Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family

Post by scott_w » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 8:42 PM UTC

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Boris Johnson is not the President of Ukraine. He has no power to force or prevent a negotiation with Russia. Just in case you're confused, here's a link describing who the current President of Ukraine is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Ukraine

that’s why you guys lose elections and scream “russia stole it!” completely out of touch of reality like a reality distortion field. screaming it louder won’t make you right.

Post by throwaway2037 » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 1:19 PM UTC

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> Iran has torpedoed any attempts at normalizing relationships between Arabs and Israel What about the recent peace/trade deals between Israel and UAE and Qatar? The Qatar one was most surprising to me because Qatar has excellent relations with Iran, partly due to their sharing of one of the world's largest natural gas fields.

So far it's been one step forward, one step back, due to Iran, see the now frozen rapprochement between Saudi and Israel. But thankfully all signs point to Iran's influence waning, which is now accelerating in part thanks to Israel ignoring the Biden administration's calls for another premature ceasefire that would only allow Iran to rearm their proxies and keep the untenable status quo that ultimately harms everybod…

    > see the now frozen rapprochement between Saudi and Israel.

Post by instig007 » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 7:11 PM UTC

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that’s why you guys lose elections and scream “russia stole it!” completely out of touch of reality like a reality distortion field. screaming it louder won’t make you right.

What part of “Boris Johnson isn’t President of Ukraine” is “out of touch with reality” or “Russia stealing elections?”

Post by scott_w » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 7:51 PM UTC

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Here's a news report: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/26/europe/ukraine-zelensky-e... I'll translate the quote to your native language for you: Мне нужны боеприпасы, а не поездка I apologise if it's not exact, I used Google Translate.

> I'll translate the quote to your native language for you that's very presumptious of you > Here's a news report are you saying that CNN knows about the conditions and preferences of Ukrainians better than Ukrainians in Kiyv? "You might want to stop taking [CNN] as your news source."

Post by instig007 » Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 2:13 AM UTC

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> I'll translate the quote to your native language for you that's very presumptious of you > Here's a news report are you saying that CNN knows about the conditions and preferences of Ukrainians better than Ukrainians in Kiyv? "You might want to stop taking [CNN] as your news source."

> are you saying that CNN knows about the conditions and preferences of Ukrainians better than Ukrainians in Kiyv? I'm saying CNN knows more about the conditions and preferences of the Ukrainian people than you do. I've yet to see a shred of evidence for any of your insinuations.