Iraq / Middle East / Murder Thread

I hope he has a good winter coat for Moscow

I think this is not true at all. I think Israel would much rather Assad stays in place.

Poor oulā€™ Tulsi Gabbard must be having convulsions. She might have to rip her Assad posters down off her bedroom wall.

Israel is blowing up Assads weapons before the rebels get hold of them. So itā€™s more of a no one can have them thing.

They will be happy enough with chaos in Syria for the moment. Iran was using Assad as a funnel to Hezbollah. They are the enemy of their enemy but they are certainly not their friend.

Whole place is a fucking basket case as usual.

Assad has left the country. Damascus has fallen.
Jesus it crumbled fairly fast in the end.

and a ground floor flat.

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One conspiracy which appears to have much more than a grain of truth to it was that far from Russia opposing ISIS - the idea of which nobody with two brain cells to rub together took seriously - Russia was not just a sponsor of ISIS but in some cases was ISIS. The evidence is all over their newly abandoned bases.

Conspiracy fantasists like @Kyle and @glenshane didnā€™t tell you that, they were too busy telling you the moon was made of cottage cheese.

Tulsi Gabbard, like Trump, should be in prison.

Any updates from ā€œindependent journalistsā€ (lol) Eva Bartlett or Vanessa Beeley?

How are the Kremlin funded lads at The Grayzone taking this?

What about hipster Nazis Green Greenwald and Jackson Hinkle?

Any word from Mick Wallace or Clare Daly? Or Catherine Connolly?

Or Craig Murray? Or George fucking Galloway?

Or Tulsi fucking Gabbard?

I havenā€™t been following this too closely, what happened over the last few weeks that allowed the rebels to make such rapid advances after 14 years of stalemate?

Possibly Iranian and Russian eyes elsewhere, particularly the damage dealt to Hezbollah by Israel, and perhaps Turkey pulling strings on top of that.

You know this is bad news for Palestine and Lebanon, right?

Hezbollah getting dismantled.
I donā€™t think this is much good for anyone. More chaos and horror and global danger.
I think the Kurds should be given the chance to run the state. Be as low risk as anything else.
There is no end game here.

Slowly at first then all of a sudden.

Why?

You know the Assad regime slaughtered Palestinians?

Assad gonski apparently. The old cliched plane crash.

Genuinely dead or way of going into hiding?

Turkey would love that idea

Half the reason the Turks are involved in the first place is to stop the Kurds from doing anything of the sort

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Great news for McDonalds

Looks like the Israelis are going to blow up Damascus before I get there.

Is Syria out of the frying pan and into the fire? Are these rebels just like the Taliban?

I learn a little about it here. Very complicated.

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