If this is the end of the FSA then it's just a case of the inevitable happening, between IS and other islamic groups and Assad's forces they were never going to win without outside help.
If this is the end of the FSA then it's just a case of the inevitable happening, between IS and other islamic groups and Assad's forces they were never going to win without outside help.
the FSA has only been in dire straights for the last like 5 months,i dont really know how anyone can call it inevitable.like if you told me that the FSA was inevitably going to crumble in mid 2012 i would have called you a bullshitter.
its a bad situation for sure but i do think it is salvageable. who knows, maybe this will actually over extend IS _________________ Alt Right meme game on point
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the FSA has only been in dire straights for the last like 5 months,i dont really know how anyone can call it inevitable.like if you told me that the FSA was inevitably going to crumble in mid 2012 i would have called you a bullshitter.
its a bad situation for sure but i do think it is salvageable. who knows, maybe this will actually over extend IS
Really? I thought the FSA had become marginalized quite a while back. _________________
Of all the possible nuclear armed countries, Saudi Arabia's probably the scariest.
Yeah, source is jerusalem post though :/
Iran is probably more liberal and less theological than a lot of countries in the region so it makes sense to try build relations but US has to be careful getting to too close to a shia country unless they want to piss off every other muslim majority country in the region
Religion man _________________ Shut up mate you're boring!
It's been reported on a number of different sites, it's legit.
And honestly the whole region is just such a clusterfuck, starting to get the feeling that it'd be best to smash ISIS, help Iraq rebuild as much as possible then get the fuck outta there for a few decades. _________________
yeah like how defending Kuwait from Iraq and leaving was a good idea
or how smashing the Taliban and rebuilding Afghanistan and leaving was a good idea
or how smashing the Hussein regime and rebuilding Iraq and leaving was a good idea
or how smashing Gadaffi and leaving was a good idea
or how arming Syrian rebels and leaving was a good idea
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maybe we stop smashing and start treating the countries in the region like autonomous nation states with whom we can form coalitions that are actually mutually beneficial so that there aren't masses and masses of people with material deficits caused entirely by our hare-brained geo-political strategies to acquire resources (resources that we could also get if we were mature and would trade with Venezuela or Russia fairly), defend Israel (itself just a foothold in the region so that we can keep an eye on subversive activity in Iran and Russia, which is just a self-perpetuating problem because it's really hard to de-escalate tensions when the world's police are constantly insisting on being on your fucking border [see: Ukraine]), and have random Muslim countries that we like decade to decade to help sway the region but that ultimately are treated like little cows that we suck dry of everything they're worth
Yeah I'm not saying the US should hit'n'run, but rather stop treating geopolitics like some sort of chess game where they buddy up with Israel or Saudi Arabia to counter Iran. Hence why I said to help Iraq rebuild rather than doing what happened in Libya. _________________
i mean, sure, but a lot of those examples above weren't hit and runs. particularly the last rebuilding of Iraq was just a festering cesspool of private and government contractors staying around way longer than they needed to, not fairly investing but rather erecting a puppet economic sector with poor military capabilities that had to be evacuated by official military personnel due to public demand in the U.S. if we had actually set up a fair investment structure with a new Iraqi government or paid straight reparations or some combination of the two (for the former point, see Chinese investment in Africa for an example of how you can newly vitalize an economy, build an intellectual class, etc. while still being able to guide as a more developed nation), it would have been infinitely harder for ISIS to start in the first place, but Americans' two options for foreign policy with supposed allies is military intimidation and support (depending on who's being opposed) and economic puppetry that benefits us in way unequal terms.
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