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« on: December 13, 2016, 03:21:51 PM »
The fact that Syria was a stable country hostile to US and Israeli interests? Stagnation, drought, mass migration from rural areas to cities with no institutions or economy to accommodate. Mind you I don't really consider a police state stability, and if the regime wanted to work against Western interests they could have improved their country not reduce its position through war. I think I've seen you previously comment on how Russia opposes the US to maintain sovereignty but with the war Syria has lost that nearly completely, it's budget is reliant on Russian and Iranian loans and it's military is bolstered by thousands of foreign troops. What say does it in national policy anymore? What the governments interests collide with that of Russia and Iran? I actually disagree. I think this will likely make Assad a somewhat less brutal ruler, although to what extent I don't know. I can explain why if you'd like. Go for it. For a lot of them you probably can't. They've tasted western gibs and won't go back. Maybe the ones in Jordan and Lebanon will go home, i don't know. I read that preparations were underway to send back 100k already, should the war end I see no reason why Europe wouldn't send back more. Brah, Assad's government was super inclusive. Alawis, Christians, Sunni, Shia. It was the rebels who pushed sectarianism By constitution only a Muslim can be president, the officer corps was almost entirely Alawite related to the Assad family, front line positions however were handed to everyone else, government positions are entirely reliant on nepotism, this is not being an "inclusive" state. A strong/feared security apparatus to uphold order is not tolerance and multicultural The war's not over yet, anyway. ISIS just retook Palmyra. The Nusrats and kin aren't totally destroyed yet. Assad has a long way to go.
It's not over yes but with capturing Aleppo the SAA now has anywhere between 50-100k troops to use elsewhere, Aleppo is Syria's largest city taking the rest shouldn't be a long campaign given complete air superiority and quality of equipment.
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« on: December 13, 2016, 08:27:36 AM »
We had a revolution which aimed to correct the broken things in the country, but unfortunately through persistent aggression and violence by the regime, manipulation by foreign powers, radicalization, and general greed and selfishness in the opposition, this revolution devolved into a fractured insurgency, many elements of which preached a form of governance based on sharia not compatible with the reality of civilization and governance today.
Today, we have a regime, which is a shell of its former self, heavily backed by Iraqi, Lebanese, and Iranian foreign militias and Russian military might, which just recaptured Aleppo, and will most likely emerge from this war as the absolute victor. The same corrupt, inept regime, but now even more so.
Now we are left with this, and a country as fractured as ever (and mostly destroyed), with a plethora of huge problems to solve (how will we reincorporate refugees? How will we solve the dire, dire economic situation in the country? How will we deal with remnants of armed men who are intent on instability? How will we reign in the power accumulated by these militias and Iranian and Russian officials? How will we hold accountable those who were responsible for abhorrent crimes? How will we restructure the government to ensure inclusiveness and prevent further unrest by the disenfranchised?)
At least soon some peace and reconstruction can begin but what is the cost, I don't really see this "win" as long term people don't forget so easy, all this resentment towards Assad and the regime won't just disappear, like Iraq without genuine dialogue and peace settlements Syria is set for perpetual conflict so go ahead door cheer for this regime victory as much as you want, and ignore the reality; this is your hour of glory. However, don't sit here and make believe that everything is OK now, and everything in Syria is going to be OK.
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« on: December 13, 2016, 05:04:09 AM »
Why do you do this to me?
Im sorry! I'm confused. What did I do?
You leave suddenly, take extended periods off, come back unexpectedly and then join again. It plays with my heart strings.
I'm sorry!
I won't be around very long again either. It's hard for me to post here very much so I'm sorry I'm not around.
Either way it's good to see you again. ;_; How is the waifu hunting going? Did you finally switch over to 3d?
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« on: December 13, 2016, 04:59:30 AM »
Why do you do this to me?
Im sorry! I'm confused. What did I do?
You leave suddenly, take extended periods off, come back unexpectedly and then leave again. It plays with my heart strings.
1265
« on: December 13, 2016, 04:28:51 AM »
Why do you do this to me?
1266
« on: December 11, 2016, 04:03:07 PM »
They're alright, big spiders make me uneasy as fuck
1267
« on: December 11, 2016, 02:21:51 PM »
Moroccans are shit tier, poor guy.
1268
« on: December 11, 2016, 02:21:12 PM »
>Going vegetarian because he ate some good vegetarian food.
The only reason to go vege is essentially to boycott meat because of industry practices against animals doing it because it's convenient is really just a waste of time. I'm not going to become religious because a priest said some nice things about me.
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« on: December 11, 2016, 05:36:06 AM »
post penis or shut the fuck up
1270
« on: December 10, 2016, 08:53:01 AM »
le ebin funnies
1271
« on: December 09, 2016, 07:05:52 PM »
I wonder if they're going to pull a Spiderman 2 with the ship breaking in half at the end of the trailer and Spidey in the middle.
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« on: December 09, 2016, 06:37:00 PM »
Don't play it, it's not a good game, you won't enjoy it.
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« on: December 09, 2016, 05:25:43 PM »
Can't wait to see Moscow have its Berlin moment where the flag of freedom is planted atop the Kremlin, the world has to show the Bolsheviks once and for all.
1274
« on: December 09, 2016, 05:23:19 PM »
So this is what civil war in Detroit looks like?
1275
« on: December 09, 2016, 03:54:09 PM »
People still play open world Ubisoft games?
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« on: December 09, 2016, 03:53:28 PM »
>grown man playing with kid's toys
You're never too old for legos, faggot.
How old are you?
How old are you?
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No you're not Class
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« on: December 08, 2016, 07:07:22 PM »
I love and enjoy DS1 too much to bother with the others. I've played them but I put them down rather quickly after like an 1 hour or so, the first is too perfect to ruin with sub standard sequels
It's like you're completely ignoring the PvP or 2nd half of the game of DS1. DS1 fails horribly once you get the soul vessel. At least 2 and 3 are more consistent with their approach.
>Failing for the DS multiplayer meme LMAO Nigga just completely ignore that
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« on: December 08, 2016, 07:01:33 PM »
I called for the Youtube thing
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« on: December 08, 2016, 05:35:42 PM »
tfw no cute FF emo bf
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« on: December 08, 2016, 05:33:27 PM »
WE
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« on: December 08, 2016, 03:08:26 PM »
I love and enjoy DS1 too much to bother with the others. I've played them but I put them down rather quickly after like an 1 hour or so, the first is too perfect to ruin with sub standard sequels
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« on: December 08, 2016, 08:57:02 AM »
Why the fuck are you so unnecessarily racist?
He thinks that since many White men throughout history achieved great things in progressing Humanity he gets to bear some of that glory as he shares their race. Fucking lol
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« on: December 08, 2016, 08:53:37 AM »
I want new shoes and Planet Coaster, that's it.
Is there multiplayer in P.C?
Not that I know of
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« on: December 08, 2016, 08:43:46 AM »
I want new shoes and Planet Coaster, that's it.
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« on: December 08, 2016, 06:02:32 AM »
No one cares class
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« on: December 08, 2016, 05:11:21 AM »
I'd buy an upgraded GTA SA
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« on: December 07, 2016, 03:20:27 PM »
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« on: December 07, 2016, 02:54:57 PM »
I wake up thinking why did god curse me with another day
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« on: December 07, 2016, 08:55:57 AM »
Sorry Jive but you're the "bad boy" referenced in this image, girls want to move through guys like you while young to get it all out of their system, they only want your type for fun. Eventually they'll settle down with an Ian
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« on: December 07, 2016, 06:55:40 AM »
The Aleppo joke stopped being funny after a day. Anyway, here's the latest map. The rebels keep collapsing which is weird given how some have chewed through multiple SAA offensives throughout the years so I wonder what has changed. I didn't think foreign support would be that critical but clearly with the Turkish and Gulf pullback they have been left in a very weak position.
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