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Focus on Syria and terrorism (jihadism, PKK, etc.) Occasional digressions on history, especially of the Cold War. Likes are just bookmarks. RTs are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Dec 12

    "Zionism is Making Us Stupid": The Russian Relationship with Israel from the Soviets to Putin

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  2. 3 hours ago

    as President Carter landed in at the end of 1977.

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    : "[A]t a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg, ... 37 tombstones and a monument to Holocaust victims had been defaced with swastikas and other antisemitic graffiti in the same week that a deadly attack that shook the nation."

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    Dec 14

    flips woman’s hair as leaders arrive for EC summit in

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  5. 12 hours ago

    Never read anything like this.

    I never wrote a piece like this before it and will never write its like again, and it was, of course, in the Weekly Standard.
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    21 hours ago

    When Weekly Standard staffers raised questions during the meeting, Clarity Media Group CEO Ryan McKibben responded, "I'm not going to take questions. This isn't a press conference."

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    Dec 13

    Family of Vahid Sayyadi-Nasiri confirms that the political prisoner, jailed for "insulting the supreme leader and propagating against the system," has died after 60 days (!) of hunger strike.

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    Dec 12

    You've read about ISIS's evisceration of Iraqi cities. Now spare a thought for its villages. In rural N. Iraq, the group poisoned wells, torched orchards, and pilfered everything of value. Our report about those left behind in the reconstruction process

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    Dec 14

    According to a source from US-backed rebel faction Maghawir a-Thawra (MaT), and sources on the ground inside the displacement camp, pro-government forces and MaT clashed last night within the 55-kilometer zone in which the camp is located 1/3

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    Dec 14

    1 million Syrians have now been born as refugees in countries neighboring Syria since the war began. A whole new generation.

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  11. 18 hours ago

    Reuel Marc Gerecht on-point as always: Trump's sanctions-focused policy has shown that it has nothing to fear where it matters, militarily in the region, and the breakdown of the US domestic political consensus against the theocracy is devastating.

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  12. 19 hours ago

    Have been reading 's movie reviews at The for just over ten years. Terrible that this shall be the last. "A Valediction":

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    19 hours ago

    New Sentinel issue is live. Articles about state of IS in Iraq; Al-Shabaab’s persistent threat to Somalia; return of TTP’s leadership to Mehsud tribe; & U.S. v. Aws Mohammed Younis al-Jayab as a case study. CT Foxhole interview with Mark Mitchell too.

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  14. 19 hours ago

    made all kinds of errors with the insurgency in , notably supporting groups like Ahrar al-Sham that were much too close to Al-Qaeda. But it is now the one working to cope with the jihadi problem in |

    This is categorically wrong. Whatever view you take of how has tried to handle Al-Qaeda and its derivatives in northern , it is not outright supporting them [to say the least] and thus by definition is less close than the U.S. is with the , which *is* the .
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    This is categorically wrong. Whatever view you take of how has tried to handle Al-Qaeda and its derivatives in northern , it is not outright supporting them [to say the least] and thus by definition is less close than the U.S. is with the , which *is* the .

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    Ties between Turkey proxies in Syria and Al-Qaeda is much more evident than the ties between SDF (US backed forces) and PKK !
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    Dec 13

    'From me, a happy Christmas and not goodbye, but goodnight' David Dimbleby receives a standing ovation from the panel and audience as he says goodbye to BBC Question Time after 25 years.

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  17. 22 hours ago

    The people involved in toppling Mrs. Thatcher because she had drawn a line on powers flowing from Britain to Brussels are not exactly needed right now.

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    From 1961, when Khrushchev began the Third World Strategy, right down to the end, the Soviet Union believed it could win the Cold War in the Middle East, Africa, Central/East Asia, and Latin America, and resourced this belief appropriately. The KGB and Andropov led on this.

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    Dec 14

    That presumption is what happens when people don't read or have their own ideological axes to grind.

    Important bc there is a presumption that only the U.S. was engaged in such actions at the time. In reality, early 80s USSR was highly active abroad.
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    22 hours ago

    Sources close to say that it might be back in 2019 👀

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  21. 23 hours ago

    Horrible news. The was always just good: whatever your politics, it was interesting and entertaining, solid writers, reporters, and a diversity of viewpoint—argued out for their own sake, not in service of some ideological goal or policy.

    All good things come to an end. And so, after 23 years, does The Weekly Standard. I want to express my gratitude to our readers and my admiration for my colleagues. We worked hard to put out a quality magazine, and we had a good time doing so. And we have much more to do. Onward!
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