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Turkey's puppets will stomp on the Kurds and force the US presence out of the country.
This is already happening as Turkish-backed ISIS is attacking US-backed Kurds (also ISIS). It also fits in with the idea that USA whould get out for its own reasons, as in: overcommitment.
New Syrian government open to Iranian forces support against Israel.
We shall see, but anything is possible. Arab armies are notoriously fickle.
Russian military bases still in the region to prevent Nato direct interventions.
Could be. The Russian bases seem curiously unscathed so far. There were rumors of airstrikes, but haven't seen any. Who were they bombing anyway? That detail is kinda important.
I don't think this guy is it, TBH. Maybe the actual smile (the dude was smiling in the security footage) but not the rest of the face.
Furthermore, the McDonalds amaze-balls arrest was too convenient. He was supposedly stting there on his laptop with the 'murderweapon' on him?
Sounds like passports falling 70 stories into the concrete dust to me.
But it is fashionable.
IMO it does have something to do with age. In one's early twenties (emotional toddlers, most of them) one must want world peaces and carrot juices. Once one grows up, and starts working for a living, then those views tend to become more pragmatic. Although some people never grow up, there's that.
Agreed, let's see.
This appears to be propaganda. they always use young children when they want to create a monster.
Re: the Fall of Syria - It is what it is. Hardly a win for CIA if one was using throat-slitters as the shock troops. Nor is depriving a country of life-blood (oil and food - so basically a decade long Siege) going to tranlate into a win. < I M O.
Let's hope the LOL-rebels announce an election (and Syrians all over the world must vote), and the population is left alone. I dread the potential purges of non-salafist minorities. As it is, the ISIS-derivatives have a problem with trust. And, they are likely to turn on their masters at any time.
Also, the Syrian government troops had a problem with corruption,(and that's one reason why Assad resigned, apparently) so in a way the Syrians wished it upon themselves, just to end the nonsense - i.e. the chopping the Gordian deadlock.
Alex Mercouris makes the point that if the 'problems' were that easy to fix, then Assad would prolly have done it by now. Mind you, he appeared to turn down offers of financial aid (+credit) from Russia and China. I wonder if that is because the Turks (NATO) were pressuring him over the refugees in their lands? IDK. Erdogan had it in his power to mutually help, yet Assad would not talk to him, and that would have rankled the narcissist in Erdogan. Pride goes before the fall, as they say. So many parties in one little piece of desert. It is a tragedy.
Re: propaganda on social media: Israeli bombing in the South, much of much-ness is made. Boasting even. But I feel that is a bit of background noise. One cannot bomb civilians into submission, in just a few days. That genocidal caper takes months, if not years. Oh wait.
Yes there are tunnels all over Syria and Turkey.
They have been since before Christ's time. Some are dated to 6000 years old, even 12000 if you follow Hancock.
Christians hid and lived in those tunnels during the middle ages.
This one looks like a bomb shelter TBH.
Yes, curious timing - almost as if it was planned.
Also, sidebar (I am so annoying but):
I have heard several journalists say that all sorts of nationalities are present in the wave of Syria-invaders. They are not all fervent 'Islamists' either. Ukrainians?? Uzbeks? Africans?? So add that to Turks, Kurds (oooh that rhymes), Iraqis etc.
As it is, the live war-map is a ridiculous patchwork. Now they have all manner of Babel-tower builders all running around like chickens without heads. They carry guns though.
Meanwhile people are cheering in the town-squares in Sweden.
Smoothie was saying that all the world's filth has gathered in one concentrated place.
Well that is good news.
I knew when I saw a slew of breads on /pol claiming that his plane had been shot out of the sky, with tracks! - to apply 48 hours.
I even saw a youtube pop up with the same news. From one of those channels. LAst night, I checked RT and Al Jazeera, and both said Assad had left the country for an undisclosed location. So, I waited.
Thanks for update, So far so good. Not many deaths of civilians and lots of propaganda noise. Now, pictures of him all warm and cosy with Putin. So I guess the next step for him is to claim government in exile. Maybe.
That's interesting. I have had a mental note running about some stolen nook material that was purportedly going to Israel.
The Golan Heights would have been perfect for hiding it.
I also agree that Assad out of the country means something bad is going to happen, probably a partitioning, whereby Turkey, Israel et al. will claim pieces, just as Ukraine is going to be divided up. Note that Israel has plans to broaden their buffer-zone around the Golan Heights, almost as if they were trying to prevent someone from stealing their precious <speculation.
But Assad always strove to keep Syria together, and secular. He cannot be blamed. And that is interesting, in terms of what happens next. He does have Putin's friendly hand.
Ukraine is definitely part of the greater picture, however. Think of it as Greater Israel (Part Zero, i.e. before 1947): 20% of Israelis speak Russian. Ukraine is where they lived and brewed up new ways to get even, because Bolsheviks were persona non-grata - just a little too brutal - killing the Romanovs for example... When the Nazis came to Ukraine, they welcomed them with open arms as liberators from ebil Stalin. Of course, the Red Army did the thing they were best at. But then there were the subversive elements left behind, still living in the USSR. One of Stalin's prolly not great propositions was to move Jews (Bolsheviks) from Ukraine, which was very much like Syria, in that it was a patchwork of populations. It was a form of ethnic cleansing, I suppose, but there was so much killing at the time, that noone cared anymore. One could easily compare it with a drive to get criminals off the streets.
There was one Oblast in Eastern Siberia where Jews could go, or they could just leave, 'escape' to the West, or be taken prisoner and be sent to Gulags.
So a bunch of them moved to the newly formed Israel. Not saying that all of those Jews were Bolsheviks - in fact prolly the Russian-speakers are the saner ones in Israel, now.
But there is no peace proposal from Agent Z, only word-salad and propaganda that can just about be read backwards, for example the ratio: Ukrainians are dying like flies but he claims it is the Russians who are dying at 8:1, but he is basically turning down a cease-fire - which normally is the first step, with continuing negotiations, as Trump is intimating. Agent Z claims that it is just a piece of paper. [cough: Minsk 1; Minsk 2; Istanbul]
And Putin bad - implying that daddy Trump must take bad man away and everything will be allright, ' cos USA will Make Ukraine Great Again.
Is there a list of countries?