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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. 6 minutes ago

    Film footage of the beauty in Moscow in 1896, while was still under the monarchy, two decades away from the horrors of Bolshevism.

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    Москва, Тверская улица, 1896 г. (добавлен звук, скорректирована скорость) Здесь еще много такой красоты: …
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    37 minutes ago
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    I would watch flight tracker from Damascus to Qamishli airports in the next days. Regime will do what they did in Afrin & send whatever materials they can to bolster YPG and other regime leaning forces in Qamishli and elsewhere to make sure Turkey will take sustained losses

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    21 minutes ago

    Don’t let Russian S-400s peel Turkey away from the West

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    7 hours ago

    Seven months after elections, and two months after swearing in new PM, Iraq remains without ministers of interior and defense. A year after the defeat of ISIS in Iraq, many areas in Nineweh, AlAnbar and Salaheldin in rubble. Gains could easily be reversed with complacency.

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    2 hours ago

    in Commons right now

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    Dec 18

    The waged an undeclared war against through terrorists and rejectionist states. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has retained alliances with such actors, notably , and sees Israel as an extension of America, the "Main Adversary".

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  8. 11 hours ago

    🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ It would help to realise this Imam is a sectarian extremist. The narrative that the U.S. has supported , and that IS is the same as the Syrian rebellion, is a staple of 's propaganda.

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    Dave Rubin saying "Ok, I'll go with you on that", after Imam Tawhidi goes on a conspiratorial rant about Clinton and Obama funding ISIS and the Mujahideen, is pretty much the most Rubin Report thing ever.
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    11 hours ago

    The Social Network II: The Lives Of Others

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    12 hours ago

    Spent all evening discussing all things extremism & my thesis above with the inimitable . Turns out he wrote this gem of an essay in 2006. "Zarqawi's Anti-Shi'a Legacy: Original or Borrowed?"

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  11. 12 hours ago

    FEB 1978: criticised about human rights, the Shah responded that was civilised under Cyrus, 600 years before Christ, when "those [Westerners] were climbing trees. I don't think that we can really take lessons from anybody. They should first put their own house in order."

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    14 hours ago

    BREAKING: State Department approves a possible sale to Turkey of Patriot missiles at an estimated cost of $3.5B. Presumably this would be in place of the Russian S-400 missile system - a huge breakthrough for US-Turkey relations.

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    20 hours ago

    British government to activate full 'no-deal' Brexit preparations

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    18 hours ago

    Nearly 70 percent of Russians regret the fall of the Soviet Union, a ten year high, the Levada Center has found. Moreover, sixty percent feel that the Soviet collapse was avoidable, a thirteen year high

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    19 hours ago

    Imagine looking at people pulling people out of the rubble, handing UXO, and treating chemical weapons victims (and in the process being poisoned themselves), then looking at the perpetrators of those attacks and saying “man, those rescuers are the real problem here.”

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  16. 18 hours ago

    Efraim Inbar writes of 's strategic challenges in the eastern Mediterranean as the West falls back, moves in, abetted by Cyprus and Egypt, and surrounds the Jewish state with proxies and missiles. A dangerous trend.

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  17. 18 hours ago

    For the /, the Roj Pesh are a near-perfect enemy: close to Barzani (a competitor for support among ) who are prepared to deal with . The PKK call them "traitors" or "jash". Underlines what should be obvious by now: the PKK will not share power.

    IMPORTANT - the 100+ Peshmerga that had arrived into NE on Sunday have been forced back to 's . The / rejected their presence in . …
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    24 hours ago

    Commemorating "Al Farhud", the Jewish exodus from

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    ذكرى تهجير اليهود من هل يمكن أن يعودوا وماذا قد تضيف عودتهم إلى البلاد؟
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    Dec 12

    "The uniqueness of the Holocaust is often viewed as providing at least a tincture of moral difference between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. It appears that the final thing on Stalin’s mind was to abolish even this distinction."

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    23 hours ago

    In Syria, Russia's disinformation campaign has real life consequences. White Helmets rescue workers have been tortured and interrogated based on fabricated claims from Russian state bodies and media outlets.

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