In his latest interview, Bashar al-Assad “voiced untruths with confidence,” the editor who spoke to him told NPR on Wednesday, while likening him to Hitler. Foreign Affairs managing editor Jonathan Tepperman revealed his thoughts about Assad during his interview in which Assad said he believed he was winning the Syrian war. “He was extremely polite and supremely relaxed. When he would speak these wild untruths, which he had to know that I knew were false, he voiced them with unblinking, unshakable confidence. It was really striking.” Tepperman then found himself questioning “whether [Assad] is a spectacularly competent liar and this was all being done for domestic consumption, in which case he’s merely a sociopath, or he really believes what he’s saying. This is like Hitler in his bunker when the Russians were an hour outside Berlin.” (Source: Syrian Coalition)