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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Thu 5 Dec 21:17
What parallel universe are we living in where Al Queda and ISIS are now regarded as being on the side of the "good guys"???
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Thu 5 Dec 22:18
... And what`s this sudden enthusiasm for Georgia to become part of Europe?
Look at a map - Georgia is closer to the Iranian border than Birmingham is to London!
The world is going mad.
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Fri 6 Dec 02:44
Here`s a very enlightening interview between Tucker Carlson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. It is very revealing and provides excellent insight into the Russian perspective on current global events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmgDf6QiCps
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Sat 7 Dec 21:32
Who knows where the chips will lay once the fighting is over but it looks like it`s the final curtain for Assad. If he`s lucky he`ll escape into exile, possibly Moscow bound as I type.
This will of course be a devastating blow for Iran. Another of its proxies gone after Hezbollah has been greatly diminished and Hamas is finished. Israel will in time have a new threat to deal with in all likelihood on the other side of the Golan Heights but for the foreseeable the Iranian proxy threat has been neutered.
With so many differing interests and factions involved I can see Syria being the scene of a brutal civil war once the initial revolution has passed, after all as Orwell noted , "One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution, one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Sun 8 Dec 10:01
And so it`s happened, the Assad regime has totally collapsed and the dictator has fled, destination currently unknown. This will send ripples across the world. A number of nations , especially in Africa had been leaning towards Russia for security in recent years, impressed by how they were able to prop up the Assad regime with military assistance. That`s a calculation that will now need to be worked out again.
Meanwhile Turkey has managed to maneuver itself into perhaps being the preeminent local power in the middle east.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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