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kierrie posted:e: I guess they deserved it, being sorcerers and all. Sorcerers are tough motherfuckers.
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kierrie posted:You mean as opposed to Saudi Arabia which has beheaded 50 or more people this year? CNN Breaking News: People Can Dislike Both Sides of A Conflict.
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Sep 29, 2014 06:48
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kierrie posted:You mean as opposed to Saudi Arabia which has beheaded 50 or more people this year? A quarter of a million people have died in the Syrian Civil War.
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Sep 29, 2014 07:06
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FAUXTON posted:Sorcerers are tough motherfuckers.
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Sep 29, 2014 07:14
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Rent-A-Cop posted:It was probably the same sorcerer 50 times. Those fuckers are slippery. Sounds like Al Baghdadi has been consulting with djinn for success against the Kurds. I wonder if the prophet (PBUH) would approve.
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Sep 29, 2014 07:19
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Which is funny because a> China's foreign policy is somewhat specific about not sticking troops on foreign soil for long term deployment (because its a bad thing), b> Lots of third world countries call on China to help them get their poo poo together. China's just better at doing it in ways that don't include regime change and selling out the country to the IMF. I would also add that Russia send the Iraqi gouverment considerable quantities of CAS Jets, apperantly together with "technical advisors" that propably fly them, and placed the whole Thing under Iraqi command. This was before the US started bombing. Heck, if the west would be at good Relations with Russia, some deal about US:"Well President Putin, the Chechen shock troops of IS are kind of your fault because you didnt manage to murder them all in Chechenya." Russia:"I can see you Point, but Russia does not intervene in Iraqi/Syrian affairs, natural souvereignity and all that." US:"What if the UN asks you really nicely? And we promise to stay out of Syria for a while?" Russia:"Wait, I can murder Chechens that drive in US Military Equipment and get diplomatic Prestige and browny Points for it?" US:"Ehmm, Yes?" Russia:"Za Rodinu!". (That is of course not how it would be exactly, but you get the drift).
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Sep 29, 2014 07:23
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Rent-A-Cop posted:It was probably the same sorcerer 50 times. Those fuckers are slippery. My uncle works at Hydra and said they had a huge sorcerer recruiting effort last month.
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Sep 29, 2014 07:32
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Volkerball posted:This I gotta see. Deteriorata posted:If there's somethin' strange in your neighborhood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=375ENQbru8s
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Sep 29, 2014 09:05
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Volkerball posted:This I gotta see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94xlG4aJTug
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Sep 29, 2014 09:09
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It sounds arrogant, sure, but it's true though.
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Sep 29, 2014 09:22
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Which is funny because a> China's foreign policy is somewhat specific about not sticking troops on foreign soil for long term deployment (because its a bad thing), b> Lots of third world countries call on China to help them get their poo poo together. China's just better at doing it in ways that don't include regime change and selling out the country to the IMF. a> Well, aside from Tibet and (more ambiguously) various small manmade islands. b> A lot of countries also call on China to help them specifically *not* get their poo poo together, while still getting arms/money to allow said poo poo to continue. Zimbabwe and Sudan, for example.
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Sep 29, 2014 12:52
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Warbadger posted:a> Well, aside from Tibet and (more ambiguously) various small manmade islands.
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Sep 29, 2014 12:58
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My Imaginary GF posted:I had no idea Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Ghana, Guinea, and Cote d'Ivore werr US allies/vassals. If anything, I always pegged a few of those as AEF. AEF?
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Sep 29, 2014 14:32
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Washington Post article on Iraqi TV satire of ISIS.quote:BAGHDAD — Reclining on a gold-rimmed purple sofa, the leader of the Islamic State extremist group mulls his social-media strategy as an overaffectionate sword-wielding dwarf looks on.  I hope Khokha from Jordan makes a cameo.
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Sep 29, 2014 14:49
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My Imaginary GF posted:Sounds like Al Baghdadi has been consulting with djinn for success against the Kurds. I wonder if the prophet (PBUH) would approve. Islamic tradition holds that many djinn are Muslim, and are therefore ok to consult or do magic with, so long as you aren't evil about it.
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Sep 29, 2014 15:14
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Quick! Someone inform Bassem Youseff that we found work for him in Iraq! 
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Sep 29, 2014 15:14
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Sep 29, 2014 15:45
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Aurubin posted:Scuttlebutt picked up by AP is that the new Afghan government will sign a US troop deal. There needs to be an emoticon that combines  and  .
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Sep 29, 2014 16:32
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DutchDupe posted:America gets asked to intervene literally all the time in the world's conflicts and will be equally blamed for whatever happens due to its actions or inaction, but I'm going to take a guess that merely asking for American help would make a country or a state a "vassal" in your mind. It's sort of a can't lose argument since there's always some angle to argue against what the US did. America let Libya collapse into anarchy but at the same time everything that it could do to prevent that would be imperialism. People were originally arguing that the Libyan No Fly Zone was only to install some new pro-Western dictator who would sell his oil to the West instead of British Petroleum. All those Libyans who were calling for the rest of the world to do something were just CIA plants and Gaddaffi was suddenly Socialist and not pinballing between labels of convenience.
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Sep 29, 2014 16:38
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Which is funny because a> China's foreign policy is somewhat specific about not sticking troops on foreign soil for long term deployment (because its a bad thing), b> Lots of third world countries call on China to help them get their poo poo together. China's just better at doing it in ways that don't include regime change and selling out the country to the IMF. I am potentially dubious about the "not selling the country out to moneyed interests" thing, especially in countries they don't give enough of a poo poo about to hire locals to build things / train locals to operate the shiny new facilities. China likes to staff its operations with Chinese folks, and some of those operations are, to quote Joe Biden, big loving deals. It's still a refinement of modern economic imperialism that's kinder, gentler, and probably more beneficial to the local population (because that's cheaper in the long run), and I'm really enjoying watching it develop, but I'm a little concerned that your eyewear might be a little... you know... on the lower frequency end of the spectrum.
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Sep 29, 2014 16:56
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GreyjoyBastard posted:It's still a refinement of modern economic imperialism that's kinder, gentler, and probably more beneficial to the local population (because that's cheaper in the long run), and I'm really enjoying watching it develop, but I'm a little concerned that your eyewear might be a little... you know... on the lower frequency end of the spectrum. Same old game major economies have been playing for centuries. Buy resource rights for pennies on the dollar, import all the skilled labor, work the locals to death, export the lion's share of the wealth and pay the rest in bribes to local strongmen. If anyone acts up, dump a flood of cheap weapons and untraceable cash on the warlord de jour and let the locals do all the dying to protect the operation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94xlG4aJTug [/quote] This is the best thing Obama has said in a long rear end time. I like it.
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Sep 29, 2014 17:24
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FAUXTON posted:Sorcerers are tough motherfuckers. Really, Saudi Arabia should be recruiting these guys into an unstoppable Wizard Brigade. Bunch of robed bastards flinging magic missiles would end that civil war pretty fast.
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Sep 29, 2014 18:11
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Aurubin posted:Scuttlebutt picked up by AP is that the new Afghan government will sign a US troop deal.
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Sep 29, 2014 18:18
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Afrique équatoriale française / Afrique occidentale française E: fool_of_sound posted:Islamic tradition holds that many djinn are Muslim, and are therefore ok to consult or do magic with, so long as you aren't evil about it. What if hes consulting with djinn to get America to bomb muslims? My Imaginary GF fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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Sep 29, 2014 18:49
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since when is ghana french
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Turkey has moved a bunch of tanks to the Syrian border at Kobane. It's weird to see Turkey go from "Bomb ISIS, not from our bases you won't!" to "Hey, maybe you guys should just let us invade already" in a matter of days. It's some about face that's for sure. The Northern Syrian security belt may come into existence yet. Or maybe its more fitting to compare a Turkish buffer zone to Syria's occupation of the Lebanon. Either way it's making me nostalgic for the eighties.
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Sep 29, 2014 20:18
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V. Illych L. posted:since when is ghana french Guinea, Senegal, and Cote d'Ivoire certainly are. Hell, France granted their 'respectable' citizens French citizenship for awhile. E: kustomkarkommando posted:Turkey has moved a bunch of tanks to the Syrian border at Kobane. The question is whether this is an anti-Kurdish move or an anti-ISIS development.
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Sep 29, 2014 20:27
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My Imaginary GF posted:The question is whether this is an anti-Kurdish move or an anti-ISIS development. Why not both?
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McDowell posted:Why not both? Oh, I have no doubt it'll be messaged as an anti-ISIS move. It may even prevent some ISIS movement. In the end, will furthering Turkish interests be of benefit to the Kurds or ISIS? There is no common ground there. Kurdish interests are American interests; Sunni Syrian interests are Turkish interests.
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V. Illych L. posted:since when is ghana french Or Indonesia.  Okay so MIGF meant AOF. AEF is further East: Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Cameroon, Chad. When did the US intervene in Cote d'Ivoire?
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Sep 29, 2014 22:05
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kustomkarkommando posted:Turkey has moved a bunch of tanks to the Syrian border at Kobane. Or to Cyprus.
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Sep 29, 2014 22:09
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kustomkarkommando posted:Turkey has moved a bunch of tanks to the Syrian border at Kobane. They are probably just trying to secure the border. There was a bunch of Kurds recently trying to break the border and enter Syria. Also A-10s are going to the region. They are badass planes but they will probably either sit in hangers for the deployment or accidentally destroy the Iraqi Army.
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Torpor posted:They are probably just trying to secure the border. There was a bunch of Kurds recently trying to break the border and enter Syria. What you label, "secure the border," I label as 'enabling genocide and ethnic cleansing.' Turkey certainly had a bit of unacknowledged history with that, wouldn't you say?
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Sep 29, 2014 23:53
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My Imaginary GF posted:Turkey delenda est. Yeah, yeah.
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Torpor posted:They are probably just trying to secure the border. There was a bunch of Kurds recently trying to break the border and enter Syria. People tonight are claiming that the Turkish border posts have been abandoned, so we will see.
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MothraAttack posted:People tonight are claiming that the Turkish border posts have been abandoned, so we will see. IT is now Schrodinger's Border.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:I don't see how it's any different or any more beneficial to the local population when China does it. They're leaving a little more in place than the Strictly Extractive economies, but probably not by enough to matter. The really interesting cases are places like Sri Lanka, where they have enough strategic and/or long-term need for the place that they're willing to let the locals in on some of the fun. One of the big things there (other than the port facilities, which SL tends to keep an iron grip on) is a fairly major satellite control / possibly launch facility for which they're already training up local mooks.
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So did the US save those Yazidis?
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Miltank posted:So did the US save those Yazidis? "Yes" "no" "some of them, not others" and "the US didn't really do anything" are all perfectly valid answers to that question, so by American standards yeah we did.
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