[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

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  On 12/8/2024 at 11:36 AM, heywoodu said:

Looks like the rebel offensive in Syria has within two weeks resulted in Assad being ousted from power and gone, that escalated quickly. Does kind of look like the new thing is one of those extremist sharia "disagree with our strict morals and it's the death penalty for you" kind of groups, so...hopefully that's not the reality, but I guess we'll see.

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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.

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People rescued from prisons , even women here 

 

 

 

Edited December 9, 2024 by bestmen

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Trump is looking for annexing canada and make it the stat number 51 

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Tension Slovakia/Ukraine

Kiev closed the pipeline of  Russian Gas ...Slovakia will revenge by closing european energy to ukraine 

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Justin Trudeau has resigned as party leader and will resign as prime minister of Canada once the Liberal Party choses a new leader. Once a new leader in selected there will likely be elections shortly after.

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  On 1/6/2025 at 9:30 PM, NearPup said:

Justin Trudeau has resigned as party leader and will resign as prime minister of Canada once the Liberal Party choses a new leader. Once a new leader in selected there will likely be elections shortly after.

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Is voluntary euthanasia out of the question?  Is there a petition to sign, au moins?

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Trump will annexe by force : canada , panama and greonland 

 

Edited January 9 by bestmen

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16 years ago, the EU and US economies were neck and neck, today, the US economy is 50% larger than the entire EU combined.

 

 

heavy inheritance of Merkel?

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  On 1/13/2025 at 6:06 PM, konig said:

16 years ago, the EU and US economies were neck and neck, today, the US economy is 50% larger than the entire EU combined.

 

 

heavy inheritance of Merkel?

 

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Basically. Austerity in the wake of the 2008 finacial crisis has been an unmetigated disaster.

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  On 1/13/2025 at 6:31 PM, NearPup said:

Basically. Austerity in the wake of the 2008 finacial crisis has been an unmetigated disaster.

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State spending creates prosperity to the same extent injecting drugs improves nursing skills.