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lollontee
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ist happeninggd:d:D:d:D:D

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lollontee
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also assad needs to go

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:spooky:

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paul_soccer10 posted:

What is Turkey's pretext to invade Afrin???

terror

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Jose posted:

are YPG doing so well because there are enough kurds for it and/or because they get enough western support or is it because they have a defined territory in Syria and thats all they're interested in? I'm just curious why they appear to be so successful compared to everyone else

its been ages since i looked at an up to date war map

nah. it's because it's their homes and they live there. also explains why there are arabs among them. it's because they live there.

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Frijolero posted:

Don't know if this is confirmed yet, but this is certainly something:

https://twitter.com/CivilWarMap/status/956185218259607554

it's going to be glorious

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turkey isn’t attacking SAA controlled territories. yet.

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

that video footage is incredible.

`?

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Jose posted:

lol cool



:chaostrump:

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Darkman Fanpage posted:

where can i listen to war nerd?

https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd/posts

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if you're a podcaster you got three basic economic classes to settle into: either you got a huge audience base and make all the episodes free, or you try to hook people by amusing/annoying them enough with premium episodes like chapo does. Academics like historians and politics nerds (ie gary brecher or derek davidson), you got a tiny audience base with no real prospects for growth outside the tiny set of people weird enouguh to care, there's really very little incentive to upload more than occasional previews. So you either put it behind a paywall, or you make sponsored content like Mike Duncan of History of Rome and Revolutions podcast fame.

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Thug Lessons posted:

Everybody will pay a price to Lockheed and Boeing.

ka-ching

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good luck with your president america

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assad is going to bring eternal peace to syria if we just let him

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i think syria would turn out good if nobody did anything and just watched

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the syrian civil war is going to end soon without a couple hundred thousand additional dead im sure yeah?

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nah, what i'm doing is pointing out that you don't have any valid suggestions for ending the war without intervention

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cheer5

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Michael Bayleaf posted:

let's put maoist third worldism in syria :iamafag:

democratic confederalism is stronger

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it's an ongoing process

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HorrificExistence posted:

Why do you worship democracy?

A strong government based on Sharia is far superior for long term stability.

lol

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lmao

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you know when i was advocating for american intervention in syria? this is exactly what i was going for. what a great success!?

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death is the correct solution

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Jose posted:

Word filter Assad into The Lion Assad

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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

I believe the bar story but "confronting" random dudes in Beirut bars with "facts" sounds like a way to get your rear end kicked generally.

and be deserving of it too

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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

im not really sure WHY the us still cares about defending the pkk though, aside for trying to look like theyre not running. ISIS is dead and pkk are commies who have no real loyalty to the US aside for how many guns we can give them.

Because Trump really, really does not like being told by Erdogan he has to do something or else.

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LinYutang posted:

i support western intervention against assad 😎

sir, this is not the bad opinions thread

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resar posted:

How is Assad fascist?

he's a tyrannical, murderous oval office

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Dairy Days posted:

am i a neocon if i wouldnt cry a tear if someone dropped a cruise missile on the head of a person ordering chemical weapons use on people

i still do not understand why someone can't just assassinate The Lion Assad and then we all hope it helps somehow

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resar posted:

By that standard Israel and America are fascist states.

They are.

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resar posted:

Why aren't you cheerleading Trump and Bibi's assassinations by the international community?

:ninja:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOnSh3QlpbQ

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i can't stop laughing atm

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Give it another day and he'll be saying there's no end in sight for Syria.

I know we're more than a year in already, but i still can't loving deal with this poo poo

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the great deceiver posted:

totally. i've been following the war pretty closely for a while now and sometimes i have to take a step back and be like ok why am i doing this? i think "picking a side" is pretty natural with something like this tho, it's when you become a dedicated keyboard warrior for your chosen side that i think you need to take a step back and maybe find something else to read about on the internet for a while.

I am an international socialist and I care about the fate of my comrades.

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What the hell is a comprador?

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Uhhuh... And how exactly is US collaboration with the YPG/SDF in achieving the long-term aims of Syrian Socialists a bad thing? I keep asking about this, but nobody ever gives me an answer. Has some bad thing happened because of it at some point? Because I don't think I've heard of any?

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Fast Luck posted:

There was a defense to be made for them initially, doing what they had to do to beat back ISIS and survive, and it was easy to have the expectation that Assad would be happy to grant them some type of semi-autonomous status anyway so sure

at this point though the US still has troops there and are filling up the territory with military bases and are brutally murdering any SAA/Russian/etc parties that attempt to venture east of the Euphrates, basically declaring that partition of Syria as their protectorate. We can still hold out hopes that when the rest of the war is settled they'll come to terms with the Syrian state but it's also doubtful the US is at all eager to move out and surrender that region from their influence, it's currently looking like their only consolation prize after Iraq fell largely out of their orbit and the rest of the Syrian rebels have largely been rooted out.

Um, so how exactly did that defense become invalid after the defeat of Daesh then? SDF is still under existential threat from both Erdogan and Assad, one or both of whom will no doubt attack SDF territory the minute American protection is removed.

As for SDF "brutally murdering" SAA and Russian forces attacking their positions... Yeah, that's sort of how battles work? If you start shooting at someone, they're liable to fire back until you go away. You don't really get the right to complain about being defeated in an assault on territory held by someone else.

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Oh, so PYD's refusal to submit to the rule of a tyrant who imprisoned, tortured and murdered their members for decades before the war, is what you see as separatism. Dunno really what to tell you mate, but I really do not understand why and how this US military aid delegitimises anything the PYD/SDF has done.

Fast Luck posted:

There are obvious reasons not to want to see Syria partitioned, since that weakens it on the whole.

Well they're not obvious to anyone else but you, so do tell what you think those reasons are?

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