Ancestors

Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-08 at 02:14

What comes after Assad is fraught at best, but let me just say… hahahahaha fuck that guy

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-08 at 05:38

Re the disappearing plane: If it crashed, or landed hard at the end of that track, someone probably should have noticed and posted on the internet by now (OTOH, there's A Lot Going On Right Now)

If they turned off the transponder and headed for some 3rd country, you'd expect them to turn it back on once in friendly / neutral airspace

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Toot

Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-08 at 05:46

Nothing on FIRMS in that area, but it's cloudy.

Could have flown to the Russian base in Latakia without a transponder and continued on with a different aircraft

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Descendants

Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-08 at 06:14

The usual "anti-imperialists" are big mad about the defeat of a brutal dictator who was propped up by foreign powers while engaging in industrial scale mass murder

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-08 at 06:30

Yeah, things could very easily go quite bad from here, but perhaps rather than crying over the guy who liked dropping sarin on civilians, one's energy could be better spent finding ways to encourage the various parties to avoid the worst outcomes

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-08 at 06:34

"Regime forces in Deir Ezzor, the largest city in eastern Syria, have surrendered to rebels, HTS announced on its Telegram channel.

The announcement comes just one minute after the rebel group said its forces had begun entering Deir Ezzor" 💀 https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwy8xzxe0w7t?post=asset%3Aba5147fa-5c8f-4eef-84c2-6dd9cb910dd2#post

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Written by Reed Mideke on 2024-12-08 at 08:16

Russians accused Ukraine of having a hand in this (in reality, a minor one if there's any truth to it at all) but ironically from a strictly military POV, Assad getting beat so badly the Russians pack up and go home without a fight would not be what they were aiming for. Not that anyone in Ukraine will be shedding tears about the actual outcome, of course

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