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Security Dilemma podcast: Rose Kelanic on Syria and energy security

John Allen Gay and A.J. Manuzzi interview Rose Kelanic, Director of the Middle East Program at Defense Priorities, discussing why Washington should take a “wait-and-see” approach to Syria’s new government, President Trump’s new Executive Orders on energy security, and whether the U.S. military needs to be in the Persian Gulf for oil.
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