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well, let s go back a little bit, back when the soviet union and a nascent russia used to operate in the eastern mediterranean. apart from a few aircraft and an occasional ship that would come to tartous, syria, russia had no real presence in the middle east. they were essentially selling some weapons systems, tanks, you know, any aircraft to essentially third-world potentates. now russia dominates one-third of the middle east, the entirety of the near east, with the exception of israel, now has russia as a strategic partner with syria, with iran. it has, you know, its economic claws into saudi arabia by selling weapons systems. it has an alliance with turkey that appears to be an axis of autocra autocrats. all of this spells america s strategic power in syria has gone to a level that we haven t had since before world war ii,
in a tug of war between civilian protesters and the military meanwhile the economy is suffering saudi arabia and the united arab emirates want to send three billion dollars worth of aid to saddam which according to the united nations are the poorest countries in the world despite an abundance of natural resources. it said a million people are toiling their way through sudan s deserts and mountains gold diggers dreaming of striking the mother lode and the subsequent life of the gold mining has been around here since the time of the pharaohs but most of what s found nowadays winds up in the pockets of the khartoum government and its regional potentates there s not enough funding or know how here for industrial scale mining . and who wants to invest in a country anyway it s caught up in a revolution. after three months of mass protests the military stepped in and took power. but the demonstrations continue the sudanese people are demanding that power
another example of what he s looking at is with qatar if you just take that example, the kushner companies had discussions with the government of qatar about possibly funding some of their properties, those talks fell through. there was obviously a blockade that was the white house strongly supported against qatar. what was the time sequence between not getting the money wanted and hurting them? well, it was weeks, perhaps months. but the sequencing was close because if you think of when the blockade started to take place it was only last spring. betsy let s have your reporting on this. he s doing business with middle eastern potentates and then serving u.s. policy. there s a conflict. one piece of this qatar story that s caused a significant amount of consternation to qatari officials and diplomats that have to deal with the united states is kushner was a key player in getting the white
steroids. i remember well what happened in 1979. he was shocked and surprised, those were his words, about the sacking of the u.s. embassy in kabul, of all places, and the murder of a u.s. ambassador. what we now see is a vacuum created by the united states withdrawal from this part of the world, the promise of disengagement, and it s being filled by radical islamists. and that s not going to get better no matter how many former potentates he bows to or apologizes. the fact is u.s. military, diplomats and businesses all over that part of the world are now vulnerable, and it s not because of the green revolution. it s because the united states of america has been backing away from allies, we ve ignored the syrian debacle, we re paying a price for the apologies that do not beget respect. megyn: how do we pin it on this administration s policies though, colonel north? because it seems like these radical extremists overseas