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

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

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Post by scott_w »

instig007 wrote: post #519
scott_w wrote: post #517

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> 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.

> I'm saying CNN knows more about the conditions and preferences of the Ukrainian people than you do delusional indeed, and a cowardly one > I've yet to see a shred of evidence for any of your insinuations. I'm yet to see you learn proper English. When shall I expect you arriving in Kiyv to volunteer straight into the war trenches?

When you prove to me that Ukraine wants a peace agreement that involves Russia annexing the entire country to be their personal torture chamber.

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

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Post by instig007 »

scott_w wrote: post #521
instig007 wrote: post #519

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> I'm saying CNN knows more about the conditions and preferences of the Ukrainian people than you do delusional indeed, and a cowardly one > I've yet to see a shred of evidence for any of your insinuations. I'm yet to see you learn proper English. When shall I expect you arriving in Kiyv to volunteer straight into the war trenches?

When you prove to me that Ukraine wants a peace agreement that involves Russia annexing the entire country to be their personal torture chamber.

it's right there, in the post that you've conveniently ignored for two days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364178

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

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Post by scott_w »

instig007 wrote: post #522
scott_w wrote: post #521

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When you prove to me that Ukraine wants a peace agreement that involves Russia annexing the entire country to be their personal torture chamber.

it's right there, in the post that you've conveniently ignored for two days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364178

> When you prove to me that Ukraine wants a peace agreement that involves Russia annexing the entire country to be their personal torture chamber.

Try again. Your post only suggests a slight majority of Kyiv residents want a "ceasefire." That's not "capitulation."

I'll let you know that I'm British so I'm familiar with news papers/sites putting up polls that tell the reader what they want the reader to hear so, just like you disregard sources, I disregarded this straw poll.

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

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Post by aguaviva »

mahirsaid wrote: post #393
philistine wrote: post #344

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Syria is Russia's backyard! It is not culturally close like Ukraine, but Syria has been an ally of the Soviet Union and Russia for decades through the Assad family. Nevertheless, Russia clearly chose to stop their support; the Assad regime was cooked.

Things are not based on history anymore. It atleast as much as we might think. Russia just took a trip to Afghanistan to try build relations and encoporate a way to utilize Afghanistan. Historically this would make no sense since they have a bad history between each other out of all the countries in the region Afghanistan was the own Russia couldn't possess or influence in the past. That being said Russian lost many…

Russian lost many battles against Afghanistan against the very same government today "taliban".

Except they weren't "the same" parties at all.

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

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Post by aguaviva »

cm2187 wrote: post #209
postingawayonhn wrote: post #201

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I provided the link to hear it from the horses mouth. I'm not saying he's some wonderful person, but HTS's current agenda and recent actions are generally positive.

You mean what he tells CNN while he is trying to get US support? Reminds me of what we were told of the talibans when Biden was trying to hand them over the country. "They are not the same talibans", "they want to be a good world citizen", etc. Well that didn't age well.

When Biden was trying to hand them over the country.

Effectively it was Trump who made that decision, via the Doha agreement.

Biden's role was merely to fumble the actual delivery as spectacularly as possible.

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Post by dang »

scott_w wrote: post #520
instig007 wrote: post #515

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Please don't do flamewars on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. You both broke the site guidelines badly in this thread.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to them when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

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

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Post by dang »

instig007 wrote: post #523
scott_w wrote: post #520

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Please don't do flamewars on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. You both broke the site guidelines badly in this thread.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to them when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

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

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Post by instig007 »

scott_w wrote: post #524
instig007 wrote: post #522

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's right there, in the post that you've conveniently ignored for two days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364178

> When you prove to me that Ukraine wants a peace agreement that involves Russia annexing the entire country to be their personal torture chamber. Try again. Your post only suggests a slight majority of Kyiv residents want a "ceasefire." That's not "capitulation." I'll let you know that I'm British so I'm familiar with news papers/sites putting up polls that tell the reader what they want the reader to hear so, just…

guess what, your post suggests nothing but cnn and Zelensky opinions, the latter is legally expired as a president, by the way.

> I'm British so I'm familiar with news papers/sites putting up polls that tell the reader what they want

Exactly my point, you're a delusional member of the delusional society that somehow believes that the poll in Kiyv isn't indicative of the people's preference not to exchange their lives for land anymore.

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

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Post by inemesitaffia »

crvst wrote: post #260
inemesitaffia wrote: post #250

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Almost every country in the region is an ethostate. The only reason Kurds would say they don't want their country is Turkey.

Virtually every country in this region was drawn up by the British and French with little regard for ethnic or religious boundaries. What are you talking about?

Every single one of the countries is Persian, Arab, or Turkish with a big heaping of Islam
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