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Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/EvanDyerCBC/status/1642207477440602117

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PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/sajid_nadeem78/status/1642247763936116737?cxt=HHwWgoC8qf3ot8otAAAA

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
Saudi Arabia to invite Syria's Assad to Arab leaders summit, ending regional isolation

quote:

RIYADH/BEIRUT - Saudi Arabia is planning to invite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to an Arab League summit that Riyadh is hosting in May, said three sources familiar with the plans, a move that would formally end Syria’s regional isolation.

Prince Faisal bin Farhan, the Saudi Foreign Minister, will travel to Damascus in coming weeks to hand Mr Assad a formal invitation to attend the summit, which is scheduled for May 19, two of the sources said.

Assad is almost fully back in the fold with this.

guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

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

Assad must go (to the summit)

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/1642659843486957568

Grognan
Jan 23, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
assad will broker the peace deal between russia and the west

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/sajid_nadeem78/status/1642515942436470784

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/1642848224372293633

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

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

another stupid decision

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

yeah gently caress diplomatic relations with cuba

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

how come (sincerely asking)

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

indigi posted:

how come (sincerely asking)

Cuba stupidly backed Derg controlled Ethiopia in a war that ruined both countries (and Eritrea), and helped Ethiopia commit genocide in Eritrea and the parts of Somalia Britain illegally gave to Ethiopia in the 60s.

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/lrs-eritrea.htm

here is a trustworthy source, the Hoxaist Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism

PawParole has issued a correction as of 04:18 on Apr 4, 2023

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Eritrea and Cuba have had diplomatic relations since the 1990s. They back each other up on international issues today.

https://twitter.com/AmbStesfamariam/status/1408023139066519553?s=20

Probably not surprising that Eritrea doesn't hold Cuba's support for Ethiopia against it, since Eritrea and Ethiopia are now cooperating more closely.

https://twitter.com/hawelti/status/1642917007002681347?s=20

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004


this dudes pfp is awesome

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Atrocious Joe posted:

Eritrea and Cuba have had diplomatic relations since the 1990s. They back each other up on international issues today.

https://twitter.com/AmbStesfamariam/status/1408023139066519553?s=20

Probably not surprising that Eritrea doesn't hold Cuba's support for Ethiopia against it, since Eritrea and Ethiopia are now cooperating more closely.

https://twitter.com/hawelti/status/1642917007002681347?s=20

in 1996 or so, for complicated political reasons that involve Shaebia internal politics. There was never a firm proof that Cuba was fighting in Eritrea, (https://martinplaut.com/2017/01/17/secret-cia-assessment-of-cuban-troops-in-eritrea-1978/ even Plaut admits it's iffy, but they were the main spearhead of Operation Lash (Ethiopia’s attempt to genocide Somalis in the Somali region)

https://www.facebook.com/Hamza.S.Mohamed/posts/10154579777616278

PawParole has issued a correction as of 04:35 on Apr 4, 2023

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Oh my god I missed Abiy appointing Getachew Reda to be President of Tigray

https://twitter.com/addisstandard/status/1638844839423889410?s=20

Don't every think that past tweets will hold you back from future job opportunities
https://twitter.com/reda_getachew/status/1460492512934649857?s=20
https://twitter.com/reda_getachew/status/1462883974557192199?s=20

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Atrocious Joe posted:

Oh my god I missed Abiy appointing Getachew Reda to be President of Tigray

https://twitter.com/addisstandard/status/1638844839423889410?s=20

Don't every think that past tweets will hold you back from future job opportunities
https://twitter.com/reda_getachew/status/1460492512934649857?s=20
https://twitter.com/reda_getachew/status/1462883974557192199?s=20

lol

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

PawParole posted:

Cuba stupidly backed Derg controlled Ethiopia in a war that ruined both countries (and Eritrea), and helped Ethiopia commit genocide in Eritrea and the parts of Somalia Britain illegally gave to Ethiopia in the 60s.

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/lrs-eritrea.htm

here is a trustworthy source, the Hoxaist Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism

ok. And opening diplomatic relations with Cuba will bring back the Derg or?

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

genericnick posted:

ok. And opening diplomatic relations with Cuba will bring back the Derg or?

they should apologize for the genocide/ admit Somalia was right and Ethiopia was wrong and that injera is for breakfast, not lunch.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
uWu so wholesome

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005



(it do)

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1643478900394151938

could it be that American "counterterrorism" is itself fomenting the violence???

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1643440310637277186

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/gerrylynch/status/1643571567517941762

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://mobile.twitter.com/addisstandard/status/1643263345607286784

Ethiopian government arrest Amhara nationalist group it claims was plotting a coup.

“Tuesday, April 4, 2023: The Ethiopian Joint Security Intelligence Task Force announced that it has detained leaders of a covert terror group that was planning to target senior government officials in several cities across the country.

The group intended to target government officials in Addis Abeba, Bahirdar, Adama, and Dire Dawa, according to the state-owned Fana Broadcasting Corporate, in order to incite a nationwide conflict and capture state power.”

PawParole has issued a correction as of 06:00 on Apr 6, 2023

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQCVKHs-r2E&ab_channel=Actovania

old Somali pan-african song (reject the tone/color of colonialism) from the 70's with English translation.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Dudes rock

Francis Wheen, Karl Marx: A Life (1999) posted:

The rummiest of them all was David Urquhart, an eccentric Scottish aristocrat and sometime Tory MP who is now remembered, if at all, as the man who introduced Turkish baths to England. ‘To most of his adherents, to the end of his life, Urquhart was the Bey, the Chief, the Prophet, almost "the sent of God",’ one disciple recorded. ‘To his little daughter dreaming of her father ... it did not seem strange that that same father should change, after the strange fashion of dreams, into the Christ. "It is really the same thing, is it not, mother?" she said.’ To less worshipful observers, he was a cantankerous old walrus with a lopsided moustache, a lopsided bow-tie and exceedingly lopsided opinions. ‘There is no art I have practised so assiduously as the faculty of making men hate me,’ Urquhart boasted. ‘That removes apathy. You can get them into speech. Then you have their words to catch and hurl back at them to knock them down with.’ Many mid-Victorian eminences could testify to the success of this technique: he had enemies galore.

Born in Scotland in 1805, educated in France, Switzerland and Spain, Urquhart discovered his long obsession with the East when at the age of twenty-one he sailed—at the suggestion of Jeremy Bentham, an admirer—to take part in the Greek war of independence, and was severely wounded at the siege of Scio. Having caught the attention of Sir Herbert Taylor, private secretary to William IV, he was then dispatched on secret diplomatic missions to Constantinople, where he abruptly changed his allegiance. ‘This chap went to Greece as a Philhellene and, after three years of fighting the Turks, proceeded to Turkey and went into raptures about those selfsame Turks,’ Marx wrote in March 1853 after chuckling over Urquhart’s book Turkey and Its Resources.

quote:

He enthuses over Islam on the principle, ‘if I wasn’t a Calvinist, I could only be a Mohammedan’. Turks, particularly those of the Ottoman Empire in its heyday, are the most perfect nation on earth in every possible way. The Turkish language is the most perfect and melodious in the world... If a European is maltreated in Turkey, he has only himself to blame; your Turk hates neither the religion of the Frank, nor his character, but only his narrow trousers. Imitation of Turkish architecture, etiquette, etc. is strongly recommended. The author himself was several times kicked in the bottom by Turks, but subsequently realised that he alone was to blame ... In short, only the Turk is a gentleman and freedom exists only in Turkey.
Urquhart’s hosts in Constantinople were dazzled by his extravagant Turkophilia. ‘The Turkish officials placed such reliance on Urquhart,’ according to the Dictionary of National Biography, ‘that they kept him immediately informed of all communications made to them by the Russian ambassador. Lord Palmerston, however, took alarm ... and wrote to the ambassador, Lord Ponsonby, to remove him from Constantinople as a danger to the peace of Europe.’ As well he might. Urquhart’s passionate partisanship pro-Turkey, anti-Russia—left him at odds with British policy, and persuaded him that his own country’s government had been hijacked by sinister forces. In short, he concluded that the Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston, must be a secret Russian agent. On his return to Britain he founded several newspapers and a national network of ‘foreign affairs committees’ to disseminate this bold conspiracy theory. After entering Parliament in 1847, he fired off a fusillade of speeches calling for an immediate inquiry into the conduct of the Foreign Office, ‘with a view to the impeachment of the Right Honourable Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston’.

Turtle Watch
Jul 30, 2010

by Games Forum
Turkish Bath experiencers: do they live up to the hype?

Dawncloack
Nov 26, 2007
ECKS DEE!
Nap Ghost
Yes, but only if you let the veru fat, very mustachoed man handle you roughly.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/1644096436512993285

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopia-dismantle-regional-special-forces-favour-centralized-army-2023-04-06/?utm_source=reddit.com

Ethiopia to dismantle regional special forces in favour of 'centralized army'


This is a stupid idea. Abiy is suicidal.

PawParole has issued a correction as of 00:09 on Apr 7, 2023

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

is israel picking a fight with Hezbollah

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Stairmaster posted:

is israel picking a fight with Hezbollah

Is it Friday?

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://mobile.twitter.com/sajid_nadeem78/status/1643932461208940544

https://mobile.twitter.com/sajid_nadeem78/status/1644075038709014538

Idiot restarted the civil war. He’s Nobel-Peace-Prize-Maxxing

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012


Well, how else are you going to get the Peace Prize twice?

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
The war in yemen might be ending soon:-

https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1644311874723348480?s=20

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

I wonder how the peace if going to work out because I have a hard time not seeing the Houthis have a firm had in Yemeni politics.

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/theintercept/status/1643478900394151938

could it be that American "counterterrorism" is itself fomenting the violence???

let us not discount france, as well

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

Ardennes posted:

I wonder how the peace if going to work out because I have a hard time not seeing the Houthis have a firm had in Yemeni politics.

the houthis at this point are going to be the #1 or #2 player in yemen for sure for the forseeable future

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PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/sajid_nadeem78/status/1644323337135443969?cxt=HHwWgsC-3Z7X59EtAAAAI

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