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Old 01-04-16, 07:57 AM   #676
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Bahrain has cut ties with Iran, Sudan has expelled Irans ambassador and the UAE has downgraded their diplomatic team in Iran. No real surprises there, these chaps being Saudi allies.
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Old 01-04-16, 11:30 AM   #677
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If some people now still try to convince themselves that the ME will settle down to peace if only the "Palestinian question" would be solved and Israel would be "called to reason ", then nothing will ever make these kind of people think - nothing.

If anything, what gets shown in yesterday's and today's events between SA and Iran, is this: how irrelevant the Palestinian question really is - and how grassrootingly deep in importance the Sunni-Shia conflict since centuries and centuries really is.

Syria and Jemen are done. Irak, Lebanon too.

And then there is Erdoghanistan's ambition and role.

And next there are the cluelessness of Washington, and the infantility of Brussel, Berlin, Paris, London.

Happy New Year, dear Middle East! You suck, as always.
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Old 01-04-16, 01:00 PM   #678
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Happy New Year, dear Middle East! You suck, as always.

As far as ME goes the rule of thumb is to wish for best and expect the worst.
Nuthouse....

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Old 01-04-16, 01:29 PM   #679
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As far as ME goes the rule of thumb is to wish for best and expect the worst.
Nuthouse....
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Co...rusalem-439344

Tomorrow we'll probably read "Israel shoots Palestinian teen!!!" in many European newspapers, as we all know it's the fault of the Zionist Apartheid light rail oppressing the poor boy.
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Old 01-04-16, 01:59 PM   #680
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The whole region has been overdue for a major geopolitic restructuring for some time, it's been like an elastic band being pulled in both directions, stretching and stretching and stretching, sooner or later it's going to snap.
God help everyone in the region when it does.
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Old 01-04-16, 02:11 PM   #681
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The whole region has been overdue for a major geopolitic restructuring for some time, it's been like an elastic band being pulled in both directions, stretching and stretching and stretching, sooner or later it's going to snap.
God help everyone in the region when it does.
Yeah right about the time the Iranians build their Obamanukes...
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Some of the countries in the area has joined Saudi Arabia and have sent Iranian diplomats a.s.o home.

So Saudi Arabia has some supporters in that area. What About Iran, who are supporting Iran ? Syria is one of them and Some terror group in Lebanon and Palestine.

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Yeah right about the time the Iranians build their Obamanukes...
Well, if the Iranians get their 'Obamanukes' then Saudi Arabia will be getting some Pakistani ones on loan, so there will be a level of detente there, or both Saudi Arabia and Iran will shake hands and use them all on Israel.

Either which way, now is a good time to invest in Tesla technologies...
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Some of the countries in the area has joined Saudi Arabia and have sent Iranian diplomats a.s.o home.

So Saudi Arabia has some supporters in that area. What About Iran, who are supporting Iran ? Syria is one of them and Some terror group in Lebanon and Palestine.

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Russia will do, but not openly, but you can guarantee that if the US sends any form of support to Saudi Arabia, Russia will match it to Iran. Otherwise, you've pretty much summed them all up there...oh, and Venezuela, but that might as well be on the moon for all it matters.
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Yeah right about the time the Iranians build their Obamanukes...
Why not! They already have ReagonHawk missile batteries!
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Seems like the Embassy in Tehran wasn't enough. Have through Press TV got information that the Saudi Embassy in Baghdad has been hit by a rocket

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Why not! They already have ReagonHawk missile batteries!
That's true but it must be said that short range defensive missiles are not even in the same league as nuclear weapons.
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Old 01-04-16, 10:44 PM   #688
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That's true but it must be said that short range defensive missiles are not even in the same league as nuclear weapons.
If you put an Obamanuke on a ReaganHawk missile...what do you get? An Inter-Carter Ballistic Missile?
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Strangely Motherland was not mentioned. Is it a nefarious plot of some kind?
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Strangely Motherland was not mentioned. Is it a nefarious plot of some kind?
Give it time, tovarisch, give it time.
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