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Ufuk_Surekli posted:

also RE: idlib, i'm not sure if anyone else has seen these rumours or has any more recent info, but hopefully this dream team might still come together for it:

https://www.memri.org/reports/chinese-ambassador-syria-we-are-willing-participate-some-way-battle-idlib-alongside-assad

As the Syrian regime army prepares to launch a campaign for the recapture of Idlib in northern Syria, the Chinese Ambassador to Damascus, Qi Qianjin, told the pro-regime daily Al-Watan on August 1, 2018 that the Chinese military would be willing to participate "in some way" in the campaign in Idlib or in other parts of the country. The ambassador expressed his support for what he called Syria's war against the terrorists, and noted that there is cooperation between the Syrian and Chinese armies. The report also quoted the Chinese military attaché in Syria as saying that the Chinese military wishes to enhance its relations with the Syrian military, and as expressing regret that Chinese Uyghurs are taking part in the fighting against the Assad regime.



only yesterday (25/08/18) Xinhua dropped this, which, although it doesn't explicitly mention the possible deployment of PLA forces, seems to indicate that the CPC's position currently remains basically compatible with the rHizzonE General Line on syria:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/26/c_137418931.htm

At the time, the Syrian government charged that the Western powers are supporting the terrorist groups in Syria, vehemently denying claims of chemical weapons use in the battles with the rebels.

The government countlessly said that all the chemical arsenal of Syria was handed over the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which later said that the Syrian government has made its chemical weapon production facilities inoperable.

But the Western powers continued to accuse Damascus of using toxic gas in the battles with the rebels.

Now the same scenario is being repeated in terms of the Western threats to launch attacks on Syria over the same allegations.

Analysts believe that the statement of the three Western powers aim to encourage the rebels with such reasons to strike the Syrian army as its emerging victories after more than seven years of war in the country.



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more excited for this than when the rock and stone cold teamed up tbqfh

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lmao

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i applaud the effort they put into trying to make a list of reliable sources but i think it could have been more carefully vetted
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you chlorine-chugging Assadist

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Ufuk_Surekli posted:

what is "Assadism", what are it's key tenets?



i've put this question to people in arguments before, with the rhetorical aim of introducing them to the new vocabulary word "baathism" (and from there, further context veering off from state dept monster-of-the-week talking points)

but this article is like, somewhere, in response to that very question, a monkey's paw has curled up one of its fingers

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the key tenet of assadism, as aptly put by dr bashar al assad himself, is this: "political power grows from the barrel bomb"
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they put owen jones on the list, which with all due respect to owen jones, is like putting a knitted scarf from your mum on a list of dangerous weapons alongside kalashnikovs
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toyotathon posted:

miss you xipe



what happened to this user? their posts were what brought me to the rhizzone, i learned so much from them about this conflict. hope they're okay.

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we'll get an answer for what is assadism before we get one for what is trotskyism.
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Guyovich posted:

what is trotskyism.


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i once saw a mate’s divorced dad lose a poker game and demand a share of the winnings anyway. he was so drunk he subsequently pissed himself and fell into some cat litter. that was still more dignified than how the yank is conducting himself in defeat here, tbh.


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Guyovich posted:

lmao

International Assadists References Directory


so this extremely smart EvoBio student took that down "because it was too long" and not because he was getting repeatedly owned in the comments by actual journalists pointing out basic factual errors and telling him he is full of shit.

and he has replaced it with this classic change in tactics: when people don't buy your lazy smear listicle of journalists and intellectuals, it's time to spam pictures of dead children https://medium.com/@kesterratcliff/reference-list-in-response-to-anti-war-memes-about-syria-circulating-april-2018-b177142a20c

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Ufuk_Surekli posted:

lmao stand by for our extremely sophisticated negotiating position: "give us your shit please"



haha the US wants a participation trophy

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first cnn article about the conflict i've ever read. it didn't disappoint. it's a pentagon memo with a few journalistic tweaks for kayfabe authenticity. towards the end the US outright says that even if the militants use chemical weapons, they'll hold the government responsible and bomb accordingly. unreal scenes.

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"This is the updated propaganda position we expect everyone to fall in behind once we start bombing, please provide constructive feedback before we move ahead with our very good war plans"
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https://sputniknews.com/amp/middleeast/201809021067678803-syria-chemical-weapons-uk/

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said that British special services assisted terrorists of the Nusra Front group by smuggling canisters containing chemical weapons to several areas of Idlib — currently under control of the so-called White Helmet volunteer organization.

Speaking in a Saturday interview, Muallem claimed that the terrorists' plan was to use the canisters to stage a gas attack on civilians concurrent with an attack on Idlib and blame the Syrian government for the atrocity.

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Ufuk_Surekli posted:

Guyovich posted:

shut up and play the hits

the number of Syrian kindergarten graduates who are not only literate in their native Arabic but have also achieved a working proficiency in European languages is astounding. truly the Assad administration deserves acclaim for successfully implementing what appears to be the most advanced preschool syllabus on the planet



Children are naturals at language acquisition, to be fair.

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i mean it really defies belief that theyre doing this exact same dance again

-dont you dare do it, dont you dare root out al qaeda
-it'd be a shame if any chemical weapons went off and we had to bomb you
-we've identified one hundred chemical weapons plants already, whoops my finger almost slipped and hit the button haha.. anyway..
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In line with what has been mentioned upthread, and ofc this is by no means an original point, but can you imagine how the US government would respond if 10000 Al Qaeda fighters took over some town in Arizona. They'd laugh the UN mediators out of the room. They wouldn't entertain dialogue and negotiated settlements for a nanosecond. They'd incinerate every man, woman and child in a 500 mile radius.
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In line with what has been mentioned upthread, and ofc this is by no means an original point, but can you imagine how the US government would respond if 10000 Al Qaeda fighters took over some town in Arizona. They'd laugh the UN mediators out of the room. They wouldn't entertain dialogue and negotiated settlements for a nanosecond. They'd incinerate every man, woman and child in a 500 mile radius.



idk, they haven't burned down Fort Huachuca yet and that's like 18,000 right there

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cars posted:

ghostpinballer posted:

In line with what has been mentioned upthread, and ofc this is by no means an original point, but can you imagine how the US government would respond if 10000 Al Qaeda fighters took over some town in Arizona. They'd laugh the UN mediators out of the room. They wouldn't entertain dialogue and negotiated settlements for a nanosecond. They'd incinerate every man, woman and child in a 500 mile radius.

idk, they haven't burned down Fort Huachuca yet and that's like 18,000 right there


sierra vista is weird. in general the southwest used to have a pretty frequent flow of goods and labor over but after clinton's border push and san diego's 'turn the lights' on campaign you got all these rootless midwesterners coming in and starting local minutemen chapters. im curious where these people went (as in which groups do they claim allegiance to) as the right evolved over the years.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/05/syria-russian-led-attack-on-idlib-could-see-700000-displaced

Amnesty International and the Norwegian Refugee Council also called for the planned assault to be abandoned, with both organisations fearing the consequences would be far worse than in other cities attacked earlier in the war.

“The shocking civilian death tolls and war crimes witnessed recently in other parts of Syria such as eastern Aleppo city, eastern Ghouta and Daraa must not be repeated in Idlib,” said Amnesty’s Middle East campaign director Samah Hadid.



they keep saying every operation will be a holocaust and when it isn't they say oh sorry, we got it wrong, but we promise the next one will be

Russian and Syrian rhetoric in the lead-up to the anticipated strike has depicted the area as controlled by extremist groups, particularly the al-Qaida-aligned al-Nusra Front. Opposition groups remain deeply divided, and an extremist alliance, Tahrir al-Sham, holds sway in some areas. Russia has demanded that Turkey use its influence in northern Syria to dissolve Tahrir al-Sham – an outcome that Ankara says it cannot deliver.



someone needs to tell the guardian it's not just russia and syria - even the UN now admits there's are 10s of thousands of jihadis holding the whole of idlib hostage

A Turkish-backed group of former anti-Assad units has, however, gathered strength in recent months.



very tactful way to describe jihadi death squads openly back by a NATO member state

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