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[The Warlord]

 

[Val Keating]

Really interesting conversation about the history of the Turkic Uyghurs and what’s happening in China




For thousands of years, nomadic tribes occupied vast lands beyond the limited reach of pre-modern empires. With the dawn of the modern age, these peoples found themselves locked inside the borders of powerful states whose drive to assimilate subject populations into homogenous national projects has led to a rapid dwindling of human cultural and biodiversity.

The Tarim Basin in northwest China has been home to the Turkic Uyghurs for over a thousand years, but the Chinese Communist Party has worked for decades to eliminate Uyghur cultural identity and demographic predominance. Perhaps no place on earth provides a more frightening example of modern methods and technology applied to man's darkest and most ancient impulses.

 

[The Warlord]

Poor old Uighurs fighting with Al Qaeda in Idlib in Syria.

 

[DesertRoo]

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Poor old Uighurs fighting with Al Qaeda in Idlib in Syria.

Ain’t they the ‘tip’, best acronym ever..

 

[Val Keating]

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Poor old Uighurs fighting with Al Qaeda in Idlib in Syria.

They mentioned that in the pod above. Cooper is very well read

 

[Val Keating]

Though Jocko is a Seal and Cooper works for the American DOD

 

[DesertRoo]

Biden forgets every other name on the report and tells Putin to GAGF.

Biden: Putin is a ‘killer’, Russia to ‘pay’ for election meddling

The statements follow a US intelligence report that linked Putin to a campaign aimed at swinging the US vote.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[DesertRoo]

How the pentagon undermined a president... waiting it out til the next

How the US military subverted the Afghan peace agreement to prolong an unpopular war - The Grayzone

Appointed in the final days of Trump's presidency to remove all US troops from Afghanistan, Douglas Macgregor tells The Grayzone how military leadership undermined the withdrawal and pressured Trump to capitulate. In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone, Col. Douglas Macgregor, a former...

thegrayzone.com

 

[DesertRoo]

A reminder of how did they get here..
Oprah going to be doing a new Hilux episode.

The Memo That Helped Kill a Half Million People in Syria

The memo shows the advice Hillary Clinton was getting to plunge the U.S. deeper into the Syrian war. As Trump seeks to extricate the U.S. the memo has again become relevant, writes Daniel Lazare. By Daniel Lazare Special to Consortium News A memo sent to Hillary Clinton that WikiLeaks made publ

consortiumnews.com

 

[The Warlord]

Isis claims deadly attack in northern Mozambique

Attack on port town of Palma has forced hundreds of people to flee amid fierce fighting

www.theguardian.com

 

[DesertRoo]

Isis claims deadly attack in northern Mozambique

Attack on port town of Palma has forced hundreds of people to flee amid fierce fighting

www.theguardian.com

That reads more like a shake down effort..

 

[DesertRoo]

What came first in Ukraine the chicken or the egg..

Turkey says U.S. warships to deploy in Black Sea until May 4

The United States has informed Turkey that two of its warships will pass through Turkish straits to be deployed in the Black Sea until May 4, Ankara said on Friday, as Russia has bulked up its military forces on Ukraine's eastern border.

www.reuters.com

 

[The Warlord]

 

[DesertRoo]

That is simply disturbing..

 

[Val Keating]

Anyone across the story of all the missing women taken by Turkish backed fighters in Syria? That part of the world is so ****ed up and it’s not coming back.

 

[Val Keating]

Looks like it might kick off again between Russia and Ukraine. The hatred is strong between those two.

EU warns ‘spark’ could set off escalation at Ukraine borders

Pentagon also said Russian military build-up is an ‘unprovoked escalation’ aimed at ‘destabilising’ Ukraine.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[Val Keating]

Putting all the history aside, they’re basically fighting over water.

 

[DesertRoo]

Putting all the history aside, they’re basically fighting over water.

It’s about the EU dependancy of energy resources, legacy of the old USSR.
I can’t remember off the top of my head but I think it’s 5 major pipelines that go from Russia to the EU thru Ukraine.

 

[Val Keating]

It’s about the EU dependancy of energy resources, legacy of the old USSR.
I can’t remember off the top of my head but I think it’s 5 major pipelines that go from Russia to the EU thru Ukraine.

After the USSR the Ukraine damned their water supply. I’m listening to this podcast right now to get the history on it and man it’s shocking. What the Russians did to them was horrific. Probably some of the hardest stuff I’ve listened to. I’ve always sort of known about the history of that part of Europe but I’ve never really paid a lot of attention to it. It’s really shocking.

 

[ferball]

Russia wouldn't exist without Ukraine either. Like so many hot spots in the world it has the feel of a demented family feud.

 

[DesertRoo]

After the USSR the Ukraine damned their water supply. I’m listening to this podcast right now to get the history on it and man it’s shocking. What the Russians did to them was horrific. Probably some of the hardest stuff I’ve listened to. I’ve always sort of known about the history of that part of Europe but I’ve never really paid a lot of attention to it. It’s really shocking.

Listening to this podcast now, reminds me of hearing stories of the Arminian genocide.. horrific.

 

[Val Keating]

Listening to this podcast now, reminds me of hearing stories of the Arminian genocide.. horrific.

Shockingly bad. No humanity at all.

 

[DesertRoo]

 

[Hojuman]

Dueterte re-thinking his china policy too D.R.

 

[DesertRoo]

Dueterte re-thinking his china policy too D.R.

He’s a grifter..
when the chips are down it’ll be interesting to see who he comes crying too..