Haven't seen a Syrian jihadi we? would want to recruit yet, but they look a lot better than 5 or so years ago. Rebels approaching D2/low tier FCS level.
The good news:
Iran cannot now supply Hezbollah by land. Tahrir Al-Sham hates Iran and Hezbollah, and for good reason. Setting aside a couple thousand years of FS blood feud between Shiites and Sunnis, Hezbollah killed a lot of Sunnis when it invaded Syria to prop up Al-Assad.
So now it's by air, or by sea. Getting ships from Iran to the Mediterranean takes a long time, and the ships could easily be attacked by Israel. We'll see multiple flights a day to Beirut, and while the Israelis are not going to shoot down civilian planes carrying arms, they will bomb the trucks that the missiles are loaded onto, and the warehouses where the missiles are stored.
Things just got harder for Iran in its proxy support for Hezbollah. It's hard.
Still, as I said above, this is just another group of very bad people. Very, very bad.
Probably. But I'm over apologizing for our tactical fuck ups. If we did, we did.
I'm on Team Israel now. It's all I really care about over there. The rest of them can go fuck themselves.
I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you that the head of a Muslim state is bitching about Israel.
Whodathunk? It's 99% P.R. to calm the hot-headed masses.
I appreciate the effort @creepycoug puts into it when he shows up, but I find these idiots not worth the effort.
quality »»» quantity IRL
Keep rubbing their noses in their stupidity, ignorance and immorality. Carry on.
Speaking of False Prophets …
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Priorities! Both a poster child for the wonders of DEI incompetence.
Hope this helps. Don't fool yourselves.
It’s always about the oil and natural resources.
See also Ukraine.
Pretty sure I read somewhere that Ukraine and Syria are about democracy.
The world needs oil Somehow Allah ended up with it while God gave Moses a Mediterranean resort
The Saudis are the preferred model in an imperfect world
We could also pump a shit ton of our own oil and leave Europe to police the Middle East, if they want to do so.
That doesn't square with the MIC quarterly reporting.
Europe has always been far more reliant on the mid east. A fact that continually escapes American communists
The USA could sell it too
$1.80 fuel is coming! Energy independent America is going to be kicking ass and giving zero fucks about foreign nations. Time to make our country great and let others foot the bills for 75 years!
Mall Cop looks forward to the day America's stance is irrelevant to the rest of the world.
Enjoy isolationism, ladies.
#ZeroInfluence
Things endless war shills say.
We'll be cutting off aid to Israel too, right?
Big problem is the regulatory constraint on refining oil into gasoline in the US. Refining is incredibly expensive and you are looking at years of permitting let alone actual construction to build anything in the US. Then you need at least a 20 year production horizon to get the thing to cash flow. All you need is to look at the Keystone XL pipeline. Billions in development costs and then on day one of the dementia patient's reign of terror the pipeline is cancelled. You get a democratic Congress or god forbid a dem president and voila, your new shiny gas refinery is worthless. Older refineries are grandfathered and don't have to meet new air and water EPA requirements. So, old refineries are just fine tuned or subject to limited expansion opportunities. There is a reason that the last new major US gas refinery was built in 1977 almost half a century ago.
I don't recall ever endorsing aid to Israel.
And that's not spoken in a dumbass @MelloDawg tone. I truly haven't endorsed aid to Israel.
Israel doesn't need aid. They need the US to stop sending aid to Iran
Don't accuse H of wanting Isreal pushed into the sea though
We should definitely stop aiding countries that don't need aiding. DOGE!!!
Hopefully we can do that. You seem to have this board confused with Fox News.
What would stop you?
100. What a monumental fuck up. It would be like Montlake Futures wiring $50 million to Division Street. You just don't do that.
Also, I'll say this: it's a lot about oil, but it's not all about oil. Not close. You have a massive political, social and cultural force that leans hard into a particularly rigid and antiquated form of sectarian belief, and that leaning mobilize people both in the region and in the broader diasporas. If you doubt that, you'd have to explain to me why it is that people in Hamtramck, Dearborn and London are sympathetic to those leanings, are trying to recreate those societies where they sit and are hostile to their current homeland. There are no oil issues in Michigan or London. But there are striking cultural issues that are rubbing up against, and in tension with, some of the most basic tenets of western morality and civilization. It's not my opinion. It's just a fact. Nothing to do with oil.
I understand that oil interests, private and governmental, get involved to stoke fires, put them out, stoke them again elsewhere, etc. etc. But there's a lot more going on than that. Oil is not the reason that the Arab world wants Israel to disappear. And the Palestinian Arabs, who are disproportionately responsible for trouble in the region, do not give a fuck about oil. They really don't give a fuck about the dirt as much as they let on. What they care about is Israel and Jews not being there. And they have a lot of support in the wider Arab world.
Have to say I loved reading MBS say he personally does not care about the Palestinian issue. He literally said that. But he also acknowledged that his people do, so he has to pay attention, though her personally gives no fucks. What does that tell you? MBS is the oil guy. But his people are not. They are the "no Jews allowed" crew. He has to deal with that. The Saudi family, and other Arab elites like them, have to balance their own personal views and interests with the wider perspective lest they get thrown out.
Most everyone in both parties. Republicans generally suck in Congress too. We’ve been over this.
All of that shit exists for sure. I’d argue it partially exists as a deliberate and useful distraction to the people so that they’ll look the other way on how much oil money the guys in charge are making. And then they buy weapons with that money to further ingrain themselves. Same thing Wall Street does here and does everything they can to highlight identity politics.
The Team Dazzler left believes or at least says they do that all cultures are equal, some just have spicier food. And that spicy food is worth open borders because diversity is our strength. The one exception is the existing western Judeo-Christian culture which needs to be changed and replaced. From this you get LGBTQ∞ groups supporting Hamas and Hezbollah as being morally superior to Israeli Jews because reasons. As you said, what sane citizen would want to turn London into Londonistan or Dearborn into Dearbornistan. Afghanistan doesn't have oil and it's just a muslim sh*thole that managed to chew up a couple of trillion or so of US dollars that we refused to spend on our own borders and citizens.
I think a fundamental issue exists that the interests exploit to their benefit. But I don't hold the [Marxist] theory that all morality is a construct by those in power to further their interests. Some things are beyond economics.
100. And I honestly don't believe the left wants to do that either. If they were confronted with that reality they'd shit. It's just that they're too fucking stupid and arrogant to realize that they are helping it along. They also are too preoccupied with an obsession over oppressor class politics to see clearly enough that these cultures do nothing but oppress people. I don't think they believe that gay men are thrown off buildings. They think it's made up. I wish they could see it for themselves.
