Better yet, just turn the failing UK into a former British colony-run protectorate called Sportsball Island. Indian and Kenyan peacekeeping forces will be stationed throughout. Birmingham will be renamed New Lahore. The City will be dismantled and be replaced with five Sportsball stadiums and Olympic grounds.
Catholic reboot of Al-Andalus goes hard. Can't wait for Pope Francis to take the throne and immediately say the Shahada.
Thanks for your thoughts here comrade, glad you enjoyed the trip traumatic misery tour notwithstanding.
The opposition to Assad, at least at the start, was not fascist but yeah as the war dragged on and the "moderates" were eradicated because they had shitty weapons or refused to take up arms. This was absolutely a proxy war but there absolutely was legitimate opposition to Assad for very real reasons.
I think that's a very simplistic take on this war. In the early days ISIS didn't even exist in any meaningful sense, and the initial rebels were getting arms from the Gulf states as they scrambled to resist the massive crackdown by Assad to stop the street protests by the non-violent libs who all got killed. Many Syrian soldiers defected and set up local militias, local Syrian political groups acquired weapons and set up volunteer armies. It was a shitshow, with the "moderate Islamist" forces getting weapons form the Gulf, the defected Syrian soldiers/generals, and the FSA (which was a proxy for Turkish interference) all squabbled for leadership and support amongst the vast, broad tent of the opposition. The war absolutely started without any jihadists. Would it have lasted over a decade without them? No, probably not.
The Syrian civil war is one of the largest crimes of the 21st century, and every fucker who enabled and participated in that absolute clusterfuck is in part responsible for an immeasurable amount of suffering and death. The sheer scale of the destruction and the spillover into so many other parts of the Middle East is insane. It's not like there was any easy "solution" or anything that could have realistically happened to stop the war sooner outside of like a massive outside intervention that honestly could have made things much worse, but god damn it's insane the world kind of just let that happen. I can only hope the will of the Syrian people remains unbroken to live and rebuild. Hope you're staying safe comrade, looking forward to that report.
Ozu is when everybody smiles all the time and the camera is very low to the ground
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Ozu is when you're a widower and you have a female daughter that takes care of you but she's old now and you have to give her away in marriage but you kind of don't want to but you really should
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Nah there wouldn't be very many English speakers in any of these places. They were all French colonial possessions, and their language of administration is French, even though in each only around 10% speak French regularly. They all teach French in school so many people speak/read it as a second language.
OR they knew exactly how it'd sound in English and are just that based.
My boy Jon Fosse just got the Nobel Prize for literature, and it's the first time in a long while where I've been so pleased with the committee's selection. Giving it to two European writers in a row is kind of cringe to be fair (I really thought it was Can Xue's year, and an Asian writer hasn't won it in like a decade), but Fosse is so fantastic. He's similar to Beckett, but if Beckett was a Norwegian communist Christian mystic. His prose is addictive, simple, and hypnotic. Start with Aliss by the Fire if you want a short introduction to this wonderful writer, or Septology (his best work) if you want something beefy as hell, as the latter is actually 7 novels stitched together.