I don't have that big collection of Putin pics. Why do you keep it? Is it an obsession?

lol

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-10-17/u-s-says-iran-supplying-drones-to-russia-violates-u-n-resolution

Joe Biden's quest for hostility on all fronts blazes forward by deciding to attack the Iran Deal that he was for before he was against it before he was for it before he was against it
By the time Donald Trump was out of office, he had united the Arabs and Israelis, a previously unthinkable peace. Maybe by the time Joe Biden is out of office, he will unite the Persians and Arabs and Israelis, all against us

Sorry, wrong one

Probably not the Jews but the bolded isn't too farfetched. Both Saudis and Iran want in on BRICS. Might be difficult to believe today but I could see some peace/de-escalation agreement between Iran-SA coming eventually within the next decade. It's in both their interest long term, only a matter of time.

yea but well there are pictures and then there are pictures. I do like pictures and video's but when its viewer discretion advised, its better to simply reference rather then repost such content.



depressingly accurate.

This post was edited by ferdia on Oct 17 2022 02:07pm

I wouldn't get your hopes up. Arming and mobilizing huge numbers of extremist Jihadis is a 70 years running American specialty and we're only a few years from the last time they pulled it off en masse, maybe less if you think Balochi-based psychos blowing up Chinese engineers and teachers along the CPEC counts.


I'm not convinced of these Iranian drone stories. Russia and Iran deny it (not that they should be taken at their word, but still), and we've seen endless incorrect stories about Russian getting drones, missiles, ammunition from China and North Korea and whoever else.

At root, these stories are entirely sourced from "western officials" and I don't see why they ought to be taken seriously. Some Russian commentators have argued the supposed Shahed-126 or whatever drones are Russian made drones and shown pictures of them. Others have looked at the camera footage from some of the "Lancet" drones Russia has been using recently and saying that and the wing shape suggests an Iranian design.

Up in the air who is correct here IMO, but I think the Western motivation for pushing these stories, true or not, is two fold. First, it complements and helps solidify the claims that Russia is running out of missiles. Second, it helps create another Axis Of Evil type narrative.

This post was edited by kusotarre1 on Oct 17 2022 02:16pm

I'm optimistic. Having both of them at least give peace a try and stop funding various proxies to undermine each other would be a huge stabilizing force in the ME. Having a bad relationship with your huge neighbor is dumb tbh. Maybe it doesn't happen sometime soon but eventually if they both are part of same economic organizations increasingly, who knows.

Side note on having a good relationship with your big neighbors. Man are the Baltic nations dumb and shortsighted. You don't have to like Russia, you can condemn and not allow influence in your country but the antagonistic line they are taking is really retarded. It's like they don't realize they still have to live next to Russia and are banking that a military alliance led by a nation an ocean away will somehow save them when/if the day of reckoning comes.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Oct 17 2022 02:18pm

The baltic states look even stupider when you look at what happened with Lithuania and their insane plays on "recognizing" Taiwan. Have you followed that?

In exchange for a 600 million USD "trade voucher", basically a bribe that can only be spent on overpriced American military equipment, they made a big show of pissing off China. China said "OK, we don't want stuff from Lithuania coming into our country", and so a bunch of German companies had to cut Lithuanian inputs out of their supply chains, because China is like 30-40% and growing of the exports market for most German products. For a measly $600M they did this! Pathetic countries.