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Kind of amazed not a single Kurd was willing to give their life for the cause. All it takes is one shot, then the Iraqi army fires back killing more Kurds, who fire back in turn, and the whole thing explodes.
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qkkl posted:Kind of amazed not a single Kurd was willing to give their life for the cause. All it takes is one shot, then the Iraqi army fires back killing more Kurds, who fire back in turn, and the whole thing explodes. There has been sporadic fire, so it's not quite that simple. Deliberately starting a war your people can't win is pretty dumb though.
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https://twitter.com/JoelWing2/status/920467872224120832
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qkkl posted:Kind of amazed not a single Kurd was willing to give their life for the cause. All it takes is one shot, then the Iraqi army fires back killing more Kurds, who fire back in turn, and the whole thing explodes. I guarantee there are many dead people over this, you're simply not hearing about them.
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Hahahahahah https://twitter.com/marwanhishampen/status/920618668429578240 Eat poo poo and die fascist animal.
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The lion of deir ez zor lol. Regime loyalists are gonna be really salty.
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It's pretty convenient for Bashar that a popular and capable army commander is suddenly bumped off by a nameless landmine after surviving 3 years of being besieged by IS.
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Throatwarbler posted:It's pretty convenient for Bashar that a popular and capable army commander is suddenly bumped off by a nameless landmine after surviving 3 years of being besieged by IS. I was honestly thinking the same thing. A similar incident happened during Aleppo when a popular commander who had flipped sides twice died in the last days of the fighting.
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Didn't another high ranking officer die in DeZ like a couple of weeks ago too? Or was that an Iranian?
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Didn't another high ranking officer die in DeZ like a couple of weeks ago too? Or was that an Iranian? Apparently a handful have died recently. https://twitter.com/hxhassan/status/920622344942571520
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Throatwarbler posted:It's pretty convenient for Bashar that a popular and capable army commander is suddenly bumped off by a nameless landmine after surviving 3 years of being besieged by IS. Zahreddine probably would not have been able to challenge Assad even if he wanted to. The Sunni majority barely put up with the mystic wizard Shia offshoot being in power - how well do think a Druze president (and a military general no less) would sit with them?
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Human Grand Prix posted:The Sunni majority The what now
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The Idea that the old scumfuck fascist wasted three years of his life being besieged because he loves fascism then eating poo poo and dying in the end after he thought he'd get to live out his days torturing civilians and gloating about turning half his country into refugees is deeply deeply satisfying to me.
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Throatwarbler posted:The what now The majority of Syria is made up of Sunnis.
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Human Grand Prix posted:The majority of Syria is made up of Sunnis. Pre-war maybe, you seem to be confusing Syria with Turkey/Lebanon/Germany bub 
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Throatwarbler posted:Pre-war maybe, you seem to be confusing Syria with Turkey/Lebanon/Germany bub Whoa the demographics changed that much? What the heck happened
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Flavahbeast posted:Whoa the demographics changed that much? What the heck happened No, throatwarbler is just acting stupid
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Syria's still majority Sunni, and it's not even close.
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Flavahbeast posted:Whoa the demographics changed that much? What the heck happened the fact that he described germany as majority sunni is your clue that he’s a crank
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The same people who brought you wahhabism, destroyed leftism, destroyed all attempts for arabs to progress into democracy, destroyed Islamic scholarship worldwide are now going to set up a council to create an Islam that conforms to the wishes of the royal family. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/18/saudi-scholars-to-vet-teaching-of-prophet-muhammad-to-curb-extremism
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Al-Saqr posted:saudi-scholars-to-vet-teaching-of-prophet-muhammad-to-curb-extremism This is like North Korea announcing unilateral disarmament. This is like Answer in Genesis announcing they will teach evolution. This is like Breitbart announcing they will fight racism and antisemitism.
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Al-Saqr posted:The same people who brought you wahhabism, destroyed leftism, destroyed all attempts for arabs to progress into democracy, destroyed Islamic scholarship worldwide are now going to set up a council to create an Islam that conforms to the wishes of the royal family. Are the national guard types pissed off about this?
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Volkerball posted:Are the national guard types pissed off about this? lol what? those guys will do whatever they're ordered to, the national guard specifically is handpicked as die-hard loyalists no matter what. Like, I could take one of those religious clerics to a flat out sex-drug-orgy at a princes house and they wont do anything about it. What alot of people tend to forget is that the religious institutions in Saudi are essentially clerks and bureaucrats, their job is to apply orders from above and make normal people eat poo poo as much as possible unless ordered otherwise. It's why the lifting on ban on women driving met with zero resistance after they made entire generations of women suffer for no reason, you'd think that given how strongly they felt about it and how much they went after anybody who defied it they wouldve whimpered something about it but nope when your job is to be a bureaucrat its never to question the man on top. Al-Saqr fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Oct 18, 2017 |
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qkkl posted:Kind of amazed not a single Kurd was willing to give their life for the cause. All it takes is one shot, then the Iraqi army fires back killing more Kurds, who fire back in turn, and the whole thing explodes. The Iraqis are not an invading foreign power like ISIS. Not many people want to die over what is in the end an internal Iraqi dispute that has been going on for decades. A lot of people are going to be sick of fighting at this point, and while I'm sure some Kurds might be that passionate about independence, a whole lot of people just want to go home and have this be over.
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When you have no heroes and cant create great men, you just name your monuments and train stations according to brands and marketing:- http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/519452/SAUDI-ARABIA/Riyadh-Metro-invites-bids-on-branding-stations
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Al-Saqr posted:When you have no heroes and cant create great men, you just name your monuments and train stations according to brands and marketing:- So like, are there just a lack of named streets along the way? I mean we've seen plenty of places around the world where a few random stations get branding rights sold, usually because they're right near some big important attraction. But they're trying to get bids going on a whole quarter of the stations they plan to open? Seems pretty silly. Even just selling full-station advertising rights to a quarter of the stations planned to be built seems like a pretty tough sell on a brand new system that's going to have a lot of unimportant stations as far as an advertiser is concerned.
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Throatwarbler posted:It's pretty convenient for Bashar that a popular and capable army commander is suddenly bumped off by a nameless landmine after surviving 3 years of being besieged by IS. It's not really surprising. Being under siege for multiple years would mean there's a fuckton of unexploded ordinance, IEDs, landmines, etc. littering the place that anyone could step on just roaming around talking to the troops. Could've been killed by his own defensive mines that were improperly mapped. It's also possible he was assassinated by an ISIS sleeper cell. Anyone capable of challenging Assad's rule or of questionable loyalty was put on meathooks in the various Baathist purges occurring throughout the war.
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https://twitter.com/oremar11/status/920727626486091776quote:Angry civilian: If you tell a donkey to stop, it will stop. The entire world told masud barzani (& team) to stop, he kept going #TwitterKurds
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Sergg posted:It's not really surprising. Being under siege for multiple years would mean there's a fuckton of unexploded ordinance, IEDs, landmines, etc. littering the place that anyone could step on just roaming around talking to the troops. Could've been killed by his own defensive mines that were improperly mapped. It's also possible he was assassinated by an ISIS sleeper cell. Anyone capable of challenging Assad's rule or of questionable loyalty was put on meathooks in the various Baathist purges occurring throughout the war. He would have been safe from a lot of the purges because he was isolated in dez though. It's just a conspiracy theory at this point, but the timing of "links up with SAA main forces, dies" is interesting. I think Occam's razor really points more to the people who were openly trying to kill him though.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/9NewsLA/status/920793094353838080quote:"I will not spend time to respond to the nonsensical comments by the foul-mouthed president," the Ayatollah said in comments posted on his website. He's not wrong.
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The Peshmerga have launched a large scale twitter offensive to retake the lost territories and claim to have retaken Kirkuk, Shingal, Mosul Dam and Diyala with Israeli and Russian air support.
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the kurds of rojhelat (iranian kurds) are somehow also on team barzani and are claiming the peshmerga are reinforcing with armed vehicles to retake (and defend) kirkuk edit: lol bernard levy is a fuckin mongoloid https://twitter.com/BHL/status/920750281113128961 spaceships fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Oct 19, 2017 |
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spaceships posted:the kurds of rojhelat (iranian kurds) are somehow also on team barzani and are claiming the peshmerga are reinforcing with armed vehicles to retake (and defend) kirkuk Barzani was born in Iranian Kurdistan during the year-long existence of the Republic of Mahabad. His family presumably still has some connections there.
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/920964262654246912 Meanwhile the war in Afghanistan continues to not go well.
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New Nusra video showing combined arms offensive and close call with Su-25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5InjhbSDWE Syrian government opposes Israeli backed ethnic militias. https://twitter.com/henrylec1/status/920743514203348992
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Randarkman posted:Out of curiosity, because I've never looked this up, are Iran's Kurds mostly Shia? No, they're mostly Sunni.
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