Iraq / Middle East / Murder Thread

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3726

Ah, so it’s “separatist groups” now :joy:

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3728

Thanks for that podcast. Just listened to the first 2 and am on the podcast about CIA vs the Taliban after the 911 attack. Calvary charges in the 2000’s, the place is really the stone age.

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3729

This is very bad, Russian sponsored totalitarianism and torture and rape and mass murder is better.

https://twitter.com/paraicobrien/status/1866461910239203732

3730

Why has Israel invaded Syria?

https://twitter.com/owenjonesjourno/status/1866487248210067541

3731

They’ve destroyed the Syrian navy to try and leave the new regime toothless. They are now occupying "temporary " buffer zones.

3732

Israel has officially annexed the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights is the sovereign territory of another country.

It is repugnant that Israel is not completely boycotted by the rest of the world. Like Russia, Israel is a vile stain on the earth, an out of control fascist cult movement which wields a bizarre influence in the rest of the world.

Anybody who supports either is a vile wankstain but 98% of available public comment comes from people who support at least one of them.

That is very frustrating.

3733

No trouble it’s a little above me.

3734

Only because you prefer the simplistic good guys versus bad guys version.

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3735

I just don’t like your Russian propaganda.

3736

Can you give me a specific example?

3737

https://twitter.com/guyelster/status/1867147575477821814?s=46

3738

And so it begins. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

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3739

Looks like we have an expert here

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3740

Are the Kurds the only decent bunch over there?

3741

What about the Christians? Or has this born again slave trader butchered them all?

3742

If foreigners kept their noses out of Middle Eastern politics the world would be a lot safer.

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3743

That’s hardly the point here, harry

3744

Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan are western constructs mate. Israel too, though it has some tenuous claim to historic continuity.
The more politically stable ones (though still fucked up democratically) are the states that evolved somewhat more organically, SA and the gulf states.

3745

Clearly, Arnaud is struggling with the ‘good vs. evil’ narrative espoused by tfks geopolitical experts.

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1867406620483031465?t=TMOtW4d81RDADBFjHyBzhw&s=19

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