to formulate this operation and they did so with help. This goes back to that Clean Break document that we were telling you about before, all the way back in the 1990s that was, yes, prepared for Bibi Netanyahu and said, you got to get rid of Gaddafi in Libya, you got to get rid of Saddam in Iraq, and you got to get rid of Assad in Syria. And then what did the US Government do? Well, it worked to do all of those. And the very last one, the very last one that they recommended getting rid of was the regime in Iran. So when we look at these policies, when we go through the amount of atrocities, the amount of death, the amount of destabilization that takes place in the wake of these regime change wars, we have to ask ourselves, is it worth it? Was the Syrian civil war worth it to Europe? No, certainly not. Go ask the parents of any of those raped and murdered little girls in Ireland, in France, in Germany, were the raping girls in swimming pools? Was it worth it to get rid of Assad? Was it worth it to have your daughter raped and murdered? Was that, is your life better now? I know. No, it's so terrible that happened to your daughter. But hey, at least we got rid of Assad, right? Is that a comfort maybe to them, to those families? No, I don't think so. I don't think it holds up. I don't think it holds scrutiny. And if you think a regime change operation in or a war in Iran would lead to any more, you're kidding yourself. It would be horrendous. And that is why my friend Charlie Kirk flew to Washington D.C. and went to the White House and spoke with President Trump about opposition to a regime change war in Iran. He said no bomb, the missile sites, nuclear sites, that was one thing. But a full on regime change war? No, we're not for it. Mag is not for it. The American people are not for it. We're going to explain to you the abject horror of what happens when these operations are unleashed in the Middle East. In today's episode on Syria, Nothing will.

[Joshua Lysak]

Stand in our way.

[Jack Posobiec]

And our golden age has just begun.

This is Human Events with Jack Posit.

Now it's time for everyone to understand what America first truly means. Welcome to the second American Revolution. All right, Jack Posobic, we are back here. This is tales of regime change, Syria, the Arab Spring and Assad. And this is the main thing that people have to understand about the Syrian civil war is that the Syrian civil war was never a Syrian civil war. The Syrian civil war was a neoliberal intervention into Syria backed by Barack Obama, his government, John Brennan, his CIA. The largest and most expensive CIA operation in history. Over a billion dollars was spent by the U.S. government. And there's no Charlie Wilson's war movie about this. Hollywood won't talk about it. So you know about Operation Cyclone that we talked about in the Afghanistan episode, but have you ever heard of Operation Timber Sycamore? Well, Operation Timber Sycamore, boys and girls, is when the quote, unquote, moderate jihadis, remember the moderate jihadis that we were told about by John McCain and so many people, Lindsey Graham, who were backing this back at the time, they said, oh, we'll work with the moderate rebels, the moderate rebels against Assad and we'll back them to take down his murderous butcherous regime the same way they talked about it with Saddam Hussein. Now, keep in mind at this point, Iraq war is still going when this gets launched in 2011, as is Afghanistan. So they think these wonderful geniuses in Washington D.C. think that it's so smart, all these wars they're doing in the Middle east that they're just going to go for Another one, they're going to launch one in Damascus. So you get Barack Obama, you get Brennan, you get Hillary Clinton, of course, and they start funding all of these quote unquote moderate rebel networks, which, I'm sorry, it's just not a thing. And who do they work with? They work the Jordanians and they work with the Saudis yet again to fund these forces and those become the rebels. So these are US backed proxies, a proxy war that is a dirty war that is unleashed against Syria. And it spills over very quickly because some of those quote unquote moderate rebels don't seem to be so moderate at all. They become the group you may have heard of called the Islamic State. They become isis. Joshua Lyzak, I mentioned as well, you know, some of the countries that were supportive of this. But it has to be said, there's one other country that goes back to the clean break memo that supported the overthrow of Assad. Joshua, tell us about that.

[Joshua Lysak]

Yes, thank you for having me on. Jack. What we discussed the other day on Iraq is that the clean break memo was a memo that was prepared for the Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. Oh, does that sound interesting? Late 1990s, the idea was in order for Israel to have long term national sovereignty and security in the Middle Eastern region, its various strong men opponents in the Middle east within Islamic countries all had to fall. And of course Iraq was on the list, Lebanon was on the list, Iran on the list, Syria on the list. We identified how the anti Saddam Hussein sentiment was a strange coalition of evangelical Christians, neoliberals who believed in creating an open and prosperous society where there's universal suffrage and women's rights. And as we saw with the USAID fiasco, various LGBTQIA programs are getting funded in 99.99% Islamic countries. What we have here is a fail to understand the locals cultures and customs. Same thing here in the Syria situation. And what I urged in the Iraq episode is the Christians in the audience to consider the consequences of regime change on the Christians. Syrian Christians have had a very bad time following the Syrian civil war, which as you said is sort of a pseudo civil war. And it's more so a manufactured regime change situation that follows the same pattern of regime change that we have witnessed in Afghanistan. We witnessed it in Iraq if we go to other countries, ironically the British colonies 1760s, 70s and 80s following a similar regime change. But that's for another day. Coming back to this situation, remember that the stage one of regime change is the demonization, the moral Authority, we have to go in there and take him out. And that, of course, is all of these videos of United nations inspectors and aid workers who are being attacked by Assad forces. And I remember listening to NPR and reading the New York Times at the time and seeing the case being made by satellites and affiliates of the Obama administration that this was the most just war of the modern age. And that was the stage one. The we gotta go in there and do something. Preparation, operational preparation of the environment. If anyone who's read the Inhumans hypothesis book in the audience, you'll recall how before a revolution is unleashed, they got to get things ready on the ground. They got to identify who are the friendlies, who are the enemies. And the great irony of American intervention is that American forces and. And proxies consistently align with those who slaughter Christian civilians every single time. In one of these situations, we talked in the Afghanistan episode, how American allies, quote, unquote, against the Taliban were these pedophile warlords and American soldiers were prohibited from intervening and saving the children, saving these young boys from being victimized by these monstrosities. In any case, we of course, saw the Intervention Act 2 intervention in Syria with again, both the proxies and the supporting those on the ground. I remember hearing stories how there were these insurgents allied with the United States who were receiving resources, weaponry, intelligence, and they would later go on to become isis. Or as the Obama administration, President Barack Obama himself would always say, ISIL for some reason, which sort of is the NPR American version of it, I suppose. And then again, the aftermath and consolidation, stage three of regime change did not go as well, actually.

[Jack Posobiec]

Wait, wait, Joshua, Joshua, hold on. The. The use of the word ISIL as opposed to isis, which everyone in the. In media and everyone in regular, you know, the regular world was saying was actually a link, a form of linguistic dominance. Why is it that the neoliberal regime forces these tricks on us, like neolinguistic dominance? Why do they force us to. To use their words like that?

[Joshua Lysak]

Because if you use their words, they are in control of your reality. And the most effective, we'll say.

[Jack Posobiec]

It'S also a sign of loyalty, too, right? That we will make you say something that sounds stupid to prove that you're loyal. You know what I mean?

[Joshua Lysak]

Yes, that's correct. And we see this across left wing cultural movements, both abroad and domestically, of course. For example, we noticed how the individuals who are transvestites, that was changed to be transgender to make it a thing, for example. Now, what's interesting is we're seeing some reversion we're seeing some rollback of some of that language. You might recall how a couple of days ago, as of this publication, a couple of days ago, there was this Department of Homeland Security post from the official X account referring to illegal immigrants who were sodomites. Sodomites. Poso administration is going buckle on these people. Right? Calling it like it is. That is also a cue that we are not using politically correct language anymore. We are rolling it back and they are all going back. The use of ISIL was a way of saying, I am more intelligent and more informed than you because it's not simply the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. It is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which is a sort of NPR listener cue those who are familiar with that communication. It's a way of saying, I am more enlightened and educated than you because I understand that the whole region is called the Levant. Right. Levantine. It's a way of showing you, in just one word, I know more than you, therefore I am in charge. That's the linguistic dominance. And despite the catastrophe that was unleashed by the botching of stage not two, but stage three in Syria of a regime change. And that's where you try to install your guide, stabilize things. Well, look how that's turned out in Syria. Literally the day the Assad situation turned for the worst, from his perspective, what did we see posted all over X? We saw the live leak equivalent of massacres of Christians, men, senior citizens, women, and of course, children en masse, by quote, unquote. Our guys. We were supposed to hate this Assad man because he was like, serious. Putin was a regular reference that I heard used during the time period. Oh, wait. Unintended consequences. Jack, where have we seen that before? But only everywhere.

[Jack Posobiec]

Well, and not only that, do we. What do we receive in response to this? The Syrian civil war was used to create and manufacture the migrant crisis across Europe and many parts of the US as well. It was used to manufacture the migrants, many of whom didn't even come from Syria. They came from North Africa, they came from Turkey, they came from places that did not have a sil a. A civil war at all. And yet millions upon millions of these people were told by Angela Merkel and so many other members of the EU that they had to come to Europe, France. They were coming from right across. Right across in Algeria had nothing to do with the Syrian civil war. So why did the EU do this? Quite the interesting question. We'll get to that next second. Today, you know, they talk about influencers These are influences and they're friends of mine. Jack. Where's Jack? Jack, who's got a great guy. All right, Jack, we're back here with Joshua Lysak. Now, Joshua, I want to be clear about something that when we talk about the zookeeper theory, when I talk about that's, that's, that's the zookeeper theory that I, I ascribe to that when you have these zookeepers, we're not saying that they are good people from some sort of like abstract moral, you know, moral standard. What we're saying is that they are better relative to the alternative of what would be in place. And so we saw the Syrian civil war, one of the dirtiest wars, one of the bloodiest wars the Middle east has ever seen. Entire villages wiped out, people killed en masse, reprisals, family reprisals. And you could you. Anyway, people can go watch the mass graves. You can go on telegram right now and look at the mass graves. So Joshua, I guess my, my point is, is that we sit there and we, I actually, let me put it this way. We sit there and we say we're taking out a bad guy, quote, unquote. And yet we will unleash some of the most horrific atrocities and violence all in the name of being on the right side of history. It's truly amazing, isn't it?

[Joshua Lysak]

Yes. We talked in the Afghanistan episode. How history is, is, is written by the ghostwriters of the side that wins. And so they are able to tell the story that is going to be best consumed by the populace and received the best. I remember 2015, but real quick backing up it was in 2014. There was not a direct invasion by the United States into Syria, but there was arms provided, there was training, intelligence, airstrikes that supported the anti Assad rebels like the so called Free SY Army. There were some Kurdish forces there as well. And then there was also involvement from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, allegedly Israel, and then of course Russia having an allyship there with, with, with, with Bashar Al Assad. A truly proxy war between these various regional powers jockeying for position. We want our people who are friendly to us to be in charge there. The great migrant crisis occurred beginning in 2015 after a few subsequent months of this. And what we were regularly seeing and hearing on the pages of the New York Times on npr would be these individuals who had been born and raised in Syria and had become educated in the United States. They had family back over there and they would share their, let's say, n =1, sob stories of how this beautiful home of ours, that it was part of a compound that our great great great great grandfather built all these many years ago. It was wiped out by Assad's forces. The subtext being we got to take him out because he's awful. Even if you look into the story, it, it turns out that ISIS affiliated rebels had seized that compound and it was destroyed by Assad's forces. Never mind that, of course, the, the, the slate of hand here. The little white lie is Assad's just going around blowing up his own country and gassing people chemical weapons.

[Jack Posobiec]

Right?

[Joshua Lysak]

That's the narrative that was being pushed. Similar to the weapons of mass destruction hoax with Iraq. The moral authority decision happens in stage one, so that it can kind of have this, I guess you could call it cover fire, persuasion, cover fire. That happens. And in order to maintain the mass immigration of Middle Easterners and North Africans and East Africans into Europe and into the United States and North America, there had to be an n=1 story. And of course, we all saw the truly tragic, I will say the drowned boy on the beach. That photo went around the world and became, became used by the likes of Angela Merkel in Germany and others to open wide the floodgates of immigration being allowed, actually.

[Jack Posobiec]

Joshua. Joshua.

[Joshua Lysak]

And also to the United States.

[Jack Posobiec]

And I'll, and I'll throw in on that picture, by the way, for folks who don't know. And this is how all pictures are. Peter Duke has this great line that all pictures are all photograph. Every photograph is a lie. Every photograph is a lie. Because it later came out that that child's father was in fact a human trafficker and was involved in those human trafficking operations. So again, this didn't have anything to do with people fleeing from, again you said Turkey. This is not people fleeing from warfare. There's no civil war in Turkey. In Turkey they are safe. In Turkey, there was no Syrian civil war because you're not in Syria anymore. In fact, it was a child who was being caught up in human trafficking operations, child trafficking operations, horrific things that are going on. And look, I'm just going to say, you know, I wish and I had a hope for Naito at one point that following the demise of the Soviet Union, that NATO would be able to be moved from this anti Russia organization to an organization that would focus on things like this, that would focus on drug trafficking, child trafficking, going after sleeper cells and, and these terrorist groups as they're small. You would think that that would have been, you know, across Europe, by the way. You know, across Europe and in our lands. And you would think that that would be the state, like the actual places where NATO has membership, you know, like, like the US and NATO, like those are the NATO countries. So you would, you would work and sort of reform it as a, you know, quasi military but policing operation to go against these counter national threats. And of course with the Mediterranean, you may have to cross the Black Sea, you may have to cross from time to time, but it's, it's always in furtherance of smashing one of these organizations. And yet what we saw NATO do then is actually, I would say enhance and expand those types of operations and conduct proxy wars and dirty wars in places like Syria that aided child traffickers and human traffickers and instead let innocent people to die. And this is where it gets really dark, folks. This is where it gets really dark. Because as we always say, Joshua, the point of a system is what it does last minute to you, Joshua Isaac.

[Joshua Lysak]

Yes, that's correct. The book that Data Republican and I have recently finished the manuscript for release in 2026. We trace the, it's called the administrative NGO complex. It's an unelected bureaucratic worldwide network, unofficially, but you'll notice that the same people keep propping up from one think tank to another. For example, there are individuals who went from working in the Bush administration to the Obama administration to working for organizations like the World Economic Fund, World Bank, NATO even, and this is this sort of alliance of self appointed decision makers who believe themselves to be on the right side of history and are in a position to call the shots. And in the case of Syria, as it was with Iraq and Afghanistan, well, our nation building regime change efforts didn't exactly work. You know, fight them over there so we don't fight them over here was the expression. Alternative then is to let's import their citizenry from over there to over here.

[Jack Posobiec]

The road to hell is often paved with good intentions. There's not one, but two wars that are being waged in Syria. First is a war to defeat isis, Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups. This is a war against terrorists who declared war on America. And it's a war that we must win. The second is the counterproductive war to overthrow the government of Assad, an illegal war that Congress has not authorized and which must end. This war to overthrow the Syrian government has strengthened rather than weakened our enemies. Like isis, working with countries like Saudi Arabia and Turkey, we are fueling a brutal civil war that's caused the deaths of over 400,000 Syrians and millions more Refugees fleeing their homes. The fact is, if this war is successful and the Assad government is overthrown, the strongest force that exists in Syria, that will take over in Syria is ISIS and Al Qaeda.

These Turkish protesters want Syrian refugees to go home. Police arrested hundreds of people after anti immigrant violence in several cities earlier this month. It was triggered by accusations of a Syrian man harassing a child. The violence against Syrian businesses and properties has upended Turkey's once welcoming reputation. Half of all Syrians, 11 million, have been forced from their homes and many of them are driving the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. A German newspaper refused reports that the government there expects as many as one and a half million refugees, nearly double the previous estimate. We're talking about Syria, Joshua. We've seen this migrant crisis and Syria was really used, this proxy war, as used as the impetus for it, where so much of the rape of our daughters, the rape of European women, the killing of European children, in many cases, the mass rapes, things that we saw in Rotherham and others, were perpetuated by this mass importation of Middle Easterners across the continent. We're seeing it now happen in the United States as well. And part of me has to say, do you think that any of this was intentional? That they actually wanted to open the United. Dearborn, Michigan comes to mind. Places like Minneapolis, Somalia come to mind. And this is beyond, I think, the scope of just Syria. But you really have to wonder, the same people who launched these wars are also the ones who opened the borders of Europe and opened the borders of the United States. And are we really crazy for asking the question if this was not in fact, intentional?

[Joshua Lysak]

Yes, it was intentional. And it was a collaboration between and among various national governments, state governments, various aid agencies that receives significant amount of taxpayer dollars and private donations, these sorts of networks that you can, that you can track. And Republican has a fantastic job of tracking these and publishing these, and they'll be in the upcoming book she and I have done together. It comes back to what, from their perspective. This, this unelected global elite that we are paying for, we are funding these efforts. It all comes down to our paychecks being smaller, our taxes being higher, in order to import the third world so that we become the third World. The idea behind that, the justification from the neoliberal unelected elite is again, there are these strong men over there who have these closed societies. They have rigid religious rules, they are ultra conservative because that is all the case. That's bad. That is a kind of foundational good versus Evil open society, meaning liberal, democratic, free, so to speak, that's good. Anything that's not, that is bad. So a nationalist populist bad. An open global LGBTQIA + 4th wave feminist society good. If we can't directly affect that national government via regime change, we can import their people and via that exchange, that intercultural communication, those relationships, we can turn Somalia into, let's say, Manhattan. By importing Somalis, we can turn Libya into a free society. By importing Libyans, we can make Turkey more secular, democratic and free by bringing Turks into our borders. Now, that was not publicly made clear to the voters, to the taxpayers in our various countries. In the Western world, there are these toxic, empathy driven stories that. Look at this photo of this poor child. See this, this horrific situation happening back home. We have to lower our immigration vetting standards. It's the right thing to do, be on the right side of history. It's mean in order to keep out these people. They're just trying to come here and live a better life, these Syrians. And yet somehow, when we see what's happening, not just Syrians, but Pakistanis, we're seeing Chinese nationals, members of the Chinese Communist Party coming across the border. Same people from also Somalia, Eritrea, even from parts of southeastern Europe who have criminal backgrounds, criminal records and ties to the mob in those countries are coming into Europe and committing many of these crimes. But there are the cases where actual Afghans and others from Iraq and whatnot have committed heinous crimes. Syrians also in the Western world, we saw that recently prior to Thanksgiving, National Guardswoman being murdered by an Afghan who we talked about in the Afghan episode, the disaster that that was again, unintended consequences of regime change. But to get back to your question, Jack, yes, it all is intentional. And the unelected elite who are deciding these things, it's not some vast global conspiracy. It's simply people who inhabit the deep state, which is, frankly, publicly available knowledge. These think tanks associated with the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, with religious organizations like Catholic Charities, with the World bank, with wef, the sort of United nations networks that we've seen. This is publicly available, but it's not quite accessible to us, the citizenry. We don't quite have it all figured out. And that's what Data Republican is for. So we're excited about releasing that book in 2026 to expose it all. Coming back to it, yes, it was intentional. And if you look at why they did it, they did it because they believed naively that they were doing the right thing. An Open society that we can control to make them be democratic and free and feminist and gay friendly. That's good. That's enlightenment values. That's a exvangelical aligned, secular alternative to Christianity. But the. But the realization that we have all had to come to is not all cultures are created equal.

[Jack Posobiec]

And folks, nobody wants to talk about that. Nobody wants to talk about the fact that these people were led into our countries. These people were led to be around our civilization, our neighborhoods, our families, our towns, our schools, our churches. We were never asked, we were never asked once what we wanted, what we preferred, what we wanted to happen. No, we were never asked once. We were never even asked if we wanted to get involved in a proxy war in Syria or Libya. No, they gave up on that after Iraq. If they saw that debacle after the tide turned, they said, we're not going to stop, we're just going to lie about it. Want to say, oh, look, there's these rebels and we're going to go support them. But don't worry, they're moderate. Oh, look, there's a dictator. We're going to take them out. Everything will be great. Don't worry about the massive border explosion. That'll happen afterwards. That's okay. We vetted everyone who's come in. Oh, sorry. Are they. Are they shooting girls outside of the White House? Oops, sorry about that. But don't worry, don't worry. That was just a one off. It won't. Oh, it happened again. Oh, and again. No, don't worry, that'll never happen again.

[Joshua Lysak]

With all of these regime change debacles that have brought the third world over here so that we become the third world. All I have to say, Jack, is stay on track, they all go back. Stay on track, they all go back.

[Jack Posobiec]

Love it. Every single one. That the action item for this for U.S. operations right back.

Friday marks eight years of civil war in Syria. And today we're taking a look at how the ongoing conflict has shaped what some call one of the world's worst refugee crisis. Let's take a look at the numbers. At least 6.2 million Syrians are internally displaced, while another 5.7 million have sought refuge abroad. 13 million people in Syria are believed to be in dire need of humanitarian aid.

Well, folks, here we are. I gotta tell you, at the end of the day, Syria stands as one of the clearest warnings in modern history. A war that began with protests against corruption became a carousel of foreign interests and agendas, each one convinced it could bend the Middle east to its Will. Intelligence agencies drew lines on maps. Diplomats drafted transition plans. Think tanks issued white papers calling for managed change. But none of them could control the chaos they unleashed. Washington wanted leverage. Riyadh wanted influence. Tehran wanted survival. Ankara wanted dominance. Moscow wanted a foothold. And in Tel Aviv, security strategists watched every shift in power, every militia advanced, every Iranian convoy, calculating how each outcome might tilt the regional balance, especially along the Golan and Levantine corridor. In support of these operations, all of these players had their own map of what they thought Syria should look like. But none of them had a plan for what would happen when the country collapsed under the weight of their competing visions. And the Syrian people, the ones trapped in the middle between militias, proxies, airstrike, sanctions, blockades, foreign fighters, global rivalries that never had anything to do with their lives in the first place. The great irony is this. Every outside power thought that they were shaping Syria, but Syria ended up shaping them, exposing their limits, their overconfidence, their blindness to the law of unintended consequences. So from Afghanistan to Iraq and now Syria, we see the pattern emerge. Regime change is actually easy. Nation building is not. And when outside powers try to rearrange ancient cultures, sex, tribes, loyalties with the stroke of a pen or the push of a drone button, the result is never the clean break they imagine. It is a chain reaction that they cannot stop. And that's the point. So go look at the destabilization of Europe now. And this is where the two Georges meet. Remember, George Bush launched the wars and then George Soros does the nation building and brings in the migrants. It's all connected. President Trump spoke about this recently. He said that if the demographics continue the way they are in Europe, then countries like London and France, excuse me, England and France may no longer be allies to the United States. They could become Muslim majority countries with nuclear weapons, totally destabilized, totally destabilizing. Allies that we've had for hundreds of years, since America's founding. France, our oldest ally, and the U.K. of course, our mother country, from whence the United States derives Europe, who the United States is indelibly linked to. That's why we have NATO, because we are all European, because that's where the United States comes from. That is where our history comes from. There's our lineage comes from. And yet somewhere along the way, we decided that we were going to be these global masters of the entire world, but also in some strange fashion, able to invade the world but invite the world at the same time. When Saudi terrorists blew up The World Trade Centers. We decided to invade Afghanistan in Iraq. We didn't do anything to the rogue factions of the Saudi royal family or Saudi intelligence services that were involved with this. Nothing at all. And we certainly didn't question the Bush family's ties to them. No, no, no. That would have been too much. They say past is prologue. And it's taken us a long time to get where we are. A lot has happened. A lot will happen. But what's great is that we have choice. We have agency, we have God's will. We have the ability to say, we don't want to live like this. We don't want to live in sin. We don't want to live with our countries being invaded. And Pope Leo, by the way, his response to Islamic migration to Europe. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but you're just wrong, Pope Leo. You're just wrong. Because this isn't happening as some natural outflow. This is an operation. This is weaponized migration, a form of hybrid warfare against the populations of their own nations from governments and supranational interests, as we've been talking about. And it needs to stop. There was once a time when the Church stood as the bulwark against the Islamic takeover of the West. And I would love to see that happen again. I truly would. I would love to see the Western church and the Eastern Church reuniting in order to defend against this. Because if we put God at the center of everything that we do, if we put our religion at the center of everything that we do, if you put God first, then we will see. We will see the ability to defend that which God wants, which is life. God demands that we create life. And as such, if our communities, towns, countries are centered around this, we will flourish. But we become centered around self fulfillment and wars of adventure, regime change, operations. Guess what? Everything will collapse. This is how empires fall. They call it imperial overreach. And you always wonder, you always wonder, why is it that? Why do these empires overreach so much? Don't they know that that's what causes the empires to fall apart? Apparently not. Because when you look at the situation we find ourselves in, you could still find people right now in Washington, D.C. that will tell you, that will sit there and tell you till they're blue in the face that it's perfectly fine for the United States to be involved in wars all over the world, all at the same time. Taiwan, Ukraine, Middle East, Iran, doesn't matter. Venezuela, do it all. Four front wars, three front wars, two front wars. We don't need to do this. And what we're doing with tales of regime change specifically is I'm not making a political pitch one way or the other, necessarily. But what I'm saying is these are the stories of the times. This has been tried in the past, in the recent past, and how things have done. And for some reason. Well, I think we know what the reason is. We don't talk about the recent past. We don't talk about Iraq. We don't talk about Afghanistan. We don't talk about Syria. We don't talk about Libya. And yet all these things have happened. They've happened recently. We kind of wave our hands and we say, oh, it's not our fault, or it didn't really happen that way, or it was a shame, but we'll figure it out and we'll get it right this time. We'll get it right this time. No. You know who says that? An addict. That's the way an addict talks. The money printing, the hyperinflation. You can't separate that from the regime change wars of the United States. The economic situations with which we live today are totally, totally tied to the things that we have done in the Middle East. We could have gone to Mars. We could be colonizing the moon, but instead, we decided to take a detour and invade the Middle East. And as we close this chapter, remember this. The modern world is full of people who believe they can control the storm, who believe that they can control all of these elements, who believe that they are the grand chess masters on the world stage. But you have to have humility. You have to put God first. You have to understand that I may not have all the answers. You must fight and reject hubris, because hubris comes in many forms. Hubris. There's those golden sacks pulled over your eyes to close you down and make you think that the only thing before you is gold, when in fact, the only thing before you might be sand. And Syria is what happens when you are wrong. The Syrian civil war, Operation Timber Sycamore, the rise of isis, the Caliphate, the massive migrant explosion all across Europe, and, yes, the Muslim migrants in North America. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay.