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Research focuses on Syria and terrorism | History digressions, particularly on the Soviet Union | Likes are just bookmarks. RTs = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    18 Dec 2018

    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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  2. 1 hour ago

    This report of leaders who are not controlled by , and even want to take their distance from a clerical regime they swore allegiance to last month, comes after Trump opened a direct line to them. A fortunately timed discovery!

    Great roundup by on the U.S. opening a direct line with the -backed Huthis in Yemen. "That the United States says they are talking to us is a great victory for us", said a senior Huthi official. He is not wrong.
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  3. 1 hour ago

    Support the "moderate"/"pragmatic"/"nationalist" elements, that always works: "The U.S., U.N. and Saudi Arabia have all sought to empower those leaders seeking to distance themselves from Iran"

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    16 hours ago

    Picked up a nice 60s Hungarian guide to the USSR, partly cos I want to read about the 5,000 sanatoria but mainly because the Hungarian for USSR is SZSZKSZ

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  5. 2 hours ago

    Reportedly "four 16-year-old boys took the victim to the school's bomb shelter during recess and raped her twice a day over the course of 10 days ... [T]he boys had threatened to murder her little brother and to disseminate the videos if she told anyone."

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  6. 2 hours ago

    , , and plan a naval exercise in the Gulf, an "exchange of tactical and military experiences" with some "political goals which show a kind of convergence between participants", as the Iranians explain.

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  7. 2 hours ago

    James Jeffrey gives cover to the pro-Asad coalition's attacks on by raising the matter of Al-Qaeda violations of the nonsense Sochi ceasefire and dubious reports of foreign attack plans. Also wants to work with the Asad system at Rukban.

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  8. 3 hours ago

    The visiting Switzerland in the late 1950s as part of a trip to shore-up the Baghdad Pact (a.k.a. CENTO), the pro-Western, anti-Communist regional alliance of which was a pillar.

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  9. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    Tunisia ex-president Ben Ali buried in Medina holy city: witnesses

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  10. 3 hours ago

    I say "realise"; "confirm" is more exact, but just in case you had doubts ...

    You read this and realise Trump is just catastrophically misinformed AND feeble in relation to the Iranian revolution. Then you turn to the other side:…
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  11. 3 hours ago

    You read this and realise Trump is just catastrophically misinformed AND feeble in relation to the Iranian revolution. Then you turn to the other side: "Democrats suggested caution, warning that a military strike could destabilize the region and play into Iran's hands" 😭😭😭

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  12. 3 hours ago

    In June, John Bolton pushed for a "comprehensive" response to attacking America. Trump let Iran off the hook because: 1) DJT believed it was probably rogue/accidental 2) Tucker Carlson told him to 3) DoD [again] pushed for not upsetting Tehran.

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    6 hours ago

    Trump's press conference with Morrison was mostly drivel and crazy, incoherent lies, but some interesting bits:

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    9 hours ago

    ISIS emir of Tal Afar was arrested in Turkey

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    16 hours ago

    : 's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir says today, “The kingdom will take the appropriate measures based on the results of the investigation, to ensure its security and stability."

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  16. 11 hours ago

    The bleeding and defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan took precedence. Correctly.

    There was indeed no active USG encouragement or recruitment of foreign fighters to Afghanistan, because there was no strategic need for them whatsoever. There was, however, passive acceptance for such trips, and the Arab Afghans recruited and fundraised freely across America …
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  17. 11 hours ago

    Do you mean to say that local inhabitants weren't deceived by the US/PKK shell game? Curiouser and curiouser 🤔🤔🤔

    soldiers monitoring how the hands over the border region to the YPG :) The flag of the alleged local military council of Tal…
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    14 hours ago

    UAE foreign affairs minister says the protests against El-Sisi are organized by the Muslim Brotherhood to destabilize Egypt. “Egypt is recovering & confronting the challenges daily with determination. The reality is contrary to what the partisan & foreign-funded media propagates”

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    16 hours ago

    There is something very disturbing in the fact that both the US and Saudi Arabia failed to imagine that Iran would ever attack Saudi Arabia directly. Demonstrates neither country has any notion of the threat one way or the other.

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    17 hours ago

    Direct clashes took place between protesters from and the Assad regime yesterday, Friday, in which the protesters tore up the Assad regime flag and photos of Hafez al-.

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    18 hours ago

    The newly-released DHS "Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence”

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