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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 22 days!)


"Obsidian Lotus" is one of those perfect self-owning code names.

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animist
Aug 28, 2018
hEre in operation "Umami Cobra", we give guns to Uzbek children, and then just, like, see what HAPPRENS, man

:911:

animist has issued a correction as of 18:05 on Apr 10, 2019

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

"Obsidian Lotus" is one of those perfect self-owning code names.

Operation Tap to Gain 3 Mana

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

"Obsidian Lotus" is one of those perfect self-owning code names.

tapping this operation can be played as an interruption of a stable society

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

just nice to make friends :shobon:

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009


oh i'm sure there's a strategy, it's just not acknowledged in public

THS
Sep 15, 2017

Spergin Morlock posted:

oh i'm sure there's a strategy, it's just not acknowledged in public

giving them too much credit

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Spergin Morlock posted:

oh i'm sure there's a strategy, it's just not acknowledged in public

the strategy is "well, we don't want ISIS to win, but we don't want the most powerful forces opposing ISIS to win, but we can't just do nothing because someone we don't like is going to win, so gently caress it, we're just gonna randomly hand out guns"

it's basically the same poo poo that happened in Syria. we had plenty of groups that we wanted to be defeated, but there wasn't any serious contender that we were really willing to tolerate winning, so we just kind of flailed around uselessly because our country is run by interventionists who just couldn't bear to not be involved somehow

like, that article is a bunch of military officers complaining about how the US didn't support Haftar, a pro-US warlord with CIA ties who loathes ISIS, hard enough. but the reason we're not supporting him very hard is because he wants to overthrow the elected government and be a military dictator, and has therefore been working for years to destabilize the country and extend his own influence at the cost of the national government's

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Main Paineframe posted:

the strategy is "well, we don't want ISIS to win, but we don't want the most powerful forces opposing ISIS to win, but we can't just do nothing because someone we don't like is going to win, so gently caress it, we're just gonna randomly hand out guns"

it's basically the same poo poo that happened in Syria. we had plenty of groups that we wanted to be defeated, but there wasn't any serious contender that we were really willing to tolerate winning, so we just kind of flailed around uselessly because our country is run by interventionists who just couldn't bear to not be involved somehow

like, that article is a bunch of military officers complaining about how the US didn't support Haftar, a pro-US warlord with CIA ties who loathes ISIS, hard enough. but the reason we're not supporting him very hard is because he wants to overthrow the elected government and be a military dictator, and has therefore been working for years to destabilize the country and extend his own influence at the cost of the national government's

that's what i'm saying though. the us is perfectly happy to back dictators (actual and aspiring) while loudly exclaiming in public that dictatorships are bad and unacceptable. offer only valid if the dictator in question does exactly what he's told by the us

Ramrod Hotshot
May 30, 2003

animist posted:

hEre in operation "Umami Cobra", we give guns to Uzbek children, and then just, like, see what HAPPRENS, man

:911:

US foreign policy is a literal dril tweet

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

i’m starting to come around to the chapo idea of giving nukes to Iran

Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006

Smirking_Serpent posted:

i’m starting to come around to the chapo idea of giving nukes to Iran

it is literally, not figuratively but literally, the only thing that has created less war since WW2 thanks to american impunity haha the great filter is real and americans made it

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Smirking_Serpent posted:

i’m starting to come around to the chapo idea of giving nukes to Iran

Iran is probably going to arm itself now. As any chance Saudi Arabia having nukes to them can only rationally be done with arming yourself with nukes.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


https://twitter.com/jennineak/status/1116205056389337090

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009


cool

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


its a full blown coup

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1116212088597307392

Syncopated
Oct 21, 2010
BREAKING

• it’s 7:30 am in Khartoum

Asimov
Feb 15, 2016

I want that news beat. Every 30 minutes:

BREAKING - SOME PEOPLE ARE HAVING TEA AT THIS TIME AND OTHERS ARE WAKING UP OR CONSIDERING SLEEPING

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

she was a minute late on that scoop

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

the us' strategy in places like libya and syria has absolutely been destabilization rather than the establishment of a puppet regime. if they can't have it, nobody can.

RaySmuckles
Oct 14, 2009


:vapes:
Grimey Drawer

Syncopated posted:

BREAKING

• it’s 7:30 am in Khartoum

lmao

sleeptalker
Feb 17, 2011

R. Guyovich posted:

the us' strategy in places like libya and syria has absolutely been destabilization rather than the establishment of a puppet regime. if they can't have it, nobody can.

It's about creating innovative opportunities for access to democracy!

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

what could possibly go wrong

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Lmao

https://twitter.com/im_PULSE/status/1117241169363136512?s=19

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



https://twitter.com/im_PULSE/status/1117243279299362816

:qq: :qq:

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

oh noes my imperialist narrative is crumbling, better double down on it while targeting people on my left

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
So now we know that only Tulsi and Bernie are going to survive to the primaries? I wonder who of the other candidates will die first in an ironic accident.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Toplowtech posted:

oh noes my imperialist narrative is crumbling, better double down on it while targeting people on my left

Obviously I'm opposed to foreign interventions, but

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

steinrokkan posted:

So now we know that only Tulsi and Bernie are going to survive to the primaries? I wonder who of the other candidates will die first in an ironic accident.

what

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

first, :ironicat: second, what's the angle here? i'm skeptical of any non-interventionist right-wing government's motives

https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-warns-against-foreign-military-intervention-in-libya/

uncop
Oct 23, 2010

i say swears online posted:

first, :ironicat: second, what's the angle here? i'm skeptical of any non-interventionist right-wing government's motives

https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-warns-against-foreign-military-intervention-in-libya/

War refugees and geography.

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004


the other candidates must go

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

the curse of the lion

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Toplowtech posted:

oh noes my imperialist narrative is crumbling, better double down on it while targeting people on my left

all the rebel boasters hate bernie because he refuses to bomb iran to free syria

https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1117248402893332482

Bastaman Vibration
Jun 26, 2005

Atrocious Joe posted:

all the rebel boasters hate bernie because he refuses to bomb iran to free syria

https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1117248402893332482

how is this dude still just walking around?

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1117248729021472768

god he loving sucks so much

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Michael Sheiss

Smirking_Serpent
Aug 27, 2009

the bipartisan consensus is that 19/20 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and we all decided it was about as significant as if they were all Scorpios.

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Smirking_Serpent posted:

the bipartisan consensus is that 19/20 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and we all decided it was about as significant as if they were all Scorpios.

it was also probably funded/coordinated with help from ISI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh#Possible_connection_with_9/11_hijackers

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Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006

the points where beltway-wannabe hawks choose to stop openly articulating themselves and allow hegemonic ideology to create the dogwhistle implication is such a great aesthetic.


yeah you're right dude, love ain't one of them. dig deeper, let us in: what are the reasons. you clown. you fucker.

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