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re: Trump says Syria is not our fight
Posted on 12/7/24 at 5:20 pm to GREENHEAD22
Posted on 12/7/24 at 5:20 pm to GREENHEAD22
quote:Yeah, I don’t trust that cocksucker Erdogan. He’s an Islamic extremist.
it becomes clear Turkey is a much larger "bad actor" than what is published.
This post was edited on 12/7/24 at 5:23 pm
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Posted on 12/7/24 at 5:45 pm to SoDakHawk
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Turkey is a NATO ally.
There is the rub isn’t it? Due to NATO Article 5 commitments, any conflict that carries the potential of an attack on Turkey becomes our fight.
In his farewell address, George Washington cautioned the new nation against entering into such entangling alliances. This has become known as the Washington Doctrine of Unstable Alliances:
…As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils. Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence — I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens — the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it.
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.
This post was edited on 12/8/24 at 2:50 pm
Posted on 12/7/24 at 6:09 pm to mule74
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Everyone involved in Syria is bad.
Yet we still we will be fed headlines such as this: How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state….
The leader of HTS, Abu Mohammad Al-Julani, who once had a $10 Million bounty placed on his head by the State Department, is now being hailed as a “moderate” rebel that will respect minority rights.
And no, that link is not to the BB:
Posted on 12/8/24 at 8:52 am to Lord of the Hogs
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IF that number is even true.
I've seen probably close to 1,000 videos of dudes getting killed over there. And that is just the dudes who's last breath happened to be caught on a drone cam.
Imagine how many other poor fellas took their last breath without a go pro there to record it?
Yeah I can believe that the total casualty count is over a million.
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