#2841
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Guess he no longer serves a purpose
#2842
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dimashq posted:

Guess he no longer serves a purpose



Nah he got a new one. PR for the Trump re-election campaign

#2843
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baghdadi alive in serbia
#2844
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Blast from the not too distant past

"On Wednesday, the chief United States military spokesman here, Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, provided a new explanation for Mr. Baghdadi’s ability to escape attack: he never existed.

General Bergner told reporters that a senior Iraqi insurgent captured this month said that the elusive Mr. Baghdadi was actually a fictional character whose declarations on audiotape were read by a man named Abu Abdullah al-Naima.

General Bergner said the ruse was devised by Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the Egyptian-born leader of the insurgent group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Although the group is mostly Iraqi, much of its leadership is foreign, and Mr. Masri was reportedly trying to mask the outsiders’ dominant role."

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/world/middleeast/19baghdadi.html

Edited by RedMaistre ()

#2845
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#2846
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yet another friendly fire incident in syria, amerikkkan clowns
#2847
UNUSUALY COOL
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UPDATE: dr dogballs confirmed alive
#2848
UNUSUALY COOL
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in case anyone still believed anything they said about the bin laden raid they're also saying they gave al-baghdadi a "burial at sea". lol
#2849
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turk jihadis captured a squad of SAA who'd been sent to fight without any heavy weaponry, and russian MPs are apparently under orders to duck and cover when turkey fires at them but not to engage. really bewildered here, shocked at how turkey are being given such a free hand. they really that important to the powers that be?
#2850
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Saw a time magazine article celebrating 17 year old fascists who joined to fight a war that they were born into.
#2851
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https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-president-gives-rare-in-depth-interview-full-transcript/
#2852
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kinch posted:

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-president-gives-rare-in-depth-interview-full-transcript/



American politicians are actually guilty until proven innocent, not the other way around.



nothing but respect for my president

#2853
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Can't Mossad the Assad (hopefully).
#2854
UNUSUALY COOL
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#2855
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rekt lol
#2856
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https://thegrayzone.com/2019/11/18/whistleblower-opcw-suppressed-syria-chemical-weapons-evidence-after-us-pressure
#2857
UNUSUALY COOL
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shriekingviolet posted:

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/11/18/whistleblower-opcw-suppressed-syria-chemical-weapons-evidence-after-us-pressure



this has a transcript of the conversation with the guy who wrote the original article and is good.

#2858
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anyone know if it's true the USAF bombed an SDF convoy on its way to deliver oil to damascus?
#2859
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yes
#2860
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reposting to this thread:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsweek-tareq-haddad-quits-syria-douma-opcw/263292/

A top journalist has resigned from his post after management killed his report on the bombshell news that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) suppressed a mountain of evidence suggesting that the 2018 Douma Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria was staged.

Newsweek’s Tareq Haddad announced on Twitter that, rather than accepting top-down censorship on an important issue, he was publicly walking away from his job at the New York-based magazine.

#2861
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aerdil posted:

reposting to this thread:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsweek-tareq-haddad-quits-syria-douma-opcw/263292/



A top journalist has resigned from his post after management killed his report on the bombshell news that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) suppressed a mountain of evidence suggesting that the 2018 Douma Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria was staged.

Newsweek’s Tareq Haddad announced on Twitter that, rather than accepting top-down censorship on an important issue, he was publicly walking away from his job at the New York-based magazine.


BOOM #maga #mywifesthebest #chickfila #texas🇺🇸 #chickfilababy




https://tareqhaddad.com/2019/12/14/lies-newsweek-and-control-of-the-media-narrative-first-hand-account/

#2862
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its a shame he had to quit his job because he is badly in need of an editor
#2863
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kinch posted:

https://tareqhaddad.com/2019/12/14/lies-newsweek-and-control-of-the-media-narrative-first-hand-account/



lol at the comments..

louisproyect
December 14, 2019 at 8:35 pm
God, what a windbag conspiracy theorist you are.

#2864
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ahahahah
#2865
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#2866
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cars posted:

88888 posted:

getfiscal posted:

Louis Proyect is cool... one of the few Zinovievites out there. He should be respected and preserved, like a rare insect.



cars posted:



c_man posted:

never forget that louis proyect made a comic about his life



EmanuelaBrolandi posted:

I think it's sad he hates us. Don't forget tht comic is about his days organizing labour in Houston during the cops are KKK out of uniform days when the chief of Ps was a Klansman which is actually p courageous imo



88888 posted:



cars posted:

Louis Proyect did tell getfiscal to leave the jokes to Louis C.K. because project didnt get getfiscal's joke and was embarrassed about it. Add it to the spreadhseet.



ilmdge posted:

that guys irony level is 0 and his trot level is a very large number my brain cant conceive of



gyrofry posted:

thirdplace posted:

isn't he just, like, ill?

you mean like other than trotskyism?




#2867
UNUSUALY COOL
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FYI that's also the thread where tpaine posted the Nashville hot chicken YouTube & it turned every post's vote total into the Nashville hot chicken YouTube
#2868
lies half the time
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proyect for a new american century
#2869
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https://www.rt.com/news/477670-putin-christmas-damascus-church-mosque/

this seems a little too coincidental now. it's Christmas in Russia, not Syria, and the trip was unannounced
#2870
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SAA is driving towards idlib and got incredibly close thanks to russian aid as well, killing like 8 t.rkish soldiers during the operation. erdoğan is quite upset and just like the weak sultan he idolizes he is lashing out at whatever he can find to gain an upper hand somehow and force concessions and failing again given the weak position of the country (a position that forced him to adopt such policies in the first place so it s like a vicious circle). anyway he started to ramble about how the annexation of crimea was a criminal act or whatever and then visited ukraine, saluted the ukrainian soldiers with the nazi slogan "glory to ukraine" and received the nazi reply "glory to heroes" (vid here: https://odatv.com/vid_video.php?id=8H7B3) and promised military aid. russians meanwhile are also escalating bit by bit, today they released the testimonies of jihadists they captured saying that turkey contributed directly to the foundation of al nusra, not to mention supporting them later as well. i guess this whole drama will also amount to nothing as usual and idlib will be liberated soon
#2871
chickeon
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they should assassinate erdogan already
#2872
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SAA just killed 6 more Turks.
#2873
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Legitimately baffled by what Erdogon is trying to accomplish and even more by how he's going about it.

Are Turkish generals really going to march a few columns of Korean War era tanks without air support at Russian and Hezbollah fighters backed by the entire Russian air force or is there about to be another coup?
#2874
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#2875
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MarxUltor posted:

Are Turkish generals really going to march a few columns of Korean War era tanks without air support at Russian and Hezbollah fighters backed by the entire Russian air force


Update: yes.

#2876
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not yet confirmed but here we go

#2877
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It's basically confirmed at 20+. What's erdogan gonna do?
#2878
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Idlib only has one logistics route from Turkey, the single road from the Bab al-Hawa border crossing in a mountain pass.

Additionally, for the Turkish troops to be a deterrent against getting bombed by the RuAF, the Russian air force needs to know where they are, so they have to have provided the coordinates of nearly all their bases to the exact same people they have been threatening a war against all month.

So I would suspect that what erdogan is going to do is partake in the time honored NATO tradition of being utterly fucking humiliated.
#2879
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russia don't quite seem to know how to respond to this.
#2880
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They have to be a lot more cautious for sure, because there are big differences between fighting a modern professional military and an enthusiastic rabble with stolen weapons and under the table NATO gear.

The good guys could unquestionably shut the Turkish military off entirely with a strategic missile attack against all the known bases in Idlib. But that also risks provoking a large escalation and the occupiers and terrorists are squatting around civilians hoping to provoke that kind of a massacre to bait the US in if hitler barbie cries again.

The turks are doing ok at the propaganda war but the videos of those drone strikes don't really look like they're accomplishing anything. Turks are claiming thousands dead, SAA admits to a few dozen. Even putting aside probably true allegations that they're recycling footage from Libya or Kurdsrael or video games or training, the shots they're showing basically look like antitank missiles. Really dramatic in closeup black and white propaganda vids, but aside from the longer reach that's probably not strategically different from all the hits the Syrians have been taking for almost a decade from US/TK supplied TOW ATGMs. SAA has been hit by more antitank missiles than anyone in history and they have upgraded their tanks defensive systems. Some of those drone strike hits are likely nothing but noise. One T-72 supposedly ate 4 missiles in one month last year and kept on rolling. I'm guessing the tanks and aluminum APCs that the USA lost the Vietnam war with are not quite so rugged.

I don't think anyone in history has written a book on military strategy after ordering his troops to chase retreating Russians. The map is going to start looking more fluid day to day as they push forward, clear a town of jihadists, try to smash fortifications and seize or destroy heavy weapons, and determine which towns are worth holding onto and which have had the civilian population evac and are suitable to use for ambushing the terrorists and turks when they come back to recapture it.

The Sy/Ru/Ir axis is blowing up armored columns and taking cities, and the Turks are hitting A Tank or a squad and making wolf howls then going to a funeral for 20 dudes. One of these strategies will probably work.