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[–] PIcasso54 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago (edited ago)
He plays golf and then goes reads books to children then goes to a campaign funding. Then, he sits down and works for an hour and a half and that's a presidents week. Every so often however, he takes $50 million trips to Hawaii or takes a week off for his anniversary...
[–] luckyguy 1 point 14 points 15 points (+15|-1) ago (edited ago)
Way to go Putin! He's going to have a laugh when he gets to call the Americans out on supporting ISIS and say look, they only took a few days to take out. The fact that it took you a year meant that you had no interest in destroying them. Also the fact that you were sort of funding them and that they were about to take out a politician you don't like it's clear you were funding them. Now let's talk about what happened in Ukraine.
[–] luckyguy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I agree that Russia did bad in Ukraine but so did the US and that is what Putin would like to talk about and what I was referring to. Their intelligence services of course went there and asked around and got answers pretty easily. They've figured who was paid in Ukraine to do the coup and how much they were paid. There's a 60 minutes on it. Of course there are some pro-russian people in every strata in Kiev so I'm sure there was a mountain of information that was handed over to them voluntarily.
Of course Putin was paying the guy that was outed to make bad deals for Ukraine and economically advantageous deals for Russia. Both Russia and US have done all kinds of helter sckelter things there. It's a regular baklava of attacks on Ukraine's sovereignty.
[–] CatNamedJava ago
I thought they were doing well and the air strikes weren't working last week.
[–] Kaizervonmaanen ago
ISIS won't be wiped out even if they nuked the whole place. ISIS is all over and the reasons ISIS exists in the first place is getting worse and worse. Their reason to exist is strengthened for every bomb. It's naive to think it will be over just because some ISIS members are removed, it's just like when George Bush thought he could wipe out all 150 Al Qaida members that existed in 2001. Today they are several hundred thousand fighters in almost 40 countries. AND you also have a group like ISIS on top of that who to a large degree share some values. It's contraproductive and won't help anyone except give a temporary relief to Assad.
[–] Kaizervonmaanen 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
I'm pretty sure if we start public executions of ISIS members they will be disheartened to quit...
ISIS often show corpses of ISIS members in their propaganda, Tons and tons of them, dying is considered a reward and reminder of martyrdom. It might have the opposite effect. You could just as well just show ISIS propaganda where ISIS members die. No ISIS member think they will survive, according to the prophecy Muhammed told and which they believe in, the whole world will go against a group in Syria who fly the black banner, the group will be fought back until a big battle in the city of Dabiq where the group will suddenly win, and eventually they will win back the land and Jesus will come back at the white mosque in Damasqus and control the whole world according to the laws of God (sharia). That is why they call their main english Magazine "Dabiq", they all believe they are going to die fighting, but that someone will continue the fight until judgement day. They believe that after the current Caliph dies (which they all are waiting for) there will be... I think... 5 more, because a Prophecy say that there will be 12 Caliphs from the tribe Quraish (Which this Baghdadi guy is a decendent from and he is considered like the 6th or something). They believe that these guys will die pretty fast due to the hazardous fighting currently in place. Having ISIS members dying out will just kind of prove their point, and it might be the reason why ISIS is not afraid to antagonize everyone since the prophecy says that the REAL proper muslims will get attacked by the whole world. And one more reason why they believe that THIS is the time for it is because the prophecy includes the statement that the muslims will begin raising the black banners in Khorasan, which is the area called Afghanistan and western Pakistan today. Which has happened recently as well.
This is one of the prophecies in question, russians by the way claimed to be successors to Rome (also called the third rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Rome ) after the fall of the Byzantine empire (the second rome which lasted until the muslims took Turkey), so this nonsense counterproductive bombing would probably just strengthen ISIS, just look at what the old prophecy says:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The Last Hour would not come until the Romans would land at al-A'maq or in Dabiq. An army consisting of the best (soldiers) of the people of the earth at that time will come from Medina (to counteract them). When they will arrange themselves in ranks, the Romans would say: Do not stand between us and those (Muslims) who took prisoners from amongst us. Let us fight with them; and the Muslims would say: Nay, by Allah, we would never get aside from you and from our brethren that you may fight them. They will then fight and a third (part) of the army would run away, whom Allah will never forgive. A third (part of the army). which would be constituted of excellent martyrs in Allah's eye, would be killed ani the third who would never be put to trial would win and they would be conquerors of Constantinople. And as they would be busy in distributing the spoils of war (amongst themselves) after hanging their swords by the olive trees, the Satan would cry: The Dajjal has taken your place among your family. They would then come out, but it would be of no avail. And when they would come to Syria, he would come out while they would be still preparing themselves for battle drawing up the ranks. Certainly, the time of prayer shall come and then Jesus (peace be upon him) son of Mary would descend and would lead them in prayer. When the enemy of Allah would see him, it would (disappear) just as the salt dissolves itself in water and if he (Jesus) were not to confront them at all, even then it would dissolve completely, but Allah would kill them by his hand and he would show them their blood on his lance (the lance of Jesus Christ).
[–] BitchoftheBunch 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
end of an era for USA
vietnam 2.0