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  1. 1 hour ago

    Addendum: That path obviously at a minimum requires us finding a solution to the foreigner annex of Al-Hol.

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  2. 1 hour ago

    There is no obvious answer here. It's a strategy built on contradictions. There are huge humanitarian and security risks involved in seeing the AANS falter, but at the same time, we need a path to disentangle ourselves from the SDF/YPG sooner rather than later.

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  3. 1 hour ago

    As European officials have privately pointed out, our interests in the Northeast are limited and geographically not where Turkey prioritizes. C-ISIS mission was designed to avoid becoming active party in Syrian civil war, officials loath to be drawn into Turkey-PKK fight instead.

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  4. 1 hour ago

    Do we really want this? Turkish incursion will likely be small-scale at first, designed to put pressure on the US negotiating position/get Trump's attention (apparently there's a call scheduled). Is deterring the disruption worth risking a shooting confrontation with the Turks?

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  5. 1 hour ago

    Last I spoke to US officials about this they were pretty clear that, looking at the forces positioned across the border, the Coalition was not going to be able to halt a concerted Turkish push. US might try and position handfuls of soldiers as tripwires near the border - risky.

    Speaking with reporters enroute to Tokyo, US Defense Secretary Esper says any Turkish operation into northern Syria would be “unacceptable,” adding that the US would prevent any unilateral incursion.
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  6. 2 hours ago

    The US-initiated mission was renamed from "Operation Sentinel" into "International Maritime Security Construct" in a transparent attempt to fuck with newsroom editors.

    "Britain joined the U.S. in forming an international mission to protect shipping through the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian threats [...] after London struggled to build a European maritime coalition to safeguard ships in the region."
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  7. 2 hours ago

    "Britain joined the U.S. in forming an international mission to protect shipping through the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian threats [...] after London struggled to build a European maritime coalition to safeguard ships in the region."

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  8. 13 hours ago

    Fascinating stuff: HTS and Jolani seemingly further positioning themselves as political stakeholder here to stay

    Press conference conducted 2 days ago by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham commander al-Jolani. Video only released today. The speech marks another step in Jolani's rhetorical evolution away from religious & sectarian discourse.…
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  9. 14 hours ago

    Whew, sign of the times: How the makers "Berlin, I Love You" - the fifth instalment in the popular "cities of love" series - buckled before the Chinese regime. Production partners and ensemble members withdrew after inclusion of director Ai Weiwei.

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  10. 16 hours ago

    This just makes me think that the Egyptology/Mummy genre is due for a comeback

    Two weeks ago, with the help of Egyptologist and Microbiologist , I went to Boston’s MFA and ’s to attempt collecting 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient…
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  11. 16 hours ago

    Somebody make the meme already

    ‘When we started asking around, a source in her inner circle acknowledged that they “know each other.”’
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  12. 17 hours ago

    A European *observer* mission. Waste of limited resources.

    German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Monday reiterated that Germany would not join a U.S.-led naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz, adding that Berlin favored a European mission but warned it was rather difficult to make progress on that.
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    23 hours ago

    1. Grateful that WHO staff exposed this grand corruption of aid in . Thanks again to for her investigative reporting on this terrible incident, which w/out, the UN would have just continued pouring money down the pockets of warlords;

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    22 hours ago

    The Treaty’s Dead. Now Level the Field.

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  15. 22 hours ago

    Millennial - in the old fashioned sense of the word

    "A growing number of people are eschewing soap and trusting bacteria to do the job instead"
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  16. 22 hours ago

    "A growing number of people are eschewing soap and trusting bacteria to do the job instead"

    this is the absolute best shit in the world, a write up of all the skin care products that exist to buy for people who won't wash with soap because it's unnatural hook me up to a drip of this top tier bullshit
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  17. 24 hours ago

    Or update some of the sheets with new tactics. I still have some of the Tahrir flyers lying around somewhere (back then it was football hooligans who taught protestors how to fend off the police).

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  18. 24 hours ago

    Watching the impressively adept movement, these guys are way ahead of the game, but it might be great to have e.g. Chinese translations of materials.

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    Protesters have gone from cars to cars, apologising for inconvenience brought and handing out food and drinks to drivers.
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    Aug 5

    Protesters have gone from cars to cars, apologising for inconvenience brought and handing out food and drinks to drivers.

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    Aug 5

    Non cooperation movement in HK. A motorist kept going around a roundabout and said ‘my motorcycle is broken, it can’t go straight, so I must go around. HK’s situation is the same. (How long have you been doing this?) For as long as HK hasn’t made any progress.

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