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Funny thing with brinkmanship is you can never tell if it's planned or if they're just a loving idiot.General Tofu posted:IHS looks like an offshoot of some Russian defense contractor. Was propaganda always THIS obvious? Clearly all the decent FSB propagandists are
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I don't see how a feeding frenzy for Russian I also don't see why everyone takes such a glee in defending Assad. I mean yes he's probably the best option we have right now, but that's not something to be smug or happy about. E: This sort of smugness is how you get fucks like Tony Blair thinking brutal torturers are our friends, instead of desperate stopgaps to keep the peace.
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So are the Syrian government's :itisarefugeejoke: Seriously, if you're wondering where all the reasonable moderates went, they're running or hiding like any of us would
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I didn't say they were hiding successfully  Tramadol Junkie posted:You are loving kidding right? Wha? As in, harmless like grass? I'm saying that, like any of us would, moderates might turn up for the protest but will get the hell out of there when it turns into a civil war. Violent tribal groups, violent religious sects and nationalist veterans tend to be a bit more up for it. Strategic Tea fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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In protecting one, single minority yes. And even that by making them into a local majority, with predictable effects on the locals. I'm more interested in what the Kurds do?
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etalian posted:In the Kurd run parts of Iraq there are no death squads or religious pogroms. Always a plus but how is the internet?
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SirEvelynTremble posted:Watching the "Do we bomb the poo poo out of Syria?" debate in UK Parliament, they kept talking about the moderates who we will help to fight Daesh, and no fucker ever mentioned the Kurds ... the ones who are actively fighting Daesh on the ground, who have a well-trained army ..... nah gently caress em we won't use those troops. They're not psycho enough for us Well they mentioned the fanciful figure of 70,000 moderates just waiting for the UK to join in so they can rise up. Might have included Kurds to make up the figures? I think the whole debate was pretty embarrassing really, given that we fly such a small proportion of missions (Furthermore, Erdogan is a loving liability)
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Moridin920 posted:If I was the president I'd say 'gently caress ya'll I'm helping the Kurds.' They're super progressive, relative to the area, too. Letting their women fight and drive cars and go to school good god. Plus what's Turkey going to do about it now, join up with Russia? Haha not anymore suckers
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Dec 9, 2015 20:05
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Tramadol Junkie posted:I am just hoping some big poo poo goes down and that Muslims and the whole ME gets wiped out with Israel standing untouched. same but after I hope we kill all americans because they also make me angry sometimes when i watch the news
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Dec 9, 2015 20:06
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jBrereton posted:If your end goal is ethnically homogenous areas, yeah, but then the Srpska Krajina is also a massive success by those goals. Exactly. For all those people who love Assad but think that moderates are a lie, consider that he was running a secular government. Which means a big, sheltered, mostly secular middle class to work in the civil service etc. Some of them probably thought they were living in a democracy right up until a soldier shot them for tweeting badthink.
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Dec 9, 2015 21:30
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We should dig under Saudi Arabia really quietly and steal all the oil before they notice
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extra stout posted:everytime someone takes america or nato seriously i struggle with knowing that turkey is allowed to be in nato and exist in general without acknowledging that they committed genocide against 1,500,000 armenian human beings I broadly agree but in the end a country is not a human being. The people alive today had no part in the Armenian genocide. Though for fucks' sake they could at least admit it happened.
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etalian posted:but turks will harp on and on how it was made up similar to Holocaust deniers. It's too late and Hitler was right  - they got away with it clean and nothing we do today will create any kind of justice. At least we have accurate historical records for when the Turks decide to stop being colossal jackasses about the whole thing.Besides, this thread seems to adore disgusting war criminals as long as they Strategic Tea fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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etalian posted:The airliner got shot down due to russians getting into a bender and pushing random buttons at the SAM site. Excuse me this is standard operational procedure in Russia please stop spreading CIA disinformation against them it has worked so far
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