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Romney slams ceasefire deal, calls Trump's Syria move 'a bloodstain' in US history
The Hill ^
| 10/17/19 03:41 PM EDT
| BY JORDAIN CARNEY
Posted on 10/17/2019 3:03:35 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Zhang Fei
More of my opinion of the “big picture” FWIW:
China wants stability in the region for 2 good reasons:
A rail route through Turkey to Europe for their goods, and a route to the Med for their goods.
Let China pay for that, not us.
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posted on
10/17/2019 4:52:57 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Bullish
I’ll second the hell out of that. Romney needs to come out of the closet and show his supergay Democrat commie bastard side once and for all. I really hate that guy. He’s a self-serving piece of s***.
That’s a nicest f****** thing I can say about him.
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posted on
10/17/2019 4:54:13 PM PDT
by
Made In The USA
(Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
To: Hojczyk
Everyone saying, Oh the Kurds, the poor Kurds. You need to realize who you’re aligning yourself with and maybe realize that they know more than you do AND that any news you’ve watched for the past several years has possibly been BS.
98% of Kurds are either muslim or communist. That just means Obama armed and trained communists and that’s who you’ve been duped into rooting for because cute female Kurd soldiers are damn sure not muslim girls.
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posted on
10/17/2019 4:54:16 PM PDT
by
Pollard
(If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
To: mrsmith
[Lot more anti-Turk forces here, though.
Though Assad wants the Kurds cleared for refugees in mostly the same places Turkey does.]
Putin is taking flak for the minimal casualties Russia has incurred in Ukraine. He’s not about to take on the Turks. Given that Russia can’t use its nukes against the Turks, any conflict with large-scale Russian involvement would be an extended war of attrition involving thousands of Russian dead. The Russians aren’t gonna fight the Turks - they’re probably on about the same level, equipment- and proficiency-wise. Maybe if there was any prospect of Syria becoming a de jure Russian oblast. Whereas Turkish gains will probably become de jure Turkish territory in time, the way Turkey grabbed Hatay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatay_State#Background
From an American interest perspective, the issue isn’t so much letting the Syrian Kurds be overrun as a chance at establishing a friendly Middle Eastern state with a path to the sea out of Syrian Kurdistan. One thing’s for sure - this historic opportunity is now purely in the rear view mirror.
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posted on
10/17/2019 4:55:42 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Hojczyk
Yes, once Trump decided to go after the ATM that is the Ukraine, the GOP has obviously decided he has to go.
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posted on
10/17/2019 4:55:58 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
To: Hojczyk
Diggers need to dig into Mittwitt’s financial involvement. Tagg’s investment group, Solamere Capital, is a good start.
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posted on
10/17/2019 4:58:25 PM PDT
by
maggief
To: mrsmith
[More of my opinion of the big picture FWIW:
China wants stability in the region for 2 good reasons:
A rail route through Turkey to Europe for their goods, and a route to the Med for their goods.
Let China pay for that, not us.]
Xi Jinping is an intra-party political schemer, not an economic thinker. Ocean freight is cheaper than its rail counterpart by an order of magnitude. Belt and Road is a stupid white elephant from which China will not see the return of principal, let alone any profits. The journalists getting bent out of shape don’t understand basic finance. Mao’s big idea was the Great Leap Forward. Xi’s is Belt and Road.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:01:23 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Hojczyk
Romney knows he’s going to need huge levels of MSM running interference for him when his son’s involvement in Ukraine comes around for investigation. So he’s trying to make a few deposits in his account while he still has some little shred of credibility.
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:02:17 PM PDT
by
KyCats
To: Hojczyk
Bush League Republicans MUST become extinct before the Republic does.
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:03:57 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Hojczyk
No, Mitt it’s your time of the month. You are looking at your underwear.
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:04:17 PM PDT
by
Cincinnatus.45-70
(What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
To: Zhang Fei
Syria is now a Russian/China /Iran oblast.
They owe too much to be independent.
Like I said above, this is all to China’s benefit- not ours. The best we can aim for is a neutral Turkey instead of one fully allied with the east.
We won’t gain from A Med-reaching Rojava without outrageous, full-war, costs.
Saw a quote from a International affairs analyst thet Kurdistan could be ‘another Israel’... but at what cost?
Let China pay. They’ll get the benefit!
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:05:08 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Zhang Fei
Ocean freight is cheaper, but tankers don’t carry refrigerators.
And rail is faster.
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:06:25 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Hojczyk
Romney.........you’re a stain....a pee stain that is! You idiot......you make me sick!!! Shut up!!!
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:08:29 PM PDT
by
Dawgreg
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
2012 Obama called, he wants his foreign policy back.
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:24:00 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: ExTexasRedhead; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ..
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:25:28 PM PDT
by
bitt
To: Zhang Fei
Shame we had this conversation on a thread about Romney.
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:31:16 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Zhang Fei
Shame we had this conversation on a thread about Romney.
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:31:16 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Hojczyk
F off you POS..... you are in the same category as jane fonda
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:35:17 PM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(Communists Need To Be Eliminated)
To: mrsmith
[Shame we had this conversation on a thread about Romney.]
I know. If Romney tripped, hit his head and went into a coma, I’d have to fight the urge to celebrate, deplorable as the impulse might be.
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:35:34 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: bitt
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posted on
10/17/2019 5:37:39 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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