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Willie Tomg posted:D&D thinks a lot of wacky poo poo about Bashar al-Assad that, if even half of it were true, would make him such an astonishingly competent strategist and politician that any nation would be lucky to have him in a position of absolute power. i mean the number of those who have pledge to unseat the lion of syria and then fallen themselves is legion
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"he went after the non-islamist factions first to make the moderates seem radical!!!" golly, could that possibly be because ansar al-sharia and jabhat al-nusra were flush with foreign fighters, cash, and western surplus military arms including ATGMs flooding over the turkish border, where domestic factions had finite manpower limited to a pool of defectors and domestic dissidents and were rapidly expending a limited pool of whatever rifles and RPGs they could steal from the SAA before the conflict became truly dire? so if your goal was re-securing as much of the country as possible with a national army that, itself, often resembled the patchwork militias it was fighting, it'd stand to reason that the sectors held by factions with crippling logistical problems would fall first forcing remaining rebel areas into the command structure of these more-secure foreign presences? "NO TANKIE, THOUGH THE WAR LACKED PRECISION IN EVERY OTHER AREA HE BEELINED SPECIFICALLY FOR SECULAR FSA FACTIONS WITH CARPET BOMBING AND HELPED ISIS even syrians refer to the eastern plains as "scorpion territory" because there's nothing there but stretches of sand and poverty and Damascus and the western cities were massive. isn't it more likely that rather than spread himself thin holding a frontier of no strategic value the regime chose instead to retain what urban areas he could, plus the ports for supply and trade, in order to more fully concentrate his forces to fighting the longest and most protracted urban siege since literally stalingrad? "NO. ASSAD AND ISIS WERE MAKING BABIES IN THE CLOSET AND THE BABY LOOKED AT ME" etc etc like, if a single guy can stablize a nation from that kind of crisis with that incredibly convoluted level of conniving and make it work then... it kinda sounds like the best man won.
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an ophthalmologist turned visionary
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THS posted:an ophthalmologist turned visionary
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:if we drive some more humvees over them that'll really show 'em heh jokes on you we drive around in mraps now iran: *just builds bigger ieds*
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lmao the idea that random insurgents in a country awash in munitions would wire up crude explosive devices to blow the balls off billy redneck riding around in an unarmored humvee never entered the minds of the geniuses that planned the iraq invasion.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:heh jokes on you we drive around in mraps now the EFPs iran sent shia militias after the al-askari mosque bombing knocked out TANKS. "up-armor" is hilariously ineffective when liquefied armor is the thing that's cutting through your armor and not an explosive or projectile.
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THS posted:an ophthalmologist turned visionary lmao and this was the dweeby loser son who got drafted when the chad older brother drove into a wall without a seatbelt
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THS posted:an ophthalmologist turned visionary He sees the end of imperialism
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dirty lousy tramp posted:lmao hahahaha
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the one english language observer about syria that i would read is joshua landis who speaks the language, has lived there and seems to be pretty objective about it, which brings serious wrath in his direction from the neocons who call him an assad luver because of his alawi wife, without noting the syrian government kicked him out in 2005 for being a pain in the rear end (his objectivity).
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his take on the chemical weapons is also blunt and straightforward. i heard him on RWN where he didn't deny assad's forces were responsible at all, in fact, or that it was just some "rogue unit" or whatever, but just (paraphrasing) "the alawi core of the regime sees itself as fighting an existential war for its own survival and will use any weapon at its disposal. we killed hundreds of thousands of japanese civilians with nuclear bombs but it's not like americans have lost any sleep over it."
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So they used CSPAM modded?
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The whole "president of iran allegedly called Trump a retard when actually no it's just the translator choosing a terrible moment to be bad at their job" thing remind me of the Ems Dispatch.
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The media are going to get us all killed
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:So they used CSPAM modded? the president even specified ‘sheng-ji yang’ level
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CODChimera posted:The media are going to get us all killed guidoanselmi posted:todays farsi lesson: im guessing he probably used the term "aghab oftadeh" which literally translates to "fallen behind" and is pejorative. colloquially, it can mean mental retardation but also represents individuals/peoples who can't keep up with the times. Toplowtech has issued a correction as of 12:15 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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This is why Kim went with “dotard.” Same connotations, much less drama
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9/11 was a limited strike
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Over Easy posted:We talking about jimmy? democracy now really loving sucks on china, iran, venezuela and the dprk. indistinguishable from npr when it comes to those subjects
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wasnt democracy now cheering bombing libya too
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democracy now, ask questions later
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Toplowtech posted:The whole "president of iran allegedly called Trump a retard when actually no it's just the translator choosing a terrible moment to be bad at their job" thing remind me of the Ems Dispatch. there are entire organizations dedicated to purposely mistranslating things in ways that make Middle Easterners look more scary and threatening to Americans you haven't really lived until you've seen "the Jews are killing us" mistranslated as "we will annihilate the Jews"
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It's a proud foreign policy tradition dating back at least to Kruschev's "we will bury you" (actually "we will outlast you") comment, probably way earlier.
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Goon Danton posted:It's a proud foreign policy tradition dating back at least to Kruschev's "we will bury you" (actually "we will outlast you") comment, probably way earlier. "NO atacamos el maine"
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Goddamn the new Istanbul Airport is something. One day future generations of my useless profession will excavate this place and it will be like the lotr scenes in moria except the monster was capitalism. e: In this analogy i guess the balrog built moria
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Bold of you to assume there's still gonna be intelligent life left on the planet by then
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real news network > democracy now I recall some p laughable coverage of Nicaragua where it was a debate between some gusano and another dude and the gusano simply denied everything. Also they frequently have such luminaries on as the head of human rights watch
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Rated PG-34 posted:real news network > democracy now rnn took a "let's have a debate" stance on Nicaragua, but at least they gave Max Blumenthal a platform. they're pretty great in general and everyone should subscribe to them.
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Lol https://twitter.com/elianayjohnson/status/1146001445050863616?s=19
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R. Guyovich posted:democracy now really loving sucks on china, iran, venezuela and the dprk. indistinguishable from npr when it comes to those subjects
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you could say the president was left with an acute case of the heebie jeebies
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lmao that fox news apparently provides the broadest historical context for american intervention in iran out of the mainstream news sources
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Poor Trump, thought of war atrocities and died.
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