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Sinteres posted:Pretty funny when Netanyahu has to say hey wait a minute, I only like pretending I want to go to war with Iran. Also Iran's missiles can't reach New York but they can reach Jerusalem.
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:Also Iran's missiles can't reach New York but they can reach Jerusalem. It’s why I find the basing of B-52s so close to be strange. You have a weapons and refueling capability that leaves your airbase and planes beyond attack. You choose to base them close, in the place they are actually vulnerable. Unless it’s a tripwire force or something.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/world/asia/us-airstrike-afghanistan-police.html US air strike in Afghanistan killed 8 to 17 Afghan police from the unit that called it in.
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The only thing that surprise me with this is that there are still some Afghan policemen to kill.
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May 18, 2019 14:23
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So long as there is corruption to be done and people left to be mistreated, the afghan national police will continue to exist
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This is a good tweet thread about how inching toward war can create a momentum of its own that can make a defensive reaction to an intimidating posture look a lot like plans to start a war. Yes, it seems neither side actually wants a war (or at least Trump doesn't, though some of his advisers clearly do), but intentions can be misread, particularly with a president like Trump in charge who's flat out said he likes the idea that Iran doesn't know what he's thinking. https://twitter.com/ilangoldenberg/status/1129749338471751685
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OhFunny posted:US air strike in Afghanistan
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Sinteres posted:This is a good tweet thread about how inching toward war can create a momentum of its own that can make a defensive reaction to an intimidating posture look a lot like plans to start a war. Yes, it seems neither side actually wants a war (or at least Trump doesn't, though some of his advisers clearly do), but intentions can be misread, particularly with a president like Trump in charge who's flat out said he likes the idea that Iran doesn't know what he's thinking. pretty much. i could see trump stumbling into a war trying to prove how big his cock is and or something like this.
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https://twitter.com/David_Quinones/status/1128027977218916352 hell yeah. liberate them all.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:pretty much. i could see trump stumbling into a war trying to prove how big his cock is and or something like this. This is a pretty good summary of one of Blainey's theorist in The Causes of War.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:pretty much. i could see trump stumbling into a war trying to prove how big his cock is and or something like this. If only the world's many ills could be resolved with literal dick-measuring contests instead of metaphorical ones.
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May 19, 2019 14:30
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Pembroke Fuse posted:If only the world's many ills could be resolved with literal dick-measuring contests instead of metaphorical ones. well then with trump, the US would always lose.
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May 19, 2019 18:19
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Dapper_Swindler posted:well then with trump, the US would always lose. Ron Jeremy 2020
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May 19, 2019 18:21
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1130207891049332737 "If you threaten to defend ourselves against our invasion force, we will genocide you with nukes!" --The President of the United States of America
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Cat Mattress posted:"If you threaten to defend ourselves against our invasion force, we will genocide you with nukes!" --The President of the United States of America
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Cat Mattress posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1130207891049332737 The whole world is secretly hoping that to happen (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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May 20, 2019 14:43
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Palladium posted:The whole world is secretly hoping that to happen what the gently caress is wrong with you
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Cease to Hope posted:what the gently caress is wrong with you Palladium is a one-shot troll account, it seems.
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May 20, 2019 16:42
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My god it must be terrifying to live in a small country and watch the US stumble around making threats like a drunken lout.
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WorldsStongestNerd posted:My god it must be terrifying to live in a small country and watch the US stumble around making threats like a drunken lout. Eh...if you're a small European country, it's mostly just entertaining but yeah...it has to royally suck if you're a Middle Eastern one. Or a Central/South American one too, for that matter. CrazyLoon fucked around with this message at 16:43 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 16:41
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Well my family can't get medical supplies in Iran. So there's that.
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May 21, 2019 20:29
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CrazyLoon posted:Eh...if you're a small European country, it's mostly just entertaining but yeah...it has to royally suck if you're a Middle Eastern one. Or a Central/South American one too, for that matter. I think a bunch of small European countries are inside the fallout zone.
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CrazyLoon posted:Eh...if you're a small European country, it's mostly just entertaining but yeah... One word: refugees.  Generic reminders that in European languages, it's not the "Middle" East, it's the "Near" East.
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May 21, 2019 23:27
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I wonder what percentage of the world's misery can be attributed to the fact that the English words "Iran" and "Iraq" sound quite similar, cos all those crazy arab countries are the same, amirite.
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Tree Bucket posted:I wonder what percentage of the world's misery can be attributed to the fact that the English words "Iran" and "Iraq" sound quite similar, cos all those crazy arab countries are the same, amirite. You sound like Churchill!
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Cat Mattress posted:One word: refugees. No its still middle east in most germanic languages. The near east is a Latin & Slavic thing as far as I know.
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May 22, 2019 20:57
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Good piece from the NYT about Saudi airstrikes in Yemen and the use of US weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FwV3RE5PrY
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Brown Moses posted:Good piece from the NYT about Saudi airstrikes in Yemen and the use of US weapons: Of course there is a 'no strike' list for the press to see you're doing 'everything you can' and of course in practice it mostly gets ignored, since 'dynamic strikes' don't got time for it. Of course!
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May 24, 2019 01:46
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nrook posted:You sound like Churchill! That's fascinating. Good find!
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May 24, 2019 02:25
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Looks like the recent alleged chemical attack in Syria might be legit https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1131841205040484352 https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1131850580618559489 https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1131856428094906368 I've been shown photographs of what's claimed to be the munition used, and it's absolutely identical to those used in Damascus in early 2017 and 2018. What we're trying to establish now is if the same pro-government groups who were fighting in Damascus are now fighting in the area near the latest CW attack.
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Cool, does that mean we get the annual ‘Trump blows up a building outside of Damascus’ thing
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Based on the previous chlorine attacks on this scale (low casualty numbers and little video footage from the attack) I would say certainly not. The response to Douma and Khan Sheikhoun only happened because of the high casualty numbers, there had been multiple Sarin attacks in the weeks before Khan Sheikhoun, and multiple chlorine attacks in the weeks and months prior to Douma, but no-one gave a poo poo because only the people paying really close attention noticed. However, with Trump acting like he is at the moment he might respond in an attempt to get some good headlines and distract from all the domestic drama.
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https://twitter.com/ActingSecDef/status/1131968394037735424?s=19 Just keeping the peace.
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Cat Mattress posted:One word: refugees. Reminder that Europe is still dealing with the political repercussions of a migration crisis induced by American wars that seem like petty adventures compared to invading Iran.
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steinrokkan posted:Reminder that Europe is still dealing with the political repercussions of a migration crisis induced by American wars that seem like petty adventures compared to invading Iran. Yeah that was my point.
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Lol there are pro-privatisation ad campaigns being run on Saudi channels. And its using the ancient and molded over arguments of efficiency, customer orientation and competetion.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Lol there are pro-privatisation ad campaigns being run on Saudi channels. Privatization of what, exactly?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Privatization of what, exactly? And what kind of non-royal private sector is there, anyway?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Privatization of what, exactly? Healthcare, Utilities, government services. importing the US system is what Ive garnered. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 13:09 on May 27, 2019 |
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