Syria & Middle East News Catch-all | Lebanon Finally Elects a PM

[ColdBlueSteel]

The invasion of Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza are both direct results of Trump's foreign policy. It is not the case that everyone calms down.

Uh, wtf? Both these conflicts predated Trump by decades, and it was under the current administration they flared…

 

[BillOfRights]

It's now like there are good choices. This one doesn't cost us anything in particular and we have no commitments to anyone I'm aware of. I like having a country we don't have to care about. There's not many.

 

[nycfan]

 

[ZenMode]

Israel has seized the Syrian part of Mt Hermon. This is a strategic location that allowed Syria to monitor Israel's own monitoring activities, and look into Israel. The takeover is reportedly done in cooperation with UNDOF.

Israel this morning also conducted airstrikes in Syria. Main targets are reportedly former SAA assets that Israel wouldn't want to fall into rebel hands, including anything related to SSMs, chemical weapons, and other strategic weapons that could be used to attack Israel.

 

[CRHeel94]

That's a great scene. I had never noticed the swoosh of the jet planes during the silence.

 

[superrific]

Uh, wtf? Both these conflicts predated Trump by decades, and it was under the current administration they flared…

I don't engage with anyone spewing Putin's propaganda, and I have no energy for explaining to them why the propaganda is ridiculous. Do your own research, son.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[Batt Boy]

you wonder what "high value" prisoners they took away before the rebels got there

https://archive.is/8iXjH

 

[superrific]

I don't understand the point of places like that. Why not just kill people when you capture them? Why squirrel them away underground for years and then kill them?

That description reminds me of grisly Khmer Rouge shit. It also reminds me of the hole where Bane was born. It's so ghoulish.

 

[Batt Boy]

Russian ships have left. Appears their bases are very much at risk despite Vlad's claim of an "agreement.

 

[Bobfripp]

Now take the Jewish settlers in the West Bank and move them there! Free land!

 

[ColdBlueSteel]

I don't engage with anyone spewing Putin's propaganda, and I have no energy for explaining to them why the propaganda is ridiculous. Do your own research, son.

You are ducking having to support your “direct result” comment. How is Putin’s propaganda relevant?

 

[gtyellowjacket]

You are ducking having to support your “direct result” comment. How is Putin’s propaganda is relevant?

Do you really think a super important guy like that would take the time to write some long meandering post with multiple bullets explaining his confusing position? He's too busy writing fiction about armed MAGA rednecks shutting down schools, bragging about having sex with his wife and looking for a new job at a top 75 law school in the Midwest. I actually read he had left the board and was never coming back. I just hope he reconsiders and comes back to grace us with his long winded superior intellect on every subject one can imagine.

 

[Enigma94]

Do you really think a super important guy like that would take the time to write some long meandering post with multiple bullets explaining his confusing position? He's too busy writing fiction about armed MAGA rednecks shutting down schools, bragging about having sex with his wife and looking for a new job at a top 75 law school in the Midwest. I actually read he had left the board and was never coming back. I just hope he reconsiders and comes back to grace us with his long winded superior intellect on every subject one can imagine.

Super can be a bit verbose and self important but this criticism is rich coming from the most obtuse poster on this board.

 

[Healing]

Super can be a bit verbose and self important but this criticism is rich coming from the most obtuse poster on this board.

Quite confident you're offering far too much benefit of the doubt by labeling him obtuse. His apparent inoculation to fact after fact after fact isn't for lack of ability. He's a mundane shit stirrer, and because of the mundanity he is the most successful troll on this board, IMO.

 

[Bobfripp]

Now that the dogs (Rebels) have finally caught the car (Assad), do they know what to do with it? I'm guessing they'll probably just piss on the tires.

 

[Zoo_View]

Now that the dogs (Rebels) have finally caught the car (Assad), does they know what to do with it? I'm guessing they'll probably just piss on the tires.

Unfortunately, it’ll likely be similar to Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iran (1979 to now), Cambodia (Khmer Rouge)……the “rebels” take power and install drastic measures.

 

[nycfan]

Unfortunately, it’ll likely be similar to Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iran (1979 to now), Cambodia (Khmer Rouge)……the “rebels” take power and install drastic measures.

Yes, particularly worried about the Khmer Rouge example with Syrians understandably wanting to return home to rebuild after 50 years of brutal despotic regimes.

 

[nycfan]

“…
It is estimated by rights groups that more than 30,000 detainees had either been executed or died as a result of torture, lack of medical care or starvation between 2011 and 2018. Citing accounts from the few released inmates, at least another 500 detainees had been executed between 2018 and 2021, the Association of the Missing and Detainees in Saydnaya Prison (AMDSP) said in 2022.

In 2017, the US State Department claimed that authorities had constructed a possible crematoriumon the site to dispose of the remains of murdered prisoners. …

Since the downfall of the Assad regime, civilians have been urged to avoid rushing through the perimeter of the prison. Rights groups say the exterior of the complex is known to be heavily mined. A ring of anti-tank munitions runs around the exterior of the prison, with a secondary ring of anti-personnel mines running through the centre of the facility. …”