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Aurubin posted:How ineffectual is the rest of the royal family that a that a prince like MBS managed to secure power? Option 1: Have to give a gently caress about politics in the Middle East and put your life on the line Option 2: Life as a billionaire playboy
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Radio Prune posted:Seriously, what the gently caress is MbS up to? Securing his throne and making a play for regional hegemon.
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FourLeaf posted:What kinds of consequences are likely if Trump ends up moving the US embassy to Jerusalem this week? Everyone gets real pissy says a bunch of poo poo and carries on a big show about how terrible it is. But does nothing.
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guidoanselmi posted:I was pretty skeptical at first, seems pretty impressive that you can transport a Scud into Yemen right now. Small arms, some heavy guns, sure. But a scud? They may have been smuggled in before the blockade. Or the blockage is ineffective because "LOL KSA Armed Forces".
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There was a guy in NPR last night whose name I didn't catch. He was putting forward the idea that one driving force for the protests is the Iranian budget. Apparently this was the first year it was public and open to inspection. So people blew a lid when they saw how much money Clerics and Proxy Wars were costing while how little is being spent on economic development. It is also mentioned, but not gone into detail by NY Times. Anyone have an in depth piece on it?
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Cat Mattress posted:lol, what a child (White) Men are used to not being called on their bullshit. Their faux authority doesn't translate to twitter.
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Grouchio posted:Remind me again why a Kurdistani nation wasn't included in the Versailles peace deal? Because the powers involved didn't give a gently caress who lived where, they only care about the wealth they could extract from the areas they were going to "administrate".
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Bardeh posted:https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/987765785400573953 The drone explanation seems like pure bullshit. Either it would be a military drone, which you would shoot down with real anti-air missiles or the kind of commercial drone people shoot them down with shotguns all the time in the states.
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Sinteres posted:I'm still leaning toward thinking if something big had gone down we'd have more than a handful of short videos with background fire. So far everyone putting out alternative theories seems to be either guessing or lying about their sources. Maybe someone took a shot at a royal or something, but I'd be surprised (which isn't to say it's impossible) if there was an organized coup attempt given how little we've heard so far. Or maybe one of the Princelings who didn't get hauled in for torture last time added some additional security and "someone" tried to blackbag him.
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