Syria's Geographic Challenge

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Stratfor explains how Syria's modern borders overlap regional and ethnic fault lines, leading to disunity among the country's people.
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@Aeros802 12 лет назад

I actually never though of it that way. I always knew Multiculturalism was a failure but in a way all these failed middle-eastern states and African states are actually VERY multicultural.

@gordonadams5891 6 лет назад

According to an article in Scientific American, a huge contributor to the current unrest in Syria is drought more than ethnic or religious loyalty.

@mrniceguy7168 4 года назад

The mainstream media always wants to downplay ethnic and religious tensions but the fact of the matter is that if Syria was a natural country, it would not boil down to civil war as a result of drought and it would not require authoritarians to rule. That sort of logic can be applied to every conflict. You can say that Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union for their resources and anti-Bolshevism and anti-semitism were just excuses to get the party started. You could say that the American Revolution was not about independence and freedom from European systems of government, but that it was a tax revolt. It’s stupid.

@franznarf 4 года назад

No more @@mrniceguy7168

@halvardwidere8084 3 года назад

Well you’re all better than the pro-Assad conspiracy theorists who say it’s all a US conspiracy

@jerryjake129 11 лет назад

i love this you guys make it so simple of the hardest material. Thank you! i'm gonna watch your videos for weeks

@LetsRuminate 6 лет назад

Beautiful sir keep it up.

@Redfox161616 12 лет назад

I hope Stratfor will do a Geographic Challenge on Canada

@dunkirkassailant 10 лет назад

Are there any Kurdish Shepherds on the western side of the Jabal an Nusayriyah? Since the western slopes are the most fertile and heavily populated.

@2legit2quit70 7 лет назад

they actually names their mountains the Anti Lebanon mountains

@TeekoNST 5 лет назад

No we don't but he's dummass

@adopodrinje1499 9 лет назад

WOW! didnt know this! I thought serbia was complicated!

@magnvsmarcvs 8 лет назад

studed , you must have some half brothers and hal sisters there :) ?

@adopodrinje1499 7 лет назад

DMTV from which country r u anyways? and non-marriage sex was not a big hit in yugoslavia. people had shame and sense of guilt back then, like in saudi arabia or China or Japan. now its all fucked up, like europe. everything is different, they even want gay-marriages to promote now.

@adopodrinje1499 7 лет назад

DMTV so ur from Iraq? as far as I know that country does NOT exist, at least not in the last 1000s of years. with RESPECT 2 U !!! I LOVE history dude! sumeria is also my favourite, same as now Gobekli Tepe in southern turkey as ancient Persia I LOVE IT!

@adopodrinje1499 7 лет назад

DMTV Bosnian Muslims are my people, not many people know us outside of europe. Arabs had no idea we existed before the 90s war. same as we in europe dont know about Sumerians or Meso's there in that region. but I LOVE ancient history !

@adopodrinje1499 7 лет назад

DMTV wow thats fascinating. too bad nobody helped us back in 1992, when serbs and croats also decided to totally destroy us, erase us from europe. I only thank Allah for allowing us to live on. He is the only Saviour, all other is 'empty words', I hope u r Sunni-muslim too. even Ibrahim AS was born in region of Al-Basra, I dont have 2 explain u that.

@husseinoskovjino9398 2 года назад

Why do people make Steppe region that used to be forested steppes as part of the Syrian desert?

@aaryanqureshi5326 3 года назад

Golan heights is Syrian

@LibertyInOurTime 12 лет назад

Obviously the problem is government erected borders and controlled territory in general. Of course nationalism, and religious and cultural fundamentalism plays into the problem as well.

@espeon6211 7 лет назад

Do one on Lebanon!

@Srd1126 12 лет назад

I don't think they are as major a factor in Syria as say in Iraq. They just seem to be "there" in the south, but not a large enough group to swing things.

@Mikha2 12 лет назад

hard to figure out where is which ethnic domination areas (got alawites & sunni arabs, but where are the christians & druz people). i think ethnic domination countours overlapping geographical features could add value to this material.

@Mints951 6 лет назад

'Recent civil unrest' hmm 😂

@kurdishgeneral 12 лет назад

they (we) are in north east syria (bordering iraq and turkey),and parts of north syria (bordering turkey) .

@physics2878 10 лет назад

surprise surprise STRATFOR doesn't have a video on Israel

@Eosimias100 6 лет назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-93onRmj9guc.html

@davidtraverse8178 10 лет назад

The conundrum of the Syrian conflict is, who runs Syria if Assad is deposed; the answer is those terrorist groups. Assad isn't a humanitarian, but what sectarian problems his regime has created; would be increased tenfold by the many terrorist groups fighting Ba'athist rule. If I were of those oppressed in Syria, I would oppose Assad, but I would then have to take up arms against the terrorist fragments later on; which leads to perpetual war. I would rather bare Assad, than imposed Sharia law.

@kubaniski 11 лет назад

Yes but that was imperial conquest not a religious invasion. Just like wars between Poland and Russia were about land and trade controll, not about Catholicism or orthodox christian. But once again you're talking about a different topic. The crusades were not about Northwest Africa. They were about the Levant, Greece, and Asia Minor which were Christian lands of the Eastern Roman Empire.

@LetsRuminate 6 лет назад

Plz make a video on azerbaijan.

@SaddamHussain-we9ec Год назад

Here after turkey Syria earthquake.

@novzki 12 лет назад

hoping for a peace in the Middle Land..

@rilepreldzic7104 11 лет назад

ı am from turkey but also ı think me too turkey should divide its so important there are a lot of good peoples such europe pepoles are living in turkey closed europe area :( we dont want live with arabic peoples in our countrey. :) not important religion for us thats why everybody going in europa to citizenship

@kubaniski 11 лет назад

I didn't say christian existed before the Romans Empire. I said that Armenia and Ethiopia were Christian before the Roman Empire became officially Christian. Also when The Romans were fighting the Carthaginians neither Christianity nor Islam existed so that's largely irrelevant.

@TJTheProud 9 лет назад

Do The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

@CJQuinn 12 лет назад

love the series but please toss the annoying elevator music, I find it really distracting

@user-yl5kq6nn1f 11 лет назад

0:24

@Marvinskanalify 9 лет назад

Syria should not be a Country, and unless someone can unite all of it before everything becomes a stallmate and people grow to tired of war and just dissolve the country and create smaller states.

@Trazynn 8 лет назад

+marvin van zon www.theonion.com/article/everyone-in-middle-east-given-own-country-in-31700-36484

@Marvinskanalify 8 лет назад

BaileysBeads Thank you for proving my point. Syria has lost many of the things that create, a feeling of nationalism, once a country loses this, they effectively stop being a country, at this point only brute force can hold it toghether, most of the countries in the world are made up of differant entnicities and culture, but are held toghether either by a common feeling of nationhood or brute force. Syria currently has neither. Exept for on a small scale.

@Marvinskanalify 7 лет назад

***** Well prove me wrong then, show me an example of an Arab state consisting of various ethnic and religious groups not held together by some despotic strongman dictator/king.

@Marvinskanalify 7 лет назад

***** Then enlighten me smartass, still waiting for that example.

@nha4957 6 лет назад

Hello Marvin. I do respect your point but as a Syrian allow me to express my objection about it, as we have multi-ethnic groups inside cities itself so it will be extremely difficult to segregate each group and give it its state, of course every group will desire Damascus and Aleppo to be in their state as those cities are the historical/ economical ones !! have a nice day

@DorianGrayism 12 лет назад

I didn't say if it was democratic it will work. I suggest you read what I wrote again.

@kendel1495 8 лет назад

Hmm they gave syria the golan...

@gmh2374 5 лет назад

The Golan is Syrian Even israelis know that

@alfredthepatientxcvi 4 года назад

@@user-up4el3vq3i Palestine was for Palestinian. You don't deserve a cm of land. Fuck your criminal Arafat. Sincerely from Lebanon.

@SamRobertduty 12 лет назад

Canada and America are multicultural and it's working great.

@kubaniski 11 лет назад

Actually Christianity was spread via conversion. Keep in mind that the reason Christianity became a legal religion was because it had become so popular in the eastern provinces such as Egypt. Places like Armenia and Ethiopia became Christian before the Roman Empire.

@bravo45 4 года назад

Sure, we can see the peaceful spread of "christianity" found all over the world in places like the US, NZ, CA, SA... the list goes on...

@AsiaMinor12 Год назад

Christianity was not spread peacefully, I'm sorry to say. It was spread violently via the Roman empire when they realized that Christianity could actually be co-opted into Imperium and harnessed instead of being a threat. Had the Roman empire not spread Christianity violently, then the religion would have only been seen as a bizarre off shoot of Judaism that is only in small pockets all around the Mediterranean.

@91Musicboy 11 лет назад

That's not real about southern Turkey, the origin in north Syria belongs to historical Hittites and Hurrians which are among old kurdish ancestory who were a native people to Anatolia and north Syria and these peoples was Indoeuropean peoples not semitic such as kurds. I can't agree with false history fact, north Syria and south Turkey is pure Kurdistan, if you will or not the history name of that region is known as KURMI/KUR in sumer as mountain land mainly belongs to Hittites and Hurrians area

@saeedeyvazinejadfirouzsala6319 5 лет назад

You did nor mention Turkmans in Syria?!!

@californiadreamin6599 4 года назад

Irrelevant and unsignificant ethic minority for syria

@timvanrijn8239 9 лет назад

isn't it asyira instead of bigger syria

@LionKing-ew9rm 5 лет назад

tim van rijn no, Syria has nothing to do with Assyria! Assyria is the Iraqi Kurdistan, Assyrians used to be the majority untill a confederation of Iranian speaking groups including Persians, Medes (modern Kurd, Azeri etc) and Scythians and Cimmmerians attacked them and changed the demographics forever!

@sreebuszeebus1343 2 года назад

@@LionKing-ew9rm one Assyrian capital city is in modern day Syria. Assyrian live in Qamishli and Hasakah Syria and the name Syria comes from Assyria

@sadikrajin4111 3 года назад

May Allah bless you, my syrian brothers. 💝

@JumpinJesuits 12 лет назад

where are the Kurds in this?

@somixedaidentitycrisis1622 6 лет назад

Its also called jabal al turkmen

@LionKing-ew9rm 5 лет назад

Kastelorizian Meis which one?

@somixedaidentitycrisis1622 5 лет назад

@@LionKing-ew9rm the area south of hatay and north of Latakia

@StephenAndrew777 9 лет назад

Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Israel all border Syria in a circle and this land mass borders Iran on its left. Afghanistan and Pakistan border Iran on its right. India borders the right side of Pakistan, China borders the right side of India and North Korea is bordering the right side of China. Georgia is on Iran's northern border and Russia is on Georgia's northern border. Georgia is practically on the eastern border of the Ukraine and the only thing between Russia and the European Union is the Ukraine. Saudi Arabia is just south of Iran and North Africa is just south of Saudi Arabia. Why didn't the teachers unions want you to know that?

@StephenAndrew777 9 лет назад

Ask yourself, not your teacher. You'll end up in a special class for dangerous kids.

@galadhremmin 6 лет назад

where is Australia and New Zealand?

@PrinceOfParthia74 7 лет назад

rip 2012

@INSTITUTdeMEMOIRE 12 лет назад

this was nothing new Stratfor is supposed to be an 'intelligence information service'...

@mlks4265 4 года назад

You didn't even mention the Aramaic people who they are the native people of The greater Syria although they are 2 million in Syria and 10% of them still speak Aramaic , WHAT A SHAME !!!

@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 9 лет назад

drews? Never heard of that religion

@awsomeadam2 9 лет назад

Choodel Larker Druze, and offshoot of islam. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze

@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 9 лет назад

awsomeadam2 ok thanks i thought they said jews wrongs! :)

@magnvsmarcvs 8 лет назад

Is that a Carthage shield ?

@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 8 лет назад

magnvsmarcvs yeah

@magnvsmarcvs 8 лет назад

Choodel Larker not anymore , Choodel The Guardian of the Citadel

@landlordmapping6547 9 лет назад

...what about it's non-democratic-ness? Surely that's an issue...?

@ObssesedNuker 8 лет назад

+LandLord Mapping The attempts to impose democracy on countries with similar issues like Iraq and Libya have not solved them. Indeed, if anything they have exacerbated them as the local people vote along the very ethnic and sectarian lines that crate these conflicts. It's all a part-and-parcel of how the West has not found an effective means of imposing it's ideology upon states with radically different institutional backgrounds.

@landlordmapping6547 8 лет назад

ObssesedNuker True.

@ycc7744 4 года назад

@@ObssesedNuker you cannot 'impose' democracy on anyone, effective democracy must be built bottom up, not top down, as in the average citizen must believe the best social contract is a democratic system. democracy was actually viewed positively when the usa invaded iraq, but the problem is they instituted the anti saddam, staunchly pro iran political groups to take power. this is what broke the horse so to speak.

@meralodem 11 лет назад

Another actor in the region is Türkmen Front. There is already 1,5 million Turkish speakers and more Türks who lost their language but know their identity. They will also take theri place in the new Syria

@SamRobertduty 12 лет назад

Last decade ? Islam has been around for 1400 years. What happens in the last decade means nothing compared to 1400 years of history.

@RyderW 5 лет назад

lol

@Norg1 8 лет назад

Syria about to break up like the Balkans LOL

@ayylmao978 8 лет назад

+Norg1 under "Balkans" I guess you mean Yugoslavia which was never a country before ww2,made of countries who were never together.Syria wont break up,Russia helped Syria and destroyed any possibilities of America's plans to come true.