Syria | Assad flees to Moscow as rebels capture Damascus

Prestwich_Blue said:
LOL. If my ultra-religious fellow Jews are to believed, when the Messiah comes we'll all be part of the Israeli state.

The problem with states like Syria & Iraq is that they were carved out of the French & British colonial empires, with little regard for things like tribal loyalties. As James Barr said in the title of his excellent book, they just drew a line in the sand.

In the French-controlled post-Ottoman territory. Syria was divided into theee or four separate areas, with the Alawite tribe (which the Assads belong to) having an area in the west, on the coast. the Aleppo region was separate from the Damascus region.

These will never be stable democracies, at least not for many, many years. I sometimes wonder if we shouldn't have stayed as colonial powers.
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Now you're talking. Add the US to that too :)
 
west didsblue said:
You reckon they risk their lives escaping Syria and finding their way to this country just to get £49.18 a week?
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Well add to that they do get free accommodation with all bills paid, free meals, free travel, free access to leisure and many, granted not all get free ebikes
 
TinFoilHat said:
Syria = Jihadists good

Afghanistan = Jihadists bad

I'm confused????

Assad was a ****. Is he being replaced by bigger cunts that are going to destabilise the country like Iraq whilst the yanks 'protect' the oil.

Meanwhile the Israeli fascist has taken over Syrian land protected by the UN and that's not a story.

This world is fucked up.

What's right or wrong anymore?

No wonder people go mad trying to comprehend everything that's going on the world.
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The rule is simple…

Might makes right…until someone vehemently disagrees!

Then, we have a squabble, a skirmish, a war, a peace accord, and detente, that may or may not look anything like it did before the Might stepped forward.

Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

It is the reason the world looks like it does and boundaries are constantly changing.

Meanwhile, in the liberal democracies of the world, we wonder why everyone can’t just get along and be “nice?!” You know, like us!

P.S. Ignore the two “World Wars”!!
 
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