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Yeah. What would this mean as far as the governing of Yemen? Who would be in control of what?
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https://twitter.com/MhmmdJamshidi/status/1637450956118818816 "brotherly countries" I love it. "The scum of the earth, I believe?  "
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65005792 Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is complaining there is too much nepotism in the Taliban. Somehow, he thinks he can stop Taliban members from giving government jobs to their idiot sons by just demanding they stop it.
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golden bubble posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65005792 
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Has a peace agreement been announced yet? I'm a bit behind. I tried Googling, but the latest stuff I can find is about how Iran agreed to stop arming Yemeni rebels as part of Iran's deal with Saudi Arabia. And there's been a prisoner exchange, which I imagine must be a big deal.
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I haven't seen anything official about Yemen yet. Apparently KSA invited Raisi to visit the kingdom. What world are we living in.
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golden bubble posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65005792 I love that, given military victory, the Taliban are now in a misery of their own making, dealing with quotidian annoyances like Large Adult Sons and being forced to go into the office, and dealing with large city traffic and cost of living. I find it almost poetic.
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golden bubble posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65005792 I would assume that the supreme leader of the Taliban has a fairly standard approach for dealing with people who ignore his demands? A few public executions for nepotism might at least end up making the problem a little less direct and obvious.
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Darth Walrus posted:I would assume that the supreme leader of the Taliban has a fairly standard approach for dealing with people who ignore his demands? A few public executions for nepotism might at least end up making the problem a little less direct and obvious. They’re broadly not going to replace failsons with competent people. They’re going to replace failsons with some guy whose credentials are that he memorized the Koran really well and can rattle off notionally relevant hadiths. We’ll see if they can finish that big canal they are investing all of their capital on, and if successfully engineered, if it just ends up launching them into conflict with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, like when Taliban v1 engineered a river that flowed into Iran into a depression instead. E: Oh, surprisingly the American-Afghani government actually finished that project, in 2021. The Kamal Khan Dam. IIRC the v1 Taliban tried to redirect the Helmand river uselessly into a depression purely to spite the Iranians, although I can't find that now so maybe they didn't end up implementing it. Saladman fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Mar 20, 2023 |
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Darth Walrus posted:I would assume that the supreme leader of the Taliban has a fairly standard approach for dealing with people who ignore his demands? A few public executions for nepotism might at least end up making the problem a little less direct and obvious. Dunno, he would probably need to rely on some universally agreed on shariah ruling to do that. These are not some sheepish bureaucrats, you know, they just spent twenty years fighting an occupation by the greatest military empire in the world and many of them lost several sons and other family members in the war. They probably feel they have deserved a little nepotism for their troubles.
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Darth Walrus posted:I would assume that the supreme leader of the Taliban has a fairly standard approach for dealing with people who ignore his demands? A few public executions for nepotism might at least end up making the problem a little less direct and obvious. That sounds like a good way to turn a corruption problem into an uprising
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golden bubble posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65005792 Stories like this and the previously reported stories about how Taliban are finding 9-5 jobs harsh make me laugh. Welcome to the rest of your lives lol.
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https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/02/23/the-west-lives-on-in-the-talibans-afghanistan/quote:Apart from the widely-hated ISKP, the Taliban faces virtually no organized opposition. The entire elite of the Republic era has fled abroad. Unlike the 1990s, when the northeast was always controlled by the Northern Alliance led by Massoud and Dostum, the government has unchallenged control of the entire country. Nor does any foreign power have the desire to involve itself in Afghan politics after the American experience. Even Pakistan, which has long meddled in Afghan affairs, has sought to extricate itself. There is no force inside Afghanistan strong enough to displace it, and no force outside Afghanistan that cares enough to interfere. It is hard to imagine a more complete resolution to the struggle over Afghanistan’s future. The Taliban don't even have enough state capacity to effectively ban Hillary and Michelle Obama's books. There's no way they can end nepotism. quote:In the bookstores of Kabul, at least, one can still find books by Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama; contraception and tobacco are available, and the Taliban has yet to regulate internet access like other Islamic governments. golden bubble fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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golden bubble posted:https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/02/23/the-west-lives-on-in-the-talibans-afghanistan/ Jesus, Taliban Andrew Tate fans seems like the most insufferable group of people
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It's pretty appropriate since I believe Tate has talked about Islam being more of the 'correct' religion for him in that it lines up with his lovely worldview (the fundamentalist version, specifically).
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Imagine that happening in America https://twitter.com/Nadav_Eyal/status/1640110174554783745
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Charlz Guybon posted:Imagine that happening in America In America it's possible for half the country to do it against the other half. Actually, how popular are these reforms in Israel? I see the news about the enormous protests, but not about supporters. Are the supporters mostly outside the big cities?
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I honestly don't know, but considering how some of the outspoken supporters are religious fascists, I would venture the guess that a good deal of their support can be found in haredim ghettos and settler areas.
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welp, the rabid dog of Sudan Hamidti (the lapdog of the UAE and Israel) has officially started a new sudanese civil war, he's now fighting the other military fascist Burhans regular military:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyUyrR0PHo https://twitter.com/AJENews/status/1647172900724547584?s=20 it's a civil war between two military factions, this will be a disaster for the normal people of sudan. Al-Saqr fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Apr 15, 2023 |
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Is Hemedti really a lapdog if he has support of all the regional players, including Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE? The Western powers are the ones lost here—what democracy is happening under the barrel of a gun right now? The US supporting the civilian council is nice and touchy-feely, but this is the multipolar world people wanted. Their entire finance network flows through the UAE. You may have seen Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia exposé on Zimbabwe making waves this month. Sudan's entire illicit income is based on the same flows of gold.
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i fly airplanes posted:Is Hemedti really a lapdog if he has support of all the regional players, including Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE? Burhan is the lapdog of egypt and KSA while hmedti is the lapdog if UAE and israel, this is a civil war that is caused by not only the personal greed of the military heads but also there is a real and growinf rift between KSA and UAE especially after the Yemen Debacle On the plus side, this civil war is proving to people that signing a peace deal with israel is far from the magic spoon to prosperity the military goons claimed it was.
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Al-Saqr posted:Burhan is the lapdog of egypt and KSA while hmedti is the lapdog if UAE and israel, this is a civil war that is caused by not only the personal greed of the military heads but also there is a real and growinf rift between KSA and UAE especially after the Yemen Debacle https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/a-coup-cannot-serve-two-masters/ That is not my understanding of the situation, Hmdeti has pretty strong regional support from all actors. They're armed with Israeli technology. Burhan's second visit after his instatement (after Egypt) was to the UAE : https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2019/05/26/Sudan-military-council-chief-to-visit-UAE I'm not sure why you are trying to frame this civil war as a power struggle between regional powers. If anything, this has been part of the undercurrent since the paramilitary was kicked out of the power sharing agreement, and the pro-democracy and civil council were left vulnerable. It's similar to the situation in Myanmar, if there's a comparison to be made. EDIT: also I'm unsure what "military goons" you are talking about
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Just catching up on the unfolding civil war in Sudan. What are the goals of this Hemedti guy and the RSF? Is this an attempted coup?
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Erdogan seems to have had a heart attack live during an.interview and isn't doing well https://twitter.com/S8gy2AEgVRHyS2Q/status/1651259755472601088 https://twitter.com/301military/status/1651291999268421633?t=vjBp7Px9-rwu_jlv013xAQ&s=19
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god decided we had too much geopolitical stability at the moment who would take over in the interim if he has to recover? is there an actual opposition party which might come out on top in the upcoming elections? edit: https://www.politico.eu/article/recep-tayyip-erdogan-tv-interview-interrupted-due-to-stomach-ache/ the official line is that he had some sort of stomach bug GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Apr 26, 2023 |
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Boy that would be a shake-up. Aren't elections just a few months away?
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Yeah...I don't see a heart attack anywhere really in the news..
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Heart attack stuff is just coming from a bunch of paid-for blue checks
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Yeah, rumour level right now but remarkable, and the election is weeks away, not months
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Somaen posted:Erdogan seems to have had a heart attack live during an.interview and isn't doing well Thoughts and prayers.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Heart attack stuff is just coming from a bunch of paid-for blue checks Meanwhile also this happened:  https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-741306
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Just catching up on the unfolding civil war in Sudan. What are the goals of this Hemedti guy and the RSF? Is this an attempted coup? The RSF are the Janjaweed militia who spearheaded the Darfur genocide on behalf of the Sudanese government, and Hemedti is the former Long story short, it's hot fash-on-fash action plus some of Sudan's usual simmering ethnic tensions.
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the impression i've got from a couple of sources (notably https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/gunshots-in-khartoum) is that this is a warlord realising that he's got one shot at power and taking it, because he's outside of the conventional power elite in the centre and will become marginalised if "normalisation" proceeds apace. i.e., his guys would be folded into the formal military, depriving him of his independent power base and allowing the khartoum elites to use their superior conventional political power to sideline or destroy him. he's judged the odds and has decided to make his bet, and now there's a weird pseudo-coup going on which could yet flare into a proper civil war
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Incredibly detailed longform reporting in the New Yorker today on the efforts of the wives of Sheikh Mohammed of the UAE to escape his control. Much of it's not news for those following this mess. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/08/the-fugitive-princesses-of-dubai quote:The next day, another plane flew over. By nightfall, all was calm, but Latifa had become unreachably silent, Jauhiainen said. At around 10 p.m., the two women descended to their cabin, and Latifa brushed her teeth in the cramped bathroom. As she emerged, the air exploded with a series of blasts. Boots pounded on the deck overhead. “They’ve found me,” Latifa said. The friends shut themselves in the bathroom and sent a string of S.O.S. messages. Soon, smoke was pouring in through the air vents and light fixtures. As they struggled for breath, Latifa said that she was sorry, and Jauhiainen hugged her. Then they stumbled from the room. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 19:42 on May 2, 2023 |
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Hello, I don't know where else I can ask this. I just watched this 4k walking video uploaded yesterday, just completely by accident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJwF__leSvU There are maybe... 10% women covering their heads in it, all older women. What's the deal, did Iran put the brake on the moral police? Maybe I should find a walking video from 2019 to compare.
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Certain parts of Tehran and the Caspian shore have been pretty much always like that. Maybe you keep a headscarf in your purse.
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Well it says so right in the title - they're rich!
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The police patrols that directly enforce the clothing rules have largely disappeared since the protests. The enforcement strategy has shifted to surveillance and denial of services: requiring businesses to install cameras and then shutting them down if they serve women who don't follow the rules, suspending university enrollment for those women, preventing them from going through areas like subway gates or airport security, etc. And some pro-government people take things into their own hands, like the guy who threw yogurt on the heads of headscarfless women. The attacker and the women were later arrested and the shop was sanctioned. The government's been forced into this position because of the protests, but using coercion to enforce the rules does seem like a more effective strategy in the long run than hated police units roaming the streets beating women to death. Or maybe they'll bring back the patrols as soon as they think they can get away with it. Women would sometimes not follow the rules before the protests, especially in rich areas, but there's definitely been a visible increase in women not wearing the headscarf across the country. And government media is fixated on this issue (has english subs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzdbDUhpp-g&t=147s rafington fucked around with this message at 00:51 on May 9, 2023 |
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