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Darth Walrus posted:They do seem like an odd country to recruit for a war. why would that be? sadly, Somalia is the Ivy League of war. you name a type of war, and we’ve had it twice.
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Darth Walrus posted:They do seem like an odd country to recruit for a war. It's a nice way to phrase "KSA asked Somailia to get a blank check on recruiting Somali child soldiers from war torn regions", i.e. the exact same thing they did in Sudan(s).
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Darth Walrus posted:Incidentally, I found a detailed and fascinating article on Lebanon's bizarre economy, if you want to see why it was so uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19. Every single chart in it is incredible. A big part of the issue was tying the Lebanese Pound to the dollar which fueled a speculative real estate bubble and then rapid devaluation once the bubble collapsed in the an absence of currency controls. The aftermath Civil War/2006 conflict delayed this bubble somewhat because circumstances were still so uncertain, but by the 2010s it was in full swing. This was all a long-time in coming since there were already signs Lebanon had been under economic stress for years, but it took COVID for the explosion to occur. Most developing countries really don't benefit long-term from having a super-strong currency since usually it just leads to a false sense of stability and growth followed by economic catastrophy once reserves run out. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 11:15 on Jul 4, 2020 |
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Darkman Fanpage posted:mcchrystal joked that "when we understand this slide we will win the war" lmao source??! gonna cite this in my dissertation
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Gonna rec Radio War Nerd 218 from back in Feb as a great primer on why Lebanon's economy imploded
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This will surely be an amazing shitshow to watch https://www.thenational.ae/world/gcc/kuwait-approves-foreign-worker-quota-bill-1.1044807 quote:uwait’s National Assembly committee has approved a draft law proposing a quota for the number of foreign workers that live in the country, designed to change the country's demographic ratio in favour of Kuwaitis.
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Yeah the Kuwaiti parliament is currently in the grips of a bunch of loving racists populists it’s crazy, this is a trend that will certainly be sweeping the gulf soon now that the money is drying up, with the exception of UAE + Qatar since those countries would literally be nothing without their foreign population
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Al-Saqr posted:Yeah the Kuwaiti parliament is currently in the grips of a bunch of loving racists populists it’s crazy, this is a trend that will certainly be sweeping the gulf soon now that the money is drying up, with the exception of UAE + Qatar since those countries would literally be nothing without their foreign population Don't worry Kuwait will be a very good cautionary tale once Kuwaitis have to work in construction and deliver food in 50°C heat and 80% humidity
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don't think assad is to blame this time https://twitter.com/CharlieDaniels/status/1279760077902274562?s=20
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Lmao is that a sanctions act?
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Boatswain posted:Lmao is that a sanctions act? The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, also known as the Caesar Act, is a United States legislation that sanctions the Syrian government, including Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, for war crimes against the Syrian population. The bill has not been passed into law. Instead, parts of it were incorporated in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020. A number of Syrian operated industries, including those related to infrastructure, military maintenance and energy production, are targeted. The bill also targets individuals and businesses who provide funding or assistance to the president of Syria. Iranian and Russian entities are addressed for their governments' support of Assad in the Syrian Civil War. The legislation imposes fresh sanctions on entities conducting business with the Syrian government and its military and intelligence agencies. It also aims to encourage negotiations by allowing the President of the United States to waive sanctions if the parties are engaged in meaningful negotiations and the violence against civilians has ceased. The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 has become a part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (S1790) as House of Representatives report 116–333. The House Committee Report, including Caesar has passed the Senate on December 17, 2019 with bipartisan support from both chambers of United States Congress. A few days later, U.S. President Donald Trump signed this bill containing this version of the Caesar provision to become law. This bill is named after an individual known as Caesar, who documented torture against civilians by Assad's government, which was verified to become known as the 2014 Syrian detainee report or Caesar Report. Human Rights Watch (HRW) further investigated this report, and produced an additional report titled If the Dead Could Speak. Photographic evidence from the 2014 Syrian detainee report has been on display at the United States Holocaust Museum and at the United Nations. ___ oh for gently caress's sake that report is almost definitely just some bullshit cooked up by the CIA
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orange sky posted:Don't worry Kuwait will be a very good cautionary tale once Kuwaitis have to work in construction and deliver food in 50°C heat and 80% humidity How well-paid and influential are the Indian population in Kuwait? I know that this sort of move is often not about actually kicking people out, but about reducing their labour bargaining power by making their presence in the country illegal.
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Darth Walrus posted:How well-paid and influential are the Indian population in Kuwait? I know that this sort of move is often not about actually kicking people out, but about reducing their labour bargaining power by making their presence in the country illegal. no it's not like california where a lot of the immigrants are upper-caste tech workers. these are dalit construction workers and domestic servants. they don't have access to their own passports, let alone labor power
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Boatswain posted:lmao source??! https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html
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sorry about facebook link but this is a really good watch https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2329630387339225
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gradenko_2000 posted:This bill is named after an individual known as Caesar, who documented torture against civilians by Assad's government hold up, assad was accused of torture?? the United States cannot, will not stand for this violation of human rights
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love when our political parties (both of them!) come together to strangle a nation's economy in the name of preventing more civilian deaths. take that, assad!
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the entire concept of american sanctions is like responding to reports of parents abusing their children in their homes by setting up a barricade around the home where the abuse is occurring, not actually doing anything about the abuse, and saying "we will punish anyone who tries to help that family. no, you cannot go in and stop the abusers. we figure that if this barricade goes on long enough, they'll figure it out and stop abusing the children on their own. or perhaps the children will eventually realize that their parents are causing this blockade and will overthrow their parents." then again, america, so that's not far off from reality (not the best metaphor for a lot of reasons but goddamn I do not understand punishing a population because their leadership is punishing them, you ain't gonna win hearts or minds and I believe the last 50? years of trying it has shown that) (not to mention blockading countries just cause america is like "gently caress those guys" where the metaphor doesn't work at all)
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it’s because sanctions are meant to weaken, there’s no expectation of improving the situation or a government “learning its lesson”. that’s just cynical rhetoric. the actual logic is that causing further economic trouble will destabilize the state to such an extent that there’s a change of leadership by coup or uprising which is more amenable to imperialism, or the state collapses entirely. both of which i guess are win conditions for the US any other result like “fanatical slavers take over entire regions then spill over into neighboring countries in a cascade effect of violence and terror” is just an externality
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More than even regime change, economic sanctions are supposed to make an "example" of a country to scare others in line. The problem is that usually it backfires, and the population starts supporting the regime and sanctions arguably help propel regimes. It seems like a growing number of countries see this and are mostly shrugging off the threat of US sanctions and instead use work arounds. Also, an large part of it is the US military is overstretched and as Afganistan/Iraq showed the US military really can't sustain long term occupation. The "Libyan experiment" also has proved unworkable since it is so destablizing to an entire region.
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US sanctions provide a needed boost to the world economy driven by sales of flammable US flags
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THS posted:hold up, assad was accused of torture?? the United States cannot, will not stand for this violation of human rights we know he did torture because we hired him to do torture
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Flavahbeast posted:we know he did torture because we hired him to do torture can't argue with that evidence, really
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Thanks, did not know this either:quote:Lt. Gen. David D. McKiernan, who led the allied ground forces in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, grew frustrated when he could not get Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the commander at the time of American forces in the Persian Gulf region, to issue orders that stated explicitly how he wanted the invasion conducted, and why. Instead, General Franks just passed on to General McKiernan the vague PowerPoint slides that he had already shown to Donald H. Rumsfeld, the defense secretary at the time.
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Tommy Franks was (is) a loving idiot and he's lucky his invasion plan didn't get thousands of US soldiers killed in the first week. Cobra II is a good book that covers the details.
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THS posted:hold up, assad was accused of torture?? the United States cannot, will not stand for this violation of human rights *gasps, drops rectal feeding nozzle spraying hummus everywhere*
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Turkey planning to turn the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. This will go over well in Europe.
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/OzKaterji/status/1281527091553607680/photo/1 It's Spiked, though, who actually are genocide deniers and living demonstrations of the Trot-to-fash pipeline (they make up a not-insignificant part of Boris Johnson's staff). Katerji had a stopped clock moment here.
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Spergin Morlock posted:Turkey planning to turn the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. This will go over well in Europe. I mean it is a mosque, it just wasn't an active one. This opens it up to services again which sucks and will make seeing the interior a worse experience, but some of the sensationalist headlines about them converting a church into a mosque are five centuries too late.
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