Progress in filling up the bookcase in our new house All of the boxes we already brought there are now emptied and gone into the bookcase, I'm sure I still have some random stuff laying around here at home/old home, but I'm sure I'll get to that
And yes, they are definitely going to be put in a nicer position and so on, instead of this mess (like putting them nice and standing up and such), but I needed to empty all the boxes and kind of sort them a bit, so I can work on making it nice late. Right is sports, left is non-sports (with a large majority of that being related to history)
Things happened too fast, surprised everybody. the future is so unpredictable. so far these groups are trying to act properly but so did Taliban at first. we will see their true color in next few weeks/months.
Bashar Asad was a murderer and criminal but he wasn't extremist. these guys can be both murderer and extremist. but there are lots of groups involved. still it's not totally clear who will get the power ultimately. it's highly possible to see a war between these groups
Turkey is sponsoring some (most) of these groups, so the future will be hard for the Kurds too. Turkey will push these groups to conquer the Kurdish parts too.
but I think the regime in Iran was the biggest loser here, they spent billions of dollars (at least 30 according to rumors) to keep this piece of crap in power. he was supposed to pay it back someday. now they have to rethink their strategy, everything if falling apart for them. (which is not necessarily a bad thing to be honest)
anyway it was a very hard few years for the Syrian people and the future doesn't look brighter. I just hope I'm wrong and something good comes out of this. maybe these guys have really changed Syrian people suffered a lot already.
Assad hasn`t had support in his country for many years - he was saved by Russia 10 years ago. The prolonged war in Ukraine meant that Putin had to withdraw his troops from Syria and abandon his former ally. I think that Assad can only hold a grudge against Putin. By the way the regime in Syria turned out to be just as weak as the Afghan government supported by the US in Kabul. Both regimes fell very quickly without the help of foreign powers. So what can be written? Should I feel sorry for the dictator Assad because he was so weak that he fell without Putin's help? I don't care. In the case of refugees, they will probably have to go through Turkey, so Erdogan can block them - probably for the right money from the EU.
Day 2 Results - 08.12.2024
Top Group
A
- 2-8
SUI 2
CZE 2
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NOR 0
GER 0
B
- 13-2
- 1-7
SWE 4
FIN 4
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LAT 0
SVK 0
Challenger Group
C
- 9-3
- 2-6
EST 4
PHI 2*
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AUS 0
CAN 0*
D
- 2-10
DEN 4
POL 2*
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SLO 0*
THA 0