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didn't congress already basically do that? most maps already have the us as recognizing it not that it'll change anything on the ground ... https://twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/status/1366565916339826691 wisconsingreg fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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Speaking of my idiotic adoptive home, Erdogan withdrew from the Istanbul convention. Probably a bad sign for women's rights here.
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Zedhe Khoja posted:Speaking of my idiotic adoptive home, Erdogan withdrew from the Istanbul convention. Probably a bad sign for women's rights here. Reading about it the whole thing sounds like a nice conservative populist trial balloon for testing how easy the president can overrule the parliament. So even if it is somehow turned down it is still nice red meat for his base.
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I thought they already had withdrawn from it, maybe I was thinking about some other convention about women's right?
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Rincewinds posted:I thought they already had withdrawn from it, maybe I was thinking about some other convention about women's right? Not sure they have withdrawn from any conventions, but the government has made the international news occasionally in the last few years for at least a handful of pretty striking laws proposed (or enacted) that backtrack on women's rights. The most notable recent one I can think of is their "Marry Your Rape Victim, Get Your Crime Forgiven" law from right before COVID: https://www.freedomunited.org/news/outrage-as-government-in-turkey-proposes-marry-your-rapist-law/ It's especially striking regionally because in the past 10-15 years quite a number of previous Turkish colonial territories have enacted laws removing the "marry your rapist" laws, and generally have been expanding women's rights. Turkey was definitely more progressive for women's rights than its old dominions until recently, except for maybe Tunisia, but that's really gone for a consistent, gradual reversal over the past 10-15 years.
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Vasukhani posted:didn't congress already basically do that? most maps already have the us as recognizing it Yeah the us technically recognized it after we got mad they bought some s-400s from russia, which deserves a colossal loving asterisk, imo. THe us moving to recognize the armenian genocide in a way that isn't transparently just a 'gently caress you' in a spat over a few missile launchers would be really drat nice.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Yeah the us technically recognized it after we got mad they bought some s-400s from russia, which deserves a colossal loving asterisk, imo. THe us moving to recognize the armenian genocide in a way that isn't transparently just a 'gently caress you' in a spat over a few missile launchers would be really drat nice. Eh, genocide recognition is always political by definition, just look at the lack of recognition for the Circassian genocide for that. It's actually pretty strange that we now have these games where states go around offering their official interpretation of history. It sort of implies that unless states recognize everything, they actually condone something wisconsingreg fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/ap/status/1374009962729508864?s=21 lol, owned.
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Nenonen posted:I wonder if the Houthis will accept? Rejected https://mobile.twitter.com/AFP/status/1374019892198969354
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Nenonen posted:I wonder if the Houthis will accept? edit: or just reject it, I suppose...
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Terms were entirely poo poo phrased in pleasant language. "Please let the UN, who already recognizes our puppets as the legitimate government and is acting as a defacto American occupying army in Haiti control your fate." Also nothing stated about the dramatically tightened blockade.
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What is the endgame for the Saudis here? It has been proven that they are unable to defeat the Houthis and eventually the Houthis will figure out ways to consistently hurt the Saudis the longer this war drags on. And for what gain for Saudi Arabia? There is nothing in Yemen for them.
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Flayer posted:There is nothing in Yemen for them. There's still people, kind of seems like Saudi Arabia might just settle for all the people there being dead. They'll probably fail at that, still gonna mean a lot of Yemenis dying.
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It's part of the great proxy war between KSA and Iran, just like in Syria. The endgame is the end of either the Kingdom or the Islamic Republic, I guess?
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I need to read more on this, but my first inclination is that this is a pr ceasefire. Though it might just be the biden admin's apparently deadset opposition to KSA's war in yemen paying off E: appears to be connected mostly to biden withdrawing support, also it appears KSA made sure to bomb a yemeni grain port yesterday, too, which is quite a move in a country currently facing an absolutely massive famine. I'm curious how the houthis will respond because they don't have a lot of reason to actually agree to a ceasefire, though they and every other yemeni obviously needs the blockade lifted ASAP. E2: There's a lot between the lines here: quote:Whether the Houthis accept the Saudi proposal remains in question. On Friday, Houthi leader Mohammed Ali al-Houthi proposed a nationwide cease-fire contingent upon Saudi Arabia reopening Sanaa’s airport to commercial flights and lifting restrictions on cargo shipments to Hodeida. The port handles most of the country’s vital imports. Both are long-standing demands of the Houthis, who swept into Sanaa from their northwestern strongholds in September 2014. https://apnews.com/article/saudi-arabia-cease-fire-plan-yemen-rebels-5bb3778d54227f77beea2bd017cd7554 Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Nobody even mentioned this yet. https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1374500457393967111 If the canal stays shut for a week, what'll that do to, well...everything?
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Spacewolf posted:Nobody even mentioned this yet. It'll mean even FEWER semi conductors make it to the US?
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Charliegrs posted:It'll mean even FEWER semi conductors make it to the US? The production of semiconductors is mostly in Taiwan/Japan/Singapore/China/the US/Malaysia (in that order of production). That stuff either goes across the Pacific or stays regional until assembled into something. Warbadger fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Mar 24, 2021 |
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Warbadger posted:The production of semiconductors is mostly in Taiwan/Japan/Singapore/China/the US/Malaysia (in that order of production). That stuff either goes across the Pacific or stays regional until assembled into something. Apparently that ship was sailing from Shenzhen so  GPUs for EU
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mobby_6kl posted:Apparently that ship was sailing from Shenzhen so Oh yeah, if you're talking Europe then it's gonna suck for semiconductors and drat near everything else.
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I mean it sucks for that ship and also every other ship behind it.
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i say swears online posted:the backup went from Suez to Gibraltar so lol And probably in the other direction to the *looks up* strait Bab al-Mandab at the entrance to the Red Sea. I should remember that: great powers are building ports right in that neighborhood.
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So, it looks like after a 1900 year history, the last Jews of Yemen have been expelled by the Houthiquote:The last remaining three Jewish families in Yemen were deported by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, leaving only a few Jewish seniors in the country, London-based Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Sunday. It's just sad, you know?
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Yeah that loving sucks, and it's a good reminder that while the Saudi war in Yemen is a massive crime against humanity which can't be justified, the Houthis are also pretty awful.
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A reminder that the Houthi motto, often displayed on banners and flags, is: "Allah is Greater, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam" So yeah
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quote:London-based Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat seem unbiased and definitely credible
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Herstory Begins Now posted:seem unbiased and definitely credible I know what you're thinking and agree... there are very few credible newspapers in London.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:seem unbiased and definitely credible Sure, point. But there is confirmation from The Times of Israel now. https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-13-yemeni-jews-leave-pro-iran-region-for-cairo-nations-community-down-to-6
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Herstory Begins Now posted:seem unbiased and definitely credible Those Arabs and their manufactured genocide claims!!!!
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Flayer posted:What is the endgame for the Saudis here? It has been proven that they are unable to defeat the Houthis and eventually the Houthis will figure out ways to consistently hurt the Saudis the longer this war drags on. And for what gain for Saudi Arabia? There is nothing in Yemen for them. They hope the US gets directly involved and takes out the Houthis like they took out the Taliban.
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human garbage bag posted:They hope the US gets directly involved and takes out the Houthis like they took out the Taliban. Maybe MBS or his cronies thought this at the start. After years of this even they're not stupid enough to think the US will invade Yemen.
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