Syrian Civil War 2 - Middle East Boogaloo

[creepycoug]

The good news:
Iran cannot now supply Hezbollah by land. Tahrir Al-Sham hates Iran and Hezbollah, and for good reason. Setting aside a couple thousand years of FS blood feud between Shiites and Sunnis, Hezbollah killed a lot of Sunnis when it invaded Syria to prop up Al-Assad.
So now it's by air, or by sea. Getting ships from Iran to the Mediterranean takes a long time, and the ships could easily be attacked by Israel. We'll see multiple flights a day to Beirut, and while the Israelis are not going to shoot down civilian planes carrying arms, they will bomb the trucks that the missiles are loaded onto, and the warehouses where the missiles are stored.
Things just got harder for Iran in its proxy support for Hezbollah. It's hard.
Still, as I said above, this is just another group of very bad people. Very, very bad.

 

[creepycoug]

The Tahrir Al-Sham faction is an Islamist terror group, just like ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban. As Race accurately points out, the Taliban claimed for an nano to have become more moderate as they came back into power in Afghanistan, but then immediately reverted to their draconian enforcement of brutal fundamentalist Islamic laws. Tahrir Al-Sham will do that same. Cook it.
Did we pay for Tahrir Al-Sham just like the rest of them?

Probably. But I'm over apologizing for our tactical fuck ups. If we did, we did.
I'm on Team Israel now. It's all I really care about over there. The rest of them can go fuck themselves.

 

[TurdBomber]

It’s already starting. Turkey is outraged at a small land grab by Israel while they have taken far larger swaths.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1866431727360454774

I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you that the head of a Muslim state is bitching about Israel.
Whodathunk? It's 99% P.R. to calm the hot-headed masses.

 

[EverettChris]

I appreciate the effort @creepycoug puts into it when he shows up, but I find these idiots not worth the effort.

quality »»» quantity IRL

 

[WestlinnDuck]

I appreciate the effort @creepycoug puts into it when he shows up, but I find these idiots not worth the effort.

quality »»» quantity IRL

Keep rubbing their noses in their stupidity, ignorance and immorality. Carry on.

 

[pawz]

Why does The Left hate Christianity so much yet embrace Islam?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1865195439483687285

Western religions, all of them, are the most destructive and transparently ridiculous fables ever created. False prophets creating, twisting, and retelling ghost stories about the sweet hereafter and a higher power/calling to take the focus away from the self and to separate and indoctrinate. Stories from 3000 years ago where people wiped their ass with their own shit.
One thing leads to another and Aesop's Fables are in every hotel room in America, Israel, Russia, and Iran, top drawer below the light.
Boise State won yesterday because of Jesus, I'm hearing. FOH, coach guy. Your coaching and players won that game. Give yourself some credit eh.
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This ain't political or cultural, no matter how much you want it. It's a choice.

Speaking of False Prophets …

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[WestlinnDuck]

Priorities! Both a poster child for the wonders of DEI incompetence.

 

[pawz]

Hope this helps. Don't fool yourselves.

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1866005346382393649

 

[PurpleThrobber]

Hope this helps. Don't fool yourselves.

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1866005346382393649

It’s always about the oil and natural resources.

See also Ukraine.

 

[Bob_C]

Hope this helps. Don't fool yourselves.

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1866005346382393649

It’s always about the oil and natural resources.

See also Ukraine.

Pretty sure I read somewhere that Ukraine and Syria are about democracy.

 

[RaceBannon]

The world needs oil Somehow Allah ended up with it while God gave Moses a Mediterranean resort
The Saudis are the preferred model in an imperfect world

 

[Bob_C]

We could also pump a shit ton of our own oil and leave Europe to police the Middle East, if they want to do so.

 

[PurpleThrobber]

We could also pump a shit ton of our own oil and leave Europe to police the Middle East, if they want to do so.

That doesn't square with the MIC quarterly reporting.

 

[RaceBannon]

We could also pump a shit ton of our own oil and leave Europe to police the Middle East, if they want to do so.

Europe has always been far more reliant on the mid east. A fact that continually escapes American communists
The USA could sell it too

 

[Sledog]

$1.80 fuel is coming! Energy independent America is going to be kicking ass and giving zero fucks about foreign nations. Time to make our country great and let others foot the bills for 75 years!

 

[HHusky]

$1.80 fuel is coming! Energy independent America is going to be kicking ass and giving zero fucks about foreign nations. Time to make our country great and let others foot the bills for 75 years!

Mall Cop looks forward to the day America's stance is irrelevant to the rest of the world.
Enjoy isolationism, ladies.
#ZeroInfluence

 

[PurpleThrobber]

$1.80 fuel is coming! Energy independent America is going to be kicking ass and giving zero fucks about foreign nations. Time to make our country great and let others foot the bills for 75 years!

Mall Cop looks forward to the day America's stance is irrelevant to the rest of the world.
Enjoy isolationism, ladies.
#ZeroInfluence

Things endless war shills say.

 

[HHusky]

$1.80 fuel is coming! Energy independent America is going to be kicking ass and giving zero fucks about foreign nations. Time to make our country great and let others foot the bills for 75 years!

Mall Cop looks forward to the day America's stance is irrelevant to the rest of the world.
Enjoy isolationism, ladies.
#ZeroInfluence

Things endless war shills say.

We'll be cutting off aid to Israel too, right?

 

[WestlinnDuck]

$1.80 fuel is coming! Energy independent America is going to be kicking ass and giving zero fucks about foreign nations. Time to make our country great and let others foot the bills for 75 years!

Big problem is the regulatory constraint on refining oil into gasoline in the US. Refining is incredibly expensive and you are looking at years of permitting let alone actual construction to build anything in the US. Then you need at least a 20 year production horizon to get the thing to cash flow. All you need is to look at the Keystone XL pipeline. Billions in development costs and then on day one of the dementia patient's reign of terror the pipeline is cancelled. You get a democratic Congress or god forbid a dem president and voila, your new shiny gas refinery is worthless. Older refineries are grandfathered and don't have to meet new air and water EPA requirements. So, old refineries are just fine tuned or subject to limited expansion opportunities. There is a reason that the last new major US gas refinery was built in 1977 almost half a century ago.

 

[PurpleThrobber]

$1.80 fuel is coming! Energy independent America is going to be kicking ass and giving zero fucks about foreign nations. Time to make our country great and let others foot the bills for 75 years!

Mall Cop looks forward to the day America's stance is irrelevant to the rest of the world.
Enjoy isolationism, ladies.
#ZeroInfluence

Things endless war shills say.

We'll be cutting off aid to Israel too, right?

I don't recall ever endorsing aid to Israel.
And that's not spoken in a dumbass @MelloDawg tone. I truly haven't endorsed aid to Israel.