March 15, 2021: “All politics is local” is an old observation about how local government develops its own character depending on the prevailing cultural, political and security situation. One of the strangest examples of a unique local government is the “Salvation Government” that has run Idlib province in northwest Syria since 2011. There is now a civil war brewing in Idlib as the main rebel coalition HTS (Hayat Tahrir al Sham) and its more than 15,000 armed men seek to replace the Salvation Government. One of the key disputes between the Salvation Government and HTS is control and regulation of the dozens of arms dealers who operate in Idlib under the authority of the Salvation Government and in cooperation with HTS, the biggest customer for weapons.
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even maybe george bush. but it s there now. so we ve got to do what we can do to root out the corruption and get that country on a straight and narrow path to oppose the russians. the syria quagmire has been you know, goes back to when we invaded iraq. you ve got all these different factions in there. a lot of the sunni syrians, you don t know whether they re isis or not. i feel the kurds have been valuable allies. i ve even written an op-ed that we should recognize iraqi kurdistan as an independent country. congressman francis rooney. republican from florida. retiring now. thanks for coming on, sir. much appreciate it. thank you very much. you got it. over on the senate side of capitol hill today, no answer was a popular answer for republicans when they were asked about ambassador bill taylor s testimony. take a listen. any reaction to bill taylor s testimony yesterday? i probably wouldn t be able to talk about it.
give our pilots a hard time. we would have to have probably a series of waves of a&e tacks to both take those systems down and now you are talking about incurring russian casualties in the wake of that before we could truly get at the heart of syrians air force. we could do it. and that maybe the next step? let s see how the russians respond today and the syrians respond today. i have seen some kind of chatter coming from the russian ministry of defense saying that the attacks were extremely ineffect actual and that they are going to beef up syrian air defenses. steve: shocking. yeah. shocker. and then i will be interested to see how the fight with isis is going. you know, we have had kind of an agreement with the russians which now they are saying they may pull out of that their aircraft say on one side of syria and ours stay on the other. now they the russians are saying they are going to pull out of that agreement and let s see how the fight over top of isis goes. ainsley: i lov