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Russian ambassador to Turkey assassinated

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    #152
    KingBrian2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,363 ✭✭✭KingBrian2


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    We in the west need to accept that some societies need totalitarian oppressive dictatorships in which dissenters are kept in check or disappeared, free elections are non existent and where human rights, personal freedoms, equality and tolerance are foreign notions.

    No we need secular societies with good governance.


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    #153
    Alpha_zero
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Alpha_zero


    KingBrian2 wrote: »
    No we need secular societies with good governance.

    By middle eastern standards, Syria prior to the war was a secular nation. Western intervention has destroyed Syria.


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    #154
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    sjb25 wrote: »
    Sent it down me for a second aswell think its an unfortunate coincidence tho but fcuking hell :eek:

    Even weirder is the logo for the Euro truck simulator has the same make, model and colour of truck as the one here. Tis been a weird aul year.


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    #155
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    The drone they stole was in the Philippines' backyard.

    The south china sea is close to China. Not close to Washington. Clue is in the name.


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    #156
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    No, we don't.

    What are you gonna do about it? Boots on the ground is it?


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    #157
    Pete Moss
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭Pete Moss


    martingriff wrote:
    Someone will be fingered by Turkey to show they are co-operating now is it the real suspects or not that is up in the air


    They should actually give them a good fisting instead, to show they really mean business.


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    #158
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    There will be no World War Three any time soon. People were saying there would be a third world war during the 50s,60s, 70s, 80,s right up till the war on terror. The world has been in more precarious times and the possibility of a third world seems unlikely imo. If there wasn't a third World War when 1 third of the world was communist then I don't think it it will happen now.

    Its just these things get wildly inflated due to the amount of media platforms that didn't exist in previous times.

    WWIII nearly happened. More than once. The earth got lucky.

    Unless all nukes are designed commissioned it will happen some time.


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    #159
    martingriff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Pete Moss wrote: »
    They should actually give them a good fisting instead, to show they really mean business.

    Sorry what. AH sorry this is After Hours very good


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    #160
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    No, we don't.

    What evidence would convince you that neo-con fantasys about democracies in the middle east are nonsense. (Lies rather than naivety though).


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    #161
    noodler
    Registered Users Posts: 26,309 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    joint operation wrote: »
    pray for berlin

    Wtf


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    #162
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    noodler wrote: »
    Wtf

    Just bad timing.


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    #163
    noodler
    Registered Users Posts: 26,309 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Just bad timing.

    Very dodgey username and boards.ie join date.


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    #164
    snotboogie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,569 ✭✭✭snotboogie


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Just bad timing.

    It would be bad timing if it made sense in the context of the thread, which it doesn't........


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    #165
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Yourself isit wrote: »
    The south china sea is close to China. Not close to Washington. Clue is in the name.

    I never wrote the drone was picked up closer to the US than China. I wrote the drone was in the Philippines' waters. Not Chinese.


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    #166
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Yourself isit wrote: »
    What evidence would convince you that neo-con fantasys about democracies in the middle east are nonsense. (Lies rather than naivety though).

    Sure, democracy is a neo con fantasy.


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    #167
    Gringo180
    Registered Users Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    This hasn't been getting as much news coverage as it should be. Imagine an American or British ambassador being shot dead live on tv.


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    #168
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users Posts: 7,519 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Gringo180 wrote: »
    This hasn't been getting as much news coverage as it should be. Imagine an American or British ambassador being shot dead live on tv.
    Think it's just being overshadowed by Berlin.


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    #169
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,158 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Yeah I took a look. Really mundane dispersed comments. What is bizarre to me;

    1) The user name
    2) The registration date of the account
    3) The comment in the context of this thread and on the first page as this story was only developing

    Just a bizarre coincidence?? Hopefully it is because the username sent a chill down my spine. Hard to know.

    I would think that someone with that username is a stoner. And I can imagine them in a haze of smoke looking at this and giggling like mad.

    Don't worry though, in about 2 hours he's going to get the munchies really bad.


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    #170
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Think it's just being overshadowed by Berlin.

    Wouldn't surprise me at all if the two events are connected. The timing is too perfect.


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    #171
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,564 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    What is Aleppo?


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    #172
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users Posts: 7,519 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    What is Aleppo?
    How's life Gary?


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    #173
    enda1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    What is Aleppo?

    Someone with half their face hanging off.


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    #174
    Peanut
    Registered Users Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Peanut


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Best case scenario here is that when Trump takes office, he buries this whole NATO thing or at least chucks Turkey out. They are a liability.
    Turkey most likely has little to do with this, apart from being a neighbour to a country in an extreme state of civil war.

    This satellite visualization released a week ago showed the level of destruction of Aleppo even in September,
    https://twitter.com/mbesheer/status/808758325215166468
    (source pdf: http://unosat-maps.web.cern.ch/unosat-maps/SY/CE20130604SYR/UNOSAT_A3_Aleppo_Damage_Density_20160918_v2opt.pdf )

    The UN is saying that the recent intense bombing is most likely a war crime. There was no international consensus on a way to prevent this happening. Although it may eventually shorten the war, this would not have happened without Russian support.

    Given all of this, it's not exactly surprising that there's some sort of reprisal against the Russian state by those affected, or those nearby who are culturally connected and sympathetic to them.


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    #175
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    First the "coup"

    Then the "Kurdish suicide bomber"

    And now the Russian ambassador "assassinated"


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    #176
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,564 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    How's life Gary?

    Howiyeah!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOT_BoGpCn4


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    #177
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    noodler wrote: »
    Very dodgey username and boards.ie join date.
    snotboogie wrote: »
    It would be bad timing if it made sense in the context of the thread, which it doesn't........

    Its conspiracy stuff. If you feel there is something wrong about it, then report those posts to the proper authorities. Its just bad timing.


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    #178
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Sure, democracy is a neo con fantasy.

    I said "democracies in the middle east". Should I explain how in the middle east modifies the sentence or can you work it out?


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    #179
    Oodoov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭Oodoov


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    In Mother Russia, Turkey shoot you...

    Stupid joke is stupid.


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    #180
    Oodoov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭Oodoov


    Gringo180 wrote: »
    This hasn't been getting as much news coverage as it should be. Imagine an American or British ambassador being shot dead live on tv.

    The pundits on sky news at 10:30 actually looked happy about it. One stated "these things happen when you provoke people"

    Pretty sad actually.


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    #181
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Oodoov wrote: »
    Stupid joke is stupid.

    You should head over to the chocolate thread :D


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