Russia said not to do it... we did it. That’s why our panties are in a bunch

Lol @ fgts ITT wondering why I don’t like us bombing somewhere when Russia warned us not to

I, nor anyone I’ve ever met don’t want a war with Russia. We just want an easy fukkin life... life is already hard enough without trying to survive war

Also, no one I know is totally happy with their taxes going towards this bullchit either, especially when it’s based on “evidence” that has not been proven


Has the figures been released yet with how much the strikes cost last night?

Lol @ fgts ITT wondering why I don’t like us bombing somewhere when Russia warned us not to

I, nor anyone I’ve ever met don’t want a war with Russia. We just want an easy fukkin life... life is already hard enough without trying to survive war

Also, no one I know is totally happy with their taxes going towards this bullchit either, especially when it’s based on “evidence” that has not been proven

If Russia ruled the world not America you wouldn't be allowed to be so openly homo. Just sayin (no hate).

Fukk or get fukked. We all know which side you want to be. No surprise really.

His love for these poor Syrians is funny as fuk as they would throw him from a roof or stone him to death with no fuks given.

I’m not a brainwashed buffoon, I don’t believe in “sides”

Please tell me ITT where I’ve actually expressed love for Syria? Not that I don’t care about them... but please amuse me

Lmfao everyone itt is deluded as fk
Brb Merica is the strongest we do what we want

In a Russia - USA war, even by proxies, there are no victors. You only end up with thousands of young men slaughtered.
Nobody gains anything by gaining control of fking Syria

You should run for president

or king

Ok buddy, when WMDs pour down your hometown, I expect you to not accept your military's (or any country's military) help because you know you're not a hypocrite and all.

Don't even fib yourself, you totally have a thing for Bashar Al-Assad.

To all those asking why Trump is doing this, I graduated with a degree in Political Science two years early and studied it quite a bit. Keeping the fight over there is better than letting the Syrian governments battle for control against multiple terrorist/rebel groups. It raises moral and ethical questions of how people should be able to live. Here is a paper I wrote regarding terrorism and the conflicts in Syria if you would be interested.

This paper will address the Syrian Civil War in terms of transnational terrorism, with a focus on economic factors. Ethnic conflict is driven by economic inequalities. This paper has two sections. First, the paper will briefly define transnational terrorism. Second, the paper will briefly analyze how economic issues and transnational terrorism contributed to the splintering of Syria. As stated by Basuchoudhary and Shughart (2010, 81), “terrorism is less likely to originate in countries where people have greater freedom to improve their lots in life”.
Transnational terrorism refers to terrorist actions originating in one country, reaching beyond a national boundary, and being executed in another country. Terrorist actions transcend traditional political borders and may involve several nations. This type of terrorism has become a significant global concern within the last few decades. Transnational terrorism is frequently conducted by terrorist groups not sponsored by a specific country, and often recruited from many countries. This type of terrorist network can operate at a local to global level, affecting economic and political foundations of countries. These networks often work with other terrorist networks towards a common goal, often using social media to recruit individuals and promote ideological platforms. Although transnational terrorist events often receive international spotlight, domestic terrorism has been shown to outpace it by nine times (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 70). Terrorists will often strike “softer” targets overseas versus conducting operations against the “hard” targets within a country. Many transnational terrorist attacks are actually based on ethnic conflicts in other countries. Recent terrorist events have been conducted against U.S. and Western interests across the globe. Basuchoudhary and Shughart (2010, 76) stated, “heightened ethnic tensions in a country generally increase the number of transnational terrorist attacks by citizens of that country”.
The current tumultuous situation in Syria is complicated, involving multiple countries, military organizations, and religious sects. Within the last several years, Syria has been a national battleground between an increasingly large number of internal and external entities. The Syrian civil war began after the Arab Spring uprising when the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad violently halted peaceful protests to remove him (Phillips, 2015, 359). These actions incited the development of armed groups and new military forces by the regime. Various groups to include the Kurds, Sunnis, and radical opposition groups became involved in the conflict. It escalated into ongoing armed conflict throughout the country and across borders.
Many factors, including structural, economic, socio-cultural, and political, have impacted the conflict. When examined according to the theory proffered by Basuchoudhary and Shughart, economics plays a key role in understanding some underlying causes of the crisis. They found a strong correlation between transnational terrorism and economic factors (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 66). Specifically, their results showed a lack of quality economic institutions and economic mobility increases terrorism (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 85). Basuchoudhary and Shughart (2010, 85) found “economic freedoms lessen the tendency for ethnic tensions to spawn transnational terrorism over the entire sample, both before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall”. Syria underwent significant economic fallout from several events, with 2005 proving to be a critical year (Phillips, 2015, 367). In response to U. S. sanctions, Assad put forth a “social market economy” plan, which created numerous financial problems. In 2005, major economic reforms were forced through by the President’s regime, as the Syrian economy was not providing enough jobs for the growing population and the country’s oil reserves were shrinking (Phillips, 2015, 366). Adding to this situation was a major drought experienced from 2006-2010, affecting farmers in rural areas and causing hundreds of thousands of people to relocate to urban areas, settling in slums outside Syrian cities (Phillips, 2015, 367). The reforms also cut budgets across social institutions, the army, and charitable services (Phillips, 2015, 367). These problems within the Syrian economy created economic instability across the entire country. The chances of civil war occurring are diminished if income growth rises (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 69). However, these combined financial situations support the argument that transnational terrorism is more prevalent when individuals experience limited economic freedoms (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 66).
The economic issues within Syria are inexorably interwoven with various ethnic and political groups operating within and outside its’ borders. Ethnic polarization and fractionalization are factors which promote conflict and terrorism (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 72). Assad’s reforms created resentment and tensions between several key factions of the population. The country is comprised of 12% Alawi, 64% Sunni Arab, 9% Christian, 3% Druze, 1% Shia, and 10% Kurdish, further divided by income and political ideology (Phillips, 2015, 357). Although Assad originally appointed Sunni allies into key government positions, he later removed them, cementing a regime dominated by the Alawi. The economic reforms provided financial advantages to the Alawi regime elites, while key subsidies were cut for ordinary Syrians (Phillips, 2015, 367). Tribal and religious leaders took on more critical roles, which weakened state-society bonds and strengthened sect-society connections (Phillips, 2015, 368). Many of the crises which became the foundation for sectarian resentment and conflict were primarily economic and not ethnic-driven (Phillips, 2015, 367). Rebel looting of wealthy areas, stealing houses and redistributing them, and income inequality demonstrate the importance of economic elements influencing the civil war. Economic benefits, motivation, and opportunism caused divisions along economic versus sectarian lines (Phillips, 2015, 360).
The economic inequality which underlay and fomented the Syrian crisis had been exacerbated by external nations and their influence on the civil war. Various Syrian factions received international intervention in terms of resources, equipment, and military armed forces. Millions of dollars in cash and arms made militia groups compete for funds (Phillips, 2015, 370). This is yet another example of economic means driving the undercurrent of the war. Additionally, situations in other countries such as Iraq and Iran increased ideological and religious tensions. In order to weaken the U.S. in Iraq, Assad allowed and supported Sunni jihadist fighters to cross over the Syrian border from Iraq (Phillips, 2015, 368). Extreme violence and destruction occurred as more fighting groups, particularly the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) became a powerful presence after crossing the Syrian border from Iraq. As the situation deteriorated within Syria, ISIS was able to gain a dangerous and strong following from various groups of Syrians citizens (Phillips, 2015, 369). ISIS is a prime example of how transnational terrorism has its origin in ethnic conflicts in another country (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 70). Furthermore, inter-group conflicts can escalate into transnational terrorist events (Basuchoudhary and Shughart, 2010, 66).
Given that transnational terrorism is associated with economic factors, policies geared toward decreasing terrorism through political versus economic avenues could be useless. As concluded by Basuchoudhary and Shughart (2010, 83), “Political solutions to terrorism arising from ethnic tensions therefore may be unworkable since the root cause of terrorism seems to lie in poor economic institutions”. The concept of replacing current political remedies with those promoting more economic changes may disrupt the nexus between ethnic conflict and terrorism.
The complicated situation in Syria has grown from both economic disparity and transnational terrorism by many actors.

Lmfao everyone itt is deluded as fk
Brb Merica is the strongest we do what we want

In a Russia - USA war, even by proxies, there are no victors. You only end up with thousands of young men slaughtered.
Nobody gains anything by gaining control of fking Syria

Please tell me ITT where I’ve actually expressed love for Syria? Not that I don’t care about them... but please amuse me

No, you ignored my post to your knee jerk effeminate posts back on page 5. Until then keep posting effeminate knee jerk reactions vs looking at the bigger picture.

No, you ignored my post to your knee jerk effeminate posts back on page 5. Until then keep posting effeminate knee jerk reactions vs looking at the bigger picture.

This happened because Russia wants to replace the U.S. dollar in crude oil payments on deals with Turkey and Iran. This is all about the U.S. dollar losing its dominance. It's why we went to war in Iraq--because Saddam was about to begin selling oil using EU currency. It's why we ousted Gaddafi--because he wanted to move to a gold-backed dinar in oil transactions and eliminate the dollar. And one of the big reasons the U.S. hates Iran is that they are one of the few nations in the world that still has a state-owned central bank. The U.S hates that Iran is so resistant to their hegemony.

The bigger picture is usually too big for most to see. Small picture is here we go again getting involved in foreign chit that doesnt immediately affect us. Bigger pic is well these fuks are tryna build weapons that can fuk us up in 30 years. Might as well cut the bud before it flowers.

The bigger picture is usually too big for most to see. Small picture is here we go again getting involved in foreign chit that doesnt immediately affect us. Bigger pic is well these fuks are tryna build weapons that can fuk us up in 30 years. Might as well cut the bud before it flowers.