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That increase in defense spending scares and frustrates me.

Scares me in that, does Trump think we can just, invade another power player? Does he know that WMD's exist? This man who can't find his ass with two hands is drafting national policy awww fuck

It frustrates me because god dammit of course. this man makes policy decisions like first graders decide what to eat. of course we wouldn't work on trying to make the military more efficient, no just throw more money let's see where this god damn rabbit hole goes. Oh but where does the money come from? "Well i read in this Orson Scott Card book one time that people don't like it when you fuck with medicaid and social security, so, uh, cut money from everything but that."

ugh

SA continues to exert pressure on Yemen, who is still attempting to deal with AQAP (and Daesh, apparently)

The long siege of Mosul continues, with the Shia majority government showing that it has not learned its lesson by once again persecuting the Sunni minority; it is unlikely the US will take any action.

The Turk's power play, of course, has already been covered.

The Turk and the Russian consolidate their hold on Syria. The Turkish army (and it's militia affiliates in the FSA) continues its ill-fated push into Al-Bab under operation Euphrates Shield, while lying about its success to Turkish media. (fair warning: a lot of my sources in the region are Kurdish-affiliated, so this push might be more effective than I thought)

The SDF continue their (hopefully less ill-fated) push into Raqqa under operation Euphrates Wrath, and will probably initiate the fight for the city itself within the next couple of months.

I'm not sure if Operation Inherent Resolve is still in effect under the current POTUS (unlikely, given what the rumor mill is telling me), but if DEFSEC manages to convince him then we might see something much more comprehensive in terms of aid for the SDF.

The likelihood of unification for the Kurds decreases steadily, for two reasons: the Turk and the Russian see this as a major power play on the part of the US, and will oppose on principal, and the KRG and Rojava are becoming more and more like two distinct entities, especially with Barzani sending only minimal Peshmerga assistance to the SDF, and more recently closing off the border between the two regions.

Israeli leadership continues to be inept. In other news, sky still blue, bear still shits in the woods.

And in Afghanistan, the Taliban urges people to plant more trees.

A wild dual-AK-wielder has been spotted!

reminds me of the FSA fighter in that one webm that always gets passed around 4 chan; he stands up in a street hip firing some big fucking machine gun, and gets a dozen shots off before he gets double tapped by some former ba'athist fucking commando or something down the street

I wish Donald Trump would come to my house and snap my neck, killing me instantly

European mainstay tank is Leopard 2, and evidently it's just as dangerous to its crew as the Russian "death-traps" if it's hit, which is a major minus towards the combat capability estimate of EU land armies.

which is a major minus towards the combat capability estimate of EU land armies.

EU land armies.

hahahahahahahaaaahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA

The Syrian Democratic Forces (Kurdish YPG/J and local Syrian Arabic militia) are taking back Raqqa (the capital of DAESH forces in Syria, apparently with an classified amount of support from NATO SOGs (per SJTF Operation Inherent Resolve). Operation is very successful so far. Meanwhile Turkish/Russian backed FSA forces fight to take back Aleppo, to much less success.

Glad the US is backing the right horse in this fight, now for Trump to show everyone he isn't Putin's lapdog by approving operations against Pro-Assad forces, and giving Syria back to its people.

Looked at the time.

Why the shit am I still up.
Too damn early. Late. Whatever.

Arg.

Can't sleep. This is the good discourse.

Quote from: Putnam on November 09, 2016, 03:01:18 am

Quote from: ggamer on November 09, 2016, 03:00:43 am

all the "imn sonc scrred im litrlly shakng rihjt now" people on twitter and tumble
quit being so overdramatic u damn fools

Hi, does the vice president of your country think that you deserve literal torture?

No?

Fuck off.

Christ, the hell? I apologize for this already.

I guess I'm slightly miffed by the fact that the majority of my country hates my existence or just doesn't give enough of a shit to even know who they voted in.

ur good dog
truth is many people within the party aren't very happy with the state of their LGBT politics rn, especially with some older more assholey members talking about the govt repealing gay marriage. hopefully we'll see a change on the right to a more friendly stance, though i wouldn't get your hopes up
worse comes to worse we call CPS on parents who send their kids to camps. that shit should be illegal.