Normally foreigners conscripted into Russia's army are in Russia thinking they have a job lined up. Maybe Putin will let Assad be an officer.
The OP made claims he obviously can't back up with facts. Otherwise he would jump to the occasion. Failure written all over it. That's a point.
Where ballistic missiles and poison gas are concerned, for the same reasons the U.S. & Co. bombed Libya after Qadaffi fled the capital: once the chain of command breaks down, those things can go anywhere and to anyone. They're in 5-10 places today. They could be in 15 tomorrow and 50 the day after and in the hands of people who want to see the world burn. And don't discount the possibility of Jolani being, not grateful, but able to see the side benefits of having a potentially very difficult file (what to do with them, how to guard them, who to guard them, who pays, etc.) being got rid of, permanently, for him. Edit And they're not bombing "Damascus", they're bombing bases outside, mostly well outside it
My MO is to put on the table an argument you can refute or not. Your MO and that of Irish Rover is to run from it and when no refute is available to go the way of dissing the poster. The way of the weaklings.
The more significant issue is what is happening in the Golan. Israeli politics and particularly the IDF, Mossad, etc. has plenty of people who understand that an ex-rebel with popular legitimacy, institution-building capabilities and abundant international goodwill is a very different proposition from a debased opportunist whose only priority was staying in power and generated instability to do that. Doubly so when said ex-rebel's biggest priority is state-building. Netanyahu does not seem to be one of them. Pushing the army into the DMZ for trivial tactical gains against complete hypotheticals when your key interlocutors like the EU and Turkey have an urgent need for stability is the epitome of overplaying your hand.
I didn't tell you to shut up about it. I told you to shut up, period. People sneaking in ethnic slurs to serious matters tend to get that reaction. I'm sure that's been pointed out to in the past. Many, many times.
Wrong dude, it was an anti-Netanjahu slur. Edit: There's nothing in how I twisted his name that qualifies as an ethnic slur. The way I changed his name actually says He's NOT A JEW, which means I'm telling what he's doing isnot the Jewish way.
Your English is evidently challenged then. Slur: an offensive word used to insult someone because of their race, sexuality (= the fact of being sexually attracted to people of a particular gender), etc. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/slur
Wrong again. Try again, or fall back to your MO of dissing the poster instead of the content of his post.
Only inadequates criticize someone by bringing his ethnicity - ethnicity and religion in this case - into it because that conflates the person and or the criticism with his wider community: his defects are also theirs because he is a member of the community.
You did know that "Yahud" is the Arabic for Jew, didn't you? You did and you used it as a slur but are now trying to weasel out of it. You didn't but you imported a word without thinking and were careless at best or simply lazy. Edit: You did, used it to make a kindergartener's joke and are - as always - enraged at being challenged and resentful that it fell flat.
Well, in that respect we differ in opinion. My stance is to criticize/condemn persons for their acts as individuals, not for being members of a group/people. So it is each individual IDF member responsible for his own acts. Being a member of the idf doesnot mean your by default complicit to genocide or crimes against humanity, because it's not the mission of the idf to exterminate Arabs/Palestinians. When you however take part in operations with the effect as such, then in my view, you're accountable for it.
No, I'm not enraged. You actually engage in factual discussion, so that's a plus. You however try to implicate it as a slur, while Yahud simply is the Arabic writing of Yehud and it simply is closest to the name of bibi. It's you getting into a desperate effort to put things in where they arenot. READ AGAIN: I posted he's a genocidalist and then changed his name in such a way saying Not a Jew. You don't have to be equipped with a dizzying intellect to understand that I separate bibi and his acts from the Jewish people as such. Reading it in the opposite way reaks of intent to malign.
What content is there in this? The lying genocidist, aka Notanyjahud has ordered the idf to "help" the unifil troops to fight a non-existent enemy threatening the buffer zone patrolled by the Unifil troops. What he means is he grabs territory protected by Unifil under treaty of 1974. What little there was is obscured by what is either a slur or a childish attempt at making a cheap joke washed down by a litre of industrial-strength rage Your MO - everywhere and on every topic - is to make emotive or downright enraged statements based on limited evidence that you never develop. An "argument" is something quite different. When challenged, you get angry; when criticized, you lash out; when unclear or downright incomprehensible you blame the other guy's intellect or character. It's pointless and boring.
Well... There are several ways that a country could compete with another country in the labor market.. Pay and benefits.
Being anti-Iran does not mean he is pro-West. Yes, it is better for the West that Iran's influence in the area is decreased and they are further isolated, but if al Qaeda gets another "safe haven", that's also not good for the West and their interest in the region. It's also a bad thing for Iraq's sovereignty. Iran already has outside influence there, but it's going to get worse going forward as Iran's efforts in Syria will now shift to Iraq.