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dutch777

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2. Iraq can barely control its own territory not sure it has much leverage in Syria. More destabilization is not good.

Reply to bronxiteforever (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2024, 08:31 AM

Dec 4

The Middle East is not the place you want to unravel things and see what comes of it. Bad is usually replaced by worse, at least for the people living there. I was talking with my niece yesterday who is enamored of Costa Rica but was sad to learn the narco terrorists are starting to work there too. And in Ecuador. Mexicanization is the new word termed. Increasingly we are looking at a world of failed nation states coopted by mafia like organizations where the governments are really not really in control and safety is illusory. My wife and I had looked at living in Malta as an alternate to the US only to find out the mafia there is the real power player. Have no hope that Trump will be a good influence on any of this.

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Iraq will not be just a 'spectator' in Syria, prime minister says [View all] bronxiteforever Dec 4 OP

The same way the USSR declared war on Japan a few weeks before WWII was over. marble falls Dec 4 #1

We still have 2,400 troops in Iraq bronxiteforever Dec 4 #3

We have troops in Syria. Where we've drubbed Russian troops thoroughy. marble falls Dec 4 #5

Good points. We have 900 troops in Syria. bronxiteforever Dec 4 #6

Iraq can barely control its own territory not sure it has much leverage in Syria. More destabilization is not good. dutch777 Dec 4 #2

Great insights dutch777. bronxiteforever Dec 4 #4