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Saudi Arabia condemns US Senate 'interference' calling the ending of military aid to you "interference" is pretty baller
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abu rasasa has the biggest balls, ever. even bibi gotta be jealous.
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The social change taking place in Saudi Arabia has undeniably brought joy and new opportunities to many citizens, but they come with an implicit threat: indulge in the fun, just don’t challenge the leadership. Women can drive after a decades-long ban was lifted, gender segregation is dissolving and cafes are filled with music, previously deemed immoral in the conservative Islamic kingdom. At the same time, any space for freedom of expression has vanished. In its place, an aggressive form of nationalism has risen, venerating Prince Mohammed as the steward of progress rather than the brash leader blamed by the CIA for Khashoggi’s murder in October. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLFtJGnRehU
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Dec 19, 2018 08:59
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rip rojava https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1075394824487006208
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*Trump whistling and shining a knife, standing behind a battle-scarred SDF comrade*
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Dec 19, 2018 16:23
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the idea that the United States would stay there indefinitely was always pure wishful thinking.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:the idea that the United States would stay there indefinitely was always pure wishful thinking. Yes the well know inevitably of the us leaving a country. Why look at Afghanistan or Germany
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coathat posted:Yes the well know inevitably of the us leaving a country. Why look at Afghanistan or Germany yeah it was totally realistic to think the US would stay deployed to protect a communist movement from our own ally with Donald Trump as president.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:yeah it was totally realistic to think the US would stay deployed to protect a communist movement from our own ally with Donald Trump as president. i mean that was the entire logic behind tankie support of assad, yeah
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Dec 19, 2018 19:09
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Now that the US is leaving peace can finally return to Syria
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:i mean that was the entire logic behind tankie support of assad, yeah It wasn't though. Tankies were supporting Assad before the United States even started supporting YPG.
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Dec 19, 2018 19:53
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drat, that fast uh do the same in afghanistan now
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Kurtofan posted:drat, that fast uh not until we've declared Mission Accomplished
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https://twitter.com/farnazfassihi/status/1075472519052845057 The next 48 hours are going to be loving wild https://twitter.com/SSiminoff/status/1075477027162152961 https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/1075500130655195136
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Flavahbeast posted:Now that the US is leaving peace can finally return to Syria it's funny cos it's true
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RIP the kurds
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turns out the yanks aren't to be trustedmila kunis posted:it's funny cos it's true i'm sure they can still find a way to ship in some more guns and missiles
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Dec 20, 2018 00:30
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Maybe Al Qaeda will gas itself again in some futile attempt to get the US to bomb another Syrian airfield. Glad Trump got this foreign policy point right.
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going by all the angry
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Themage posted:going by all the angry every outcome is bad in this situation
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more us troops out of the Middle East is good no matter what this was gonna happen inevitably
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ultimately if rojava can only exist with US soldiers standing around, then.. yeah. who knows, maybe they can still cut a deal with assad
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They can cut a deal with Damascus but they're not going to like it. Still better than letting Turkey come in and hand over the canton to Salafist Beavis & Butthead.
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Any chance the Kurds get any kind of autonomy in a deal with Assad or has the time for that passed as well?
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Azathoth posted:Any chance the Kurds get any kind of autonomy in a deal with Assad or has the time for that passed as well? I'd say unlikely. What's important now is that we get together and cheer on two right wing autocrats as they massacre a revolutionary leftist state.
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Azathoth posted:Any chance the Kurds get any kind of autonomy in a deal with Assad or has the time for that passed as well? Without American troops standing around, Damascus basically holds all the cards. My guess is they'll only want status quo ante, but waiting until Turkey invades isn't in their interest either. Maybe Damascus will let them keep their worker councils so long as they kick up some tax money, but I doubt it.
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i cant imagine erdogan is really stupid enough to invade and essentially annex another 2 million very angry kurds who have had experience fighting for the last 7 years but i dunno. in afrin theyve been essentially practicing ethnic cleansing but that only works when the kurds have the rest of rojava to flee to.
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:i cant imagine erdogan is really stupid enough to invade and essentially annex another 2 million very angry kurds who have had experience fighting for the last 7 years but i dunno. Turks don't have any qualms about creating a refugee crisis in Syria & Iraq.
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Erdogan is facing a recession and while a war is a good distraction, trying to take that territory is going to be pretty bloody and costly. At least in theory; it seems like Turkey's tried to collect as many Sunni jihadists that they could probably use as cannon fodder against the Kurds. And continue to resettle white helmets in the conquered territory.
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https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1075765222198018048 cuckoldry
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Say goodnight to the good guys.
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Frond posted:Say goodnight to the good guys.
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assad will save the kurds
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paul_soccer10 posted:assad will save the kurds lol you’re funny.
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I'm not sure how to ask this, so pardon my inarticulate phrasing, but wasn't this always what was going to happen once Russia went all in on Assad and the non-Kurd rebels in the east went all clusterfuck. Like, the US wasn't ever going to fight Assad on behalf of the Kurds and everyone knows it. At some point, it was always gonna come down to Assad's troops rolling into Rojava and the only question was ever whether the Kurds could stop him independently and that door closed hard when Russia got involved. I'm freely admitting I could be wrong, so please correct me if I am.
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