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Charliegrs posted:I don't think it's been confirmed that Syrians are fighting there. But if there was chances are it would be the Turks transporting them. They kind of have a habit of sending Syrians to fight in other countries (Libya) https://caspiannews.com/news-detail/azerbaijan-denies-presence-of-turkish-military-base-syrian-fighters-2020-9-2-39/ So like 2 loving weeks ago Azerbaijan denied a turkish base existing inisde the country.  3 Days ago, Lindsey Snell reports the transport of 70 Syrian soldiers to Baku https://twitter.com/LindseySnell/status/1309554207297605638 TFSA Pissed about siding with Shias. loving look at this: https://twitter.com/KevorkAlmassian/status/1308085986082140160 Someone asked what changed, I am unsure, Realpolitik changed. But this was infront of us for the last few loving weeks and occuring in spats here and there in terms of rumors. This is a prepared effort.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Someone asked what changed, I am unsure, Realpolitik changed. But this was infront of us for the last few loving weeks and occuring in spats here and there in terms of rumors. This is a prepared effort. Erdogan needs a win. That's why it's happening. His gains in Syria were meager, could only ethnically cleanse Afrin canton. Turkish people not impressed by disappointing lack of real genocide. AKP lost elections in Istanbul and Ankara. In Libya it's even worse, he was starting to ramp up and got Al Watiya Air Base struck in the night by unknown forces, destroying the air defenses here. Then Russia came in and put redlines on the objectives he wanted to seize. poo poo! Things are looking bad for 2022 presidential reelections of Sultan Recep I! How about Mavi Natan? Let's just declare all Greek islands and the sea around them is Turkish clay and drill for g--wait, France is siding with the Greeks and telling Erdie-boy to knock it off. Poor Erdogan just cannot get a break. All he wants is some defenseless people he can oppress a bit so as to win elections, why is that so much to ask? Hey, the Armenians. Right in his backyard. Westerners can't intervene there, their military is puny, it's time to help brotherly turkic brothers the Azeri deal with the Armenian problem for good. This is easy win. Let's start by bringing in a lot of shia-hating jihadists who'll be sure to definitely side with the Shia Azerbaijanis and then assault the heavily-defended plateau of the Artsakh republic!
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Paladinus posted:According to some experts, there are already moves by the Central Election Commission in Russia to make elections more transparent and fair, because they don't want to see the same thing happen there. With ongoing local protests in Russia, I'm sure they'll try to make at least some token steps to signal that Putin is not like Lukashenko at all. Even with local protests, you can see that while Kremlin is reluctant to give protesters exactly what they want, there are attempts to compromise. But the elections committee have just finished with the constitutional vote and the local elections and they were all not exactly fair or reasonable except at some precincts where the government is really hated and the opposition is fairly powerful. Even there the Kremlin is flexible with tactics but in the end as in the case of Furgal winning elections is not a guarantee of any change or compromise with the Kremlin. Really hard to believe in a gradual reform for the better under the current Russian leadership
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:https://caspiannews.com/news-detail/azerbaijan-denies-presence-of-turkish-military-base-syrian-fighters-2020-9-2-39/ jfc this is what the Syrian Free Army is up to now?
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:jfc this is what the Syrian Free Army is up to now? It's not exactly a Free Army if they get a salary. Although, I would be extremely wary of rumours like this, especially in the Caucasus. Everything's possible but then during the Chechnyan and Georgian wars there were rumours of two metre tall Latvian female NATO mercenary snipers.
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Reuters, citing sources in the Syrian opposition factions: Turkey has provided each fighter who transports to Azerbaijan a monthly salary of $ 1500 Okay, So the salaries went from $600 to $1500, this sounds like the opposition either getting mixed messages or spreading bullshit. Also a "plane" aka a drone and a heli shot down Drone:  Helicopter:    Armenia: Restrictions on leaving the country for men from 18 to 55 years old have been introduced in Armenia, they can leave only with the permission of military enlistment offices making them walk into a recruiting office and pressing them into service the second they do. WAR CRIME GIGOLO fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Sep 28, 2020 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:jfc this is what the Syrian Free Army is up to now? FSA proper has been dead for years. Just about anyone left fighting in Syria now has basically been fighting all their adult lives, them essentially becoming regional mercs makes a decent amount of sense, it's not too far removed from the Chechnyans who kept showing up in Middle East conflicts some years back. It's a mixture of ideology, extensive experience, and realizing that you might as well get paid for doing something you know how to do and are already doing.
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Randarkman posted:FSA proper has been dead for years. Just about anyone left fighting in Syria now has basically been fighting all their adult lives, them essentially becoming regional mercs makes a decent amount of sense, it's not too far removed from the Chechnyans who kept showing up in Middle East conflicts some years back.
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Dwesa posted:I thought it's not referring to FSA proper, but to Syrian National Army aka Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (yes, another FSA). True, there are so many it's hard to keep track of which is which.
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8 Hours ago Macron and Putin (France has had ties with russia for a hundred + years) denounced the war, called for a ceasefire. etc. Azerbaijan's propaganda war is in full swing with videos being posted online of UAVs utterly annihilating armenian vehicles.  More potential evidence of Syrian fighters. This person is claimed to be a syrian TFSA with a fairly fresh uniform for the conflicts of syria. Also Planes from "Silk Way Airlines" have been flying in Armenian territory with no callsigns, this being a major private contractor for the Azerbaijan security forces & gov't as a whole. Russia MFA expresses deep concern over Syria and Libya rebels deployment to Azerbaijan, that creates threat to entire region OH another slight rumor Armenian Defense Ministry announced that Azerbaijan handed over the control of the air operation in Karabakh to the Turkish Air Force.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:jfc this is what the Syrian Free Army is up to now? SFA is Turkey's store brand Al Nusra.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:True, there are so many it's hard to keep track of which is which.
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Iran state media denies weapons being brought into Armenia from Iran Later, confirmed trucks came from russia, to iran, to armenia. 
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This war is such depressing news (not that other wars are uplifting). I visited Armenia 5 years ago. An old and proud country, but also very poor and with very negative demographics. As soon as you leave the capital, you see empty houses and disrepair. Didn't look like there were many infrastructural efforts since the USSR. Its borders with Turkey and Azerbaijan are closed, which leaves only Georgia and Iran to trade with. No access to sea. What the hell they needed Nagorno Karabakh for... Even if they manage to keep it, with great effort and further depleting meager resources, it will never be successfully integrated into Armenia or recognized by anyone. A permanent wound, and one caused by themselves. The best thing that could happen to them is for Azerbaijan to retake it, hopefully without war crimes.
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Doctor Malaver posted:What the hell they needed Nagorno Karabakh for... Even if they manage to keep it, with great effort and further depleting meager resources, it will never be successfully integrated into Armenia or recognized by anyone. A permanent wound, and one caused by themselves. Doctor Malaver posted:The best thing that could happen to them is for Azerbaijan to retake it, hopefully without war crimes. When you have mixed populations in an area with one group being scattered between various mountains while the other holds the lowlands, there are usually historical reasons for that. Can you guess what happened?
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Cat Mattress posted:The population of Karabakh is like 90% Armenian. Now it is, but before the 1991 war it was only 75%. Cat Mattress posted:The only way Azerbaijan can hold the plateau is if it gets rid of the Armenians who live there. And if it is allowed to, it will do so without hesitation or remorse. Azerbaijan is led by ethno-nationalists who have a very poor track record wrt. human rights and they're assisted by jihadists recruited by Turkey who have been used to "ethnically rectify" Afrin of its Kurdish population. Having a part of your country under occupation does tend to bring out nationalists. I'm not saying that otherwise Azerbaijan would've been liberal and rosy but they probably wouldn't make the life of Armenians in Karabakh any more difficult than it is now, under Armenian rule.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Now it is, but before the 1991 war it was only 75%.  https://archive.org/details/gorbachevfactor00brow_0/page/262/mode/2up hmm yes Azerbaijan will totally not resume it's previous policy of language, cultural, and historical suppression.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Now it is, but before the 1991 war it was only 75%.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Montenegro - Milo Đukanović, who ruled Montenegro since the nineties until very recently, based his power on cigarette smuggling. Italian courts connected him with mafia. There are two Serbian flags because the country has a significant Serb minority and these last elections were in large part about the Serbian Orthodox Church. The original link does not work for me, so here it is on Instagram for the curious. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBp6UeopQho/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The summaries are pretty accurate, I would add the the storm clouds on the Croatian panel would be a reference to Operation Storm. The knives the Serb character is holding might also be a reference to the film “Nož”. The character bashing in the head of a kneeling figure in the Croatian panel is also reminiscent of a scene in the film” Savior” (starring Dennis Quaid of all people). There is also an instance of a Serb character in that film using a knife to steal a ring from an elderly Bosnian woman. Both “Nož” and “Savior” in turn reference real events from WW2 and the 90’s of course. I know sledgehammers were used by the Ustaše to kill Serbs, Jews, Roma et al. Not sure about specific, remarkable real life associations with Chetniks and knives (which is why only the film “Nož” springs to mind) but the Ustaše were also particularly fond of a curved knife/glove combo they called a Serbosjek. Pretty evocative illustration, to say the least.
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Day x of the Navalny poisoning, the Russian authorities still see no reason to open an investigation into the case. I just want everyone to keep this in mind when they read a post by a 20 year old troll fabric employee posting "what does Putin gain from this?? He is too important and powerful to worry about some blogger guy". I don't know what kind of hosed up revenge fantasies fester in his head, but he has an international scandal and accusations of using a military grade nerve agent because a person was almost killed on the soil of the country he ruled for the 20 years and the press secretary comes out saying this was a CIA plot to make Russia look bad. And the funny thing noted by Navalny himself in a recent blog post is that the press secretary's whole family has citizenship of various EU countries because family deserves best. https://www.spiegel.de/internationa...bd-39a99b5b86f4 quote:...
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mobby_6kl posted:Unfortunately I don't think ethnically-cleansing the region again is a very good approach. It sucks but I think the only option is to either maintain status quo or actually find a peaceful way for the two populations to coexist. lol. crazy how that coexistence just randomly worked for 70 years in the middle of the 20th century wisconsingreg fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Oct 2, 2020 |
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Vasukhani posted:crazy how that coexistence just worked for 70 years in the middle of the 20th century obviously we need the Soviet Union back. If we can have a Russian (or, even better, Georgian) dictator oppressing both Azerbaijanis and Armenians equally, they will stop feuding for as long as the boot remains applied on their neck.
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Cat Mattress posted:obviously we need the Soviet Union back. If we can have a Russian (or, even better, Georgian) dictator oppressing both Azerbaijanis and Armenians equally, they will stop feuding for as long as the boot remains applied on their neck. Agreed. So do Armenians and Azeris, by like 80%
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CheGayvara posted:The summaries are pretty accurate, I would add the the storm clouds on the Croatian panel would be a reference to Operation Storm. The knives the Serb character is holding might also be a reference to the film “Nož”. Yeah, operation Storm. Good catch! I don't think the films are any reference here. Savior didn't leave much of an impact, and I've never even heard of Nož. Knifes are just a general war crimes reference.
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Why does this news make my stomach turn? It's the ghosts of syria back to haunt us.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Why does this news make my stomach turn? It's the ghosts of syria back to haunt us. this is the ghost of something far worse than even syria
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Vasukhani posted:this is the ghost of something far worse than even syria Soviet country planning meant to seed conflicts in the post soviet world. I know you are fully correct
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Guess who is interested in freshly combat-proven drones useful against Russian systems? https://defence-ua.com/news/zsu_hoche_pridbati_do_48_udarno_rozviduvalnih_bpla_bayraktar_tb2-1778.html
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Soviet country planning meant to seed conflicts in the post soviet world. I know you are fully correct divide et impera taken to extreme, but with added putler sauce this poo poo can get way worse than early 90s wars and can get a political distraction for even usa elections
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In Ukraine they have law that pays soldiers about 200$ when they do not shoot during the ceasefire a month.
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darthzeta88 posted:In Ukraine they have law that pays soldiers about 200$ when they do not shoot during the ceasefire a month. Which law is that? I did a quick search and nothing came up
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I just want to say, what concerns Belarus protests, every bit of support helps. This thing is not a clear progress bar when we are at 50% or who knows? The regime appears unshakable until it suddenly crumbles down. I liked a little face Svetlana made when asked if she fears Russian persecution, and Euronews apparently liked it too. The regime will do its best not to indicate how weak it is so international reaction is very important. We don't know WTF. Are we losing? I think we are losing. Another odd thing which is probably not important. Russian news agency Regnum, which is normally not worth reading due to frothing in the mouth pro Kremlin position which puts even RT to shame. Suddenly posted that on friday there was a secret court in Zhodino about members of the police who refused to be violent against protesters. Peaceful protesters, thats what IA Regnum called them. Not CIA-bought, polish sponsored insane maniacs, drug addicts and unemplyed prostitutes. Peaceful protesters
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Nitrox posted:Which law is that? I did a quick search and nothing came up It is some new law, but I can confirm it as I get paid an extra 5800 hrv for not shooting. Guy I know shot cats that kept eating the food and had a report written did not get paid because he shot during ceasefire, even if he did not shoot at separatists.
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Wow Lukashenko visited prisoners in KGB detention to talk to them. This literally never happened ever. Than the cynic in me realized that this is just for show "I met everyone, neglected noone". For future edition of constitution. E: also, we are losing Sekenr fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Oct 10, 2020 |
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Sekenr posted:Wow Lukashenko visited prisoners in KGB detention to talk to them. This literally never happened ever. Than the cynic in me realized that this is just for show "I met everyone, neglected noone". For future edition of constitution. It is for show, but it means he needs to put on that show now. He went from 'I don't even need to talk to the so-called opposition, they don't represent anyone but foreign powers' to talking with people whom he used to call traitors and worse. It reeks of desperation. Similarly, Belarusian foreign minister Makey spoke to his EU counterpart Josep Borrell recently, and Borrell once again highlighted the importance of dialogue, while Lavrov echoed that sentiment on the same day. Might have something to do with that.
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I work in transport and recently had a talk with a lawyer in London who gave us 40 something list of banned people who we are not allowed to work with.
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