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bemildred

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4. I hadn't seen it before either.

Reply to yourpaljoey (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 12, 2016, 08:10 PM

Jun 2016

Up to now I attributed the debacle in Yemen to too much testosterone and blind rage.

I'm still sorting out the connections of this to other things, it could take a while, but it makes all sorts of sense ...

But the project is not going well at all, if it was like this. Assad intends to take Aleppo now, al Nusra is being crushed, AQAP seems firmly in place in Mukallah at the moment, the rest of Yemen is not subdued, and ISIS is on the run in Syriaq if not elsewhere.

Erdogan is starting to look weak too.

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Saudi Arabia and Turkey’s pipeline wars in Yemen and Syria [View all] bemildred Jun 2016 OP

very interesting yourpaljoey Jun 2016 #1

It makes sense of certain things that otherwise appear to be pointless and dumb. bemildred Jun 2016 #2

Somehow I missed the pipeline angle yourpaljoey Jun 2016 #3

I hadn't seen it before either. bemildred Jun 2016 #4

Whatever shall Uncle Sam do!!! yourpaljoey Jun 2016 #5

Punt. nt bemildred Jun 2016 #6