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3421
« on: March 26, 2015, 07:07:50 PM »
Spoiler Is there a list of nations agreeing to this coalition?
Definitely Saudi Arabia and Egypt, which are 2 out of the 4 biggest players in the Middle East (the other ones being Iran and Turkey). In all probability, the coalition will also include the UAE, Jordan, Qatar, and Kuwait. With other Saudi Arabia-aligned countries, I don't know who to expect. Possibly Bahrain, but the majority of their population are Shia (under Sunni leadership), and Oman doesn't seem to be aligned with any of the major power blocs in the Middle East.
3422
« on: March 26, 2015, 07:03:11 PM »
Thinking about applying to one. General tips?
To a Community College? Literally the only reason somebody should apply to one is because they're cheap as fuck. There aren't any admission requirements, so they just let you in right away. In terms of social life, you better have had it carried over from High School or somewhere else, since you are not going to make many friends in Community College since all people care about in Community College is transferring out to another university.
3423
« on: March 26, 2015, 07:01:46 PM »
Let me tell you why it's not Flee
>yoorupe
>mlp
>no funz
>anti loli activist
>mayo on fries
Minus the MLP, he is the best user.
3424
« on: March 26, 2015, 06:59:42 PM »
I finish the British version of college soonish, then I just get free time to study for my exams then I'm fucking off to uni. Get my petroleum engineering degree, get experience, move to Baghdad, become the oil minister, form strong connections with the opposing political group, stage a coup and take control on the central government, resurrect the secret police, become head of said secret police, bully president to step down, take his position, finish what Saddam started and purge Iraq all the Kurds and Shia. It will be glorious.
lol
so er what are you studying?
LOL, that is hilarious. Just studying Political Science because it is my true passion <33333. Would you really have expected me to be studying anything other than Political Science?
3425
« on: March 26, 2015, 06:58:31 PM »
And why is it Flee?
3426
« on: March 26, 2015, 06:52:35 PM »
LOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
jk, I go to one, too... Why is your dick so big, onee-chan?
Cause I'm not a nigger faggot. And which community college are you going to?
3427
« on: March 26, 2015, 06:48:58 PM »
Well, I just finished my finals for my classes here, and then I'm transferring to another one for 3 quarters. So not quite done yet. Just done with this particular one.
AMA me anything.
3428
« on: March 26, 2015, 06:48:11 PM »
Yay, arms race.
Oh, dear God yes.. Shit's really starting to go down in the Middle East. It does make you wonder how Saudi Arabia and Iran would compete against eachother in a conventional war. Since Iran is extremely experienced in unconventional and asymmetrical war.
3429
« on: March 26, 2015, 06:44:47 PM »
Finished my finals today. 
3430
« on: March 26, 2015, 06:44:27 PM »
arab coalition attacking the houthis in yemen.
I swear it's like any country Iran gets involved in goes to shit.
Oh shit, yeah. I just saw an article (and posted it in Serious) of a unified Arab military force which was made almost certainly because of the Houthi shit going down in Yemen. It's a total cold war between Saudi Arabia and the Axis of Resistance now.
3431
« on: March 26, 2015, 06:42:43 PM »
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/03/26/Arab-FMs-agree-to-establish-joint-Arab-force-.htmlFollowing geopolitical events, this unified force will likely include the Gulf States and Egypt. In my opinion, this unified force has been made to better challenge Iran's increasing influence in the Middle East. And of course this force is highly politicized since all of the states which are to join are the Saudi-Arabia aligned ones. It will be interesting how this bloc will compete against the Axis of Resistance (Iran's Middle-East bloc of Syria, Iraq, Hezbollah, and Yemen) in the future.
3432
« on: March 26, 2015, 06:37:40 PM »
They've been engaged in a shadow war since Iran created Hezbollah. Relations have been bad since the Islamic Revolution. Never said they were good. But now they're without a doubt at an all-time low.
Actually that has a lot less to do with Syria and more to do with Ukraine. This is something Obama orchestrated with the Saudis to cripple Russia even further, and it has had it's side effects on Iran as well.
Really? From the sources I've been reading (BBC isn't my only source....), it's a lot closer to the other way around. Where the Saudi's primary target was Iran over their role in funding/supporting Hezbollah and Shi'ite militias, and Russia was merely collateral damage.
Russia and Iran are the targets. Russia more so because they're bankrolling Iran which is doing terribly economic wise at the moment.
A twofer basically.
That's plausible. Though I don't see how Russia could afford their war in Ukraine, expand their military greatly, bankroll Iran, and supply Syria all at the same time. Plus all of their other things they have to spend money on. The Russian economy has its limits.
Iran is supplying Syria with Iranian weaponry. It's just they get a boost from Russia and Syria gets a ton of support from Russia.
Though as we'd both know, Iran has supplied the regime with a great deal more weapons and manpower, and Iran doesn't seem to care about whether they will be able to afford continued support or not. Iran is so extreme, that they see the war as an existential crisis, and they've stated themselves that they would defend Damascus as hard as they would Iran. While I'm not debating whether both Iran and Russia are suffering greatly as a result of the Saudis, I am debating whether the main target was Iran or Russia. And there's more reason to believe it is Iran, since they also are competing against Saudi Arabia in a proxy war in Yemen, Iraq, and possibly Afghanistan.
3433
« on: March 26, 2015, 06:27:59 PM »
They've been engaged in a shadow war since Iran created Hezbollah. Relations have been bad since the Islamic Revolution. Never said they were good. But now they're without a doubt at an all-time low.
Actually that has a lot less to do with Syria and more to do with Ukraine. This is something Obama orchestrated with the Saudis to cripple Russia even further, and it has had it's side effects on Iran as well.
Really? From the sources I've been reading (BBC isn't my only source....), it's a lot closer to the other way around. Where the Saudi's primary target was Iran over their role in funding/supporting Hezbollah and Shi'ite militias, and Russia was merely collateral damage.
Russia and Iran are the targets. Russia more so because they're bankrolling Iran which is doing terribly economic wise at the moment.
A twofer basically.
That's plausible. Though I don't see how Russia could afford their war in Ukraine, expand their military greatly, bankroll Iran, and supply Syria all at the same time. Plus all of their other things they have to spend money on. The Russian economy has its limits.
3434
« on: March 26, 2015, 06:21:15 PM »
The reason it was made (to combat oppressive governments) has never been invoked a single time in the history of the US. That must mean it can never happen.
Even if it were to happen, it's not like civilians have the firepower to stand up to the US military. Good luck using your handy shotgun against tanks, helicopters, and drones.
Explosives and computers can take down two of those. We also outnumber them.
The US military has prepared for literally every contingency, even a goddamn Zombie Apocalypse. What gives you any idea that some crappy conspiracy theorist militia could take down the strongest military on Earth?
3435
« on: March 26, 2015, 03:07:40 PM »
Why are there never any of these threads about kids who steal their parents cars and then hurt or kill people?
Those incidents happen far less than with guns. And gun laws are a big debate in the US right now, so yeah.
3436
« on: March 26, 2015, 05:47:24 AM »
They've been engaged in a shadow war since Iran created Hezbollah. Relations have been bad since the Islamic Revolution. Never said they were good. But now they're without a doubt at an all-time low. Actually that has a lot less to do with Syria and more to do with Ukraine. This is something Obama orchestrated with the Saudis to cripple Russia even further, and it has had it's side effects on Iran as well.
Really? From the sources I've been reading (BBC isn't my only source....), it's a lot closer to the other way around. Where the Saudi's primary target was Iran over their role in funding/supporting Hezbollah and Shi'ite militias, and Russia was merely collateral damage.
3437
« on: March 26, 2015, 05:40:17 AM »
:/
Here I was hoping that the government forces were starting to turn the tide of the battle now that ISIS is facing heavy defeats in Iraq. I mean even with Isis distracted there are so many other rebel groups it's a mess.
So I take you're a Government supporter. If so, I got some bad news for you...
>Government forces lost Bosra (a city of ~30,000 people) in south-eastern Dara'a Governorate.
>Government offensive in the South against rebels has stalled.
>Rumors of IS attacks in as-Sukhnah on the Army supply route between Tadmur and Deir ez-Zor.
Though the Government has largely stabilized the Northern Aleppo front, and have retaken some areas they lost to the rebels in their February counteroffensive.
I'd rather Assad be in power than Baghdadi or any other Islamist rebel group. If anything I'm with the civilians, those that aren't fighting and are trying live through these awful times.
Are there any 'good' groups fighting in Syria?
The YPG is by far the closest thing to a 'good' group, but even they aren't perfect, given their affiliation to the PKK.
And I've noticed in recent months that the argument used by most Gov-supporters to justify their beliefs is a big fat fallacy constructed by Assad's regime over the course of the entire Syrian war.
Assad is a very smart man, you see. He had a terrible hand, and he played most of his cards like a master. He manipulated the revolution from the very start so it would be exactly what it was today. Well, his game was working perfectly until last year once IS set its sights on Assad himself...
Eh most of the Assad supporters I know support him because he's Shia. It's a shame he's turned to be such a terrible leader, he seemed a little promising at first given the fact that he wasn't much like his father and brother.
Oh dear god, have people analyzed the fuck out of the Damascus Spring as well. There are theories stating that the Damascus Spring was just a ploy made by Assad designed to lure out any critics of his regime, so cracking down on them would be made a great deal easier.
3438
« on: March 26, 2015, 05:32:53 AM »
Why does nobody here care about this? This is big news....
It's literally the last major Government stronghold in the province.
EDIT: God, it's depressing how uninterested most people are with what's going on in the Middle East. I almost wish Sgt Maj were here despite the fact that he's incredibly biased towards the Rebels.
Why should we care? Everybody fighting is fighting for their own selfish interests. Syria has been destroyed.
There's nothing interesting about any of this. It's just depressing.
Well, that's really obvious. And yeah, the country's been destroyed.
But everything else after that is completely opinion.
I find it very interesting since the destruction of one (relatively) small country has managed to affect and divide the world. And there will be a gigantic market for reconstruction once the fires die down.
....If they die down.
The world was already divided. This war was just a reason to act on those divisions.
This war has sure as hell made things worse. Saudi Arabia and Iran are practically at eachothers' throats over this regional proxy war, while they were not nearly as bad before 2011. And Russia's economic decline can largely be attributed to this war since Saudi Arabia flooded the oil market to try to get Iran to reduce their support in Syria (and Yemen) by starving their economy.
3439
« on: March 26, 2015, 05:25:40 AM »
Why does nobody here care about this? This is big news....
It's literally the last major Government stronghold in the province.
EDIT: God, it's depressing how uninterested most people are with what's going on in the Middle East. I almost wish Sgt Maj were here despite the fact that he's incredibly biased towards the Rebels.
Why should we care? Everybody fighting is fighting for their own selfish interests. Syria has been destroyed.
There's nothing interesting about any of this. It's just depressing.
Well, that's really obvious. And yeah, the country's been destroyed. But everything else after that is completely opinion. I find it very interesting since the destruction of one (relatively) small country has managed to affect and divide the world. And there will be a gigantic market for reconstruction once the fires die down. ....If they die down.
3440
« on: March 26, 2015, 05:22:22 AM »
But it's done literally nothing but enable the gun murder rate in the US to exceed 30,000 a year.
While I agree that more guns isn't good and am not a fan of the general US gun policy, that number is actually only 15,000.
wut
I've been led on for 3 years that the annual gun deaths here were 30k..
Gun deaths is around 33,000, which includes suicides and accidents. Gun murders, like your OP said, "only" make up half of that number.
Hm. So my statistic isn't that bad after all. Since "accidents" can include scenarios like a baby accidentally shooting himself with a gun that was left out by idiots parents which he thought was a toy. And with suicides, that's pretty straightforward.
3441
« on: March 26, 2015, 05:20:04 AM »
But it's done literally nothing but enable the gun murder rate in the US to exceed 30,000 a year.
While I agree that more guns isn't good and am not a fan of the general US gun policy, that number is actually only 15,000.
wut I've been led on for 3 years that the annual gun deaths here were 30k..
3442
« on: March 26, 2015, 05:13:25 AM »
Think about who holds those sorts of signs though. "White power" is used by Neo-Nazi movements while "Black power" is used (for the most part) by Civil Rights movements.
3443
« on: March 26, 2015, 05:07:51 AM »
:/
Here I was hoping that the government forces were starting to turn the tide of the battle now that ISIS is facing heavy defeats in Iraq. I mean even with Isis distracted there are so many other rebel groups it's a mess.
So I take you're a Government supporter. If so, I got some bad news for you...
>Government forces lost Bosra (a city of ~30,000 people) in south-eastern Dara'a Governorate.
>Government offensive in the South against rebels has stalled.
>Rumors of IS attacks in as-Sukhnah on the Army supply route between Tadmur and Deir ez-Zor.
Though the Government has largely stabilized the Northern Aleppo front, and have retaken some areas they lost to the rebels in their February counteroffensive.
I'd rather Assad be in power than Baghdadi or any other Islamist rebel group. If anything I'm with the civilians, those that aren't fighting and are trying live through these awful times.
Are there any 'good' groups fighting in Syria?
The YPG is by far the closest thing to a 'good' group, but even they aren't perfect, given their affiliation to the PKK. And I've noticed in recent months that the argument used by most Gov-supporters to justify their beliefs is a big fat fallacy constructed by Assad's regime over the course of the entire Syrian war. Assad is a very smart man, you see. He had a terrible hand, and he played most of his cards like a master. He manipulated the revolution from the very start so it would be exactly what it was today. Well, his game was working perfectly until last year once IS set its sights on Assad himself...
3444
« on: March 26, 2015, 04:50:00 AM »
:/
Here I was hoping that the government forces were starting to turn the tide of the battle now that ISIS is facing heavy defeats in Iraq. I mean even with Isis distracted there are so many other rebel groups it's a mess.
So I take you're a Government supporter. If so, I got some bad news for you... >Government forces lost Bosra (a city of ~30,000 people) in south-eastern Dara'a Governorate. >Government offensive in the South against rebels has stalled. >Rumors of IS attacks in as-Sukhnah on the Army supply route between Tadmur and Deir ez-Zor. Though the Government has largely stabilized the Northern Aleppo front, and have retaken some areas they lost to the rebels in their February counteroffensive.
3445
« on: March 26, 2015, 03:57:44 AM »
http://news.yahoo.com/florida-teen-kills-brother-shoots-other-sibling-then-035344400.htmlThe people who wrote the US Bill of Rights were extremely stupid to add the 2nd Amendment. The reason it was made (to combat oppressive governments) has never been invoked a single time in the history of the US. But it's done literally nothing but enable the gun murder rate in the US to exceed 30,000 a year. That's literally enough to wipe out the town I live in (Los Gatos, California) once per year from gun deaths alone. inb4OPisatroll
3446
« on: March 26, 2015, 03:53:59 AM »
Why does nobody here care about this? This is big news....
It's literally the last major Government stronghold in the province.
EDIT: God, it's depressing how uninterested most people are with what's going on in the Middle East. I almost wish Sgt Maj were here despite the fact that he's incredibly biased towards the Rebels.
3447
« on: March 26, 2015, 03:53:35 AM »
He considers Russia a bastion of morality in spite of the fact that men stand outside metro exits handing out catalogs of prostitutes.
This is dumb. Russia definitely has its problems in terms of morality, but prostitution is not one of them.
>Being this arrogant
He made it obvious in another thread that he's either a conspiracy theorist or a troll.
3448
« on: March 26, 2015, 02:40:01 AM »
I'd moderate.
I don't see that working out for very long. <_<
I mean the last mod was Rocketman before Cheat pretty much said 'Yeeah you suck at this, I'm not seeing it so bye bye"
Because we all know Cheat is a control freak. >_>
That's an enormous and incorrect oversimplification of what happened, mate.
And as for your question on whether or not I want to unleash the beast by promoting Comms... Why would a control freak like me promote someone with a knack for taking down forums to a position of power? 
Come on, I would make the forum fun.
Lots and lots of fun.
Not happening new guy.
I'm not even new. I've been here way longer than you have.
Wait, who are you? Your join date says December.
I've originally been here since September.
I've originally been here since August.
3449
« on: March 26, 2015, 02:34:16 AM »
no
no explanation for no
3450
« on: March 26, 2015, 02:33:59 AM »
>Moderating is easy
>Says he'd quit
Okay fine..... Deci is now a moderator
Sep7agon: "OH WHAT THAT'S BULLSHIT HE'S AN ASSHOLE HE'S GONNA BAN US HE'S GOING TO EXPLODE WAH WAH WAH WAH!"
Hence I don't want to moderate. It won't fucking work. There would be even more drama between me and the crowd then there already is.
It's true though. Lol.
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