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He and Iran did everything possible to ensure that oil and, primarily, gas from Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia could not flow to the EU via the cheapest route—through pipelines.

Now, after the fall of Assad's regime, in the event of stabilization in Syria, pipelines could be laid through Syria and Turkey to the EU, which would forever deprive Putin of the ability to blackmail Europe and diversify energy supplies.

https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1865809728829620328

This would threaten ruzzia's primary source of revenue.

I predict President Trump will use this as one of his "hammers" to bring ruzzia to the negotiating table.

BTW, since we were sorta on the topic of Ukrainian confidence since I posted that poll, here’s a funny post by a Russkie on Telegram:

“The Syrian flag was removed from the building of the Syrian embassy in Moscow. It is not hard to guess for what purpose. I just thought, which country exactly did Pypa decide to demilitarize? The Black Sea Fleet has already been relocated to Novorossiysk. The Wagner PMC has also been demilitarized. He even managed to twist the warhead off Oreshnik and send the missile to nowhere. And now Syria is rapidly demilitarizing on these very distant borders. It would seem a conspiracy theory? But facts are stubborn things.”

This is not a Brit thing. It’s a protestant thing. The English had a fine time with Christmas until the protestants stamped it out.

Interesting to hear from an atheist. One would expect atheists to be right up there with faggots,transgenders and wetbacks as the biggest Rat Party cheerleaders.

Wow. What an amazing photo! Thanks for posting this.

Indeed.

President Trump must fire the Blob. All of those in leadership positions at State and in the intelligence agencies, they are all treasonous communist Brennan and Clapper installs.

Fire the entire FBI leadership and vet the rest for being Obama storm troopers. Fire all Victoria Nuland Susan Rice followers and Blinken and Sullivan associates. Recall traitor Milly to active service and refer to military court and fire all incompetent Loyd Austin types and anyone recently promoted by the dementia Biden carcass especially any involved in the disastrous Afghanistan debacle of billions of dollars of advanced weapons given to terrorists.

Delete all WHO sponsorship and funding, they are nothing more than control tools empowering China’s Surveillance State.

And do exactly what Clinton set the precedence for already and fire all US Attorneys.

Under no circumstances take suggestions from establishment Republicans, or from a Bush or China tools like McConnell.

There must be no delay after January 20th.

Let them all demonically wail and nash their teeth from being cast out of their authority.

Only prayer and fasting can keep this evil at bay.

Assad may be able hold the coast, as they are majority Alawite.

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Right now Asshat is holding down a spot in some nice Kremlin hotel.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Especially in war zones.

CaliPornia was counting votes and stealing congressional seats until this month.
That is a huge deal, now we have a smaller majority and have to deal with those illegally appointed idiots (democRATS).
A stolen vote in CA disenfranchises me in TX.

Not since Korea and actually they never did!

Of course! They were originally protégées of obama!

The problem with patents is that you have to reveal how the device works. This can be a problem with military secret grade technology. What’s needed is a special type of patent where only the government knows how it works but the inventor still gets patent rights.

Yes! With Jesus!

I kept praying for ya man. The race is done.

Now I continue to pray for the souls in purgatory.

I don’t seem to disagree with his listed points.

I don’t think it destroys his ‘legacy’….it was always going to be that of a dumb, senile, corrupt pervert.

Yes.

And fellow Golden Age science fiction writer ——

“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.”
― A.E. Van Vogt

SDF Kurds and allies are friends of the USA.

In Northern Syria, I have seen estimates of religious beliefs.
It varies in the town they live in. My guess from a few years ago 1/4-1/3 are Christian (Syriac and other), 1/3 atheists, 1/3 Muslim (some secular (in name only) to keep them from harm)

I read that during the years they were fighting ISIS with our support there were 24,000 Christian conversions.

The PKK influence is largely atheists.

The Kurds lost 11,000 soldiers fighting ISIS.