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    The Syrian people should have just listened to benevolent uncle sam, and subjected themselves to the godly rule of Isis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    The Syrian people should have just listened to benevolent uncle sam, and subjected themselves to the godly rule of Isis.
    Yes, fancy not wanting to be slaughtered by their own leader, the cheeky fuckers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Yes, fancy not wanting to be slaughtered by their own leader, the cheeky fuckers.
    How lucky they are not "to be slaughtered by their own leader"...

    this is not a picture from Dresden 75 years ago ...
    https://teakdoor.com/speakers-corner...ml#post4058820 (Dresden 75 years ago)

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    And now, even the Belgians are bombing Syria...(???) (Does Belgium have any aircrafts?)

    ‘Maybe it was the Belgians’: Netanyahu claims ignorance after reports of missiles fired over Damascus
    14 Feb, 2020



    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed reports that his military launched a missile attack on the Syrian capital, Damascus, saying that perhaps the “Belgian Air Force” was responsible.
    In an interview with Radio Haifa on Friday, Netanyahu said he didn’t know “what happened last night” and that “maybe it was the Belgian Air Force” that launched missiles over Syria.

    “I don’t comment on one operation or another,” he added.

    Syrian state media reported Thursday night that its air defenses had thwarted a missile attack and intercepted several “hostile targets” launched from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights region. Israel regularly strikes targets within Syria claiming that it is hitting “Iranian positions.”

    ‘Maybe it was the Belgians’: Netanyahu claims ignorance after reports of missiles fired over Damascus — RT World News

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    The Israelis are a bunch of lying jerks who lost any credibility with me years ago, when they used cluster bombs which later killed children....in Lebanon, I think it was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer
    lying jerks who lost any credibility with me years ago
    Now you know how people feel when they see your posts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    The Israelis are a bunch of lying jerks who lost any credibility with me years ago, when they used cluster bombs which later killed children....in Lebanon, I think it was.
    Israel was founded and funded (Balfour Declaration) by the Rothschilds banking family and Bank of England to destabilize the ME. It's just an outpost / deniable op for the CIA to continue the fun.

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    ^ Hmmm.....plausible Kmart. Got any proof for that ?

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    Rothschild on the record:
    The Times of Israel reports that Lord Jacob Rothschild recently revealed new details about the crucial role his ancestors played in obtaining the Balfour Declaration, which “helped pave the way for the creation of Israel.”
    The 80-year-old Rothschild is the current head of the banking family and a strong supporter of Israel.
    Rothschild reveals crucial role his ancestors played in the Balfour Declaration and creation of Israel [VIDEO]

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    The media is saturated with uplifting news about the “Israeli economic miracle”, its wealth and high living standards, and its thriving startup and high-tech industry. But have you ever heard from a mainstream Western media outlet or politician that a fifth of Israelis live below the poverty line, that people are forced to look through rubbish for food to avoid starving, or that Israel has the highest poverty rate in all of the developed world?
    The answer is most likely not, and we should ask ourselves why. Other lies propagated by Israel’s disinformation machine include origin myths, the most famous being the romantic theme of Palestine as “a land without a people for a people without a land”, which strangely persists, despite its historical absurdity. Israel relies a lot on ignorance and gullibility.
    It is hard to convincingly portray such a predatory, violent and terrorist rogue state as noble, democratic, peaceful or gentle
    This magnificent interactive photographic collection of pre-1948 Palestine is enough to pulverise that revisionist lie, which seeks to eliminate the very notion of the existence of Palestinians on the land before it was taken from them by Western colonial powers to be given to Jewish emigrants from Europe and elsewhere. Palestinians were made to pay for a Holocaust that Europe had committed, and in which they themselves played no part.
    Besides the pathetic nature of such PR operations to counter critics and improve Israel’s disastrous global image, its effectiveness is more than a little uncertain.
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinio...t-rogue-states

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    Muslim members of the Waffen-SS 13th division at prayer during their training in Germany, 1943

    War in Syria - Obama avoided it, but Trump, May and Macron were just too stupid...-muslim-members-waffen-ss-13th-division


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    ^ Yes, Bosnians I believe. What of it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Muslim members of the Waffen-SS 13th division at prayer during their training in Germany, 1943
    Similarly, there were so many other ethnic groups (or nationalities) - not all are so "kindly" refreshingly reminded...

    (it depends, how it is immediately needed in the "politically correct" propaganda...)
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    Obama's diplomatic incompetence is the reason Syria and Libya collapsed, blood on his hands, and on Merkels, two of the most incompetent leaders in world history. Arab Spring? Whoops... didn't mean it... sorry... fukcing appalling specious imbecile, has there ever been an American president who wasn't? Maybe not since FDR. What's next, President Kanye?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    ^ Yes, Bosnians I believe. What of it?
    Are you trying to be obtuse?

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    How about this:


    Turkey threatens 'imminent' attack on Syria's Idlib after Russia talks

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned of an "imminent" military operation in Idlib amid ceasefire talks. The threat follows recent fatal clashes. Russia's government has urged restraint.
    and now this

    Turkey sending troops to Syria to fight against the government would be the ‘worst case scenario’, Kremlin spokesman said after Ankara threatened that such an operation was imminent.



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    Excellent article.
    Thanx, concur with the majority of what was written, and then some.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainNemo View Post
    Obama's diplomatic incompetence is the reason Syria and Libya collapsed, blood on his hands, and on Merkels, two of the most incompetent leaders in world history.
    You are a fucking moron.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    You are a fucking moron.
    What an original comment... (Not so trite as in his comments to his kind reds he is so generous with...)

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    Quote Originally Posted by HermantheGerman View Post
    How about this:




    and now this




    My guess is Erdogan is making a play for Idlib and from there to negotiate a withdrawal in exchange for Kurdish lands further east. Won't work, though bad boy might think it will. Last thing he wants is to go heads up against Syria supported by Russia and with Iran in the background, that would go very bad.

    Problem is he's had the benefit of positive vibes from Trump recently, so that might make him feel mighty; maybe he doesn't care what it costs to preserve his strongman image, but he must know if he pushes too hard it will be with little guarantee of anything beyond a blooded nose, because even with American troops in that region Trump would rather others get dead, esp so close to his second term.

    Not putting my house on what happens next.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    he's had the benefit of positive vibes from Trump recently,
    That's probably why:

    Barr personally tried to push SDNY away from indicting Turkish bank Halkbank but US Attorney Berman resisted, per CNN.
    Same bank case NYT cited—via John Bolton book—as Trump wanting to do favor for Turkey’s Erdogan cabal for Trump’s personal interest.
    https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1228830979885850624

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    Aleppo International Airport welcomes first passenger plane in 8 years: video

    A passenger plane has landed at the airport of Syria’s Aleppo for the first time in eight years, SANA news agency reported Wednesday.

    On Monday, Syria’s Al Ikhbariya TV reported that Aleppo’s airport was resuming operations after a lengthy break, citing Syrian Transport Minister Ali Hammoud.

    The vicious battle for Aleppo, second-most important city in Syria and its economic capital, began in 2012 and lasted more than four years until 2016. In September 2015, Russia launched a military offensive against militants in Syria, Russian Aerospace forces started carrying out strikes on terrorist groups.

    In mid-November 2016, the Syrian army launched an offensive and took control over east Aleppo. The city had been fully recaptured by mid-December.

    Since then, Aleppo has been carrying out works to restore the infrastructure destroyed by war and fighting.

    Aleppo International Airport welcomes first passenger plane in 8 years: video

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    Syria goes to the polls as new sanctions hit war-ravaged economy

    " Syria held a parliamentary election on Sunday, gripped by a collapsing economy and new U.S. sanctions after President Bashar al-Assad clawed back control of most of the country.

    People voted across government territory at more than 7,000 polling stations, including for the first time in former rebel bastions that the army has recaptured over the last two years.
    Assad’s opponents denounced the vote as a farce, nearly a decade into a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and made millions refugees.

    The elections, originally set for April, were postponed twice due to the coronavirus pandemic. At a polling station in the capital Damascus, many voters - who were disinfected upon arrival - said they were worried about the rising costs of living.

    “We have to find a solution for the living conditions,” said Samer Mahmoud, who owns a clothing shop.
    “God willing, I hope we overcome these sanctions,” said Mouna Sukkar after casting her ballot.

    More than 1,600 candidates, many prominent businessmen, were competing for 250 MP seats in the third such election since the conflict erupted in 2011. No surprises were expected in the vote that marked Assad’s second decade in power, with no real opposition to the ruling Baath party and its allies.

    The Syrian National Coalition, an opposition bloc based in Turkey that had Western backing, called it a “theatrical election by the Assad regime” with millions uprooted or in exile.

    In the town of Douma, in the eastern suburbs of Damascus where a fierce army offensive snuffed out insurgents in 2018, candidate banners hung in front of piles of rubble, collapsed rooftops and buildings pockmarked with bullets.

    Dozens of people crowded a polling station where a portrait of a smiling Assad covered a wall.

    “I came to vote...because we want to live in safety and for the rising prices to go down. There’s a big turnout,” said Ziad, a resident who fled and returned some two years ago. In 2016, when the town was rocked by fighting, he had cast his ballot in Damascus.

    The town was the site of a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people in 2018 and prompted Western missile strikes. Damascus and Moscow denied any chemical attack took place.
    Thanks to help from Russia and Iran, Assad holds more of Syria than at any time in the war, with the northeast in Kurdish hands, and rebels now confined to a northwest corner near the Turkish border

    But the battered economy is sinking deeper into trouble, hit also by a financial meltdown in Lebanon that choked off dollars and the toughest U.S. sanctions yet imposed last month.

    Washington says the goal is to hold Assad to account. Damascus blames them for the hardship, as soaring prices and a fall in the value of the currency makes life harder for Syrians. "

    Syria goes to the polls as new sanctions hit war-ravaged economy - Reuters
    A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.

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    “theatrical election by the Assad regime”
    Started with Hafedh and never changed.

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    Russia is pounding the Turkey backed Jihadi enclave.

    Though Syria has long fallen out of featured coverage in international media, it appears the war to take back Idlib province is heating up once again. Recall that on prior occasions over the past few years Washington has threatened some level of military intervention each time Syria and Russia prepared to finally liberate the northwest region from al-Qaeda and Turkish-backed jihadists (especially connected with 'rebel' claims of chemical weapons usage by government forces).


    On Monday Russian jets pounded a camp full of Turkish-backed militants in Idlib, killing at least 60. Some media sources are reporting possibly over 70 killed and 100+ injured, making it one of the single deadliest airstrikes of the entire almost decade long war.

    In this case the Western allies that have been covertly involved in Syria have long thought of Faylaq al-Sham as supposedly moderate. Russia clearly thought otherwise.

    Currently, some analysts are speculating that Russia could be sending a message to Turkey at a moment Ankara appears to be getting more deeply involved supporting its ally Azerbaijan against Armenia in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region.

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