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InkaUtexas

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  1. Cannot expect any member of the family to make it if they are in Syria. 1- Won't leave anyone who is a threat via perceived power or the last name. 2- Revenge on these who lived large and for so long has been wanted for a long time.
  2. Oh absolutely. I cannot grow one to save my life, so I said fuck fitting in, shaved and wore a red sox hat. No one killed me so guess that works. The Talibs are not Yankees fans I guess.
  3. It is so quickly forgotten that Omar Al-Sistani, the first Minister of Defense of ISIS was a Chechen. He "escaped" from a Russian jail and ended up in Syria. He was well known by his bright red beard. The Russians pushed the propaganda about standing up to ISIS that most bought it. Tells you how effective they can be.
  4. See that is the kicker. If they were, why did ISIS spend most of its time attacking Sunni groups? So much so that the Sunni's in Iraq were a major part of the coalition against them. Why did Russia allow ISIS to survive? They never got the Aleppo treatment. Why did ISIS never really turn its sites on Assad? But happy to go East vs. Iraq. Yet Assad is not only Shia, but tied to Iran (Who ISIS also left alone). How did all those Chechens and Dagestani's get "out of Russian" jail, travel to Syria, and form the cadre?
  5. Shit, I have been trying to say that for years. Russia allowed, and probably facilitated the creation of ISIS.
  6. Shit man, I agree. But not the thread. We don't have a good one for that discussion.
  7. Sure, it does. But when your governing philosophy is God Wills, well it is a bit easier to cut off from the world. Does not last forever, and it sucks for those there, but it happens. Concerning REM. Yeah, there are deposits. China wants that bad. Luckily for us, the Talibs don't like them.
  8. Fucking A, that is some medieval shit. And those guards think they will be treated kindly? Shhhhhiiiiiitttt...
  9. Their vision of governing is not the same as ours. Other than weapons they see themselves as being able to be self-sufficient. And weapons are all over the place. ISIS was able to produce and export a lot of oil. Most via Turkey (hmmmm) but then it ran into issues. One was getting paid. Even today the Taliban has real hard time with securing international currency.
  10. Kind of did over 2 semesters. one was EU History professor, the other Latin america. These were Writing Seminars. My focus was on the Balkans and ME and then on Latin America's civil wars. Fun shit.
  11. it is not just "us", the US. The EU could not take the loss of oil or immigration crush that would follow.
  12. They might want to wreak some revenge and head into Bekka valley and pay a visit to Hezbollah. There is an active axe to grind with them.
  13. Yep, Autonomous Collectives for the win.
  14. hehehe, I think it was that one pissed of triceratops. But it is an argument about Sykes and Picot that gets told over and over.
  15. Yeah. the Middle East had no conflict until they drew a map.
  16. Give zero fucks where we end up. Just win. Score TD's and don't miss Bert when you got the chance.
  17. And now the shift to reconstruction has begun. Going to be a fun day!
  18. Fucking Turks. The Lulz of this statement. Wonder how the Kurds in E Turkey feel about this. Turkiye urges inclusivity, fair treatment of minorities in post-Assad Syria Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan emphasises importance of national unity and sovereignty after fall of Bashar al-Assad government. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/8/turkiye-urges-inclusivity-fair-treatment-of-minorities-in-post-assad-syria
  19. And it is not a Navy port like we think. It is a civilian port with a secure area. Like where we dock in Dubai vs. Bahrain. Western coast is different tribes. They are more like the Lebanese than the rest of Syria. Yo, maps might be changing. About fucking time.
  20. For now. There are other groups Iran can start to build but that takes time. However, isolated groups with Iranian ideology are out there and without a central group to be led by can be quite dangerous. This is far from over. When you look at layers in the region we tend to stop at Sunni/Shia. Gotta go deeper into tribes and then into the subgroups. It is a fucked map that is created so we (our leaders, DOS and DOD) prefer to lump them into groups. We hate so and so, without realizing some of the same tribal elements hate the same group. Plenty of examples.
  21. No they don't. Not anymore. Those are post Cold War relics. Russia is not a global power. Shit, they can barely get 3 ships to Cuba. In a hot war they are cut off completely.
  22. Well gonna need that prison space for new occupants.
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