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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. 2 hours ago

    However else we agree to discuss this, "abandoning the Kurds" is an appallingly tendentious way that should be avoided.

    Both former defense secretary James Mattis and former national security adviser John Bolton had been against abandoning the Kurds to the Turks.
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  3. 2 hours ago

    "That's a domestic issue", says the US, as the political order in that's being relied upon to hold down unravels.

    Joint Staff spokesperson says the US doesn't care about what's happening in Iraq because they're focused on defeating Islamic State.
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    2 hours ago

    Very clear Pentagon had nothing to do with and no knowledge of US green-lighting Turkey's NE Syria operation. This is from yesterday.

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  5. 2 hours ago

    To reiterate where we began: whatever is said about Trump's disastrous policy or lack of policy in , this exacerbation of the - war, spreading it into Syria, and empowering an actor likely to join the / system, is entirely the work of the Obama people.

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    8 hours ago

    Binnish in opposition-held Idlib expresses solidarity with protesters in Iraq and Egypt. This Friday, residents of Binnish protested in solidarity with both countries.

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Assuming cannot and will not occupy the major Kurdish cities like Kobani and Qamishli, and has little appetite to get too deep into east , it could end up with a lot of "" territories reverting to the / system, restoring the weapon to Damascus.

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  8. 2 hours ago

    Had always seemed likely that if made a move in Syria, would step out of the way. This isn't cost-free, however. A lot of powerful political forces in Washington (and the media) will want to make Ankara pay a price for pushing the U.S. out.

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  9. 3 hours ago

    >> None of which is to say can or will deal with the prisoners currently held by the /, assuming the PKK doesn't turn them loose in the face of a Turkish incursion. It's just to say that this conspiracy theory of "Erdogan = Islamist = ❤ ISIS" is stupid.

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  10. 3 hours ago

    >> The whole narrative of the early part of 's war that suggests allowing a porous border to support an insurgency the U.S. publicly supported was a scheme to support is, again, propagandistically effective and analytically meh. >>

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  11. 3 hours ago

    The meme circulating that can't be trusted to deal with the prisoners is effective propaganda, but little more. (a) Trump doesn't actually care what happens re prisoners; (b) Nor does the /, which makes deals and lets Daeshis go as and when it suits it >>

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  12. 3 hours ago

    If your solution to a terrorist statelet was to displace it with different terrorists who are the sworn enemies of a NATO ally, and hope said NATO state would get used to this mortal threat on their borders, perhaps it wasn't a very good "counterterrorism" policy to begin with?

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    3 hours ago

    Sadly there was no scenario in which things in N. Syria would go well. These contradictions were built into a US CT policy that predates Trump. A US-Turkish war over this (which some seem to have expected?) was never happening either. Not a hot take, more like a reheated one.

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    4 hours ago

    The White House announces that Turkey will be invading Northern Syria and will take custody of all ISIS fighters captured in the past two years

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    15 hours ago

    Iraqi Interior Ministry announces it will add 46,000 to its ranks starting on 1 October.

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    11 hours ago

    #6 Iranian Foreign Minister has warned Turkey against a possible military operation in (against US-backed YPG/SDF).

    's Security Can't be Established by Operation in : -
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    6 hours ago

    -NLF will become four new SNA corps, headed by Faylaq al-Sham's Fadlallah al-Haji -Existing three corps in Afrin & N Aleppo headed by Adnan al-Ahmad -Goals: "unity of Syria, defending Latakia & Idlib"

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    15 hours ago

    And one of the best is . Follow her for live updates on Iraq.

    A reminder to journalists: there are women experts. Not all Iraqi experts are men.
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    11 hours ago

    On what authority? Syria is Syria. What SDF thinks is irrelevant. For all legal purposes, it’s nothing other than a bunch of armed thugs.

    A classical abuse of facts from a hardliner nationalist. SDF will accept any Syrian who left Kobane, Serekaniye and any other places under SDF control. This is a fact.
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  20. 14 hours ago

    has pulled out of a $5bn to develop 's South Pars natural gas field, the largest in the world. When announcing this, the Iranian oil minister "suggested the possibility of negotiations with Arabia on joint projects".

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    15 hours ago

    And in a year or two, maybe three, when people ask, “How’d we get here? I thought this was sorted,” the media’s monomaniacal Trump-a-rama at the expense of the rest of the world is going to come in for major scrutiny.

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