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G650

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  1. FWIW Twitter is going to be a lot less useful for this than the Ukraine conflict. But legacy media will be a good bit better.
  2. I see the takes in here are just as hot as the ones in the CR.
  3. G650

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    I propose we annex Santa Barbara. I say let's empty the wreath fund for some mercenaries.
  4. We had a death in the family over the weekend so I unfortunately had to bow out of yesterday's racing, but the boys had a nice sail.
  5. G650

    Israel

    There's more than a touch of anti Semitism involved with the actual founding of Israel. But, if you will it, it is no dream.
  6. G650

    Israel

    Yeah, we probably are. To make clear, Hamas did that on Saturday because they are fucking scum, no two ways about it. My comments before were aimed at people who were lobbing all sorts of hot takes without any grasp of how we got here, not as an analysis of this particular act. Eh, I wouldn't count on it.
  7. My iX is nothing but screens, not a fan at all. The DBX actually gets demerits from reviewers for old tech, but tbh it's kind of in the sweet spot. It's probably got the same basic system @Prepuce of Doom has in his AMG.
  8. The second half of this season has really pleasantly surprised me.
  9. I've always wondered how many posters were actually UT fans/grads. Always seemed like there were just as many of us from other places than Longhorns.
  10. I've never been a big flame top guy
  11. G650

    Israel

    Its literally the only way to understand it, but by all means analyze this incident in a vacuum. Usually works well. ETA: At no point did I say anything about Israel not having a right to exist, or give any justification for Hamas. But if anyone doesn't know the history, they are frankly not qualified to speak on this matter (which of course isn't going to stop anyone from opining, just look at this thread). No action happens in a vacuum, me responding to this post is a downstream action of things that happened 100 years ago. It's not removing agency to talk about this, it's adding context to how we got here. As @Gatorubet said you are generally a great poster, but you are frankly acting like an emotional toddler on this. Personally my biggest beef with Isreal isn't their existence, it's they are a really shitty ally, which as a "hand" you should be well aware of, and maybe you probably should recognize that maybe you aren't the smartest guy in the room on this one.
  12. G650

    Israel

    I mean, you'll have to ask him, I don't know his intent. I'm just telling you how I read it.
  13. G650

    Israel

    That any claims of land ownership based on religious doctrine is invalid
  14. G650

    Israel

    It doesn't seem like that's what he is doing though
  15. G650

    Israel

    This thread or Israel and Palestine? Either way, yes
  16. G650

    Israel

    Happy to. As I said it's been a bit since I've really dug into it, but that's the fifty thousand foot view anyhow. Two books that I think are pretty good in particular are Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson for regional specific information, and 1919 by Margaret MacMillan, which is an excellent dive into Versailles after WWI and the untold unforeseen effects that cane to pass from that conference. Its truly pretty staggering.
  17. G650

    Israel

    Yeah, imagine Mountbatten, but 15 times more inept, and you basically have it. That is a great analogue. He is actually a really good example of the gentleman amateur archetype too, he at least had a semblance of capability compared to these guys though.
  18. G650

    Israel

    So without consulting some of my books off the shelf to give you absolute precision, since it's been a few since I've read anything, the overview of Sykes Picot is two ridiculous humans, Mark Sykes and Francios Picot, met secretly and came up with a way to divide the Middle East into four areas to be essentially exploited for the gain of the main allied powers. This was basically pre planning for the fall of the Ottomans and how to maximize profit. Which in and of itself is very trifling, but it's taken to 11 by the fact that both of these guys were of the era of the gentleman amateur, which if you aren't familiar was a huge thing among the landed and aristocratic in the 19th century going into the 20th, and mainly means they are morons who had no fucking idea what they were doing. Sykes is more the amateur archetype, and Picot more of a sniveling shithead, but that isn't a meaningful distinction of what were are talking about here. Long term it gave us Syria, Iraq, Jordan that was grouped by no rational state of affairs on the ground, be it demographics, history, tribal, or anything. Syria was supposed to be an Arab homeland, which didn't happen and pissed everyone off, Iraq was essentially for oil rights, and Jordan was the only one that actually survived in any reasonable form. The Syria debacle set the stage for Arab enmity for the west for generations just on its own. TA Lawrence called it at the time but was brushed off. Then Balfour tacked on a Zionist homeland a year or two later into an already ridiculous situation, and the Arabs watched even more of their land be straight robbed. You can blame basically all downstream carnage in the Mid East over this insanely idiotic farce. The rise of jihadism is a directly result of the economic hardships and mismatched leadership of this. You had rulers with no legitimacy in the eyes of the populous and no hope of any betterment of life. Then you have generational cycles of escalatory violence.
  19. G650

    Israel

    Do you need me to explain Sykes Picot to you?
  20. G650

    Israel

    What area you talking about, there were a couple posts up thread, one of mine, specifically speaking to the genesis of this idiocy.
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