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Man Musk
Jan 13, 2010

There is no terror is years ending -00

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Man Musk
Jan 13, 2010

Playing Haasa in EU4 in honour of little Qatar, rip in peace actually Hormuz instead for the better ideas

Man Musk
Jan 13, 2010

rudatron posted:

This coming soon after Trump's meeting with ~the orb~, means the house of Saud managed to successfully smooth out Donald's baby brain, with enough pomp and flattery or some poo poo.

I'm guessing that Obama had been trying to rein in the Sunni-Shia poo poo for the last 8 years, and Salman was waiting for the green light from Trump personally before he did this.

Also there is no way Qatar is being invaded, they're too small and vulnerable to do anything but fold to Saudi pressure and then beg forgiveness. It'll be interesting to see what happens to Al Jazeera when that happens.

Al-Jazeera is a well-studied instance of Qatar's foreign policy strategy on soft power. It's a very, very vulnerable place.

RIP Qatar if Saudi Arabia is willing another foreign adventure, as in Yemen.

Man Musk
Jan 13, 2010

Helsing posted:

As lovely as Trump is let's not start pretending Obama did anything other than provide support for the Saudi's starvation campaign in Yemen.

Obama instated an arms embargo on SA in response to the Yemeni invasion

Man Musk
Jan 13, 2010

babypolis posted:

srsly tho why does the entire world not only put up with these massive pieces of poo poo, but in fact aids them and encourages them. why hasnt the whole world decided to get rid of the loving cancer of the saudis already

SA sits on the largest oil field in the world, and Qatar sits on the largest gas field in the world

resource endowment, baby!!!!!!!!!!

Man Musk
Jan 13, 2010

Helsing posted:

:lol:

He sold more than $100 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia during his time in office and provided logistical support for their starvation campaign against Yemen, in which the Saudis are consciously destroying port infrastructure and denying foodshipments and have created an artifical famine that is threatening millions of lives. Then, less than two months before leaving office his now lame-duck administration cancelled the sale of some Raytheon munitions. That's some embargo, what a brave and humanitarian President.

The logistical support part is another angle sure but dunnae about the strength of the sales and embargo argument as u simply can't unsell anyone merch due to space-time constraints and our preoccupation with the current dimension

It would take another type of cunning to break an embargo...

Man Musk
Jan 13, 2010

It pertains to the problem of the brothers who are with you in their unfortunate celibacy and lack of availability of wives for them in the conditions that have been imposed on them. We pray to God to release them. I wrote to Shaykh/Doctor ((Ayman)), [al-Zawahiri], and I consulted with Shaykh ((Abu Yahya)) [al-Libbi].

Dr. Ayman has written us his opinion … As we see it, we have no objection to clarifying to the brothers that they may, in such conditions, masturbate, since this is an extreme case. The ancestors approved this for the community. They advised the young men at the time of the conquest to do so. It has also been prescribed by the legists when needed, and there is no doubt that the brothers are in a state of extreme need.

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Man Musk
Jan 13, 2010

https://twitter.com/ericbradner/status/889714761725865984

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