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Memes aside. He made a hilarious mistake in bombing Al-Hasakah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_al-Hasakah_(2016)

"Moderate beheaders."

I'm rather disappointed in the United States for abruptly and decisively abandoning the primary force that has pummeled Daesh for the past two years since their victory at Kobane. Western Special Forces and air strikes were instrumental in their success, but they are practically the only faction in the civil war that does not include Jihadists in their coalition but instead Arab, Kurdish, and Turkmen militias. Al-Nusra has somehow swayed most of the rest of the Syrian Opposition that they are trustworthy with a simple nation change and a symbolic cutting off ties with Al Qaeda. The FSA brigades sent by Turkey will not be able to hold their own without heavy Turkish involvement and arming for the duration of the conflict. The refugee crisis alongside fighting the PKK inside Turkey's borders is only going to open more wounds and conflict inside the country. Ankara has made a serious error and so did Washington in betraying the best force to fight against Daesh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Koban%C3%AE There are legitimate concerns that the PYD and the YPG's extension of their 'Kurdish corridor' could lead to increased ethnic tensions within Turkey itself, but that is already happening when Erdogan broke the ceasefire and began to bomb the PKK. He willingly chose to restart that conflict and having two US-supported factions fight while ISIS recovers are not going to end well. The strategy is quixotic at best and when asked about their support for the SDF the US is suddenly very silent after complimenting them on their months-long siege in Manbij and the loss of hundreds of SDF fighters to take it. https://twitter.com/OIRSpox/status/769158879859077120 Now they're being asked to simply return east across the Euphrates after spilling their blood with US promises and support. Turkey is incredibly opportunistic in moving across the border not to fight ISIS but simply to deny the SDF a contiguous territory. When they arrived in Jarabulus it was already abandoned as they regrouped in Al-Bab. Also, I wouldn't confuse the PYD with the Communist PKK. The PYD do have ties with the PKK, however, their brand of socialism has not been one with authoritarianism. On the contrary, their cantons are highly decentralized and have a far more libertarian foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_municipalism The creation of the SDF has also muddied the ideology of the forces including the PYD (Political Arm of the Kurds), YPG (Military arm) alongside Arabs, Turkmen, and Syriac Christians. Manbij has largely been overturned to Arab-led brigades given that the city is mostly Arab rather than Kurdish, but that hasn't stopped Turkish bombardment of the vicinity. Their brigades also include those who identify as part of the 'FSA' which is more of a brand than an actual cohesive organization at this point. There's been numerous debates on whether the FSA even really exists given how splintered it is. You have FSA secularists (Azaz pocket) who are largely on their own, those who have basically become subordinate to Jihadists in Idlib or Aleppo, and elements in Rojava/SDF territory. Here's an excellent tool to follow the conflict as well as others including Ukraine, ISIS in both Iraq and Syria. http://syria.liveuamap.com/

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Good fortune to Arrgh and Roz Wei on the rebuild and happy raiding-- in other waters.

It is working so far.

I thank you for the reminder that meme magic is real.

Once your defenses are depleted we're coming for that rum. I for one hope you have the expensive kind.

But if we stop now, we won't get into the top 5 for confidence/cockiness! Regardless of whether or not there is 'paper' or not. People who are politically aware will know which alliances have an affinity for the other and plan accordingly. I don't think many people want to be willfully ignorant because there isn't an official documents and whatnot. If a belligerent believes another party will be an imminent threat, it will likely attempt to hamper its abilities to enter whether that's through diplomacy or warfare. Our government worked on information available to it, but ultimately we haven't discovered how to read other people's minds (yet) so we undoubtedly wouldn't know for certain whether they would enter or not. TKR has a duty to defend its itself and its interests and, as mentioned earlier, numerous raids and perceived slights has led to this war. I agree with you big wars are pretty great and it's quite nice they happen frequently around these parts. Boredom is the primary motivation for many decisions. It's better than not doing anything at all like say in another hypothetical, bizarre world where politics and conflict just stop and things stagnant for years to come. That would be horrible.

You don't say! One day we'll be one of the big alliances.

The weather report said to prepare for heavy rain.

The Skybreakers are the best order!

Is this some sort of euphemism for the European Union taking over the rest of the Earth?

Who would want to be on the UPN side? I hear in another dimension for a time a certain orange alliance basically ran their alliance for them! Good ole Peggy Sue. The choice seems clear to side with the GOOD GUYS! Of course, by good I mean people who learned the art of getting good.

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