I’m all for “Pay as you go,” if it means cutting military spending or hiking taxes on the rich.
Yeah, yeah, I know. That’s never what it means.
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There’s literally nothing new coming from people like Nina and those they pick fights with. Just the ragey snark of someone who is woke to their oppression. We all need to go through that but with the amount of scroll-inches this sort if thing takes up, it would be nice to get plugged in more with people working the problem.
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BDS increasingly effective:
History thread re: anonymous media.
(caveat: unless there is revolutionary change)
Nobody gave much credence to the Turkish position in all of this, given that this has been a proxy war of the dumbest kinds of ways between Russia and Turkey more than anything else. It still doesn’t matter. Whether it’s Russian oligarchs in Sryria or American oligarchs in the Emirates or Chinese oligarchs elsewhere southward, it’s the oligarchs who are starting the wars and carving up the dividends who must face the music of reality rather than celebrity, reality rather than paternity, reality rather than reality-TV.
In the meantime we keep letting them roll.
AFAIAA, Turkey’s involvement in Syria primarily consists of funding ISIS and invading the Kurdish/Rojavan enclaves in the North. Those Kurds previously had US support, but now appear to be working with the Iranians.
Russia is providing massive assistance to Assad’s forces, but those are mostly focused on defeating the US- and Saudi-funded al-Qaeda linked rebels in the south.
The development of the hot war has been going on a long time, even before the Cyprus banking crisis. In Syria, the main outside players are Russia and Turkey. US involvement has been pretty confused. The war the US wonks want is Iran and Iran isn’t involved in Syria enough to draw them into it directly.
In Syria the US wonks imagined, again, that magic would happen and the Arab Spring would deliver a more amenable dictater. Instead we’ve seen more of a “vigorous negotiation” between Turkey and Russia over the parameters of a continued Assad regime. They’re mostly agreed now. And surprise, surprise, the war is pretty much over.
Yeah, but an English speaking Yale grad is like 3 native-language speaking pubbies. /s