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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

did saudi ever finish making qatar an island

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guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.

Al-Saqr posted:

What Jared Kushner thinks means more to those arab rulers than all of their citizens put together and I will never understand why other than they're a bunch of dogs.

If you haven't stared into Jared's soulful eyes as he's longingly stared into yours with hands held, truly you will never understand.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

Al-Saqr posted:

Breaking news:- Qatar and Saudi Arabia have reconciled and are lifting all the siege and embargos

https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1346164206836609024?s=20

lmao this is because the qatari lobby faction of the military intelligence complex has more pull with the democrats and bidens coming in isnt it

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

mila kunis posted:

lmao this is because the qatari lobby faction of the military intelligence complex has more pull with the democrats and bidens coming in isnt it

That would also be my guess. Were the sanctions June 17? So around May they did a few lines together, took the Orb pic and MBS went on to show the world who runs the peninsula. Turns out that just invited Turkey in. And now it's back to smiles and hugs. lol.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1346561370851053571?s=20

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
:blastu:
https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1346569772759199745?s=20

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Oh great I love it when they consolidate plotlines

https://twitter.com/YonhapNews/status/1346312917872852992

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

quote:

The Cheonghae Unit has been in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia since 2009 and broadened its mission areas into the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf last year amid heightening tensions in the region.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005


lol at the mortar

Lustful Man Hugs
Jul 18, 2010

Why does South Korea remotely have any interests in the region?

E: Just saw the article from a few days ago.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Lustful Man Hugs posted:

Why does South Korea remotely have any interests in the region?

E: Just saw the article from a few days ago.

because of shipping.

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

mila kunis posted:

lmao this is because the qatari lobby faction of the military intelligence complex has more pull with the democrats and bidens coming in isnt it

every time there is a republican pres they are gonna add 5 miles to the channel between saudi and qatar

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Lustful Man Hugs posted:

Why does South Korea remotely have any interests in the region?

E: Just saw the article from a few days ago.

South Korea is a energy importer but they've frozen Iranian assets at U.S. behest

https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1346422208554479617

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1346932039388327945

iran is having a little fun today

Corky Romanovsky
Oct 1, 2006

Soiled Meat

Lustful Man Hugs posted:

Why does South Korea remotely have any interests in the region?

E: Just saw the article from a few days ago.

There have been ongoing anti-piracy operations off the horn of africa by an international coalition. Japanese Navy even participates. There's a base for it in Djibouti, even.

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

i'd say they've earned it!

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

article about what happened in Ethiopia. (Massacre)

Note that the source is heavily neoconservative, so keep that in mind as you read it.


https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/06/ethiopia-benishangul-gumuz-violence-gerd-western-front/

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://mobile.twitter.com/MapEthio...rebels.21644%2F

Clashes in Oromia, Afar Region and the Sudanese border

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 6 minutes!
https://twitter.com/edmnangagwa/status/1347176848694931457

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1347585533061570569?s=20
https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1347470676798660613?s=20
https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1347566630843330570?s=20

Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin
https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1347655793659678721

guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.

Timely Bald & Bankrupt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HBBSG7tAfQ

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
MBS still making grand announcements on mega projects surrounding NEOM ( which five years later still doesn’t have many investors and hasn’t build a single house on it) with this stuff revolving around a completely pedestrian city I guess


https://www.neom.com/whatistheline/

Anyone smarter than me in urban and regional planning care to explain what the gently caress he’s talking about?!

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/peterjsalisbury/status/1348464139073695744

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Al-Saqr posted:

MBS still making grand announcements on mega projects surrounding NEOM ( which five years later still doesn’t have many investors and hasn’t build a single house on it) with this stuff revolving around a completely pedestrian city I guess


https://www.neom.com/whatistheline/

Anyone smarter than me in urban and regional planning care to explain what the gently caress he’s talking about?!

first impression: lmfao i'm 1932 in the slide reel of human progress

they want a high-speed rail that can handle a sustained average (not top speed) of 500km/hr for twenty minutes

edit yo this poo poo gets nuts at 2:40, pro-click

i say swears online has issued a correction as of 07:28 on Jan 11, 2021

Flayer
Sep 13, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Buglord

Al-Saqr posted:

MBS still making grand announcements on mega projects surrounding NEOM ( which five years later still doesn’t have many investors and hasn’t build a single house on it) with this stuff revolving around a completely pedestrian city I guess


https://www.neom.com/whatistheline/

Anyone smarter than me in urban and regional planning care to explain what the gently caress he’s talking about?!
Cool videogame. With 9 years to make it they could even get CDPR involved.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

Flayer posted:

Cool videogame. With 9 years to make it they could even get CDPR involved.

I just realized that MBS is like a guy who starts a Kickstarter for a basic 2d platformer, doesn’t even put out an alpha build, then comes out later with a post asking for more money to turn the project into an MMO that would compete with world of Warcraft.

guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.


https://mobile.twitter.com/eenaruffini/status/1348486340019712001?prefetchtimestamp=1610353450381

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/YemenData/status/1347495382675320834?s=20
https://twitter.com/YemenData/status/1347500130048618497?s=20

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 6 minutes!
https://mobile.twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1348665999604772865

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 6 minutes!

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Al-Saqr posted:

MBS still making grand announcements on mega projects surrounding NEOM ( which five years later still doesn’t have many investors and hasn’t build a single house on it) with this stuff revolving around a completely pedestrian city I guess


https://www.neom.com/whatistheline/

Anyone smarter than me in urban and regional planning care to explain what the gently caress he’s talking about?!

oh holy poo poo it's Disney's original idea for epcot lol

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Some Guy TT posted:

(1979 images of Iran)

How much of that changed besides nominal headscarfs? I seen recent recent videos on Tehran and it seems pretty modern with nightlife etc.

Ardennes has issued a correction as of 23:33 on Jan 11, 2021

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

the Dream of Neom is still alive!

quote:

But Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman didn’t see a wasteland when he landed in his helicopter here a few years ago. He saw the future— and hatched a plan for a $500 billion city-state to cover 10,000 square miles of rocky desert and empty coastline to attract the “world’s greatest minds and best talents” to the world’s best paying jobs in the world’s most livable city.

They’ll fly drone taxis to work while robots clean their homes. Their city will supplant Silicon Valley in technology, Hollywood in entertainment and the French Riviera as a place to vacation. It will host a genetic-modification project to make people stronger.

These ideas are laid out in 2,300 pages of confidential documents by consultants at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Co. and Oliver Wyman that The Wall Street Journal reviewed, and discussed in interviews with people involved in the project called Neom, a portmanteau of the Greek word for “new” and the Arabic word for “future.” The documents, dated September 2018, offer the most detailed look inside Neom and its planning since the project was unveiled in 2017.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-princes-500-billion-desert-dream-flying-cars-robot-dinosaurs-and-a-giant-artificial-moon-11564097568

i believe it will also have robot dinasaurs

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

god i'd love to be a consultant on neom lol

guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.

Ardennes posted:

How much of that changed besides nominal headscarfs? I seen recent recent videos on Tehran and it seems pretty modern with nightlife etc.

Tehran has grown dramatically and smog is worse. A lot has been invested in infrastructure growth and revitalization around Tehran.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhOQiUyPfDQ

Not shown in "OMG people didn't wear headscarfs" are charts for development, electrification, literacy, and access to healthcare before and after the revolution.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 6 minutes!
but that was for the dirty poor people who believe in allah not the cool hip urbanites like us

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

the number of women in Tehran wearing miniskirts has plummeted since 1979, but the number of oiled up bodybuilders has stayed steady and possible even increased.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

yeah if you didn't live in tehran you were most likely religious and a supporter of the revolution anyway. not much changed in your small town except you got a hospital and a school

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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/AssalRad/status/1348815791936872449

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