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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
remember the false-flag tanker attacks? buckle up buttercups

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
stay tuned. but it's funny how the media bit the troop-withdrawal apple and then his advisors who don't want a war with iran go to the press saying trump is trying to start one, meanwhile mercs in dallas who are friends with trump's new pentagon hires are strapping hand grenades to their tactical vests like a bad 80s action movie

you won't miss that much if you always remember these people are total loving snakes

TeenageArchipelago
Jul 23, 2013


and wouldn't you know it Israel, our friend, just said that they killed an Al Qaeda leader that Iran was hiding! Those dastardly sponsors of terrorism, they're a menace!

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Plutonis posted:

It's been a while since the last Balkan conflict

The Ethiopian Civil War ended in 1991 so I guess this is picking up from there

https://twitter.com/Quicktake/status/1328698875117506562

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

stay tuned. but it's funny how the media bit the troop-withdrawal apple and then his advisors who don't want a war with iran go to the press saying trump is trying to start one, meanwhile mercs in dallas who are friends with trump's new pentagon hires are strapping hand grenades to their tactical vests like a bad 80s action movie

you won't miss that much if you always remember these people are total loving snakes

The Venezuela expedition that got defeated by patriotic fishermen taught Team Trump that 15 mercenaries is too few to overthrow a government. So this time they are sending 150 mercenaries into Iran.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Atrocious Joe posted:

The Venezuela expedition that got defeated by patriotic fishermen taught Team Trump that 15 mercenaries is too few to overthrow a government. So this time they are sending 150 mercenaries into Iran.
D.C. think tank guy, sean mcfate, on erik prince (he's correct): "he’s an attention-seeking kardashian who’s largely despised ... on top of that, he’s a failure as a mercenary … he doesn’t have any successful operations."

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

OhFunny posted:

https://twitter.com/khaleejtimes/status/1327159825298546689?s=20

This weirded me out since France withdrew its combat troops from Afghanistan a decade ago and didn't join the Iraq War. I suppose special forces are lurking around somewhere. I know they had some in Syria.

by the rules of France, the correct moral, economic, and health choice is to get out of afghanistan and iraq as soon as possible.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

All pretty great. Love the return of the classics. What are the odds that Israel goes for another round in Lebanon? Apparently their drones did perform exceptionally well in the Azeri-Armenian war which might have left some higher ups with a twitchy trigger finger.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Dunno if anything's been happening in Israel-Palestine lately, but another two-state solution has also been in the news, speaking of Turkey

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1328014951420747784

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
cyprus is maybe the only EU country to be really hosed by brexit cos halloumi exports to the UK make up some absurd number of its total trade like 6%. halloumi loving owns though and its shameful only the UK seems to love it

Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin

Jose posted:

cyprus is maybe the only EU country to be really hosed by brexit cos halloumi exports to the UK make up some absurd number of its total trade like 6%. halloumi loving owns though and its shameful only the UK seems to love it

Well it's popular in the rest of the middle east too but presumably they don't have any need to import it from Cyprus.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin/status/1328844316869939200

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/insidernews/status/1328747105423405059

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

lmao this is how 2020 ends

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
go to war with iran and make biden pay for it

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

U.S. embassy in Iraq hit by rockets, reportedly killing one child.

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Maximo Roboto posted:

The Ethiopian Civil War ended in 1991 so I guess this is picking up from there

https://twitter.com/Quicktake/status/1328698875117506562

They’ve been stuck at Alamata for a week. This war won’t be quick.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1328884627994521600?s=20
https://twitter.com/RanjAlaaldin/status/1328790739506098181?s=20
https://twitter.com/TimesofIsrael/status/1328915469701509122?s=20

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
WATCH TRUMP START A loving WAR

TeenageArchipelago
Jul 23, 2013


gradenko_2000 posted:

WATCH TRUMP START A loving WAR

2020 started with the assassination of Soleimani, let's see how this poo poo ends

Ramrod Hotshot
May 30, 2003

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

stay tuned. but it's funny how the media bit the troop-withdrawal apple and then his advisors who don't want a war with iran go to the press saying trump is trying to start one, meanwhile mercs in dallas who are friends with trump's new pentagon hires are strapping hand grenades to their tactical vests like a bad 80s action movie

you won't miss that much if you always remember these people are total loving snakes

what would a bunch of roided up Colombians even theoretically do in a war with Iran?

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
ruh roh

https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1329089311174578186

https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/1329310391692894208

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
we love our mercs, they're not abhorrent. we love our private hangars in uganda, that's important

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
gina haspel trying to figure out what's going on

https://twitter.com/space_is_fizzy/status/1329307363455721472

In Training
Jun 28, 2008


https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1329431345551040518?s=20

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC

https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1329435058541916164?s=19

lol

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

we love our mercs, they're not abhorrent. we love our private hangars in uganda, that's important



This article is over a decade old, but it's still an interesting look at how prevalent Ugandan mercenaries are in the US war machine.

quote:

More important, hiring Ugandans is cheap. Since the first Ugandans were sent to Iraq in late 2005, competition from other developing countries in Africa and the Indian subcontinent has seen the government cut the minimum wage from $1,300 to $600 a month. That compares with the $15,000 that one industry insider estimated an American guard could make each month. Nevertheless, competition is fierce, and for those Ugandans who land a job, Iraq can prove a bonanza.

Paul Mugabe is back in Uganda for a month. For the past year, the sinewy, nervous young man has been guarding the American Camp Diamondback at the airport in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, and soon he will be heading to Baghdad.

"It's not like Uganda. You sweat and sweat and sweat," says Mr. Mugabe, a former soldier in the Ugandan Army. "It is the most dangerous place in the world. It's even worse than Congo."

With the money he's earned during those 12 months, back in his village Mugabe has built himself two houses, bought a bar, and increased the herd of cows his father left him to 30.

"You should see the size of my banana plantation," he smiles.
When he returns from another year in Iraq, he should have saved enough money to cover a wedding and the traditional bride price needed to find a pretty wife, he says.

But despite his nascent business empire and hopes of love, the fact that he is putting his life on the line to help US companies make massive profits is not lost on him. "If I am earning $600 a month and these companies are making billions, it is not fair," he says.

For Uganda, however, another country's war on a continent far away has proved to be lucrative. "The Iraq opportunity brings in about $90 million dollars, whereas our chief export, which is coffee, brings in around $60 or $70 million a year," says the former state minister for labor, employment, and industrial relations, Mwesigwa Rukutana, now minister of higher education. That figure is mostly made up of remittances.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2009/0306/p04s02-woaf.html

I want to see the Ugandan Groverhaus

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Uganda having to rely on Mercenaries for their GDP like medieval Switzerland is pretty depressing

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


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https://twitter.com/statedept/status/1329507431630692354?s=21

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


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Ahahaha

https://twitter.com/ADL/status/1329799561234305025

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Seems like the Houthis are on the verge of victory

https://twitter.com/LaithMarouf/status/1330115153497559042

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

sürgünden selamlar
yıkıcılar ulusuna

Plutonis posted:

Seems like the Houthis are on the verge of victory

https://twitter.com/LaithMarouf/status/1330115153497559042

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
The way KSA just completely hosed up in every way in the Yemen War is truly astounding.

Syncopated
Oct 21, 2010
Cool, so now the saudis will accept the fact they lost the war and pull out, so Yemen has a chance of not being the biggest disaster zone on the planet right? Right ???

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

Syncopated posted:

Cool, so now the saudis will accept the fact they lost the war and pull out, so Yemen has a chance of not being the biggest disaster zone on the planet right? Right ???

Arab Dictatorships never learn from their mistakes or back down unless their white sponsors force them to unfortunately.

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC

Syncopated posted:

Cool, so now the saudis will accept the fact they lost the war and pull out, so Yemen has a chance of not being the biggest disaster zone on the planet right? Right ???

lol no

https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1328461214784118790?s=19

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

Plutonis posted:

Seems like the Houthis are on the verge of victory

https://twitter.com/LaithMarouf/status/1330115153497559042
congratulations on the consolation nobel peace prize president biden

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Al-Saqr posted:

The way KSA just completely hosed up in every way in the Yemen War is truly astounding.

*Dances in Houthi*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX9md2o3DdA

Saudis try to defeat a people who write incredible diss tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv13s5JmvS4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmRRgrCHJM

etalian has issued a correction as of 00:33 on Nov 22, 2020

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1331588875702202368

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/SamuelSokol/status/1331297894402568195

quote:

"[Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo had cut a deal with the Israelis over Masri, Israel would do this to help the Americans eliminate a terrorist, while drawing attention to these Al Qaeda guys still in Iran," said the official.

"The plan was for Bahrain, Sudan and UAE to normalize [with Israel], then produce the assassination of Masri as proof that Iran was working with Al Qaeda. The Saudis would move to normalize as Trump got re-elected and there would be some sort of regional confrontation with Iran."

"But Trump lost, the Saudis took the meeting and then acted livid [that] it leaked and Bibi [Netanyahu's nickname] had to fly home knowing the Saudis were done with Trump."
or maybe that planned regional confrontation has been sped up

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