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steinrokkan posted:Has anything come out of the Qatar embargo? Loss of face for Saudi Arabia.
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Al-Saqr posted:Loool holy poo poo Maybe former PM Hariri has their family fortune tied in KSA to his name personally and MbS have gently reminded him that he could confiscate those assets due to him being a citizen. 
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That's just trolling.
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Would be hella sweet if Putin would do a big mission accomplished ceremony on that aircraft carrier of theirs, preferably with a cloud of that pitch black exhaust bellowing out in the background.
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fits my needs posted:Russa, friend of Egypt. Russia with Rosatom is one of the few competent builders of nuclear power plants left in world, so if you want a decent nuclear power plant and don't mind cuddling up with Russia, you hit them up. The expansion and export of their businesses related to nuclear power generation has been a clear focus for their governments for quite some time.
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Please don't go and join and die for some violent rebellion al Saqr, this thread would not be the same without you spewing local venom and the word fascist over the middle eastern power players.
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Bohemian Nights posted:Haha, turns out that norwegian army dude who pissed off Turkey so much during that NATO exercise has a kurdish background To the surprise of no one.
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Aurubin posted:MBS wants puppet states, not diplomatic allies. He is the epitome example of an old time empire monarch that are too spoiled and high on his royal blood to accept anything less than total obedience from anyone not of such a grand standing and lineage as himself.
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Dec 30, 2017 00:41
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OhFunny posted:Pakistan is pissed. And the ambassador probably has to wing this whole thing from start finish because the Trump administration has made sure that his chain of command and support structures are either absent or crippled. He should have had a year of practice though, so maybe he'll manage.
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OhFunny posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948548807612084224 Donald is a combined FSB and IRGC plant.
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Sinteres posted:The conspiracy theory about MBS being a goon may have been confirmed: Let's all hope that with proper medication Al-Saqr can retain control and become the dominant personality again.
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Jan 7, 2018 22:53
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Volkerball posted:Deso Dogg got killed according to ISIS media. I'm surprised he didn't escape or got put in a SVBIED earlier like so many other western ISIS recruits.
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Jan 19, 2018 08:42
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Blut posted:Heres hoping a Kurdish Mannerheim emerges. Only speaking Swedish and not the dominant language of his troops? Since Trump has the presidency i guess that might suffice for the allied with nazis part at least.
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Jan 20, 2018 22:43
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The X-man cometh posted:I didn't know left-wing parties privatized major industries and handed them to the leader's family members. It makes more sense when you realize the ruling family is the state.
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Jan 25, 2018 08:01
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Orange Devil posted:I guess we all get to find out how well Leopard's hold up. Other than those, what tanks does Turkey use anyway? Lots of old but modernized Patton tanks of the m48 and m60 types in addition to some Leopard 1 tanks. The bulk of their tank forces are basically made up by older western tanks but it seems like the ones spearheading the Syrian ops are the newer Leopard 2 ones. But I recall reading something about the Turkish armed forces skimping out on some armor upgrades due to the financial crisis? I don't know if that was for the Leopard 2s though, or simply something regarding the continued use of old hardware.
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Saladman posted:E: The film and cut quality is great too, even a fair number of good drone shots. One of the few drone shots from Syria without people dying I hope.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:They need to triangulate to reach upper-middle class Afghans. All 5-10% of them? I mean, why would they need to cater to such a small minority whose recent relative wealth and power is heavily dependent on their enemy (an enemy which are steadily losing interest in propping up that minority security wise and whose absence will severely depower that minority anyway).
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Willie Tomg posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_N3kROJvn0 Oh hey, I replied to that calorie rich sand German, never mind then!
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Feb 28, 2018 20:18
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Al-Saqr posted:you gave me a loving heart attack. also it's super cool to know that MBS gives Kissinger, AIPAC and loving zionists more of a hearing than he ever gives his own loving countrymen or any arabs in general. Old Swedish belief was that the prosperity of the land was directly linked to the king, and famines and misery could be remedied by ritually sacrificing the king. So what I'm saying is that, have you tried human sacrifice?
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HorrificExistence posted:what do the blue airplane and green star mean? I guess it's which part of the armed forces the candidate comes from, I hope I'm wrong though.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:lol if you believe a CIA agent telling you they have your back. They will have your back, with a dagger.
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Mar 31, 2018 21:56
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Xae posted:The drone explanation seems like pure bullshit. Drone explanation is completely plausible since 1. Off the shelf drones can easily be used to deliver deadly ordinance or spy on people, both of which seem like very plausible threats to a princeling such as MBS. 2. It was dead in the night and their aim will be poo poo. Also, since you are MBS you care not for stray bullets killing your neighboring citizens.
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Apr 22, 2018 21:17
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Wait, is the body (it? he? I don't know what the proper pronoun is for dead Iranian royalty) an actual Egypt-style specially-prepared mummy or is it just an ordinary dried and desiccated corpse? Maybe we all just misunderstood and it was actually the remains of Tadj ol-Molouk that was found.
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Apr 23, 2018 21:01
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Volkerball posted:It's not like it's gonna be a headline on RT. Russians don't really watch RT in the first place anyway. The sentiment of your post still holds true though.
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May 5, 2018 20:03
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fishmech posted:No, they don't. Until they can handle MAD. It's pretty nitpicky in the context of the discussion but yes, they don't prevent regime change, they are just really good at preventing foreign military intervention that aims to enforce a regime change. A regime change can still happen through other non military means, as was the case for the soviet union.
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May 31, 2018 19:44
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Sinteres posted:China wants West Turkestan to complete the set. Well, the original turkic peoples emigrated to central Asia and Anatolia from Mongolia and Xinjiang so that narrative is likely sellable to Han supremacists even today
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Aug 16, 2018 19:07
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Sergg posted:Alawites are just naturally better soldiers, which is why they get promoted to officer so quickly. Actually, they introduced separate lanes after Bassels death due to Alawites being bad drivers. this is fake news
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RandomPauI posted:What could happen of Russian/Israeli relationships sour? Russia stops buying Israeli weapons and might bother to enforce control of Syrian airspace.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Theyve been trying So they have spent billions on strengthening the position of the Qatari ruling family, alienated potential allies and greatly empowered radical islamists that crave for the ruination of the house of Saud?
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Oct 8, 2018 12:54
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qkkl posted:If you're going to torture and dismember someone for criticizing you it is important to video tape it so you can show other dissidents what could happen to them if they don't shut up. The problem here is that MBS did not follow Putin's lead on how to assassinate dissidents. He needed to make it seem like unofficial pro-MBS guys did the killing, and in a random area, rather than an official regime assassination squad in the Saudi consulate. The reason for the taping was because MBS said "I want his head on a silver platter" and the hatchet men had to tape that and upload it to a the security services own Google drive for MBS to see.
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enraged_camel posted:But enough about the USA. The history is complex but Turkey as a modern state has been and continues to be enormously lovely towards kurds. Like, if you do not want to foment a violent secessionist movement from your significant minority then why do you for the last 70 years suppress that minority, bans their language and do forced disappearances and bombing of their civilians? The Turkish state has by far the biggest resources available to mend this conflict in a peaceful way that does not include secession, but it keeps on fomenting the conflict because it has no interest in a peaceful solution that is not 100% on their terms, and the conflict is a convenient tool for the leadership to keep power. That last paragraph of you is also quite strange when it seems to wholly disregard the perspective of kurds, the party involved that has suffered the most civilian casualties by most, if not all, estimates. Do you not think that a Kurdish village boy in the 80s and 90s would also fear which of his relatives that would get arbitrarily detained and disappeared/or just raped at a checkpoint? Or if next time when he went home from school, an artillery barrage would come without warning? Zudgemud fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Jan 5, 2019 |
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HorrificExistence posted:The Ottoman empire was the greatest force for anti-imperialism in the 19th century. Why wouldn't you go to bat for it? You wanna keep supporting colonial successor states? And the second greatest anti-imperialist force was the British empire.
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And these things come from embracing that you are a multi ethnic power, not the hypernationalist ethnostate which is what modern Turkey has been promoting since its founding and which is at the core of the Turkey-kurd conflict.
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Grape posted:Don't get it twisted, the Ottoman Empire didn't embrace diversity anymore than most pre-modern states did. It was a dynastic holding that wasn't looking through ethnic lenses in the first place because "aristocrats < everyone else". True, embracing is the wrong word to describe what I meant. I was trying to convey the fact that conformation to an ethnicity was not really an issue and focal point for the rulers and that were one of the things that made it successful at ruling such a vast and diverse empire for so long.
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enraged_camel posted:Nah, sorry. You don't get to have your country push their own interests halfway around the world, and then criticize when other countries fight for their own interests on their own soil and around their own borders. "But I don't agree with the US" is just a loving cop out. Must be nice, reaping the benefits of decades of US imperialism while at the same time disconnecting yourself from its moral hazards. He's still not American.
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Though to be true, Sweden, just like all of western Europe, has been benefiting from US imperialism,    etc.
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enraged_camel posted:i didnt know that was a turkish saying You are thinking of the wrong kind of turkey 
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Ham posted:Egypt update: Sisi amended the constitution to make himself president till 2034. Just 2034, pinky swear! He would be like 80 then so it's not unlikely that he just croaks before that time. That still wouldn't fix much though, unless it was by a bomb that took out the rest of the generals at the same time.
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Cat Mattress posted:One word: refugees. No its still middle east in most germanic languages. The near east is a Latin & Slavic thing as far as I know.
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Helsing posted:In a brilliant move the US allowed China to acquire classified American technology, setting back China's aerospace industry by several decades. The project is deserving of the jokes and all but its not like rival powers will be unable to make sense of the tech, learn to counter it, and then replicate it in some formats that aren't the avatar of expensive lovely compromises.
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