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Since our last thread's more broken than the current geopolitical climate of the middle east, this is  Some quick resources: http://syriancivilwarmap.com/ http://syria.liveuamap.com/ http://iraq.liveuamap.com/ http://isis.liveuamap.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/ Previous Thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3390388&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 Previous thread titles: Middle East Thread of Eternal Despair - As Close to a Just War Bohemian Nights fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Jul 29, 2019 |
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Adieu old thread full of tears, breakdowns and so many crushed souls o/ Hello new thread i do not expect you to be better.
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Nov 6, 2017 16:53
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Cross posting for the new thread:
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Nov 6, 2017 17:10
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Thanks rear end in a top hat, all that writing I did went to nothing.
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Nov 6, 2017 17:15
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Al-Saqr posted:Thanks rear end in a top hat, all that writing I did went to nothing. Did you not read the OP? It specifically mentions that it's temporary until someone more qualified either makes another thread or writes up a better OP. Everyone knows you called dibs, and I'm sure it'll work out. Dr Kool-AIDS fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Nov 6, 2017 17:26
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Al-Saqr posted:Thanks rear end in a top hat, all that writing I did went to nothing. Absolutely not! I just got tired of the thread being messed up. Whenever your OP is ready I can close this thread or replace the OP with yours, if that's what you want. Like sinteres said, you called dibs
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Nov 6, 2017 17:30
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Bohemian Nights posted:Absolutely not! I just got tired of the thread being messed up. Whenever your OP is ready I can close this thread or replace the OP with yours, if that's what you want. Like sinteres said, you called dibs ok lol just giving you poo poo. It's good that you did this, I will write it up as soon as possible and let you know.
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Nov 6, 2017 17:36
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Good idea, I look forward to Saqr's OP. That was a hell of a long old thread, thinking back to the Arab spring and everything happening live there, the Turkish coup, all the hijinks that ensued with neo imperialists and sick tankies and everything in between them. Following the rapid ascension of the Kurds and SDF before the taste started becoming more bittersweet (like all things in the Middle East). things may be worse than in the Middle East but I like to think the posting about it is better compared to that old page 1 full of siiiiick pics and people talking about how hot Iranian women are during the green revolution (as a part-Iranian I can attest to this but it still always feels weird/creepy) and how not hot the Egyptians were. Im thinking by page three thousand of this thread we'll have peace in the Middle East. That's something to think about toxxing for 
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Nov 6, 2017 17:48
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I'm definitely gonna go back and try to save an archive of what I wrote, so I can have depressing real time look at having all my hopes and dreams crushed.
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Nov 6, 2017 17:53
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The Middle East thread is dead,
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Nov 6, 2017 18:08
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The generally excellent Caspian Report has published a new video about the "geo-economics of Saudi Arabia’s NEOM project" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKgwm6WKhSg Al-Saqr posted:ok lol just giving you poo poo. It's good that you did this, I will write it up as soon as possible and let you know. Haha, alright, cool! Better safe than bad vibes~
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Nov 6, 2017 18:13
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Im thinking by page three thousand of this thread we'll have peace in the Middle East. That's something to think about toxxing for I wouldn't bet on it, but it's a nice thing to strive for.
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Nov 6, 2017 18:28
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Even in the old thread did anyone post Al-Hariri's resignation as a part of the KSA funtime?quote:BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's president appealed for national unity on Monday after Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri quit in a broadcast from Saudi Arabia, collapsing the coalition government and plunging the country into political crisis. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...ectarian-groups
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Nov 6, 2017 18:41
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Looking forward to War of the Five Kings starring songs of previous 5 kings.
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Nov 6, 2017 18:47
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whatever7 posted:Looking forward to War of the Five Kings starring songs of previous 5 kings. Game of Thawbs.
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Nov 6, 2017 18:50
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Laurenz posted:I wouldn't bet on it, but it's a nice thing to strive for. Are you saying you dont have faith in Jared Kushner?
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Nov 6, 2017 19:54
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Hi new thread - what are some non-partisan (as much as possible) resources for current news on Rojava?
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Nov 6, 2017 20:20
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I've been skimming the quarterly SIGAR report on the Afghan occupation and it is full of lol worthy details:quote:The U.S. government was ill-prepared to conduct security-sector assistance programs of the size and scope required in Afghanistan, whose population is about 70% illiterate and largely unskilled in technology. In particular, the U.S. government lacks a deployable police-development capability for high-threat environments, so training of more than 100,000 Afghan police has been performed by a variety of U.S. Army aviators, infantry officers, and civilian contractors. The only ministerial advisory training program is designed solely for civilians, but in Afghanistan mostly untrained military officers are conducting that mission. One U.S. officer watched TV shows like Cops and NCIS to learn what he should teach. In eastern Afghanistan, SIGAR met a U.S. Army helicopter pilot assigned to teach policing. Afghan police training has suffered because of this misalignment of U.S. advisors. They've also stopped reporting deaths and desertions in the Afghan security forces. Not a good sign.
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Nov 6, 2017 20:31
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Bip Roberts posted:Are you saying you dont have faith in Jared Kushner? 💯 he was dumb enough to tell the Prince to go for the current purge. Kush is really not bright.
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Nov 6, 2017 20:33
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A good thread rule, possibly worth adding to the OP: Please do not get ME residents (such as Al-Saqr) executed.
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Nov 6, 2017 20:35
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I stopped reading the ME after my eyes rolled up back through my head when people were morally condemning other people they had internet disagreements with. Please don't tell me someone tried to doxx Al-Saqr or something stupid.
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Nov 6, 2017 20:46
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Dreylad posted:I stopped reading the ME after my eyes rolled up back through my head when people were morally condemning other people they had internet disagreements with. Please don't tell me someone tried to doxx Al-Saqr or something stupid. No, just people demanding Al-Saqr denounce thus-and-such KSA authority with the same fervor he denounced other people in the ME. It came up with a Turkish poster who doesn't post any more too, as I recall. e: Maybe it was someone in Egypt? I don't remember, it was a long time ago.
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Nov 6, 2017 20:47
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like peace in the middle east, al-saqr's op will never come to be
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Nov 6, 2017 20:48
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Rooney McNibnug posted:Hi new thread - what are some non-partisan (as much as possible) resources for current news on Rojava? Find SA poster Saladin Rising, click "post history" 
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Nov 6, 2017 20:53
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Cease to Hope posted:No, just people demanding Al-Saqr denounce thus-and-such KSA authority with the same fervor he denounced other people in the ME. It came up with a Turkish poster who doesn't post any more too, as I recall. lol well that's awful but I guess to be expected from people with that kind of political agenda.
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Nov 6, 2017 20:55
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Dreylad posted:I stopped reading the ME after my eyes rolled up back through my head when people were morally condemning other people they had internet disagreements with. Please don't tell me someone tried to doxx Al-Saqr or something stupid. Nah, people just decided (wrongly) it was time for a new thread.
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Nov 6, 2017 20:56
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Nah, people just decided (wrongly) it was time for a new thread. The old thread was unreadable but in a literal sense that the website was broken.
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Nov 6, 2017 21:11
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Bohemian Nights posted:The generally excellent Caspian Report has published a new video about the "geo-economics of Saudi Arabia’s NEOM project" I, too, play Cities: Skylines with unlimited funds mod
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Nov 6, 2017 21:41
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https://twitter.com/FDD_Iran/status/927577380855656448
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Nov 6, 2017 21:48
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Find SA poster Saladin Rising, click "post history" On that note, an update on the Manbij protests over forced conscriptions: https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/7b747y/manbij_here_the_forced_recruitment_was_abolished/ "Manbij Here facebook page: The forced recruitment was abolished." https://twitter.com/SaadAlsabr_/status/927568490629705728 quote:#BREAKING Further news stuff to kick off the hopefully temporary thread:  From Cizire Canton's twitter, November 6, 2017. SDF forces cleared an ISIS pocket along the Khabur river. Al Busayrah remains a small pocket. The Euphrates makes a nice (if wiggly) border line. https://twitter.com/SaadAlsabr_/status/927544826563719168 quote:Video from "al-Omar oilfield" #SDF controlled the area after clashes against #ISIS north #DeirEzzor. @DeirEzzor24 https://twitter.com/CJTFOIR/status/927495535409418245 quote:Raqqah Civil Council provides supplies to bakeries that sell below cost to Raqqawis in need. Coalition partners enable such initiatives. Finally, the present and the future: https://en.zamanalwsl.net/news/30935.html quote:A high-ranking Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) official has told Sputnik Turkiye that the US continues to supply them with arms and has recently delivered 120 trucks loaded with heavy armament and armored vehicles for the Deir ez-Zor operation. Saladin Rising fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Nov 6, 2017 21:56
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https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/927637248815726592quote:Saudi Arabia said on Monday that Lebanon had declared war against it because of attacks against the Kingdom by the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah. Edit: Reuters is saying the same thing word for word. ded redd fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Nov 6, 2017 22:00
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Uhhhhh
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Nov 6, 2017 22:03
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The bigger tag line: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/237730
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Nov 6, 2017 22:04
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Office Pig posted:https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/927637248815726592 BIG HEADLINE posted:The bigger tag line: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/237730 so this is, um, really alarming. so is this gonna be a giant land war now or is it gonna be a proxy war in Yemen.
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Nov 6, 2017 22:09
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I don't see it on reuters anywhere
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Nov 6, 2017 22:11
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Dapper_Swindler posted:so this is, um, really alarming. so is this gonna be a giant land war now or is it gonna be a proxy war in Yemen. It's going to be neither. Saudi Arabia is trying to distract everyone from its internal 'issues' right now, and Israel's being Israel and trying to make it worse because if there's anything they enjoy, it's Arabs killing other Arabs.
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Nov 6, 2017 22:11
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It's going to be neither. Saudi Arabia is trying to distract everyone from its internal 'issues' right now, and Israel's being Israel and trying to make it worse because if there's anything they enjoy, it's Arabs killing other Arabs. Makes sense to me.
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Nov 6, 2017 22:16
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They can't be serious. e: Yeah its on Reuters quote:BEIRUT (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Monday that Lebanon had declared war against it because of attacks against the Kingdom by the Lebanese Shi‘ite group Hezbollah. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-missiles-yemen/saudi-led-forces-close-air-sea-and-land-access-to-yemen-idUSKBN1D60I8?il=0 e2: So the Saudi Gulf Affairs Minister was himself told that this was the case. Not exactly an official announcement. Count Roland fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Nov 6, 2017 22:17
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sharknado slashfic posted:I don't see it on reuters anywhere I wasn't kidding when I said it was basically the same thing. That said, it is a little clickbait-y for what's actually happening and BIG HEADLINE probably has the right of it.
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Saudi Arabia's new leader is certainly eager to distinguish himself from his predecessor.
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