GostHacked Posted July 24, 2019 Report Posted July 24, 2019 17 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said: The country that really saved Assad’s hide was Russia, not Iran. Putin enabled him to terrorize his own country from the air. The Russians have yet to pay a serious price for that. Russia is an ally of Syria. Why would Russia not help Syria out then? Quote
Marocc Posted July 26, 2019 Report Posted July 26, 2019 On 7/25/2019 at 1:44 AM, GostHacked said: Russia is an ally of Syria. Why would Russia not help Syria out then? Russia is not an "ally" to anyone. And that mass slaughter of civilians can't be called "helping" . Quote
Marocc Posted July 26, 2019 Report Posted July 26, 2019 On 7/19/2019 at 10:22 PM, betsy said: Obama succumbed to extortion from Iran - plain and simple. The world should just cripple Iran with sanctions to the point that their own people will revolt against the regime. Severe punishments to nns who break the sanction! No mercy! Yeah, let's make the civilians so desparate they'll go running at machine guns with their children! About 30,000 people were hanged during the last revolution. Quote
GostHacked Posted July 26, 2019 Report Posted July 26, 2019 2 hours ago, Marocc said: Russia is not an "ally" to anyone. And that mass slaughter of civilians can't be called "helping" . I understand your position, but reality shows us different. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39554171/why-does-russia-support-syria-and-president-assad Quote In theory, Russia is there to fight against IS. But in practice, they also attack other anti-Assad rebels, some of which are also backed by the West Quote
Marocc Posted July 29, 2019 Report Posted July 29, 2019 On 7/26/2019 at 9:44 PM, GostHacked said: I understand your position, but reality shows us different. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39554171/why-does-russia-support-syria-and-president-assad Even more realistically they mostly bomb civilians. Quote
GostHacked Posted July 30, 2019 Report Posted July 30, 2019 On 7/29/2019 at 4:15 AM, Marocc said: Even more realistically they mostly bomb civilians. Again, reality is telling us something way different. Even Turkey helped out by giving the rebels a base of operation in Turkey while the USA and Saudi's armed, trained and funded them. These rebels shot mortar rounds into Syria and Syria responded with rounds of their own. Some going long into Turkey. But really Turkey has nothing to complain about here. The USA/Saudi and their ISIS terrorists were forced out of Syria. But in places like Afghanistan, the Taliban is still a huge problem (occupied by US forces) Iraq is still trying to deal with ISIS (another nation trashed from the 'war on terror'. ) and the crap going on in Yemen. Quote
SpankyMcFarland Posted August 1, 2019 Report Posted August 1, 2019 The Americans say they want a new deal but sanctioning the Iranian Foreign Minister doesn’t sound like a step in that direction: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/imposes-sanctions-iranian-foreign-minister-zarif-190731203547531.html Quote
Rue Posted August 1, 2019 Report Posted August 1, 2019 On 7/23/2019 at 12:23 AM, egghead said: Don't be stupid, if ME countries stop using US dollar as the medium Of exchange this mins, US dollar will be worthless an hour later No of course not. OPEC switched from trading I. US currency to Euros because of Iran and the US dollar did not become useless. It's value and use as is the case with the use any currency is based on complex macro and micro level market conditions, Quote
egghead Posted August 1, 2019 Report Posted August 1, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Rue said: No of course not. OPEC switched from trading I. US currency to Euros because of Iran and the US dollar did not become useless. It's value and use as is the case with the use any currency is based on complex macro and micro level market conditions, Unless green new deal has been implemented, Euros will take over US currency as the medium Of exchange internationally. With that, all of the countries national bank will dump US dollars / bond from their reserve Edited August 1, 2019 by egghead Quote
SpankyMcFarland Posted August 18, 2019 Report Posted August 18, 2019 (edited) Looks the Brits are letting the Iranian tanker leave Gibraltar: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49389592 Edited August 18, 2019 by SpankyMcFarland Quote
Dougie93 Posted August 18, 2019 Report Posted August 18, 2019 8 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said: Looks the Brits are letting the Iranian tanker leave Gibraltar: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49389592 Because Iran is three times the size of Iraq with a much more capable military and much more dangerous proxies. The Americans ain't as big and bad as they used to be in relation to adversaries like Iran, so there is no military solution, bombing Iran is not going to decide anything. Ergo the Brits and Europeans don't want to blow up the nuclear deal, because they know they can't impose their will on Iran in a shooting war. Quote
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