let me bring in joshua landis, and joshua, we are looking at a syrian revolution to point, i've always, it's a no, we're not. you know, it's hard to say. syrians are in a terrible situation as both your guests and said the poverty is extreme. the current state has been collapsing in a sense, you know, un sanctions from europe or the united states have been working. and we see this uprising that's going on in the government controlled zones, also going on in the american controlled zone and deep on happiness in north a lot. but when the turkish control zone, syrians are in a very bad position, all of these various regimes, whether it's the opposition, whether it's the kurdish lead, s d f are all very duct tutorial and um and this, you know, this is presents a terrible problem for us out as your guests upset. now, it must be said that the flags that are being flown in the druids, regions are the drew's flags with 5 stripes colors. you see very few of the rebel flags, the traditional rebel flags with 3 stars. and that's the statement on the part of the druids that they're not you know, on

and joshua landis, director of the center for middle east studies at oklahoma university. he writes a daily newsletter on syrian politics. i would like to begin with stephen. this is a community that has largely been very loyal to president bashar al-assad. they have given their blessing to the protest but have stopped short of calling for the removal of bashar al-assad. how worrying is this for the president? >> i think this has to be seen as a deeply troubling development by the regime. i would not describe the druze community is deeply loyal. they have remained neutral, but they have taken steps like resisting conscription for young men in the druze community. there has been a calculated position in relation to the regime and the conflict and we have seen that collapse in the last several weeks as economic shocks have pushed the druze community and syrians all over the country beyond a tipping point that would prevent them from publicly expressing their dissatisfaction with the regime. this is an enormous problem because this is a regime that does not at the moment have

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