Tom N
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Side note. That Nina Drama taking about her feet was a clear shot at Iole. That dude spent his yahoo stock on local fetish models. He’s getting into the IBHOF though.
Fred Garvin@FredGarvinReal
The comedy of being a TKO shill should be staring people in the face. Kevin Iole “retired” after trying to be the House reporter for Dana White. Inside the Ring is on Zoom calls with shit audio. People think those cuts aren’t coming for them?
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@Vertaris21 At this point do you think the US might actually welcome IS? I’m assuming they can be existential for the Shia militias and community as well as a headache or worse for the Iranian government?
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@Abakerwest Its hard to really asess that, but after relatively stable period under Sudani, well it seems this calm might be at an end, its Iraq if instability erupts de facto all gates are open.
1S was moving a lot of assets into Anbar, and i mean a ton of asset, for more than a year now.
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Well things are going to be funny
Faytuks Network@FaytuksNetwork
An Iraqi government financial advisor tells Shafaq that Iraq's government revenues only meet half of its expenses, and Al Mada reports that 15-25% of investment liquidity in Iraq may soon be pulled out of the country. ExxonMobil and BP are reviewing their presence in Iraq
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They also did this with a literal cannibal necrophile who killed and ate a young woman since he was from a wealthy, well-connected family
TypeY@TypeYHumanoid
The Japanese hate criminals so much that they gave the guy who was charged with child porn a live action movie, a new anime adaptation and a tribute for his manga!
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On the left was the media for his fight at MSG in New York...he got knocked out on the biggest stage there is. Tears were shed and we quickly learned the ugly side of the business. On the right- 9 years later with two belts, two babies and a lot of highs and lows in the business.
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¿Porque es un choque que los argentinos empiezan a comer burro? Hace siglos sudamericanos consideran un roedor gigante una delicadeza.
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@NicoleGrajewski The scolding she received from FFD Goldberg for stepping out of line in one of her post is epic. Everyone should check it out. It revealed total subordination to the Zionist lobby which in turn explains why she hates her origins and Iran in general.
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Two things can be true at once: the Islamic Republic is a brutal, repressive regime likely to become worse, and this war accomplished precisely none of its objectives. But there is no room for shills on either side.
Barbara Slavin@barbaraslavin1
@NicoleGrajewski How sad that this awful war had to be fought to bring about face to face talks...
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@qunfuz2 @joekent16jan19 They did it reluctantly because they thought that was the most safe way to contain Iran without what we are experiencing now, not as a favor.
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@Abakerwest @joekent16jan19 Except they didn't. They did a deal with Iran when it was rescuing Assad by expelling over half the population. What a weird take you have. But I don't have time to continue.
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Unfortunately leaving NATO won’t be to avoid foreign entanglements, we’ll be leaving NATO so we can side with Israel when Turkey & Israel eventually clash in Syria.
This is after we helped topple the secular Syrian gov & installed a former AQ/ISIS leader as president.
Time to stop playing arsonist & fireman in the Middle East, it’s just not worth it.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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@qunfuz2 @joekent16jan19 Rhetoric is important. It gives permissive environment to support the opposition. And it’s not just the United States… it is a complex of allies: gulf states, US, European countries, turkey, that coordinated and punished Assad while giving some aid to the opposition
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@Abakerwest @joekent16jan19 Clinton did nothing to help, despite a few empty bits of rhetoric which made people think the US was helping. McCain might have helped but wasn't in a position to.
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@Abakerwest @joekent16jan19 OK. You've said what you think, and I totally disagree with it.
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@qunfuz2 @joekent16jan19 It is also because they hate Iran. I think that was one of the main reasons why they punished Assad so heavily
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@Abakerwest @joekent16jan19 But no, of course their relation to Assad was nothing like their relation to Israel. They don't hide Chinese, Burmese or Egyptian crimes either, but still aren't trying to get rid of those regimes. Israel is a very specific case.
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@qunfuz2 @joekent16jan19 They in a way did, there are other leaders who want to change but isn’t allowed forgiveness. Most of the liberals who mattered didn’t doubt it. From Clinton to McCain
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@Abakerwest @joekent16jan19 We now know his name is al-Sharaa. And they didn't 'rehabilitate' him. He changed his politics in response to the demands of power and of Syrian society, and he was fighting ISIS and al-Q so the west needed him. Lots of liberals did hide Assad's crimes by choosing to doubt them.
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@qunfuz2 @joekent16jan19 They were not as unsupportive as you say, sanctions had a slow but eventual hollowing out of the Assad government that eventually helped the opposition
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@Abakerwest @joekent16jan19 name a Syrian revolutionary as opposed to an Islamist militia leader and see how far you get.
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@qunfuz2 @joekent16jan19 I don’t entirely agree. Maybe in the beginning but I saw most liberals support the opposition, if not full throatedly, at least because they thought Assad was the worse
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@Abakerwest @joekent16jan19 There was very little engagement with it, and when there was, it was almost always misunderstood. The left and then the liberals were perhaps even worse than the right, because of their false assumption that this was another one of 'our' regime change wars. Go ask a liberal to
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@qunfuz2 @joekent16jan19 Some did, maybe some tankie leftists, but most liberals didn’t
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@Abakerwest @joekent16jan19 Liberals and leftists tended to assume that the Revolution was a western regime change plot. Most saw it through an Islamophobic and war on terror prism, and chose to believe elements of the Kremlin-generated conspiracy theories.
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@qunfuz2 @joekent16jan19 I mean they weren’t hiding Assads crimes at all, like they do Israel, and they were starting to rehabilitate golani
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@Abakerwest @joekent16jan19 I'm talking about the state, not various NGOs registered in the US (and EU, and Turkey). And he was talking about the state too. But as a Syrian who closely observed Western responses to the Syrian Revolution, I totally disagree that the 'liberal establishment' was supportive.
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@qunfuz2 @joekent16jan19 For the most part the liberal establishment was very supportive though. A lot of the organizations helping Syrians were based in the US. That doesn’t happen if they are actively hostile to the opposition
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@Abakerwest @joekent16jan19 That did help a bit. On the other hand they gave full backing to the SDF, stopped anyone else delivering necessary heavy weapons to the resistance, did a deal with Iran as it poured militia in, and arranged a sky-sharing agreement with Russian bombers.
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@joekent16jan19 The Assad regime was sectarian and genocidal, not 'secular'. And the US didn't at all help the Syrians get rid of Assad. Quite the opposite. Your first sentence makes sense though.
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@dejanche666 @NotWoofers Sorry I meant are these Russians before they are struck by drones?
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