Devs Apr 23 >Syria SAA forces targeted with heavy weapons, the towns of Kansfra and Al-Barah in the southern Idlib countryside SDF on Euphrates targeting a number of ferries and confiscating large quantities of steel and smuggled cement >Lebanon Protesters have returned to Beirut's Martyr's Square, in a "car march" although not all are staying in their cars. Most, but also not all, are wearing masks Seven people, including five Syrians, were killed in a shooting in the Harakiyeh area in the Lebanese town of Baakline >Iraq Four brigades split from Iraq's PMF in sign of internal rift - Loyal to Shiite cleric Ali Al Sistani, the brigades are now under the direction of the prime minister's office Iraqi Prime Minister-designate @MAKadhimi reveals his government ministers: Adnan Al-Zarfi included >Libya LNA repels the attack of the GNA in the Ain Zara area and the Casirma area, and the clashes are still ongoing LNA claims 15 GNA fighters arrested, including Syria nationals >Yemen Al Jufra military camp has been captured, as Houthis continue to approach Marib >Afghanistan TOLO reported 19 ANDSF personnel killed in Taliban attack in Logar. Afghanistan Taliban also claimed operations in Garmsir, Helmand >Ukraine Joint Forces Operation Press Center: yesterday Russian forces opened fire 8 times. Ex-President of Georgia Saakashvili confirmed that he has received proposal from Zelensky to become a vice-PM of Ukraine
"Capitalism" if we follow it in the modern sense, it's about a weak government who is controlled by foreign capitals.
Basically, "socialism" means the government controls the capital founders and merchant class, while in "capitalism", you have the merchants making terms with the government.
That's my definition of it, and this is more objective in the real world, as you can see the US government kowtowing to their corporations, while Russia and China keep them on a tight leash.
But the fact you allow the merchant class to take control means you cannot be "far right".
>Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, met his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani and Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim on the sidelines of last month’s Islamic Summit in Kuala Lumpur.
>It is claimed the trio agreed at this meeting to "heat up" matters in Yemen by bringing Muslim Brotherhood or Al Islah factions closer to the Iran-backed Houthi rebel group, with the aim of exhausting coalition forces in the country.
>An Al Islah delegation is also understood to have visited Turkey immediately after the summit, where Yemenis and Brotherhood representatives are reported to have met senior figures from the ruling AKP.
Of course, i'd let me lecture you from the opposite. But the most recent developments that catched my eye, hint towards an alliance between Al Islah and Houthi.
Provided americans leave and European armies spend more on army, the russians will even have less hopes to invade.
The americans are a joke nowadays, their troop morale is so low and the 30.000 something US troops cannot even hope to hold the russian tide, it would just be europeans who do the most fighting, or they will just surrender because they recognize the Russian superiority.
>Don't know what relevance this has to our origin discussion but i can say for sure It's relevant because the motivation isn't their political orientation, it's the image they present, and that is one of oppressed minorities that want to get out from the Turk's thumb. Nobody asks if they're communist or capitalist or whatever.
>Neither italian public NOR the americans support kurds to preserve their own culture and race, ya get me? Yes, that's the problem, the reason Europe is at such a low point. Yes, the army matters, yes the industry matters, yes everything matters, but the wellspring these things come from is national spirit. The willingness to build and defend your identity. Europe has all the human potential, all the money and all the machines and all the scientists it needs, all it's lacking is the will to direct them against the enemy. And I explained why. Europe isn't endangered by Turks, Europe is its own enemy while Turkey is just a vulture.
>But again, your native culture or race has nothing to do with the war in the middle east. Your culture may steer your inner politics but definitly not foreign or geopolitics. And we're back to the same argument. Your cultural identity apsolutely has the potential to drive your foreign policy. That it doesn't is a symptom of the disconnect between the leadership and the population.
I'm not an -ist of any sort. Our problems aren't simple and taking some ideology and unpacking its solutions blindly isn't the way.
As stated, I know and understand exactly how this works. I have family in Bosnia (and in Croatia from Bosnia) and my muslim uncle went to prison for smuggling. The MB is extremely similar to the balkanigger mafia, down the their friends in the CIA.
I think the croat is getting it, the "capitalist" and "communist" labels mean nothing nowadays and it's just a matter of geopolitics.
Ideologues died with Lenin.
Christian Gonzalez
IMHO the Russians would just have to flatten the Baltics, Croatia, Ukraine and Romania to secure their borders, get access to all seas and become Lords of Eurasia.
Everything I said remains true, until Islah declares it is against Hadi Hotel. It can meet whoever it wants and suspect whatever it likes, but at the moment they have 1 city, Marib, which they are losing to the Houthis in open combat with Saudi airstrikes overhead. Should they leave the coalition government for the Sana'a one, that govt will immediately be dominated by South Yemeni sepratists and end the war by seceding from the North Yemeni state. Despite this, Islah is moving its members throughout South Yemen; more often than not, losing them in defections.
You can not declare the war already over while they are still fighting and engaging in close combat. Islah barely exists as a functional force anymore, it is dividing into its Houthi and STC loyalists, but as it stands they are still on the frontline AGAINST the houthi.
Yeah, but the rest of Europe would just have to submit or be destroyed if they managed to pull that off. However, Russia has internal problems ofc so that's a big if.
If the germans and french grows balls and invest heavily in the baltics and croation defense, that invasion wouldn't even happen for fuck's sake.
The balts are dumb for trusting muricans instead of their own arms.
Daniel Cruz
>It's relevant because the motivation isn't their political orientation, it's the image they present, and that is one of oppressed minorities that want to get out from the Turk's thumb. Nobody asks if they're communist or capitalist or whatever.
Than this is just a wannabe partisan dreaming formed by the media. Because USA is in the middle east for sheer profit, money and oil. Nothing more
They may use it to "preserve" their culture, but that's hardly the case.
>And we're back to the same argument. Your cultural identity apsolutely has the potential to drive your foreign policy. That it doesn't is a symptom of the disconnect between the leadership and the population.
So, let's assume turkey has established his role in the middle east. Your country forms an identity with anti-turkish ideas. The hrvat people usurp this identity and even vote a president representing this identity.
Do you think he will accept trades with the turks for money, altough he's a fierce enemy of the turks? Or do you think he'll stay loyal to his identity and principles, do no such deal but also leave an huge amount of money on the table
Geopolitics doesn't care about cultural identity or racsim. Prime example, the north iraq kurdistan autonomous region. Turkey had a fierce anti-kurdish state policy
Now they established financial ties with the KRG and even get kurdish mercenaries to fight for turkish aspirations in libya.
Bro, look, i get what you mean. But geopolitics doesn't work that way. These things are seperate for a reason, one is called inner politics, one is called foreign politics and these MAY have their substance with the cultural identity you speak off.
But geopol is a whole nother chapter.
Jordan Powell
>and my muslim uncle went to prison for smuggling
I think i like you a little bit more now lol
How easy is it to obtain chemicals in the balkans and smuggle it to west europe?
You don't wanna do an online friend a favor and hand out some routes, do ya?
It would be quite easy actually, roll into the Baltics, arm the Serbs, take Ukraine which is already fucked.
Lol, nah. The Baltics in particular are indefensible, and the Croats/Bosnians have a numerically superior neighbour who'd lynch them without second thought (and who coincidentally has a love affair with Russia).
Jayden Lee
You can be anti-turks but you can trade with turks.
The huge difference is if you allow this trade to control your foreign policy or not.
If you cuck your own foreign policy JUST to trade with turks, that's cuckoldry.
Colton Johnson
I agree.
I want to add one my thought, especially related to European society.
As the enlightenment happened and modern ideas and solutions came through, we have seen a peculiar phenomenon.
Medieval societies and before (though it depends) used to be ruled based divine right. In modern sense, that was replaced by what was though of "meritocracy" (but we know how that ended).
Now there were three classes in medieval society, Church (Institution of God), Nobility (Born to rule on divine right ) and Merchants (Mostly profiteering or usurious background getting power through amassed wealth).
As religious world perspective faded we have seen Monarch butchered or reduced to tourist attraction, Church curtailed and reduced to "recommendation club of """recommended moral preservation and traditions""" but one class persisted and that's the merchant.
Only Merchant were left to influence countries and societies, but what's the funnest fact? It's that USSR and National Socialist Germany were states of ultimate modern revolution who have defeated the merchant and subdued him to serve the state and people. Of course both nations faded and liberalism, which is an excuse for divinity of merchants that are beyond any flaw (especially with powerful PR) remained and were successful in modern idea. They used Liberalism as a cover to protect themselves from the hand of the state.
Now world moves in another technological paradigm and liberal ideas are becoming not only outdated, but a burden and the class of billionare burghers became a stagnating factor who impede even national securities and interests.
This is my thought on the current billionaire situation and their projection of power. Mistake of modern society is that "merchant secularism from the state" is not expanded upon and enforced. We see damaging factors of it in the US today.
I am interested what do you think.
Christian Rivera
The US did that, until it was inconvenient at which point they fucked off and left them out to die so the Kurds had to go back to Assad.
>Do you think he will accept trades with the turks for money, altough he's a fierce enemy of the turks? Or do you think he'll stay loyal to his identity and principles, do no such deal but also leave an huge amount of money on the table Well this is an extremely easy question to answer. If he takes the money he's a traitor. That is, again, exactly what I've been talking about. The current crop of politicians will take the money every time.
Caleb Rodriguez
Baltics issue is that their population is very low, but if you mobilize and arm all of their population, even Russia would be afraid of them due to potential losses.
Croatia has about 5 million people, Serbia has 7 millions, I don't think the number is that much different to make a break, especially if Croatia is in defense.
Now Ukraine is a whole another beast, and need a fully renewed european army to defend.
All you have to do is put an embargo on ADIDAS track suits on Croatia and Serbia and they will bow to their knees
Jayden Wright
>brown slippers Blackshoed and sabapilled, my shoes are like the noor, flying above your head in shining light, while your shoes are dark, nihilistic, and obsessed with the dunya at the cost of your fertility.
Yeah, you are right and I think more and more are realizing it.
"Class" has nothing to do with wealth or private property, it's about what you do in society, so the class divide in European medieval societies (nobles who defend, peasants who farm, priests who teach, merchants who trade) are more applicable to society than "muh bourgeois" Marxian analysis. Chinese/japanese also have the same class structure (warrior/samurai, peasant, monk, merchants).
Merchants are always regarded as the lowiest class in the chain because they are materialist and greedy, and the reason why modern society becomes so shit is because modern society is controlled by merchants who empathize those traits.
