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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Nonsense posted:

The Saudi's got their asses handed to them in that battle.

Houthis write top notch diss tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv13s5JmvS4

Those videos especially how fast the Saudi conscripts broke and ran made it look like a real turkey.

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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/DOD_Policy/status/1409284145159802880?s=20

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsxmod0TSAo

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

DEFENSIVE airstrikes

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

DEFENSIVE airstrikes

Everything that borders Iran is America.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/FinCrimeEdu/status/1409227377331351552

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Ethiopian Election Results are expected to be announced before the 28th, almost a week after voting. Abiy is expected to dominate

USA and EU are saying election was not credible. AU disagrees.

The WHO lead by Tigrayan physician Ghebreyesus is accusing The Ethiopian Armyof hampering medical aid to Tigray.

https://twitter.com/Yonigussie/stat...%5Es1_&ref_url=


Oromo ethno-nationalist parties boycotted the election, probably a mistake, and The Ethiopian Army cracked down on them. Now, Oromo Liberation Army are alleging Eritrean troops are in Oromia. It might be because of degraded Ethiopian Army capacity from Tigray war. The economy is in freefall as prominent economist Steve Hanke reports

https://twitter.com/steve_hanke/sta...%5Es1_&ref_url=

We already know what to expect in the election (Abiy Winning)

The Ethiopian Army is engaged in a war in Tigray and Oromia, and Tigray elections are indefinitely cancelled. The question is does Abiy need Eritrean troops to suppress Oromia rebels



Amhara news network EBC reporting on election.


AU observers start sanctifying the election around 12:00 mark. NEBE chairwoman Midkesa speaks after 21:00 mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPjcb9tApg

elections are also cancelled in Harari and Somali regions, and everywhere else Abiy has a zero chance of winning or rigging.

https://twitter.com/addisstandard/s...%5Es1_&ref_url=

PawParole has issued a correction as of 04:17 on Jun 28, 2021

Kindest Forums User
Mar 25, 2008

Let me tell you about my opinion about Bernie Sanders and why Donald Trump is his true successor.

You cannot vote Hillary Clinton because she is worse than Trump.
Bad time to be in prions

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Kindest Forums User posted:

Bad time to be in prions

USA is a prion disease

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/MapEthiopia/status/1409550758740213776

https://twitter.com/MapEthiopia/status/1409524919298318339

rumors that Mekelle has fallen

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

weren't election results supposed to be released today? talk about spoiling the news.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

PawParole posted:

they only survived the last war because Somalia and Ethiopia's goverments mutually annihilated each other like antimatter. Unless the Egyptians and the Sudanese swoop down or start sending them more weapons, they will probably lose

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019


They're still losing, the government just declared a unilateral ceasefire.

https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia...aign=SocialFlow


This will simply make the regional rebels smell weakness.


https://twitter.com/CohenOnAfrica/s...366277%3Fs%3D20

also i was right.

PawParole has issued a correction as of 00:32 on Jun 29, 2021

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/TRTWorldNow/status/1409640251199471622?s=20
https://twitter.com/OIRSpox/status/1409609990973890573?s=20

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

PawParole posted:

also i was right.

Yeah, sure.

The real problem I'm having is that the standards for "losing" when it comes to an active insurgency is being completely destroyed - and that's really hard to do even for the most powerful country in the world. The Ethiopians & Eritraians may be willing to do all the mass rapes and murders they need to, but that can also be a good thing for insurgents. These kinds of wars wax and wane depending on material and social conditions. If the insurgency has the means to outlast the government then they win. If the government lacks the means to actually occupy the territory then the insurgents win.

Thinking an insurgency will "probably" lose is almost always presumptuous.

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Yeah, this is starting to smell a lot more like a superpower proxy war.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

PawParole posted:

sounding kinda like a gbs China poster mate

everything in the post you quoted is fact.
I am from Turkey and have been through its school system and know way too much about Ataturk and had a couple posters around the house until my 20s, and it’s not at all out of place for anyone to have several hanging in their homes.

I and millions of other children are made to bleat out poems in the rain commemorating his death in November

Most of us embrace it fully. I still feel sadness because as a child the things you were told about him made him seem like some kind of superhero who embodies all these virtues etc. will I ever replace this great man-shaped hole in my heart :(

mawarannahr has issued a correction as of 08:35 on Jun 29, 2021

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 21 days!)

mawarannahr posted:

will I ever replace this great man-shaped hole in my heart :(

My Turkish friend does it with Stalin. Would recommend.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

mawarannahr posted:

everything in the post you quoted is fact.
I am from Turkey and have been through its school system and know way too much about Ataturk and had a couple posters around the house until my 20s, and it’s not at all out of place for anyone to have several hanging in their homes.

I and millions of other children are made to bleat out poems in the rain commemorating his death in November

Most of us embrace it fully. I still feel sadness because as a child the things you were told about him made him seem like some kind of superhero who embodies all these virtues etc. will I ever replace this great man-shaped hole in my heart :(

Now I understand the oil wrestling

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/MapEthiopia/status/1409887059800739841

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

we're getting the band back together
https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1409852014910189568?s=20

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/addisstandard/status/1409904132748677124

https://twitter.com/addisstandard/status/1409904652125192194

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

i still dont understand why eritrea exists as a separate state from ethiopia

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Top City Homo posted:

i still dont understand why eritrea exists as a separate state from ethiopia

same reason nigeria is going to fall apart

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Top City Homo posted:

i still dont understand why eritrea exists as a separate state from ethiopia

the EPLF won the war

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/AnthonyAdragna/status/1410302780611260417?s=20

cool that the Senator that is influential to the US strategy in Africa is also crucial to Exxon
https://twitter.com/ChrisCoons/status/1410274937538031618?s=20

Graham is a freak too, but everyone knows that

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Top City Homo posted:

i still dont understand why eritrea exists as a separate state from ethiopia

because they successfully fought a 20 war of independence and were never part of Ethiopia before they were illegally handed over to Ethiopia in exchange for America getting an obsolete radar station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medri_Bahri

[url] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagnew_Station [/url]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrean_War_of_Independence


im not even a eritrean, and im offended by how stupid that question is.

PawParole has issued a correction as of 20:15 on Jun 30, 2021

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

PawParole posted:

because they successfully fought a 20 war of independence and were never part of Ethiopia before they were illegally handed over to Ethiopia in exchange for America getting an obsolete radar station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medri_Bahri

[url] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagnew_Station [/url]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrean_War_of_Independence


im not even a eritrean, and im offended by how stupid that question is.

i genuinely didn't know

but that is absolutely hosed up

i was mostly suspicious because it's borders conveniently denies ethiopia sea access

Top City Homo has issued a correction as of 22:59 on Jun 30, 2021

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/RumsfeldOffice/status/127050419787661312

who must go???

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019


please make this technology work on Erdogan. tia

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010


lmao the replies

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210701-turkey-formally-withdraws-from-treaty-to-prevent-violence-against-women

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019


It’s literally named after Istanbul

quote:

The Istanbul Convention, negotiated in Turkey's biggest city and signed in 2011, committed its signatories to prevent and prosecute domestic violence and promote equality.

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

current state of Tigray

https://twitter.com/MapEthiopia/status/1410943073400545286

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PawParole has issued a correction as of 13:53 on Jul 2, 2021

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

mawarannahr posted:

please make this technology work on Erdogan. tia

it's not technology... its magic. the assad curse is real.

Torpor
Oct 20, 2008

.. and now for my next trick, I'll pretend to be a political commentator...

HONK HONK
the TPLF seems to have dunked on the Ethiopian defense forces and now Ethiopia is declaring a unilateral cease fire?

Ethiopia declared war on Tigray for election fuckery and started massacring people? how did that sound like a winning strategy?

I suspect that Ethiopian PM Abiy read his copy of Sun Tzu backwards because you are not supposed to declare unnecessary wars and then unite your enemies against you.

edit: while maybe Sudan supplied the TDF forces (as we have seen elsewhere -when the US throws weapons around it doesn’t always work if the people you are supplying don’t put up a fight) it seems like the TDF put up a fight.

Torpor has issued a correction as of 22:41 on Jul 2, 2021

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/Blacks4Peace/status/1410600561838157830?s=20
https://twitter.com/PowerUSAID/status/1410629383350595587?s=20

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019


i confused her with Susan rice for a bit and I thought we hit peak stupid.


who are these clowns? everyone in this war is ethiopian. why are you posting hoteps who live 4000 km away from ethiopia and couldn't point it out on a map.

PawParole has issued a correction as of 02:52 on Jul 3, 2021

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PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://et.usembassy.gov/alert-potential-relocation-of-american-citizens-from-mekele/

Telephone and internet access in the Tigray Region remains cut. U.S. citizens in Tigray should shelter in place. The U.S. Embassy is working on potential relocation plans for U.S. citizens in Mekele. If you are a U.S. citizen in Tigray with satellite access or you have a U.S. citizen family member who you believe is in Mekele, and you have not provided us your relative’s name and contact information before, please contact us immediately at AddisACS@state.gov with the following information:

U.S. citizen’s full name and date of birth;

The U.S. citizen’s U.S. passport number, if known;

The U.S. citizen’s last known locationand contact information

Please note that we cannot guarantee that a relocation will actually take place, nor when that may happen. However, U.S. citizens who wish to leave Mekele should approach any UN facility as soon as possible to inquire about the possibility of joining departing UN convoys, or to request information about safe routes out of Tigray. If you have American family or friends in other parts of the Tigray Region and you have not contacted the American Citizen Services unit of the Embassy, please provide the above information on that U.S. citizen at AddisACS@state.gov.

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