ilmdge posted:Right now my position is just "skeptical and waiting to learn more."
this is the safest, most epistemologically sound & uncontroversial position anyone can take, and it reads like nothing short of holocaust denial to bloodlusting libs. "assad worse than hitler" is unironically making the rounds on social media right now. can't even call it shooting from the hip; this is more like watching long-buried landmines go off. they've had the regime-change erection for years, and by now it's just a crusty mass of thromboses held at bay by a tourniquet, but they're still going to use it to fuck the first thing they can grab
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:i got accosted by a Centrist Warmonger online. people who literally think the problem with the world is that the US doesn't start enough wars or stay in them long enough, because of the Far Left and Far Right, which are the same, and should be ashamed at their selfishness. no, really. these people can exist in the wild! they've adapted to breathe human air
you met trey parker and matt stone?
BREAKING: Tillerson states new Trump Syria policy: regime change. "Those steps are underway" for US to lead int'l effort to remove Assad.
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) April 6, 2017
Welp
ISRAEL: Reports that Israeli cabinet will convene on Sunday to discuss possible humanitarian intervention in Syria: Channel 10 - @AviMayer
— Conflict News (@Conflicts) April 6, 2017
A toast for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this morning. Moral responsibility for Israel to act in a diplomatic arena against the atrocities of the regimeהרמת כוסית לחג במשרד החוץ הבוקר. לישראל אחריות מוסרית לפעול בזירה הדיפלומטית נגד מעשי הזוועה של המשטר הסורי pic.twitter.com/q9FZ6bME2v
— Tzipi Hotovely (@TzipiHotovely) April 5, 2017
ilmdge posted:ahhhhhhh
ISRAEL: Reports that Israeli cabinet will convene on Sunday to discuss possible humanitarian intervention in Syria: Channel 10 - @AviMayer
— Conflict News (@Conflicts) April 6, 2017A toast for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this morning. Moral responsibility for Israel to act in a diplomatic arena against the atrocities of the regimeהרמת כוסית לחג במשרד החוץ הבוקר. לישראל אחריות מוסרית לפעול בזירה הדיפלומטית נגד מעשי הזוועה של המשטר הסורי pic.twitter.com/q9FZ6bME2v
— Tzipi Hotovely (@TzipiHotovely) April 5, 2017
If i was feeling "moral responsibility" for the first time in my life i'd do a celebratory bongrip too
my head is going to explode from all this garbage
NBC NEWS: President Trump has launched over 50 Tomahawk missiles, striking Syria
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) April 7, 2017
Panopticon had the last laugh.
But, we will have the last word.
Our slogan shall remain: Death to America. https://t.co/yw5k7VZfFS
— Ali (@Ali_Kourani) April 7, 2017
The President must get Congressional approval before attacking Syria-big mistake if he does not!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2013
Constantignoble posted:also probably relevant is How US Flooded the World with Psyops. short excerpt:
maybe you already know this but after a brief look around it looks like another one of those weird conspiracy sites with chemtrails and etc. might want to be careful using them as a source
I don't think this is to begin the destruction and dismemberment of Syria as all the braying, bloodthirsty liberals (including some on this forum) hoped. It looks more like the attacks America carried out in the 1990s against Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, small-scale "warning" raids. But, there may be an escalation on other fronts. The best option, at this point, is for the Empire is to partition Syria. As many have warned, the SDF (with, or without, the YPG) remains the best, and most willing, option for this. There may also be an effort to strengthen the various rebel groups in Idlib, the North, and the Southern pockets to defeat the Al-Qaeda group HTS, the one that probably carried out the Khan Sheikun false flag, as they remain an obstacle to any plan for "safe-zones" partition. Any endgame that results in a "victory" for the America would then involve a merger of the SDF and various rebel groups to create a client state in the North, and the South, along the occupied Golan Heights and Jordanian border. Now, these are America's best options short of a total war, but Syria, Russia, and Iran's response to this are a different matter altogether.
Anyway, this is what I speculate, based on following this war on and off since its beginning. The dark times for Syria aren't about to end anytime soon, it may even get darker.
May Allah bless and protect Syria, its People, its Army and its President, the Lion Bashar Al-Assad, from the Empire and its vampire hordes.
E: An interesting tidbit. Supposedly, this airbase was the one that America accused Syria of using to launch the alleged chemical weapons attack. But based on previous airstrikes it is most likely not. The airbases in Latakia, along the western coastline where the Russians operate out of, is where most airstrikes against the rebels in Idlib are actually launched from. This base is primarily used from operations in Eastern Syria, against ISIS, as both a supply line hub and close air support with helicopters.
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i'll say tomorrow morning, they need to sleep on it and let their childlike excitement wear off
Synergy posted:Constantignoble posted:also probably relevant is How US Flooded the World with Psyops. short excerpt:
maybe you already know this but after a brief look around it looks like another one of those weird conspiracy sites with chemtrails and etc. might want to be careful using them as a source
i'd never seen the site before and didn't really poke around it, but the article's author, Robert Parry, is real good. he's the consortium news guy who got big covering Iran-Contra and otherwise has a long history investigating psyop shit. i think The War Nerd had him on recently, though i haven't listened.
shapes posted:so when does the first tweet from a liberal arguing that "because Trump didn't annihilate every single member of the SAA tonight, it is only more evidence that he's getting marching orders from Putin" appear
i'll say tomorrow morning, they need to sleep on it and let their childlike excitement wear off
when civilians are dying but the game theory hits pic.twitter.com/hjdwBYi10y
— ice cream socialism (@napgenius) April 7, 2017
hillary: i would have done this exact thing, but faster and more
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-hillary-clinton-idUSKBN179058
"In her first interview since her stunning presidential election defeat by Republican rival Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for the United States to bomb Syrian air fields."
mediumpig posted:Is there any real consensus (at least here) as to who carried the 2013 chemical attack at Ghouta? I wasn't following it at the time, but all I've read so far makes it just as suspect to me.
evidence is inconclusive but the fact that the US had to basically make shit up shows that the SAA didn't do it IMO.