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FlamingLiberal posted:The exact moment it was hosed forever was when they fired the entire army and put them all on the streets with guns it's kind of loving hilarious that this same thing happened to the soviet army in '94, some became mercs, some became mobsters, and hosed the political system forever because of cheap muscle being instantly available.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:it's kind of loving hilarious that this same thing happened to the soviet army in '94, some became mercs, some became mobsters, and hosed the political system forever because of cheap muscle being instantly available. wait what? I do not recall hearing about this ever.
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Spacewolf posted:wait what? I do not recall hearing about this ever. The soviet army was disbanded due to the collapse, so trained soldiers had no job no salary. These soldiers sometimes liquidated what they were guarding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Bout
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FlamingLiberal posted:When the USSR collapsed there was a lot of genuine concern that these now mostly unpaid military officers would be selling nuclear material to third parties, but the international community worked to prevent that from happening at least That and only that.
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I’m fairness, a ton of former Russian military went into organized crime before that, too. A ton after, too. The Chechen veterans didn’t reintegrate very well and the eventual pseudo peace with kadyrov then hosed things up even more.
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The New York Times visual investigation team has acquired a year's worth of intercepted cockpit communications from Russian pilots flying about Syria, allowing them to use open source evidence to link air strikes on hospitals and civilians to Russian jets, demonstrating how Russia is purposely targeting them. The latest video in the series came out yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoepUsTgikI Here's the earlier two videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75i8jNp4TY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCi-2-Flcxk
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Brown Moses posted:The New York Times visual investigation team has acquired a year's worth of intercepted cockpit communications from Russian pilots flying about Syria, allowing them to use open source evidence to link air strikes on hospitals and civilians to Russian jets, demonstrating how Russia is purposely targeting them. The latest video in the series came out yesterday: oh poo poo
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Saladman posted:Could be, but UNESCO cites the drop between 2000 and 2013 from 74% to like 43%, so what’s happened since 2013 is not directly related to seeing whether standards changed. From what i read in that article it appears that tests were given in Arabic, Kurdish, and a regional dialect of turkish that is somewhat prominent in Iraq.
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Oh wow some nearly incomprehensible Twitter feud gibberish. A truly essential element in any discussion of the ME
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Oh wow some nearly incomprehensible Twitter feud gibberish. A truly essential element in any discussion of the ME
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Agreed. I mean thats 40% of this thread at least More like this subforum, try turning off twitter embeds and see how many posts here are literally empty
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Agreed. I mean thats 40% of this thread at least Did you actually post that in the wrong thread though? It's completely incomprehensible, even when I click on the link, and the album screenshot doesn't help.
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FlamingLiberal posted:The exact moment it was hosed forever was when they fired the entire army and put them all on the streets with guns The exact moment it was hosed forever was when Dubya was sworn in as 43rd POTUS.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Agreed. I mean thats 40% of this thread at least There were somewhat less than 30 twitter embed posts in the last 10 pages of this thread. That's less than 7.5%.
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Randarkman posted:There were somewhat less than 30 twitter embed posts in the last 10 pages of this thread. That's less than 7.5%. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Oh wow some nearly incomprehensible Twitter feud gibberish. A truly essential element in any discussion of the ME It's a pro-Bellingcat rich person threatening to get a journalist fired for talking about inconvenient stuff
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It's not "inconvenient stuff", it's made up bullshit her tankie pals have been telling her.
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Enjoy posted:It's a pro-Bellingcat rich person threatening to get a journalist fired for talking about inconvenient stuff Partly the reason this is incomprehensible is because no one gives a poo poo about your sad twitter feuds.
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Brown Moses posted:It's not "inconvenient stuff", it's made up bullshit her tankie pals have been telling her. been a while, got any new NYT advertorials to share with us
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Oh wow some nearly incomprehensible Twitter feud gibberish. A truly essential element in any discussion of the ME It would appear to be related to this: https://twitter.com/dgaytandzhieva/status/1200100843627991043 If this journalist is correct and bellingcat is falsely claiming that her story was incorrectly reported and that she was fired by her newspaper as a result then that would indeed be a significant breach of journalistic ethics.
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Helsing posted:It would appear to be related to this: It relates to something else, but it's fairly telling the above person has neither contacted us via a lawyer, complained to the UK press regulator who regulates us, or contacted us directly herself with a complaint.
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Is Armswatch reputable?
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CommieGIR posted:Is Armswatch reputable? All the articles seem to be by the same person who is breaking the bellingcat story so 
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This is one article about her past activities https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/c1dp2xz8
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CommieGIR posted:Is Armswatch reputable? She's also pushing a story about CIA smuggling Croatian weapons to rebels in Syria, which was first reported in 2013 or something... by Bellingcat.
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I can't believe that an SA mod used sarin gas on a train full of London school children. Thanks for breaking the news story, Russia Times.
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RandomPauI posted:I can't believe that an SA mod used sarin gas on a train full of London school children. Thanks for breaking the news story, Russia Times. It's Shake 'n Bake, and I helped! I enjoy the twitter hate directed towards Bellingcat and Brown Moses, not because I agree with it, but because it's pure-strain crazy in the finest tradition.
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madeintaipei posted:It's Shake 'n Bake, and I helped! Between Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal, and Peter Hitchens my Twitter mentions have been a total shitshow the last few weeks. Blocking their idiot followers has becoming my Cookie Clicker.
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Brown Moses posted:Between Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal, and Peter Hitchens my Twitter mentions have been a total shitshow the last few weeks. Blocking their idiot followers has becoming my Cookie Clicker. Had to google this guy and... uh... he's a character that's for sure.
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 Turkish Foreign Ministry: We reserve the right to reactivate Peace Spring operation in Syria if the commitments made are not implemented
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Thread on the Caesar Bill, that's about to become US law: https://twitter.com/THE_47th/status/1203962583432253442 https://twitter.com/THE_47th/status/1203965452801728513 https://twitter.com/THE_47th/status/1203966753572892674 https://twitter.com/THE_47th/status/1203970931883958272 https://twitter.com/THE_47th/status/1203972818976825345 https://twitter.com/THE_47th/status/1203976342125105152
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In the end, it sounds like it is only going to make life for the civilian population of Syria harder in the future. It isn’t surprising.
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Accountability is too hard, much better for Assad's people that we let them be gassed and tortured at will.
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Mozi posted:Accountability is too hard, much better for Assad's people that we let them be gassed and tortured at will. If this was about Assad, the US wouldn't be focusing on the entirety of the Syrian economy. If you want to go after him or his military, that is at least understandable, but these sanctions (at least from that Twitter thread) sound nearly complete. It doesn't just ban working with the Syrian government but likely any attempt at doing serious business in Syria. If anything, we are only committing a crime against the Syrian people alongside those of Assad. It won't make Assad accountable, he and his regime will most likely survive, but only bring misery to average day Syrians. Anyway, the real story is again geopolitical, but it is again burden Syrians really didn't need. Ardennes fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Dec 9, 2019 |
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Mozi posted:Accountability is too hard, much better for Assad's people that we let them be gassed and tortured at will. Ah yes, this is the west with its principled stand against human right abuses. It's not at all a transparent cudgel against a state actor deemed unacceptable to US interests.
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so that means I can be a cheapskate and post about posting instead of having some wit or spending any more on comedy avs for people. Which I'm also incapable of. Comedy.
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Mozi posted:Accountability is too hard, much better for Assad's people that we let them be gassed and tortured at will. The OPCW leak undercuts the narrative that Assad is gassing people though
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