Official Middle East/ISIS thread: Tehran up another part of the Middle East

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  1. Illinihockey

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    Too bad the sdf couldn’t use the chaos to announce a Kurdish state. Turkey would never allow it though
     
  2. JGator1

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    Forgot about the Kurdish district in Aleppo, don't think it'd be very smart of HTS to attack them but who knows


     
  3. Goose

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    There are too many factions in this war to easily be able to keep it all straight
     
  4. JGator1

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  6. Illinihockey

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    Assad regime is toast.
     
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  7. Paddy Murphy

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    I remember any reasonable explanation of what a desired outcome in Syria is being dramatically flawed at best. As a geopolitical strategy nerd, this is fascinating.

    Iran and Russia really starting to feel the weight of their aggression.
     
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  8. Biship

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    Russia/Iran ain’t helping because they can’t.
     
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  9. JGator1

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    Bashar's currently in Russia, wonder how his day is going
     
  10. Cousin Eddie

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    CIA making a last minute play before the new administration takes over?
     
  11. bwi2

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    A lot better than it would be in Damascus
     
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  12. Paddy Murphy

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    I agree and that’s my point. Iran picked a fight with Israel and lost their entire proxy military leadership and Russia probably can’t deploy more than 1,000 good soldiers beyond neighboring countries.

    The smart decision here is to let Syria fall overnight, which may have already happened, but the limits of their ability are already laid bare.
     
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  13. Paddy Murphy

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    I’m curious about this too, but one conclusion of this is that Syria falling in 48 hours as Iran watches presents a pretty compelling argument for Hamas and Hezbollah to sign for peace before their civil populations get any ideas.
     
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  14. Paddy Murphy

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    Hmm. That’s an interesting twist that definitely doesn’t have to do with any intelligence the Turkish have the Russians about getting their man out.
     
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    There is a four seasons in Damascus?!?
     
  16. Illinihockey

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  17. Rock

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    It’s their second location after Philly
     
  18. ramszoolander

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    IDK lots of windows to fall out of in Moscow
     
  19. JGator1

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    These suicide drones are terrifying

     
  20. Paddy Murphy

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    Will be interesting to see how quickly this tactic proliferates if the fighting continues particularly in urban areas.

    Urban warfare is going to be forever changed by drones. I have shared before that a kid I grew up with is now an engineer for a company developing a Reaper size drone that can carry 20 or something smaller drones that it can deploy to cover an area, recall them, and redeploy them. The next time we go to battle, it’s going to be the future of war again.
     
  21. JGator1

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    Just the essence of never being safe anywhere seems scary as fuck.
     
  22. ramszoolander

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    Yeah, saw that yesterday. Interesting thread.
     
  23. Goose

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    I don’t like what follows #23

     
  24. 40wwttamgib

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    good thing we have president T to bring back world peace!
     
  25. Tiger Z

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    Absolutely
     
  26. Illinihockey

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    Wonder when the protests and encampments start
     
  27. Popovio

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    200,000 is insane. That's a legit number?
     
  28. Lyrtch

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    that entire twitter account is a very obvious Israel propaganda machine and zero recent news stories about anything out there

    so no, I'd say no
     
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  29. Illinihockey

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    how in the world did you get that? It’s obviously a pro-Kurdish anti-Islamists account. The vast majority of the posts have to do with Turkey and their violence against the Kurds over the past decade
     
  30. Lyrtch

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    every post is "PEOPLE ONLY CARE ABOUT BAD THINGS IF ISRAEL DOES IT" repeated over and over and over
     
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  31. Lyrtch

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    but I'd love to see the evidence for that claim the last 4 days
     
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  32. Illinihockey

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    its simply not. Those are in there but hey if the shoe fits
     
  33. Lyrtch

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  34. Illinihockey

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    Guy that taken literally anything Hamas reports at face value demands proof about a well documented ethnic cleansing that has been openly going on for a decade
     
  35. Lyrtch

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    the account posts these two photos every few days
     
  36. Lyrtch

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    can a guy get a credible news report some day
     
  37. Illinihockey

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    Ya the Kurds feel very hard done by because they’ve been actively ethnically cleansed from parts of Syria for a decade and no one cares
     
  38. Illinihockey

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    sorry the Hamas ministry of health didn’t report it.
     
  39. Lyrtch

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    thank you for acknowledging you have nothing credible to support the initial assertion
     
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  40. Lyrtch

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    I will say its very odd that the same photo posted every few days gets tons of engagement on a relatively small account (its part of a propaganda network)
     
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  41. Popovio

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    Like, whatever media bias exists, there's absolutely no way 200,000 Kurds being killed in 4 days would not make waves. That's why I thought that tweet was bullshite.

    Not to discount our Kurdish friends and what they're going through. Just wish we actually had their back more instead of letting Turkish proxies attack our proxies.
     
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  42. Illinihockey

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    it doesn’t say killed. Ethnic cleansing doesn’t mean killed.
     
  43. CaneKnight

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    Shit like this is why no one takes you seriously and people have open distain for you here, you fascist little genocidal bootlicker
     
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  44. Illinihockey

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    can you just pick one thread to be dumb as fuck in?
     
  45. SmoochieWallace

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    Ethnic cleansing covers displacement. They are saying that many Kurds were displaced.