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Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

You didn't quote the best part.

https://twitter.com/IDFSpokesperson/status/962238137182445568

*one plane is shot down after hundreds of bombing missions into a country whose territory you occupy* "we will act determinately against such severe violations of our sovereignty"

https://twitter.com/sfrantzman/status/962340852810108929

IDF Twitter is 95% "Stop hitting yourself"

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Ramrod Hotshot
May 30, 2003

viral spiral posted:

So when is Israel going to start WW3?

today

Cinnamon Bear
Aug 29, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
"Lost in the hyper-politicized hullabaloo surrounding the Nunes Memorandum and the Steele Dossier was the striking statement by Secretary of Defense James Mattis that the U.S. has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people."

Oh.

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

Phone posting, but didn't he say they didn't use sarin after Trump came into office, but did before that

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
re: turkey in afrin

quote:

The Turkish Medical Association stated that the war could end in large-scale human tragedy to which Erdogan responded by calling the doctors of the association "filth", "agents of imperialism", and "terrorist lovers".[141] The Turkish interior ministry then opened an investigation into the association.[141] At least eleven doctors were then arrested.[142] Erdogan stated that the association will lose it "Turkish" tag in its official name and clarified that the organization "will not be able to use the notion of Turkishness, nor the name Turkey." He then added: "This institution has nothing to do with Turkishness and nothing about them is worthy of the notion of Turkishness."[143]

:ironicat: :borat:

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 27 days!)

https://twitter.com/RudawEnglish/status/962296161032908800

https://twitter.com/ClaudiaAlMinah/status/962301208852680705

Video isn't very good, but you can see the chopper go down behind the hill very early.

https://twitter.com/ShehabiFares/status/962222521985662976

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

LinYutang
Oct 12, 2016

NEOLIBERAL SHITPOSTER

:siren:
VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!!
:siren:
Attn big leftist brain falling for clickbait

It’s clear from the full transcript of the press conference that Mattis is referring to allegations of Sarin use since the US attack on Shayrat airbase, which means Wilkie either didn’t read the transcript, read it and misunderstood it, or read it and decided to claim something it didn’t say. More disturbingly still is Newsweek published the article without first doing basic fact checking on the central premise of the article.

LinYutang has issued a correction as of 06:08 on Feb 11, 2018

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

actually, assad is good

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

Algund Eenboom posted:

actually, assad is good

this but add "The Lion" before assad

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 27 days!)

https://twitter.com/4rj1n/status/962421730890452992

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/CustosDivini/status/962622547035611137

:irony:

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 27 days!)

https://twitter.com/Ali_Kourani/status/962460970881900544


https://twitter.com/ICafrinresist/status/962762127533633536

Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 22:14 on Feb 11, 2018

Often Abbreviated
Dec 19, 2017

1st Severia Tank Brigade
"Ghosts of Honcharivske"
How are the turks so bad at this.

How are the saudis worse.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 27 days!)

Often Abbreviated posted:

How are the turks so bad at this.

How are the saudis worse.

IMO it's the same kind of problem the IDF has. You spend so much time being a glorified police force trying to keep the lid on an insurgency, that you forget how to fight a real war.

That said, the Turks & FSA are still making some progress. It's just extremely slow and they haven't achieved anything decisive.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



lmao owned.

HorrificExistence
Jun 25, 2017

by Athanatos
The truth is they are just moving slowly, today's attack was a definitive Kurdish victory, but the Turks are still winning in Afrin.

Part of the reason it looks like they are not is because the grogs who make the maps of this conflict use a "zone of control" depiction, something that was invented in WW1 to show the very specific situation on the western front.

There is a reason why zone of control maps were not used for the Napoleonic wars. They only make sense when you have a definitive front that moves back and forth, those don't exist anywhere in this war.

A band of Turkish-backed infantry walk into a town, they leave in the night, a band of YPG walk into it next, they leave at morning. A Kurdish anti-tank gun takes out a technical, a Turkish airstrike blows up three YPG. That is the "intensity" of the Afrin op. There is not nearly a big enough concentration of forces to warrant the type of maps used for the region.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
cool that the lion knows whats best for the syrian people

https://twitter.com/KreaseChan/status/962372994185269249

the great deceiver
Sep 23, 2003

why the feds worried bout me clockin on this corner/
when there's politicians out here gettin popped in arizona
not saying that assad hasnt been guilty of targeting civilians but rebels and rebel sympathizing media outlets are notorious for stretching the definition of "civilian" throughout this war, gotta take figures like that with a grain of salt

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Americans shouldn't be talking poo poo after their peace prize winning president declared that all brown men are enemy combatants.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Both of these, :flashfap:. Israel now has to deal with the wrath of The Lion.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

IMO it's the same kind of problem the IDF has. You spend so much time being a glorified police force trying to keep the lid on an insurgency, that you forget how to fight a real war.

That said, the Turks & FSA are still making some progress. It's just extremely slow and they haven't achieved anything decisive.


That should probably be considered by American war planners, what with too much of our own military now a anti insurgency force.

Crowsbeak has issued a correction as of 02:27 on Feb 12, 2018

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

the great deceiver posted:

not saying that assad hasnt been guilty of targeting civilians but rebels and rebel sympathizing media outlets are notorious for stretching the definition of "civilian" throughout this war, gotta take figures like that with a grain of salt

I was just saying he was protecting the civilians of syria by taking out 277 terrorists.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
BTW about the F16.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui5AhhfYpSg&t=22315s

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 27 days!)

Crowsbeak posted:

Both of these, :flashfap:. Israel now has to deal with the wrath of The Lion.

Israel quit its air campaign within the last day. I think they're taking Assad's threat of rocket attacks on the Golan seriously.

the great deceiver
Sep 23, 2003

why the feds worried bout me clockin on this corner/
when there's politicians out here gettin popped in arizona

Bip Roberts posted:

I was just saying he was protecting the civilians of syria by taking out 277 terrorists.

inshallah

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
i don't want to like this, but that's a nice groove

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
instead of killing each other maybe the combatants can have a dance off.

ISIS loses automatically because they forbid dancing

aaaaaand in this corner we have the YPG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUwhOmWpU5g

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 27 days!)

https://twitter.com/M3t4_tr0n/status/962984856392290305

Israelis are holding off their air campaign until they can get Iron Dome sufficiently deployed in the Golan Heights. Maybe they'll start bombing again once that's done, but they probably shouldn't be trying to test the Syrians who will have much better rockets than the homebrew model rockets that Hamas uses. If Syria does a retaliatory rocket attack on the Golan Heights, then Israel would have to escalate their involvement in the war or lose face.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
i believe in The Lion Assad

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
God drat, israel has a knack for just making the dumbest moves ever.

Just nakedly grabbin territory from another country in a civil war.

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010


Call of duty: memetic warfare

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010


I'm a big boy country I continue to insist as I stick my hand into a meatgrinder

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

rudatron posted:

God drat, israel has a knack for just making the dumbest moves ever.

Just nakedly grabbin territory from another country in a civil war.

Territory largely occupied by Wahabis, who have never held a grudge against Israel ever.

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

lmao that Putin apparently got Israel to stop bombing

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

Crowsbeak posted:

Territory largely occupied by Wahabis, who have never held a grudge against Israel ever.

if the israelis want to do something about all the "wahabis" that live there your previous posts itt might provide some advice

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Fallen Hamprince posted:

if the israelis want to do something about all the "wahabis" that live there your previous posts itt might provide some advice

They could, but being that they’re been giving those guys medical support I doubt it. But that’s what happens when one actually studies the conflict, rahter than reprating whatever they read on CNN.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

While you were busy having premarital sex, I studied the Lion

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Fallen Hamprince posted:

While you were busy having premarital sex, I studied the Lion

Pre marital sex is haram.

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Crowsbeak posted:

Territory largely occupied by Wahabis, who have never held a grudge against Israel ever.

agreedo, sticking your nose into a bloody civil war in order to conquer territory full of armed insurgents who already aren't happy with your country is a great idea which has literally never ever backfired and certainly doesn't have any moral issues involved

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steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
Can't wait for Lion Assad to defeat all the world powers at once.

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