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Baloogan posted:lol you know whats great? not getting gassed by assad lamo haha sir this is a mcdonalds drive thru
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Did Iraq have a McDonald's before 2003? This is important. i could swear i saw triumphant newspaper headlines about how the first <us fast food chain> opened post-invasion
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Prav posted:i could swear i saw triumphant newspaper headlines about how the first <us fast food chain> opened post-invasion there were a bunch on the various bases
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lol Afrin fell to the Turks. kurds either bungled this or never intended to really put up a fight. ypg are loving idiots for letting this happen, shoulda taken the syrian government's deal a little while back.
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the great deceiver posted:lol Afrin fell to the Turks. kurds either bungled this or never intended to really put up a fight. ypg are loving idiots for letting this happen, shoulda taken the syrian government's deal a little while back. I don't think that was real, my man, the syrian government has no interest in actually fighting the ottomans. They managed to get some friendly NDF militia to help but there's no way the government was going to do anything for them.
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turkey isn’t attacking SAA controlled territories. yet.
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Afrin was under attack by a trillion Turk backed jihadis and they had no backup did you expected them to hold them like the loving Spartans or w/e
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Plutonis posted:Afrin was under attack by a trillion Turk backed jihadis and they had no backup did you expected them to hold them like the loving Spartans or w/e I think he was expecting Afrin city to be like another Al-Bab, Mosul, or Raqqa - but YPG doesn't fight like ISIS does. Those sieges took so long because ISIS buys time for itself by booby trapping every square meter of cityscape that they can.
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Panzeh posted:I don't think that was real, my man, the syrian government has no interest in actually fighting the ottomans. They managed to get some friendly NDF militia to help but there's no way the government was going to do anything for them. maybe, maybe not. i dont think the government had much interest in the turks invading and occupying their sovereign territory tho
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Plutonis posted:Afrin was under attack by a trillion Turk backed jihadis and they had no backup did you expected them to hold them like the loving Spartans or w/e
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The real decisive factor for the Turks is that they don't care who dies in these operations, because their fighters aren't even Turks to begin with - and anytime a Turkish officer gets domed or a tank crew gets fried then they're fascist martyrs who all get big gently caress off state funerals for propaganda.
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I hear ghouta is almost free
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paul_soccer10 posted:I hear ghouta is almost free Which is why we need to celebrate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNjl18QesGM&t=30s I wonder if Turkeys threats about Alleppo are true if Assad might ally with YPG.
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the great deceiver posted:lol Afrin fell to the Turks. kurds either bungled this or never intended to really put up a fight. ypg are loving idiots for letting this happen, shoulda taken the syrian government's deal a little while back. Yeah dude, these guys fighting Leopard tanks and F-16s with AK-47s and RPG-7s definitely bungled the OP.
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Thug Lessons posted:Yeah dude, these guys fighting Leopard tanks and F-16s with AK-47s and RPG-7s definitely bungled the OP. of course they were outmatched, they knew that. i think the "defense" of afrin was a propaganda effort that actually resulted in the ypg looking way less competent. if they had actually been serious about defending afrin from the turks they would have negotiated with the SAA.
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the great deceiver posted:of course they were outmatched, they knew that. i think the "defense" of afrin was a propaganda effort that actually resulted in the ypg looking way less competent. if they had actually been serious about defending afrin from the turks they would have negotiated with the SAA. lol this is the most retarded take
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the great deceiver posted:of course they were outmatched, they knew that. i think the "defense" of afrin was a propaganda effort that actually resulted in the ypg looking way less competent. if they had actually been serious about defending afrin from the turks they would have negotiated with the SAA. The best strategy for warding off a nation seeking to annex your lands and genocide your peoples is to ally yourself with the other nation that wants to annex your lands and genocide your peoples.
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the great deceiver posted:of course they were outmatched, they knew that. i think the "defense" of afrin was a propaganda effort that actually resulted in the ypg looking way less competent. if they had actually been serious about defending afrin from the turks they would have negotiated with the SAA. They held up the second biggest army in NATO and its auxiliaries for a couple of months, and are already promising guerrilla warfare. 420 Gank Mid posted:The best strategy for warding off a nation seeking to annex your lands and genocide your peoples is to ally yourself with the other nation that wants to annex your lands and genocide your peoples. What do you think the Assad brigades are there for?
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:They held up the second biggest army in NATO and its auxiliaries for a couple of months, and are already promising guerrilla warfare. Would have been interesting if Assad and Hizbellah had had their best troops fighting with YPG there.
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Crowsbeak posted:Would have been interesting if Assad and Hizbellah had had their best troops fighting with YPG there. It would have been a clusterfuck. The FSA is already promising that they're gonna take "every village occupied by PKK" and won't stop at Afrin, which means they're going to have to take Minnigh Airbase and Tal Rifaat.
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Give Rojava a nuke imo
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https://twitter.com/AlSuraEnglish/status/978021504465055744 lol
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that video footage is incredible.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:that video footage is incredible. `?
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https://twitter.com/AlSuraEnglish/status/978019526074810369
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the great deceiver posted:of course they were outmatched, they knew that. i think the "defense" of afrin was a propaganda effort that actually resulted in the ypg looking way less competent. if they had actually been serious about defending afrin from the turks they would have negotiated with the SAA. It looked to me like they did negotiate with the SAA and the price was deemed unacceptable.
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lol cool
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Jose posted:lol cool 
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what a patriot 
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hahaha drat wow
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wonder why south korea doesn't want to buy any of those awesome defense systems!!!!
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They've talked about why patriots don't work as ballistic missile interceptors before on War Nerd. Ballistic missiles based on Soviet SCUD designs are really massive rockets with a lot of weight behind them, and patriots are small interceptor missiles designed to take down jets which have thinner skins and sensitive avionics. They don't even have enough mass to kinetically knock out SCUDs if you rammed them directly, but because they made Israelis feel better during the Gulf War the image of the patriot is that it's a ballistic missile interceptor. None of them have failed quite like this though.
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where can i listen to war nerd?
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this guy was on democracy now a few years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPZeXJPJmUA MIT guy edit: two part interview https://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/31/iron_dome_or_iron_sieve_evidence
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Darkman Fanpage posted:where can i listen to war nerd? https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd/posts
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Darkman Fanpage posted:where can i listen to war nerd? lollontee linked the patreon page. They don't make many episodes free anymore but there's still a big backlog. The Sci-Fi & Fascism episode is still the best imo and they made it free half a year ago.
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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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https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/978955670929268741 Looks like the Syrian government is willing to draw the line at the borders of Afrin province. Frijolero posted:So Turkey is bombing northern Iraq again https://twitter.com/TRTWorldNow/status/979042060798955520 They're practically threatening to invade Iraqi Kurdistan.
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