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Hmmm if only we could vet some moderate Sunnis that we could convince to rise up against the insurgents. An awakening if you will.
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# ? Jul 4, 2014 07:48 |
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Could ISIS last as a country for longer than a nano-second?
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# ? Jul 4, 2014 07:57 |
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How are they not a country?
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# ? Jul 4, 2014 09:12 |
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Baloogan posted:How are they not a country? They're a country in the same way Kurdistan is a country. Neither are recognized internationally by the folks who write the maps. I could declare a piece of property I own a country, but it wouldn't make it so.
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# ? Jul 4, 2014 09:21 |
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yeah but they got 10000 angry arabs in technicals that you don't
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# ? Jul 4, 2014 09:32 |
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And a legal system of chopping arms off and poo poo; and they are enforcing it
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# ? Jul 4, 2014 09:33 |
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orange juche posted:They're a country in the same way Kurdistan is a country. Neither are recognized internationally by the folks who write the maps. I could declare a piece of property I own a country, but it wouldn't make it so. Kurdistan is a lot more of a country than the ISIS controlled parts are tbh.
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# ? Jul 4, 2014 09:45 |
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Syncopated posted:Kurdistan is a lot more of a country than the ISIS controlled parts are tbh. Kurdistan is a country like the various phases of Poland being a country, better?
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# ? Jul 4, 2014 12:30 |
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Best Friends posted:Some dude is already "just asking questions" to this effect in the D and D middle east thread. Not so much as for the motive but just in a "a thing happened, therefore America and Israel are behind it" sense. This is my favorite thing. The same dudes who can't pave a road or cheat on their wife without getting caught have managed to get a bunch of rag heads who have hated each other for roughly 2000 years to not only play nice with each other but join what they perceive as the greatest evil ever in a united goal. I wonder if they even think about this stuff before they post it.
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# ? Jul 4, 2014 15:11 |
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Snowdens Secret posted:Ahem, I believe you mean Russia would have been deterred by the threat of NATO A.V commitment and would've never advanced If he'd kicked over Ukraine's government and put Yanukovych back in charge with some bully-boys to crack skulls and shoot protesters the consequences probably wouldn't have been too dire. We'd have stolen as much of his and his pals' money as we could find and get our hands on, and economic sanctions would've been stiffer than the limp dick that we slapped him with after Crimea, but he'd have survived it. Going further, either into the Baltics or Poland, would've meant war.
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# ? Jul 4, 2014 17:11 |
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Speaking or Ukraine, the new defense minister comes in swinging his brass balls like churchbells on easter.BBC posted:New Ukrainian Defence Minister Valeriy Heletey has promised that the army would retake Crimea, restoring the country's territorial integrity. I he just dumb, or has someone else been dumb enough to promise Kiev something we will never keep?
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# ? Jul 4, 2014 17:56 |
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Courthouse posted:Speaking or Ukraine, the new defense minister comes in swinging his brass balls like churchbells on easter. He's just trying to impress politicians, there's no way in hell Ukraine is getting Crimea back before hell freezes over. If they attempt to retake Crimea, Russia will pour across the eastern border and Ukraine would have some serious issues regarding it's existence as a country.
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# ? Jul 4, 2014 18:37 |
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Oops. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28160767
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 00:52 |
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You don't post enough anymore man.
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 01:23 |
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Obama Africanus posted:You don't post enough anymore man. I've been too busy learning captainy things, and I can't surf SA in the schoolhouse buddy . I've been lurking to keep an eye on my GiP Bros though. This thread and the Iraq thread have been pretty good tbh. I felt I needed to contribute.
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 01:39 |
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pfffffflol The BBC's Steve Evans in Berlin says the new allegation of American spying on an ally may make it harder for the US to get German help in its efforts to oppose Russian activity in Ukraine, and also to control Iranian nuclear ambitions. "Mm yes if these allegations are true we just might not oppose the authoritarian nuclear power that just annexed the territory of an EU ally."
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 02:54 |
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I think my eyes rolled audibly at that part. Yeah, Germany is TOTALLY going to side with USSR2.0 instead of America.
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 03:03 |
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Well I mean it worked out pretty well for them in 1939.
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 03:26 |
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and then Germany's all WILDCARD and forges a military alliance with zaire
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 05:31 |
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ManMythLegend posted:Well I mean it worked out pretty well for them in 1939. Until Hitler thought vacationing in Leningrad at the start of winter was a good idea.
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# ? Jul 5, 2014 15:57 |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/w...&pgtype=article drat, that kid got an rear end whooping.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 20:17 |
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Kaliber posted:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/w...&pgtype=article One of the articles mentions the parents saying they were going to sue the police over the use of "excessive force". I'm not entirely sure that's a thing you can sue for in isreal. Pretty sure your name just gets added to a list somewhere for reporting purposes. People get so used to the American system of things that when they go to other countries they don't know wtf.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 20:53 |
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I'm irredeemably Jewish and all, but if the Israeli government is cracking U.S. teenage skulls, even muzzie ones, then that is no es bueno for me. I'm taking this American empire thinking to the logical end point that citizenship ensures the wrath of the nation will fall on your oppressors should you ever be molested from walking your righteous American path of freedom through whatever land of foreign savagery. My foreign policy objectives are very Old Testament however, I'll admit.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 20:58 |
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Didn't the Romans send in the legions if their citizens were hosed with? I'd be down with that.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 21:11 |
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Mustang posted:Didn't the Romans send in the legions if their citizens were hosed with? I'd be down with that. This guy. This guy gets it.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 21:21 |
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If the US had to actually do anything every time some dumb tourist kid got clonked by the gendarmerie we'd never have the time for anything else. Same if we had to deal with every dumb foreign kid who does the same here. ~~swooshes Star of David cape, flies off in the Matzohmobile~~
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 22:08 |
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My only issue with laying waist to Israel over this is consistency. We don't get uppity with any other country that has its Gestapo rough up a kid or two. Besides we have so many other reasons to gently caress them up.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 22:12 |
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I have precisely zero sympathy for Americans who go to bad places and do risky/stupid things while there.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 22:44 |
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Snowdens Secret posted:If the US had to actually do anything every time some dumb tourist kid got clonked by the gendarmerie we'd never have the time for anything else. Same if we had to deal with every dumb foreign kid who does the same here. pretty sure after the first dozen or so tomahawk strikes, other countries jackbooted thugs would think twice before loving with american tourists
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 22:53 |
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ManMythLegend posted:I have precisely zero sympathy for Americans who go to bad places and do risky/stupid things while there. Of course not, but look we need a premise, ok? These gulfs don't Tonkin themselves.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 23:20 |
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Obama Africanus posted:These gulfs don't Tonkin themselves. I love this phrase, and I think I love you.
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# ? Jul 6, 2014 23:36 |
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In Ukraine it looks like we are seeing the final battles. Separatists have been forced to retreat from Slovjansk, Kramatorsk, Druzjkivka and Kostiantynivka. Donetsk and Luhansk are now the only remaining cities of any relevance held. Ukrainian defense minister readying the champagne bottles, separatists busy comparing themselves to the russians abandoning moscow to the french, Russian media filled with reports of supposed Ukrainian war crimes.Snowdens Secret posted:If the US had to actually do anything every time some dumb tourist kid got clonked by the gendarmerie we'd never have the time for anything else. Same if we had to deal with every dumb foreign kid who does the same here. The difference being if the US has been spending some time trying to tell the gendarmerie to pretty plese stop cracking the skulls of local kids, and all of a sudden you get this nice excuse for being all outraged and putting actual pressure on them. The question being, of course, whether the kid is sufficiently white to count as american. Courthouse fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Courthouse posted:The question being, of course, whether the kid is sufficiently white to count as american. Let's see... Brown like a terrorist, but posing like an American douche. The call could go either way. Let's see how the Israelis play this one...
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 02:17 |
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Derek Dominoe posted:Let's see... got what he deserved imho
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 02:22 |
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He's from Tampa which is all around a weird place. I know two girls that describe themselves as "Southern Girls" as well as their ethnic identity, Indian and Palestinian respectively. I'm not sure how but Tampa turns brown people(and northerners) into rednecks. Tons of Hispanic rednecks here.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 03:05 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otKxEWKjWRo
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 03:12 |
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Invading Israel would be a step up from our previous two escapades in Western Asia. It'd probably come with less diarrhea, too.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 05:13 |
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The women are way hotter too
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 05:25 |
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We should invade Iran and liberate all the hot Persian chicks from the hijab And if Iranian Americans are any indicator they're a pretty irreligious bunch and way more open to western lifestyles than anyone else in the region.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 05:37 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 11:40 |
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You don't want to get with any Jewish women no matter how hot they are, bro. Just loving trust me on this. If history and/or what you call the Old Testament is even 1% truth, those bitches ground down the stone cold killer bad rear end sons of Abraham Hebrews into wheezy liver spotted colitis patients before age 29. Their pussies literally turned the baddest motherfuckers to ever GTFO of Africa into motherfucking Woody Allen, man. Run as far and as fast as you loving can, you'll thank me later in life, man.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 05:42 |