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SYRIA THE RUSSIAN PRESENCE IN SYRIA Business Basics: Israel-Russia Going To War As Israel Attack Russian Base PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV4d50sqLWo Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
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why sometimes we run the risk of our videos getting demonetized and worse yet restricted so if you guys can just take 1:04 a second to hit the like button down below it just helps us out tremendously in the algorithm it wasn't just the air base that was targeted other military sites in the region were also targeted including the Naval Base that's also controlled by the Russian military the missiles came from a naval Battleship and the bombardment lasted almost an entire hour it's important to note that Israeli strike did not Target the runway or the towers at the air base or the civilian airport that goes to show that the goal was not to leave these structures inoperable now I'm sure most of you guys are asking two questions first what the hell is Russia doing in Syria and secondly what exactly was Israel targeting now the first question has a long story behind it so we'll get into that at the end of the video but for now let's answer what Israel was targeting in this strike now of course Israel didn't release a statement saying what they were targeting and the likelihood 2:01 they do so in the future is very low but based on the facts we do have available to ourselves we can make an educated guess as to what Israel was targeting so just an hour before the strike happened a Iranian Airline plane arrived at this airport that was under Russian control the airline was called Kim fars but I guess the name of the airline is really not that important what is important though that the Iranian thought that the Russian controlled base would offer protection to whatever they were transferring to Lebanon when I say whatever they were transferring in all likelihood it was probably weapons and that's probably the same conclusion Israelis arrived at before they decided to take out the plane now it's not farfetch to believe that Russia was helping Iran after all the two countries have gotten extremely close ever since they became the top two most sanctioned Nation on the earth and I believe just last week Israeli forces discovered Russian weapons in the Hezbollah tunnels this is what IDF forces found in 3:07 southern Lebanon in the troubled areas in The Villages these are some of the findings these are mainly non-man missiles please note also made in Russia among other things also non-man missiles I mean missiles designed by Hezbollah terrorists to be seen on Air Force planes and catacombs these are the missiles mainly but not only that also documents more than a thousand documents found Maps discs the so-called flotilla intelligence documents during cward raids on Hezbollah bases in Lebanon Israeli forces uncovered a cash of russian-made weapons including M rocket flamethrowers concurse anti-tank missile systems and More in fact in recent months Israel forces have also discovered 20 anti-t 4:02 take missile system from Russia along with Soviet era RPG 29 vampire and much more in fact Russia actually has a strategic goal in helping all these Iran bagged groups like Hezbollah and huis this is something we talked about in our most recent episode of our new podcast chaos and peace listen to the clip yourself so I think it's very possible that Russia is trying to help the houis and others we know that Russia is a history of working with groups that are banned internationally uh and there's a logic to that by the way as well but I would not be surprised they do want to create chaos they do want to take the attention off of the war in Ukraine they want the Europeans to go worry about other things and Russia though the relationship with the terrorists I I'd love to talk about just for second because I think is so key and people don't understand it is that Russia like Iran like North Korea Etc is sanctioned so it can't operate normally like other countries can where it can send money via Banks or even save money in foreign 5:00 Banks or reserves in foreign Banks it doesn't have that option so instead it has to go to the black market hence why there's so much bartering in trade Within These Pariah States but more than that it operates also with terrorist organizations remember after October 7th attacks in Israel the Hamas leadership went to Moscow just a couple days later and very openly met with the most senior levels of the Russian government but outside of that we look at their cooperation with terrorist organizations uh in Latin America including things uh that were the communist radical revolutionary groups and other things like this but today where it's even more important is with the drug cartels Iran cooperates directly with drug cartels Venezuela does as well and Russia plays a key role in helping to orchestrate the international drug trade and this is actually fascinating and the answer of why they would do this is pretty simple Russia does not have access to a lot of things that it needs but it can provide services to these groups so that they're more successful but these these groups also provide a second benefit which is that a terrorist group or a drug cartel 6:04 creates confusion creates chaos and also distracts the population from what Russia is really interested in doing in this case Ukraine now before we get into what Russia is doing in Syria why it has bases there I do quickly want to show you guys a clip that discusses how we can bring down the chaos in Middle East if we just defeat Russia in Ukraine because at the end of the day the reason Russia is in all this the reason they're supplying weapons all over the place all over the world is because they want to take everyone's eyes off of Ukraine here listen to it to yourself Iran of course is behind hisbah that hisbah is their main proxy Iran does provide some uh support to Hamas and to the houthis Iran's only friend though is Russia and so I think if we look at all of these trouble spots uh Russia and Ukraine Iran and their proxies fighting against Israel in 7:04 different places North Korea and China if we think of them all as different parts of one strategic hole it kind of helps put in perspective the importance of having strong alliances strong relationships significant amounts of military capability and political will and if you help Ukraine defeat Russia first then Iran is left without any any actual friend and and I think this so defeating Russia could help isolate Iran which would help take some of the pressure off in that region perhaps now I am pretty sure Iran does not want to get into a conflict with Israel I also think that hisbah does not really want to get into a fullscale uh war with Israel because of the losses they would suffer now Russia and Syria is something we have covered in detail previously on this channel so let's get into that video I'm sure you guys will love the 8:00 voice in September of 2015 Moscow sent contingents of the Russian military to Syria to intervene in the Syrian Civil War on behalf of President Bashar al-assad's government the so-called dictator president of Syria was under attack from Rebels aided by the United States and Moscow sought as an opportunity to advance their foreign policy agenda What followed were brutal years of war with brutal consequences that shaped the Middle East and ways that we are still yet to fully understand much like Ukraine the United States and the West supported one side and Russia supported the other Russian air strikes over Syria a new round tonight now the latest on the crisis in Syria as US troops continue to pull back 8:45 Russia is moving in it's been a gamechanging couple of weeks in international relations over Syria so 8:52 many questions arise in this conflict why did Russia intervene in Syria why 8:58 was Syria undergoing a Civil War and what has Moscow stood to benefit from its involvement in the Middle East maybe 9:05 even most importantly how were moscow's actions back then crucial to its current war with Ukraine these are all questions 9:12 that I'll answer in this video as we explore Russia's brutal attack on Syria 9:17 in a second we'll get into that right now let's quickly talk about some new changes to YouTube I'm sure some of you 9:23 guys have noticed that whenever you go to your homepage on YouTube you get some videos recommended from channels that 9:29 are extremely new here's an example this change is relatively new and it actually 9:34 provides a perfect opportunity for new channels to get started and grow quickly in fact many channels have used this 9:40 exact thing to grow an audience in the last 12 months they have gotten millions 9:45 of views and made thousands of dollars from them in fact there are millions of faceless YouTube channels making content 9:52 and earning ad Revenue in just the last 3 years YouTube has paid out $70 billion 9:59 to creators that's around $60 million every single day so if you're someone 10:04 who's interested in starting a YouTube channel right now is the perfect time that's why we've launched a completely 10:10 free 7-Day email crash course on how to start and grow a faceless YouTube channel if that's something you're 10:16 interested in you can sign up now for free by clicking the link in the description or scanning the QR code on 10:22 the screen all right now let's get back to the topic at hand to understand this story better we have to start not in 10:28 Syria but in Tunisia where one lone boy and his wheelbarrow of fresh vegetables 10:33 were the dominoes that changed the entire Middle Eastern landscape you see 10:39 on December 17th 2010 a young Tunisian boy named Muhammad bazizi Who Sold 10:44 vegetables from a barrel set himself a fire to protest against police 10:49 harassment at that time there was unrest in Tunisia and in the absence of a good Judicial System General police 10:56 harassment had escalated as it often does although Muhammad met his death on January 4th less than a month later his 11:03 actions echoed the conviction and the pain that so many felt but had never 11:08 been able to verbalize was carried through his actions and that sparked the Embers of a Revolt across Tunisia the 11:17 riots and protests that were started in his name grew so explosively that in 11:22 just under two weeks tunisia's authoritarian president zenel abdin bin Ali had fled the nation he abdicated to 11:30 Saudi Arabia abandoning a 23-year-old Reign Over The Nation bin Ali's actions 11:36 led him to become the first leader of an Arab Nation to be pushed out by popular 11:42 protests but due to the wave of fire that he had just started he would not be 11:47 the last as other citizens of countries that were oppressed by dictators realized that it was possible to not be 11:54 subjected to the harsh Realtors of pain and poverty a wave of Def Defiance began 12:00 to spread that very month Egyptians started protesting in the capital city of Cairo in numbers and they had only 12:06 one demand the 30-year-old dictator leader president hosney Mubarak had to 12:12 go and sure enough as the protest intensified Mubarak was left with no choice but to resign and step down this 12:20 was barely 2 weeks since his citizens had taken to the street Egypt's dictatorial collapse empowered the 12:27 movement that then spilled over to Bahrain and Libya and these two countries particularly Libya things took 12:34 a very violent and dark twist and the riots turned into a full Civil War while 12:40 we're still on the subject Libya's case was as well for lack of a better word interesting I can make a whole video on 12:47 the collapse of Gaddafi's Libya and American involvement in the matter just let me know in the comment section below 12:53 if that's something that you'd be interested and I will deliver but moving on Libya Saga also ended with the death 12:59 of Gaddafi on October 20th 2011 the rebels had won and defeated the national 13:05 troops and president this marked an unprecedented move that showed that with 13:10 enough support in direct conflict a government could lose a war to Rebel 13:16 groups this is where our story takes us to Syria Syria much like many Middle 13:21 Eastern Nations was in the same position president Bashar al-assad had been the nation's ruler since 2000 what made his 13:28 case even more tragic is that he had succeeded his father HZ al-assad who himself had ruled Syria since 1971 it 13:35 was a family dynasty of sorts and unfortunately it was not a well-liked one Bashar al-assad had largely 13:43 continued his father's authoritarian methods and in certain ways he was worse 13:49 this is why when the Flames of change began burning through the Middle East Bashar al- Assad knew his head was on 13:55 the chopping block it was inevitable you could also argued that the Arab Spring 14:00 came at a time when Syria was already struggling between 2006 and 2010 Syria 14:06 experienced the worst drought in the country's modern history hundreds of 14:11 thousands of farming families were reduced to Poverty causing a mass migration of rural people into urban 14:18 Shanty towns the hunger and struggle that the masses were experiencing made the whole situation that much more 14:24 unbearable to the point where discontent was all but inevitable what set off the 14:29 flames in his country was when about 12 teenagers tagged the wall of their school in southern Syria with the words 14:36 your turn doctor referring to president Bashar al-assad a trained opthalmologist they were insinuating 14:43 that after Tunisia Egypt Libya and others it was his turn to step down 14:50 perhaps it was the fact that the tensions were already high and everyone was on edge that the soldiers in the 14:56 region took it as an act of complete Defiance and so they decided to retaliate harshly those teenagers were 15:03 tortured and that was the act that turned what had been up until then peaceful protests into militant ones 15:10 serious protests on the back of their tortured youths overnight turned into a civil war given what I mentioned 15:18 regarding the drought it is perhaps not surprising that it was in the impoverished drought stricken rural 15:23 Providence of d a in southern Syria that the first major protests occurred in March of 2011 a starving population is a 15:32 dangerous population every leader knows that and if Assad didn't well he quickly 15:37 found out what began as a peaceful Uprising against the president in Syria nearly 10 years ago turned into a 15:45 fullscale Civil War the conflict in Syria continues to claim lives more than a 100,000 people have died and the 15:52 brutal math does not stop there 1,000 bloody days since the Syrian Civil War first began the UN estimates over a 15:59 100,000 have been killed by the end of 2011 Syria was undergoing not just a 16:04 general Civil War but a painfully organized one various Rebel militias had 16:10 popped up and were fighting the government troops in an organized fashion all over Syria one of the key 16:16 forces of the resistance was the free Syrian Army this was a rebel militia that was made up of defectors from the 16:22 Syrian Army for a while they were the main face of the resistance as they launched assault after assault on the 16:29 government troops along with other resistance groups surprisingly or maybe unsurprisingly kind of depending on what 16:35 side of the fence you were on these Rebel groups were doing very well they pushed the government forces back to the 16:41 point where they were forced to withdraw from key positions thereby allowing the rebels to gain territory in key areas 16:48 the rebels even launched an offensive on Aleppo Syria's largest city allowing them to have a significant foothold in 16:55 the eastern part of the city the Syrian Civil War continued in this fashion into 17:00 2013 but this is when both sides started to strain under the pressures of War on 17:06 one hand the rebel militias were severely under supplied and with no access to weapons and funding they were 17:13 starting to lose a hold on the sectors they had previously won on the other hand the government forces were 17:19 suffering from massive defections the hardest people to fight against are your own people especially when they are 17:25 making good points and this logic is what resulted in a lot of soldiers deserting the Army to join the 17:31 opposition and this weakened serious forces this scenario where the two sides 17:36 were almost desperate for a boost allowed those in the International Community who up until that point had 17:42 been all talk to Take A Part this is where Russia and the rest come in just give it a second you see Nations like 17:49 turkey Saudi Arabia and Qatar were very anti-assad and the idea of his 17:54 dictatorship flourishing in the Middle East wasn't in their best interests in this regard they started to fund and 18:01 arm Rebel troops in the hope that the rebels would emerge as the victors of the Syrian War the scenario was made 18:07 even worse when the Syrian government was suspected of having used chemical weapon attacks in the suburbs of 18:13 Damascus an attack that killed hundreds of citizens the Syrian opposition 18:18 accused pro-assad forces of having carried out the attacks while the Assad regime vinant denied them regardless of 18:25 that it allowed many nations to ban together against Syria the United States was at the top of that list up until 18:32 then the US had been a very vocal critic of Assad's government and suddenly also had an opportunity to intervene the US 18:40 started a program where they would train and equip a few Rebel groups enabling them to be more of a threat to 18:46 government troops with them receiving proper funding from Turkey Saudi Arabia and Qatar while also receiving military 18:53 training from the US Syria's Civil War started to look in favor of the rebels 18:59 Bashar was on the ropes and with things turning dark for him he started to look for friends too this friend came in the 19:06 form of Russia Russia and Syria had long since shared ties since the days of the 19:12 Soviet Union in those times the Soviet Union was supplying Syria with Aid and arms in a bid to increase its influence 19:19 in the Middle East however when the Soviet Union fell so too did its influence in Syria when Putin became 19:26 president of Russia in 2000 it was it was the same year that Bashar al-assad took over from his father as well as 19:33 Vladimir Putin began his ambitious expansion of Russian military and Russian influence the relationship 19:39 between Russia and Syria started getting rekindled so in 2015 when Putin received 19:45 a formal request from Bashar to assist it was a perfect opportunity Russia saw 19:52 that by getting involved they could benefit in two ways on one hand they could benefit from having Syria's 19:58 government indebted to them this would allow for an upper hand in various dealings as we will soon see in a couple 20:04 of minutes on the other hand the conflict provided Russia with a platform to be able to test out the capabilities 20:10 of its newly expanded military the fact that the US was training the enemies of 20:16 Russia was an even better Advantage because Russia could compare its capabilities to its biggest rival and 20:23 learn from them in short Syria became a proxy war for Russia Iran the United 20:28 States and several other countries with all this going for it Russia began to take a more active role in the conflict 20:35 Pentagon says that Russian fighter jets have now arrived in Syria few days also 20:41 show Russian helicopters Transport Aircraft tanks and armored personnel carriers we are getting new information 20:47 into The Newsroom that Russia has just launched a round of air strikes against Isis in Syria Moscow deployed troops and 20:54 military equipment to an Airbase near Latakia and they launched an effect defensive from there as Russia began 21:00 reigning Hellfire on various Targets in Syria the message was that Russia was targeting ISO and Isis terrorists that 21:08 had emerged in the region of course this was a facade and soon it was revealed that Russia was mostly bombing rebels 21:14 fighting against Assad as they lent help to their Ally this moved the West to 21:20 fund the rebels even more with the US and Britain having parliamentary debates on whether or not they themselves should 21:26 put boots on the ground despite the heavy opposition Russia did not back down and it continued to support its 21:33 Ally with Weaponry soldiers and funding Russia was determined to win this proxy 21:40 war and together with Iran which was also funding and equipping the Syrian government it became increasingly 21:46 possible that they were going to what made the Russian involvement very scary 21:51 is that the Russians along with the Syrian government forces did not attempt at all to avoid causing civilian 21:58 casualties if anything had a chance to subdue the rebels then it was a go of 22:04 course for Russia the implication was much less because these weren't their people but for Bashar it only made him 22:11 even more hated with the West accusing him of crimes against humanity against 22:17 his own people in their bombing campaigns Russian and Syrian war planes dropped indiscriminate Munitions such as 22:24 cluster bombs and incendiary bombs and targeted medical facilities search and rescue teams and Aid workers those 22:32 actions were condemned by human rights groups but they continued unabated until the rebels in Aleppo collapsed it was an 22:39 effective strategy but an inhumane one as thousands of innocent people lost 22:44 their lives but that's the thing with power isn't it once you have a taste of it you would do anything to never 22:53 relinquish it this I assume was the thinking behind bashar's drastic actions 22:58 when once Russia liberated Aleppo for Bashar it was Victory after Victory from there the rebel forces overwhelmed by 23:05 Russian Iranian and Syrian forces started to retreat this led to a new 23:10 axis between Russia Iran and turkey seeking to resolve the Syrian crisis 23:16 while excluding the west and Arab Powers while the US was hesitant to overstep 23:21 again to avoid another Iraq incident Russia had jumped at the opportunity and now Putin had the opportunity to control 23:29 not just the narrative but the entire Dynamic of the Middle East it's crucial to realize that this is one of the many 23:35 benefits that Russia got from intervening in Syria and fighting there by being virtually an Unstoppable force 23:42 of nature on the Battleground Russia gave the rebels no choice but to come to 23:47 the negotiation table the West having seen that the Bashar al-assad regime was 23:52 starting to win now started abandoning the very Rebels they had once funded and trained leaving them to the mercy of 23:59 elite Russian and Iranian soldiers who hunted them for sport by coming to the 24:04 drawing table Russia managed to establish four deescalation zones where all sides committed to pausing military 24:11 activities this one action removed the burden of fighting on multiple fronts and allowed Syrian government forces 24:18 along with their Russian and Iranian allies to take over one opposition held area after the other these actions 24:25 firmly secured the regime of Bashar in place and unlike what had happened in the other nations the Arab Spring never 24:32 got its goal in Syria Under the Umbrella of Russian dominance Bashar preserved 24:38 his dictatorship and virtually eliminated all those who opposed his rule it became legitimate through force 24:47 on Russia's end its involvement marked a new age of political dominance in the Middle East several Nations having just 24:53 seen how useful having Russia is as an ally started to improve their own affairs and relations with Russia the US 25:01 had been all talk but Russia had stood by their Ally and that meant something 25:07 Nations like Saudi Arabia Qatar Egypt the Kurdistan region of Iraq Sudan and Israel have all in recent years paid 25:15 visits to Moscow to cultivate relationships this allowed Russia to somewhat dictate terms that have only 25:22 serve to bolster its own political standing further other than political standing Russia benefited economically 25:29 from immersing itself in the war you see when Russia entered the Syrian War it 25:34 was going through a big economic crisis that had been propelled by the slumping oil prices and heavy backlash coming 25:40 from its troubles with the Ukrainian crisis back then by inserting itself into a war when times were like this 25:47 Moscow faced heavy opposition from its own citizens regarding the war this was something that Moscow quickly proved 25:54 wrong as in the years they were in the Syrian conflict Russia's defense budget dropped from 5.5% of its GDP which 26:01 equated to $79 billion in 2016 to 3.7% which equated to 61.4 billion in 2018 26:10 this then alleviated the fears of overspending on the military allowing Russia to invest in the war with little 26:17 opposition on the domestic front an added benefit of Russia's involvement in Syria is that the government got an 26:23 opportunity to test and promote Russian Weaponry on a large scale 26:28 this would then create a space to improve Russia's own Munitions industry and make them more competitive on a 26:34 global scale on that note it is quite sad that the Middle East had to be the 26:39 live testing ground of various Nations Weaponry the US for years made Iraq a 26:45 live testing ammunition ground something which is sad to consider another benefit that Russia received was the fact that 26:51 the Syrian War boosted the nation's own mercenary business in Russia particularly the Wagner group associated 26:58 with yivi progan this Russian businessman popularly nicknamed Putin's 27:03 Chef for catering at events attended by the Russian president has made a fortune 27:09 something that has directly resulted in more money in Putin's Arsenal he has been linked to oil and gas deals with 27:16 Damascus very lucrative deals that have political strings behind them the chef 27:21 was not the only businessman to benefit however several of Putin's Associates benefited with those like progan and G 27:28 timchenko winning some lucrative contracts in Syria again further increasing the pool of Putin's Arsenal 27:34 fund timchenko acquired the right to mine phosphates and operate the port of tardis where a $500 million Russian 27:42 investment had been announced coincidence yeah I think not and as I 27:48 mentioned before about other Middle Eastern countries coming to be within Russia's influence in recent years 27:54 Russia has signed investment pledges and Deals worth billions of dollars with them these nations include Saudi Arabia 28:01 the United Arab Emirates and Qatar Russian companies have also acquired lucrative energy contracts in Egypt 28:08 Lebanon and the Kurdistan region of Iraq and turkey that's a massive win I would 28:14 say is it not another massive win for Russia perhaps the biggest comes in the 28:19 form of the advantage that has been afforded them in Syria in a military 28:24 capacity Russia says it has installed an S3 100 missile system at its naval base 28:30 in the Syrian Port City of Tartus has been building up its Naval presence near 28:36 Syria in an effort to keep Western allies out of Syria's bloody Civil War 28:41 due to its involvement in the Syrian war in support of bashar's regime the president of Syria granted Russia use of 28:47 the Naval facility in tartis this port was granted to Russia free of charge for 28:53 49 years and it gives the Kremlin Sovereign jurisdiction over for the base 28:59 that means for all intents and purposes that base is Russian soil the tartis 29:05 base allows the Russian Navy to avoid dispatching ships to Naval installations in the Black Sea for maintenance as it 29:11 now has its own facility on a much better route that reduces Russia's Reliance on the west and their allies 29:19 something that Putin greatly appreciated the agreement which is heavily skewed in Russia's favor allows 29:26 Russia to keep a dozen warships including nuclear-powered vessels at Tardis making it a well equipped and 29:33 critical military installation one that so happens to be the only Naval facility 29:39 the Kremlin possesses outside of the former Soviet Union combined with the himim air base which Russia has been 29:46 using as a base for its Air Raids in Syria Russia has a solid military foot 29:51 in the region military assets like them are topshelf prizes for Russia Russia's 29:57 presence in Syria unlike expected has not dwindled to zero what we have to 30:02 date is the knowledge that Russian troops remain in Syria still the involvement in the war has been 30:08 significantly reduced as bashar's government has the Reigns now but Russia remains located in the nation the 30:14 friends Russia made in Syria and Iran specifically have become Russia's top backers in its current war with Ukraine 30:22 since mid 2022 Iran has become Russia's top military backer Iran's decision to 30:28 Aid Russia in the war on Ukraine reflected the expanding strategic alliance with Moscow one that can go on 30:35 and on given how both countries have similar military objectives since August Iran has provided Russia with hundreds 30:42 of drones including the sahid 136 suicide drone and the mahajer 6 30:48 reconnaissance and strike drone Iran has also shipped artillery and tank rounds as well as including some 300,000 30:55 artillery shells and 1 million rounds of am munition via the Caspian Sea all this 31:01 has been Weaponry that has advanced Russia's agenda in the war and with Iran continually backing the Kremlin the war 31:08 just keeps dragging on longer and longer Iran has long sought to modernize its 31:14 military and on the back of its partnership with Russia it's finally doing so it is said that Russia has been 31:21 offering Iran unprecedented defense cooperation including on missiles electronics and air defense as part of 31:28 their partnership lately it was reported that Iran could potentially have Russian fighter jets Attack Helicopters radar 31:36 and combat trainer aircraft worth billions of dollars something that threatens geopolitical peace in the 31:42 Middle East what we are left with at the end of the day is a military Nation called Russia that is advancing its own 31:49 agenda under the guidance of Putin the damage we see now in Ukraine is part of 31:54 the behavior that started long ago one can wonder if Syria was a practice 31:59 ground or if the drills are currently being run in Ukraine I suppose we'll never know what remains to be seen is 32:06 how the government of Bashar will continue cooperating with the Kremlin and if so what will come out of this Partnership if you missed the news related to Russian involvement in the Syrian War that's probably because Legacy Media companies are not good at covering geopolitical 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