Britain survived just fine when the IRA was bombing it. And the IRA lost, as well all Republicans know.
Project X is a dim witted cunt but you have to be impressed with how heās winding up the lads here all the same. Ditzy even created an imaginary ignore bottom he was that rattled.
Not looking good for europols stats
Assad to commit to a leaving office after a period in return for Western backing to defeat ISIS is my bet.
That deal has been on the table for ages, but was a bit unpalatable for the lads up to now.
Makes sense, equip his army and let them at it, boots on the ground without risking any of their own.
Then what happens when they defeat ISIS and he decides heād rather stay in power, except now heās armed to the teeth with US and Russian weaponry?
The band start up again, and everyone sets up for the next dance.
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Thatās someone elseās problem.
President Trump will be too busy building a wall around the USA to give one.
Come on Sir, Iām sure we can trust the president of Syria
Shit like this is great for āThe Donaldā.
What rocket launcher?
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If ISIS and Salafism generally is going to remain relevant, then at some point an American President is going to have to confront the incoherence of their strategy in the region. How long can they continue to publicly oppose ISIS while remaining closely allied to their backers?
Thereās a lot of truth in the notion that the āRussians are playing chess while the Americans play checkersā. Putin has had to endure irrelevance on global stage for a long time, but in one well-chosen move has made Russia central to the medium term future of the Middle East.
And we all saw how that ended up in Pacific Rim
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Something there is that doesnāt love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
āStay where you are until our backs are turned!ā
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, āGood fences make good neighborsā.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
āWhy do they make good neighbors? Isnāt it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall Iād ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesnāt love a wall,
That wants it down.ā I could say āElvesā to him,
But itās not elves exactly, and Iād rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his fatherās saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, āGood fences make good neighbors.ā
What?
I doubt the Syrian army nor indeed the Russians would stand for that. The Syrian army is the only Arab army that has started to win victories against Islamist militias, and if they win this war theyāll be the most battle hardened army in the entire region. They have been steadfast in their loyalty to Assad thus far, and if they are behind him Iām not sure it will make much difference what the outside world wants.
In that context itās hard to see the Russians letting him go either. Theyāre unlikely to let the Americans snatch away their most important alliance in the region.