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Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
Posting the threads theme song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui5AhhfYpSg


Also how bad would the idf get spanked if it tried going into Syria?

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Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Fallen Hamprince posted:

god bless the Russian Air Force in its noble struggle to free the mosques, schools and hospitals of Syria from the clutches of the imperialists

:agreed:

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

This is a great example of how The Lion keeps his country safe from wahabi cockroaches.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

HorrificExistence posted:

i support the fsa, you islamaphobes

Well in that case.




Have fun.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/955505401117618176

if the turkish backed FSA keep on getting whipped like this Turkey is going to have to invade itself

Oh lol, Turkey is pulling a Yemen.

Unironically.


Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
Okay, time for some non ironic posting. How long before Assad finishes FSA in the North and moves onto Golan? Will Israel start getting more agressive if that happens?

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Good idea to offer wahabis citizenship. That certainly will not in anyway create a future crisis within Israel itself.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

the great deceiver posted:

uh these are 20k moderate rebels bro

Yeah “moderate” like hts.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

The curse of The Lion continues.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
So how is Assad doing in the march on Idlib?

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's winding down now and HTS has retaken a few villages, but the SAA took back a big chunk of territory in the southeast around Abu al-Duhur. It's not exactly a decisive blow, but it's progress.

I just hope by the end of the year we get Erdogan left with the choice of either having to go back to Ankara with his tail between his legs or trying some sort of il thought out invasion.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Both of these, :flashfap:. Israel now has to deal with the wrath of The Lion.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

IMO it's the same kind of problem the IDF has. You spend so much time being a glorified police force trying to keep the lid on an insurgency, that you forget how to fight a real war.

That said, the Turks & FSA are still making some progress. It's just extremely slow and they haven't achieved anything decisive.


That should probably be considered by American war planners, what with too much of our own military now a anti insurgency force.

Crowsbeak has issued a correction as of 02:27 on Feb 12, 2018

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
BTW about the F16.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui5AhhfYpSg&t=22315s

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

rudatron posted:

God drat, israel has a knack for just making the dumbest moves ever.

Just nakedly grabbin territory from another country in a civil war.

Territory largely occupied by Wahabis, who have never held a grudge against Israel ever.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Fallen Hamprince posted:

if the israelis want to do something about all the "wahabis" that live there your previous posts itt might provide some advice

They could, but being that they’re been giving those guys medical support I doubt it. But that’s what happens when one actually studies the conflict, rahter than reprating whatever they read on CNN.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Fallen Hamprince posted:

While you were busy having premarital sex, I studied the Lion

Pre marital sex is haram.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Main Paineframe posted:

agreedo, sticking your nose into a bloody civil war in order to conquer territory full of armed insurgents who already aren't happy with your country is a great idea which has literally never ever backfired and certainly doesn't have any moral issues involved

Even better it's not like there wasn't say two years ago a Wahabi, isis inspired attack in Tel Aviv.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

steinrokkan posted:

Y'all are acting like Israel hasn't been perfectly happy to shield an ISIS enclave squashed against their borders.

Trying to annex such a place though would create some new problems.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Prav posted:

add terrorists, let terrorists run out the local population, annex, exterminate the terrorists, enjoy new greater israel

it's pretty much all upside for the settler state
Not when you have armed terrorists in your borders for a decade.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

thatfatkid posted:

I'm pretty sure the IDF has been around longer than a decade.

Hey, they didn't take southern Lebanon, so I have my doubts they'll get their buffer zone.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Vernii posted:

It could theoretically do that but I don't think that would end well for the SAA. They've had enormous manpower and materiel losses, a lot of their units are regiments or brigades in name only and the only thing that's kept them from collapsing has been the Russian airforce, foreign volunteers, and Volksturm style NDF units. The last thing they're going to do is pick a fight with a fresh force that's handily beaten them several times already.

Israel is as 2014 and 2006 shows, hardly the terrifying force it once was. Note also Syria could call on Hizbellah to fight in such a situation who are very good at fighting Israel.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

paul_soccer10 posted:

I hear ghouta is almost free

Which is why we need to celebrate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNjl18QesGM&t=30s

I wonder if Turkeys threats about Alleppo are true if Assad might ally with YPG.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

They held up the second biggest army in NATO and its auxiliaries for a couple of months, and are already promising guerrilla warfare.


What do you think the Assad brigades are there for?

Would have been interesting if Assad and Hizbellah had had their best troops fighting with YPG there.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

HorrificExistence posted:

When the Iranian colonial supression forces enter Rojava whose side will you be on?



Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I'll support whichever side makes you stop posting.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

HorrificExistence posted:

colonists dont count
Should have explained that when you first made that comment. Because right now,you should be shutting up, as you said.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

HorrificExistence posted:

shia snake worship doesnt count either

Yeah, the hidden Imam will make you pay for that statement on the day of judgement.

Crowsbeak has issued a correction as of 04:15 on Apr 26, 2018

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

HorrificExistence posted:

won't sombody think of the white rhodesians!

You know considering the Turks are actually right now engaged in a form of settler colonialism, and that the Alawites have been in Syria for over a millenia that is actually quite a disgusting comparison.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

HorrificExistence posted:

ancestral claims to land is nationalist trash



They're living on that land right now. The Alawites are living on the same land they've occupied since the 10th century. The wahabi sunni rebels want to exterminate them from such lands.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
We need to do more to commemorate the liberation of Deir ez-Zour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHxOrdS_B8E

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
I would go in there if class was still on. Really needed that week long probation.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
Lol, fishmech is in MEE thread.


HorrificExistence posted:

okay, whats your plan to destroy amerika then?

Hand you over to the Lion of Syria.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Yandat posted:

he's the most obtuse and ethically void person you can talk to on this lovely website, like interacting with a romulan with severe autism

Having just finished DS9.

:drat:

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
States have a right to protect their sovereignty from foreign backed terrorists who savagely murder minorities. Also.


Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

HorrificExistence posted:

As long as people have their non-humanistic idols (flags, gods, non-universalized cultural myths) humanity will be divided and communism will be impossible. We have a duty to usher this world to its death and allow the new one to take root in its ashes. I have no doubt the conflagration will seem cruel, but terror is merely the fist of liberty.

Sorry, no posadism here.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

if you can look at the collapse of the soviet union or yugoslavia and tell me with a straight face it wasnt nationalism that ultimately destroyed them, you might be a redneck. the primary reason most of the warsaw pact split off was not a consequence of socialist economics but nationalist reaction to perceived russian dominance.

im not saying nationalism is not a useful tool, especially against imperialism. but in the long term socialism will need to be built with an internationalist goal of liberating all of humanity and abolishing the nationstate

Alright, point taken. But a corrupt bourgeoisie state like that of Assad is preferable for the path of socialism then some reactionary wahabist hellhole that would take over if America intervened.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

HorrificExistence posted:


Idk dude, I've seen people post on this forum about getting universal health care in the US. All socialist thought is meaningless unless it can be enforced universally across the globe, that means we burn flags and churches, dig up holy men, until their memory is extinguished. That ain't abstract, it's an achievable goal.

Yeah, no. But good luck with that.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

almost like its just a bourgeois tool to divide the international working class along arbitrary boundaries and is discarded when not useful

It largely is. But you don't fight it by enabling reactionary religious nutjobs. Which is what the cuck horrificexistense wants.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
Remember that supporting kurds defense of their homeland now is like supporting AQ according to libs.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Willie Tomg posted:

It really all comes down to a hypothetical pretext that admittedly does not, as yet, exist. If a Saudi frigate (and not just a barge loitering offshore) gets torched with an Iranian missile, or Israel is forced to take Robust Self-Defense Measures against whatever delusional bullshit then enough Democrats will do as they're told that opposition will be a formality. Americans, as a body, don't give a gently caress, but lanyards care very very deeply about the persian menace for reasons they no doubt feel are rational and sound.

Even in the fractally hosed-up circular firing squad that characterizes contemporary beltway politics, this is probably the one thing an organically occurring plurality can agree on even if its psychotic and as you point out would necessarily involve changing the Iraqi government at gunpoint as step one. Again.

Yeah, I wonder if America will even get the Isfahan before casualties reach over three thousand.

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Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
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qkkl posted:

casualties are good, it will make the american public even more determined to win the war, lest those first troops die in vain.

HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Where were you when people were freaking out when the two thousandth American was killed in Iraq?

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