Belesarius Posted May 1, 2016 Report Share Posted May 1, 2016 Possible coup in Iraq. http://iswresearch.blogspot.ca/2016/05/sadr-attempts-de-facto-coup-in-iraq.html Edit:Link to ISW analysis of Iraqi political crisis. Iraq at it's most unstable. http://post.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/isw-tracking-iraq%E2%80%99s-2016-political-crisis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 2, 2016 Report Share Posted May 2, 2016 Those are mostly anti-corruption protests happening in Iraq. Although, main group that entered parlament building were supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 2, 2016 Report Share Posted May 2, 2016 Lebanon, Association of graduates of USSR Universities each year make 200 of those: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed A Posted May 2, 2016 Report Share Posted May 2, 2016 "The people that defeated Nazism cannot be defeated" "71 years" "9 "ayar" (national name for a month?): Festival of victory over fascism" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted May 4, 2016 Report Share Posted May 4, 2016 Here's hoping Buchanan gets the GOP VP slot. Friday, a Russian SU-27 did a barrel roll over a U.S. RC-135 over the Baltic, the second time in two weeks. Also in April, the U.S. destroyer Donald Cook, off Russia’s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, was twice buzzed by Russian planes. Vladimir Putin’s message: Keep your spy planes and ships a respectable distance away from us. Apparently, we have not received it. Friday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work announced that 4,000 NATO troops, including two U.S. battalions, will be moved into Poland and the Baltic States, right on Russia’s border. “The Russians have been doing a lot of snap exercises right up against the border with a lot of troops,” says Work, who calls this “extraordinarily provocative behavior.” But how are Russian troops deploying inside Russia “provocative,” while U.S. troops on Russia’s front porch are not? And before we ride this escalator up to a clash, we had best check our hole card. Germany is to provide one of four battalions to be sent to the Baltic. But a Bertelsmann Foundation poll last week found that only 31 percent of Germans favor sending their troops to resist a Russian move in the Baltic States or Poland, while 57 percent oppose it, though the NATO treaty requires it. Last year, a Pew poll found majorities in Italy and France also oppose military action against Russia if she moves into Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia or Poland. If it comes to war in the Baltic, our European allies prefer that we Americans fight it. Asked on his retirement as Army chief of staff what was the greatest strategic threat to the United States, Gen. Ray Odierno echoed Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, “I believe that Russia is.” He mentioned threats to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine. Yet, when Gen. Odierno entered the service, all four were part of the Soviet Union, and no Cold War president ever thought any was worth a war. The independence of the Baltic States was one of the great peace dividends after the Cold War. But when did that become so vital a U.S. interest we would go to war with Russia to guarantee it? Putin may top the enemies list of the Beltway establishment, but we should try to see the world from his point of view. When Ronald Reagan met Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik in 1986, Putin was in his mid-30s, and the Soviet Empire stretched from the Elbe to the Bering Strait and from the Arctic to Afghanistan. Russians were all over Africa and had penetrated the Caribbean and Central America. The Soviet Union was a global superpower that had attained strategic parity with the United States. Now consider how the world has changed for Putin, and Russia. By the time he turned 40, the Red Army had begun its Napoleonic retreat from Europe and his country had splintered into 15 nations. By the time he came to power, the USSR had lost one-third of its territory and half its population. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan were gone. The Black Sea, once a Soviet lake, now had on its north shore a pro-Western Ukraine, on its eastern shore a hostile Georgia, and on its western shore two former Warsaw Pact allies, Bulgaria and Romania, being taken into NATO. For Russian warships in Leningrad, the trip out to the Atlantic now meant cruising past the coastline of eight NATO nations: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Great Britain. Putin has seen NATO, despite solemn U.S. assurances given to Gorbachev, incorporate all of Eastern Europe that Russia had vacated, and three former republics of the USSR itself. He now hears a clamor from American hawks to bring three more former Soviet republics — Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine — into a NATO alliance directed against Russia. After persuading Kiev to join a Moscow-led economic union, Putin saw Ukraine’s pro-Russian government overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup. He has seen U.S.-funded “color-coded” revolutions try to dump over friendly regimes all across his “near abroad.” “Russia has not accepted the hand of partnership,” says NATO commander, Gen. Philip Breedlove, “but has chosen a path of belligerence.” But why should Putin see NATO’s inexorable eastward march as an extended “hand of partnership”? Had we lost the Cold War and Russian spy planes began to patrol off Pensacola, Norfolk and San Diego, how would U.S. F-16 pilots have reacted? If we awoke to find Mexico, Canada, Cuba, and most of South America in a military alliance against us, welcoming Russian bases and troops, would we regard that as “the hand of partnership”? We are reaping the understandable rage and resentment of the Russian people over how we exploited Moscow’s retreat from empire. Did we not ourselves slap aside the hand of Russian friendship, when proffered, when we chose to embrace our “unipolar moment,” to play the “great game” of empire and seek “benevolent global hegemony”? If there is a second Cold War, did Russia really start it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted May 6, 2016 Report Share Posted May 6, 2016 That US naval officer who was a spy, not a real spy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted May 6, 2016 Report Share Posted May 6, 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire damage estimates up to around 9 billion. FUUUUUCK. 85 000 hectares. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/05/05/size-of-fort-mcmurray-fire-grows-as-fast-as-losses-mount.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted May 8, 2016 Report Share Posted May 8, 2016 A heartwarming story Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 "Immortal regiment", May 9, 2016, St.Petersburg. http://nicstyle.ru/prazdniki/bessmertnyj-polk-v-sankt-peterburge-2016-novosti-vremya-marshrut.html 500 000 people participated in "Immortal regiment" in St.Petersburg alone. Moscow. Walter_Sobchak, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks, Meplat and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 The 2013 Texas fertilizer explosion that killed 15 people has now been designated a "criminal act" by the ATF. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/ATF-says-West-explosion-was-a-criminal-act-7462148.php http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/us/texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 The 2013 Texas fertilizer explosion that killed 15 people has now been designated a "criminal act" by the ATF. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/ATF-says-West-explosion-was-a-criminal-act-7462148.php http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/us/texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion.html Regardless of the basis, "fuck the BATF". Those assholes will make a mountain out of a molehill, and indict the mouse two yards over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meplat Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 "Immortal regiment", May 9, 2016, St.Petersburg. http://nicstyle.ru/prazdniki/bessmertnyj-polk-v-sankt-peterburge-2016-novosti-vremya-marshrut.html 500 000 people participated in "Immortal regiment" in St.Petersburg alone. Moscow. I remembered my grandfathers. And cried a bit. One of them did instruction on P39's, in Russia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed A Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 Huge fire around here. Old, though. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/hotel-fire-in-downtown-cairo-injures-15-people/2016/05/09/2474ccfe-15b2-11e6-971a-dadf9ab18869_story.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 16, 2016 Report Share Posted May 16, 2016 PKK released a video of attack on Turkish army position. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltHFRfm91A4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 17, 2016 Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 "Non-political" #Eurovision jury did everything possible to deny Russia a victory, the clear favorite of the people. lol, i am glad that Lazarev didn't won and Ukraine got to be next Eurovision freakfest country, Poroshenko now have more reasons to ask more money from other countries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted May 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 Eurovision is trash anyway. Last time that trangender... thing... won because muh discrimination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 17, 2016 Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 Eurovision is trash anyway. Last time that trangender... thing... won because muh discrimination. Shariy's comment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 Oh shit. Egyptair just lost a 737 Paris-Cairo flight. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/egyptair-flight-ms804-paris-cairo-1.3588755 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 My wife just told me about this. Imagination runs wild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 Welp, when you misplace an airliner, things generally don't end well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 And it's looking more and more like something shady happened. This is me looking totally shocked... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 My bets on ISIS's Sinai affiliate as they've done probably the same thing to that Russian airliner not long ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted May 20, 2016 Report Share Posted May 20, 2016 I think they are officially calling it terror related now. And the news I've been watching say they have found debris. No surprise. My bet is Muslim employees at De Guale Airport. But who knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted May 20, 2016 Report Share Posted May 20, 2016 Sheriff Joe is a jackass but the next time a furry con visits town will be hilarious. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/20/arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-beastiality-video-craigslist-trump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 How did The Guardian manage to sound so sneering in that article? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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