Can Syria’s New Government Rebuild the Country?
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After over a decade of civil war and painful sanctions, Syria's new government has the difficult task of reviving its broken economy. So in this video we explore how they're planning on rebuilding the country and the challenges they'll face along the way.
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you used the assad era flag to represent syria instead of the current flag
Shit nobody cares about award
@genbab6989he's right tho lol
@genbab6989 that’s the equivalent of using the nazi flag to represent current Germany bitch we care, The Ba’ath in Syria have is the nazi party to eu
@genbab6989no no we do care lil man the country is over Assad.
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I think it would’ve been better if you used the modern flag of Syria, the one that tries to separate the country from its oppressive regime. I know it’s yet to be widely recognized but it’s basically the flag that’s used everywhere, by both the government and the people..
"Separates Syria from its oppressive regime". Idk how to break this to you brother, but Syria is still under an oppressive regime, it's just ruled by a new face.
@fathertedczynski We’re still observing the new government and so far they aren’t doing anything slightly similar to the previous one. Yes I know they’re probably doing at first to please the international community, but at least the people like this new regime, they never liked the old one..
@@MarklikesfriesYT This isn't true. People are stilly fleeing away from Syria in masses and HTS has a reputation of opressing minorities and arresting, torturing and murdering all kinds of critics.
@@MarklikesfriesYT when you say people, you only mean arabs, right? because i dont think any muslims kurds other minorities feel hopeful of the situation. its obvs they want to rule with sharia law
@@MarklikesfriesYT I don't know, the loss of women's rights and the rampant sexism in the new government isn't very appreciated atm.
2:24 lifting sanctions is probably the easy part. The sanctions were for Assad, now he’s gone there’s a good argument that the new regime should get a clean slate.
Besides a poor Syria will stay unstable, meaning Syrian refugees have to stay in Europe and Turkey. It’s in the boring, domestic self-interest of our leaders to make sure new Syria succeeds.
The new regime has to prove that it is better than Assad. From what I see, this will be a difficult task.
Syrians in Europe are not refugees, they are migrants. They won't go back to Syria now that the war is over.
You’d think it’s the easy part. There’s a lot of beaurocracy to it that’s is very frustrating.
why would you aid isis though?? so their new leader can invade iraq for the 3rd time? like he did in 2003 and 2012?? read a book buddy the new government is isis LOL
I sincerely hope Syria recovers and can join the developed world soon. We are Mediterranean brothers, Syrian people deserve to live a good life. And so far this government seems to be doing the right things, so, keep it up!
ahahahah
Hahahaha.
Be on a friendly foot with Israel. Support real democrazy and you will have a prosperous life! Imagine the money being spend on the bordersecurity alone between the 2 nations. Syrië is in shambles after the war, rebuilt it together with. Together with Israel and maybe lebanon but the most important thing is together with all religions. If that means alawites, Christians, Jews, Muslims and even atheists. End the bloodshed and start a new and great era for the Middle East! Show what the Arabs can create when there is no hatred. We had the same hatred in Europe 200 years ago between religions (and more recently like Ireland) and look at where it is now.
Liberalism is such a joke, they genuinely believe one of the poorest countries in the world will become developed because of a bunch of virtue signaling by their leaders.
Surely these people laughing arent racist in any way..
0:14 your glasses have been leaning for a week now
Cartoon characters with glasses after getting beaten up
Lmao
Bros tired from research
He has to be taking the piss at this point
LMAO😂
Correction: HTS has been dissolved since January 29, 2025
wait really? what is it now?
@@Sovihis Now that they have all the government institutions in their control, they've established a transitional government, with all the militias absorbed into the country's department of defense. Therefore, they no longer need HTS anymore because they're no longer a militia
2:00 minor correction, HTS no longer exists. It was dissolved and absorbed into the new ministry of defense along with the SNA, SOR and SFA.
Pretty Sure ...The Kurds have some words about that statement about the lack of HTS..🤨
@danzevg i dont believe they do especially given the fact that they never had any major issues with HTS, only the SNA
@@CLK944 Uhh your people say otherwise...Civiroglu said that “Syrian Kurds face several significant challenges, the most pressing of which is Turkey’s ongoing hostility towards them.”..A la whatever HTS is now.
@@CLK944 Are you saying Kurds had no problems with Al Qaeda and HTS. Just because ISIS calls itself a new name doesn't mean the ideology doesn't exist. The current Syrian president refused to shake hands with a woman.
@@danzevg What do you mean "my people"? The kurds are my people. So are the arabs. So is every ethnic group that lives in my country, syria.
Labeling HTS as a turkish proxy is simply ignorant. While they definitely did get provided with intelligence some marginal economic assistance, it was never directly supported by turkey. As a matter of fact, turkey labeled it as a terrorist organization up until the last day of its existence. The SNA on the other hand acted only to advance turkish interests. They got direct military support from turkey in the form of equipment, air support, training, etc. They are the ones who were fighting the SDF. HTS didnt even have a way to attack the SDF (up until the fall of assad) even if they wanted to
One reason Russia was so involved in Syria was to block any proposed pipelines from the Gulf States or Saudi to Turkey. Such pipelines would have allowed gas and oil to flow from the Middle East to Europe and provided severe competition to Russia's oil and gas. Now that the Assad government has fallen, Syria can push for this pipeline to be built. This will produce a much needed revenue stream from transit fees and of course a one-off boost to construction jobs etc while it is being built. EU countries might be persuaded to pay for the pipeline as they would be the main beneficiaries.
Russia was protecting its military base not because of oil and gas
@@wamnicho nations can have multiple reasons for doing certain things
@@wamnichoit's both smartass
Why would the Gulf states spend the money to build a gas pipeline for the euros, paying transit fees to everyone in between, when they can make more $ selling it as LNG at the market price? 🤣🤣🤣
and if Syria’s own oil is already being stolen, what’s preventing the same fate from happening to any pipeline gas that transits?
That’s the biggest bullshit I have read today 😂
As a Syrian, I love you guys
Be a bit careful trusting this channel though because it has quite a bias for white European geopolitics. Although their news seems great but they probably do white-washing sometimes.
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I am syrian from Damascus and I will tell you that syria is actually a really beautiful country with very generous and smart people and traditions and history its not just war and destruction and from the depths of my heart I love my land and my country and I hope it recovers and heals from all the assad regime crimes and all the destruction.
They basically have to play "Rebel Inc." from now on.
Even assuming the best of intentions, this is going to be very difficult for the new government.
Can’t imagine the relief that washed over Syria following the end of the civil war
use the new flag we struggled against that red one so it is an insult to us that you are using it
I mean I get it but can you blame him. Yes. But they look basically the same
Red is the scariest colour is agree 😢
get over yourself. Gotta represent the historical change.
6:30 Lol to the fact that you outright exclude the territory occupied by Israel. Shameful.
The interim Syrian Government recently released a map of the country which excluded golan heights, so this channel was actually actuate. Also, Turkey has occupied a huge part of northern Syria since 2016, forcing Turkish language and culture on the citizens.
Exactly what i was thinking.
I hope they don’t overliberalize their economy. All foreign investments must be a seed that sprouts domestic industry. They cannot allow themselves to be strip mined and be left with nothing.
It's never over for Syria
The way I see it, it'll be easy for them to improve because at this point the only way is up!
With the country collapsed and dead, he can indeed only go up as they’re already on the bottom of the barrel in a functioning state
Tell that to Libya
I'm sure people said the same thing about Hati after their president was assassinated and look what state that country is in.
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@@M-SoaresLybia is rich
Sending Prayers to Syrians!
Send themselves back too
cool?
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Tangible support would be appreciated infinitely more than 'prayers'.
@@jotfohm4644Do you expect people to revive your mother or give you money when she dies or something?
Lift the sanctions already these people have suffered enough
It'll take Syria entire generations to rebuild. The Lebanese Civil War lasted from the 1970s until the early 90s and they were still rebuilding up to their economic collapse in 2019. The Bosnian War of the 90s lasted only a few years, but the country still feels the aftershocks to this day. The future for Syria is bleak, regardless if there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Please fix the audio fade. it really should stop as soon as the news starts; it's distracting, among other things.
It's been over a month since they introduced the new intro, despite dozens of complaints under every video they refuse to listen. I'm afraid you're shouting into the void here.
Seems like outdated information.
HTS is dissolved, there is no such thing as HTS anymore.
It's still Alqaeda. You can't put lipstick on a pig.
tldr titles are becoming more questions than answers.
This is not the flag of Syria. Please fix. This is a bit embarrasing to be used the dictator's flag when talking about the New Syria.
It is time for the international community to help President Jolani rebuild Syria
I agree.
Not before he proves that he's not another mf leader
@@iyadhussein8517not a leader?
Help who?
@todortodorov6056 the al qaeda terrorist who is leading Syria now
I don't know why you are refusing to use the current flag of Syria instead of the Baath party one. Secondly, I am surprised that you didn't mention that the reason why there were so many layoffs was because there were over 300k ghost employees in the country. You also didn't mention that European countries are more open to Syria's new government and also the Gulf ones too, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Al Qaeda using it as well doesn't look good.
Syria did not actually officially changed it's flag yet. Maybe they don't know how. And he mentioned all of that stuff.
@@Xylospringthere's literally tens of al-qaeda prisoners in Idlib prisons who've been there for years now since the crackdown on them by the current govt back in 2017-20
You clearly need to educate yourself on who's who and who's fighting who
@ Who the fuck cares about Al Qaeda. It's literally the official flag. Yall niggas have to stop mentioning Al Qaeda, It's corny
@ How you mean, they been using it everywhere. In every meeting or official visits.
Should the intro be removed, chaps?
Its ass
1000%!
I don't really understand why people hate it. Its a bit long, but it's really good and I like the music
Care to explain why your map excludes the illegal occupation of the Golan Heights by Israel? Seems intentional TLDR.
+1
@@iyadhussein8517 tf r u talking about, its just a map bro, tldr is pretty left wing and anti-israel
Defacto map. In a video about Syria, Israeli occupation of Syrian lands would seem important to include wouldn't it?
@@beholdenpieIt's not the focus of the video. Regardless of who would've "won" the Syrian civil war, neither side would ever get the Golan heights.
The Golan heights are Israeli in all but name. I don't think it's wrong to exclude it from Syrian maps, when there's a 0 to none chance Syria gets it back, unless the zionist state collapses somehow, but it's unlikely.
Essentially, this is a "de facto vs de jure" issue - it's not worth arguing about, because anyone can have a (correct) opinion if de jure matters more than de facto to them, and vice versa.
In most of the maps used by them the golan heights is often labelled as disputed or just counted as an entirely separate "country" to not spark chaos and stay neutral
I really don't think anyone that can realistically compete for power can be worse than the Assad criminal regime tbh
I think opening foreign investments and training people in the country for jobs in reconstruction would definitely boost economy and lower unemployment.
I hope so, I want the best for them ❤
Good video!!
No - it will need a lot of help, and times are hard across the world. It's hard lines for anyone needing assistance atm.
The whole region, i.e the Middle East, especially the Gulf and Turkey, are invested in a recovered and healthy Syria. So is the EU. They all have already opened up to it, as they all benefit from its prosperity, and have to suffer from the consequences of any problems there.
I think Syria will rise to an economy level they were never before in just 5 years. They'll become a good nation in just 5 years. Esad was a violent dictator, as soon as he's gone, things can only get better no matter whoever is in charge, as long as they are not violent.
4:36 proactively preparing for those IMF conditions
Any country can rebuild as long as usa 🇺🇸 and israel 🇮🇱 don't interfere.
Okay, enough with hiding it, time to be completely honest. The new TLDR intro needs to go, it’s not good at all
Seconded. It's so bad, and the one they had before was nice and quick to the point.
Luckily youtube has this skip 10 seconds shortcut, but the intro is a bit longer so not a proper workaround
Get Sponsorblock, intros/sponsors/subscription reminders/etc are segmented and can be fully skipped either automatically or manually.
It is so obnoxious indeed!!
6:10....."Is RELIABLE NEWS COVERAGE. That's why our sponsor today is GROUND NEWS." I legit heard this in my head. 😂😂😂
it can if it decides to go along with Europe. but it must not fall in to the oil trap. use it to develop other industries
I feel like they should create administrative zones and invite like 4 other countries to compete in installing competing governments, and then some will combine, some will decline, some will prosper, and a strong government will emerge.
It has an additional effect that speeds up development and recovery, the "friend" effect. If you know that your known and allied regime is there, you can more quickly put in work and bring in equipment and skills. Developing countries are huge buyers of all things, inclunding production tools which is a big export from europe, consumption goods from china.
In turn syria if properly managed can become an enlarged reach for the influence of the idea of free and fair way of life
Not sure they can really fall that deep into Dutch disease, they don't have a ton of oil infrastructure and I suspect oil/gas companies are leery of investing capital there.
syria has a developed industrial base and a decently diversified economy. it has a long way to go before it can hope to look at a tech sector or anything
"go along with Europe", what does even mean?
European countries don't even have a common foreign policy, and they only tolerate al-Jolani because the US told them to do so. The only country al-Qaeda has some good relations is Turkey, which is 1) poor as shit, 2) not caring about Syrians and 3) considered by any other country on Earth an unreliable partner.
Also al-Qaeda doesn't control the majority of Syrian oil fields and they have no money, nor know-how, nor technologies to create a national industry. If they are able to re-start the soap industry in Aleppo it will be already an astonishing achievement.
Europe isn’t a thing, and no country that aligned it self with Europe first flourished, they should allign with the gulf and America if the US stops supporting SDF, Saudi Arabia is already vouching internationally to left sanctions off Syria
And generally Saudi and the Arab gulf spend more money abroad than EU
Syria should be the new Hong Kong or Singapore in free market policies.
For those still worried about the AQ-offshoot origins of the interim government, let's not forget the fact that the Likud party in Israel has its origins in paramilitaries that committed atrocities in the 30s and 40s. It's standard for those types of organizations to disarm and become political parties.
“Tor those still worried about al-Qaeda, please consider how settler colonists formed a fascist party and did a genocide”
@ he's right, the US works with Terrorists all the time and this is coming from a Syrian as well btw !!
If they committed a genocide then why are you so outraged about trumps comments as ethnic cleansing is better than genocide@genbab6989
Not a good example man
Nah Israel is allowed whatever they want to do 😊
Sounds like Syria could use some doctors and engineers
An optometrist perhaps?
Sounds like you're an ignorant sheep
😂😂tell france and germany 😂😂
Assad was an ophthalmologist
Well I don’t really SEE the difference between the two jobs :D
Hate the new intro it's so shit
the most likely is that the conflict will froze in the current front lines so i guess you can say partial rebuilding, then it will depend what the new form of government would look like.
I honestly doubt it. There's no way the Turkish government allows for the SDF to exist, and there's no way HTS allows for Turkey to continue occupy parts of Syria.
The most likely option is that first, the SDF get wiped out or re-integrated into Syria and second, Turkey relinquishes the occupied parts of Syria, because they occupied parts of Syria only to prevent the SDF from taking it. Given that that only reason is gone, I doubt Turkey has much benefit from occupying a sovereign nation.
Its going to suck if Syria went though all that just for the new guy to basically be a dictator too
WHY DID YOU USE THE ASSAD FLAG?? HELLO??
Because its the flag recognized by the un
@ it will change inshallah
Relax, they probably have a folder of images they regularly use and forgot to update the image for the Syrian flag
@@xaveircombs2690 I don't see why would that matter. If the current government of Syria uses it, it is the right flag to use for everyone else.
To reflect the historical change. Both will be used at least for the near future to reflect the differences between the two syrias
Not when the people we aren't allowed to criticise want to steal land from Syria for foreign money. People say they want Syria to grow, but to maximise profits you have to minimise costs and those people are a massive cost.
I’m praying that Syria has a South Korea-like miracle and becomes wealthy out of nowhere after conflict, but that might be a pipe dream
South Korea had a dynamic economic neighborhood and to be frank, better timing. Syria has neither, you could say Israel is dynamic but they don't seem exactly enthusiastic about integrating economies.
Make Syria into a US junior ally like South Korea? Hard pass
This is impossible with neighbors like israel
@@b89976 Quite the opposite. If the new Syrian regime sides with Israel and can negotiate a peaceful integration of the Kurdish, then Israel would and could help a lot economically and they are very close, unlike USA Europe or Russia.
Israel's interest is a stable and friendly Syria, but obviously the problem is that the new regime is standing on thin ice, and its supporters are coming with a wide range of ideologies, many of them islamists with deep hatred toward Israel. And the regime cannot alienate them if they want to avoid a new civil war.
It's a really hard situation where they have to balance between the west and east, the nationalists, islamists, progressives and kurds inside and between Turkey, Iran, and Israel in the neighborhood, but Israel is more of a boon than an adversary, unless they make them one.
South Korea had significant help from the US for decade, as US wanted a strong ally in the region, so they gave south korea anything they wanted
I hope to see this narion prosper again. Syrians are among the kindest and most welcoming people I had the pleasure to interact with. They deserve better. They really do.
The people, yes. The regime, being the ousted one or the current - a different story.
2:40 It is well documented that humanitarian exemptions are a PR tool that do not relieve the damage of sanctions. No big bank or corporation is going to risk accidentally stepping out of the exemption and being sanctioned by the US over the possibility of some meager humanitarian business in a country like Siria. In the end even if there are exemptions noone is willing to do business with sanctioned countries
So far they've lasted longer (in keeping their word to the west about human rights issues) than the Taliban did, so I'm really hoping they keep it up and eventually move to a more stable and democratic government.
The new intro still hurts my brain. TLDI. Why?!?!
Too long didn't interpretate
It’s probably never over for Syria…
A first step would be for USA&friends to lift all the sanctions. If you don't care to help at least don't do harm .
They have been doing harm since 2011. I doubt they want to stop.
If the state of London or Sweden or Germany or France etc. is any indication, the answer is a huge no.
why wasn't the israeli occupation of the south never mentioned? neither on the map?
Opening to foreign investment makes sense, but without a strong government and regulations, it opens the Syrian people to the abuse we see corporations use worldwide. You'd think important sectors would remain public, in the syrians power, not given away
1. Wrong flag
2. Hts has never been an aq affiliate
3. Hts was already disbanded and incorporated into the Defense ministry
HTS was formerly affiliated with AQ
@@monkeybusinessasusuall5467 nope they were not. They were created in 2017. And never under aq
@@monkeybusinessasusuall5467that’s like saying America was affiliated with the colonial British during the 1770’s
@@IbnWobbler well, no, that was hundreds of years ago
@@monkeybusinessasusuall5467 they were affliated only for couple years, then HTS just worked on themselves to govern Idlib. AQ is so irrelevant right now no one gives a shit about them.
Good to see Syria trying to stand on its feet again. Hopefully we'll see an independent Kurdistan in the region as well soon ☀
Western sanctions are what kept it down. It was always trying to stand on its feet.
Let's be real: it's a country that is fragmented along ethnic and religious lines with neighbors that don't want to see a stable and strong Syria. Keep your hopes modest.
Your map doesn't show the parts of Syria the USA controls in the south east
So Syria needs billions of dollars, needs stability like it never had before and it needs everything else to go well with it for a chance of turning back into a respectable country.
Let's check it again in 2045
Granted, it doesn't look great, but has it ever looked better in the last half century? LOL
Its not that much. Turkey had a huge area size of Syria annihilated by an earthquake couple years ago. They have fixed most of the damage already. With enough funds and willing citizens anything is possible
So is it just me or did RUclips add a weird line for replies under comments, this is is what I guess being bored looks like
Take the damn sanctions off.
C’mon guys, this topic is Syria’s!
Saying that the new HTS government would rebuild the country is like you fixing Agnes's doll after it being disintegrated by Edith using Gru Laser in Despicable Me
Will they stay a way war torn country or will they strive for more? Find out next time on dragon Ball Z
Why is Sacha Baron Cohen's character in the thumbnail?
Can you do a video on the worsening relations between South Africa and the United States and the US's decision to miss the G20 summit taking place in Johannesburg this year
Don't give them a dime!
Well, obviously they didn't have a new made Syrian flag on hand in the UK and unsure exactly what it would look like. Still it seems like a promising start for Syria. There will be plenty of international assistance from arab countries even Ukraine providing grains perhaps via northern Israeli port then by truck to Damascus.
short answer: lol
long answer: lmao
We are definitely an Oligarchy, the furher will be at the Super Bowl Sunday for loyalty pledges
You thought assad was bad. We haven't seen anything yet.
That's right! Assad was bad, and with this new government, we haven't seen anything yet! :)
The great game for Syrian influence has begun. I wonder who will come out on top
it will be directly dependent on how distant they will be from corrosive west.
Russia and Iran got hit with a Uno reverse card.
They're waving the new flag everywhere and you still managed to use the old one somehow
Because the new government is illegitimate lol
Hey why didn't you show the Erthogan in the intro
Finally a country to give competition to pakistan foreign reserve 😂😂
If only resistance in Pakistan stop being afraid of civil war
The new govt can just pray and money will just fall from the skies
Please dear God go back to the old theme music
Didn't HTS nominally disband? At what point does the new organization cease to inherit the "t" designation of HTS?
Your videos aren't really TLDR mate. Your narrative is all over the place. And then jumping to US politics and advertising your other segments, and moving to advetising Nebula and another stupid ad.
If you call yourselves TLDR, breakdown your content to well defined segments and get to the point quickly while clearly explaining the situation. Now this looks like an 8th grader's homework essay.
Visit Syria, Syria is now better and beautiful
hopefully, although the layoffs from various state controlled ndustries is a bad move
15 seconds no views bro fell off
To all the "wrong flag comments". Don't be too hard on them. It is still new to us all as well. Send them an email, not an angry one😅, to explain it more succinctly.
I can only hope that they will be able to sort it out and get into the road for recovery. Both Iran and Russia are weak to intervene against them, but if they don't receive investment and funding from somewhere else, it will do them little good.
Your glasses are crooked and it bothers me
The West and exactly the EU should heavily cooperate with the new Syrian Goverment if they do liberalize.
A stable Middle East is good for not just the region but just good ingenreal.
Also Syria would be a preferable regional democratic ally as they haven't angered everyone in the region.
They seem to be doing fine, besides a few iffy school curriculum changes.
It looks like they're actually interested in rebuilding Syria (ans maybe even establish a democracy) rather than just build another Afghanistan.
What have they done in relation to the school curriculum?
What have they done in relation to the school curriculum?
@internetual7350 Essentially, they changed it to be a bit more Islamic. There's nothing TOO terrible there, but for example, they changed the definition of the word "martyr" from "A person who died for the homeland" to "A person who died for god". Another example - “path of goodness” was changed to “Islamic path,” and “those who have are damned and have gone astray” was changed to “Jews and Christians”.
They also removed an entire chapter that was about evolution on the origin of life.
Granted, all of these changes already had the backdrop Islamism behind it ("Those who are damned and have gone astray", for example), but some of these changes are just straight up bad, and represent the more extreme parts of HTS.
@reaperz5677 Yikes. As an Irish Catholic that change of "those who have are damned and have gone astray" is, dicey.
They can’t. A bunch of warlords can build no normal country through history.
Trump will make a new Mar-A-Lago ressort out of Syria
Currently plans are being worked on to remove all American troops from Syria possibly leaving the northeast vulnerable to Turkey
Good
good luck Syria!
Excellent review of the status quo in Syria. Thank you. Does equality include permitting women to be considered equal or inhabit the role of a second class citizen? Equality, now that would be a revelation.
Lets have hope that we humans can do this!
TIL the word is spelled "privatise" in the UK