What people didnt notice was that Assad wasnt half as keen on eliminating IS as people would have you believe. He supported them plenty. 1. Syria was a conduit for IS fighters going Iraq, not just th… (View Post)

The choice was not solely between Assad and IS at any point. How many opposition groups were involved over the last decade, do you know? (View Post)

Between martial law in South Korea and the rapidity of the fall of Assad, you'd have to Eurmillions level odds of both being in anyone's prediction card for 2024. Just to deal with the appa… (View Post)

Nice to see that the Russian Central Bank has taken the time tested method to stabilise the ruble of ..closing the domestic market in exchange, thus neatly putting its currency's shitty state in… (View Post)

I don't know. Russia is running out of reserves with the national wealth fund being massively drawn down, its oil is worth less and less and possibly now selling below its extraction and deliver… (View Post)