What's amazing is that it is Ankara bombing Iraq, bombing Sinjar, etc; and they are always trying to misdirect fake anger towards Israel, a country that has done nothing to Iraqis...which if anything Iraq is often belligerent to for no reason...it makes no sense.
We got used to this nonsense whereby countries that are far far away from Israel, which Israel didn't do anything to, where the locals know nothing about Israel...are bashing it. It's as random as if they drove over the flag of Malawi....but we are told "no, this is normal"
We are told, of course some Iraqi in Basra, where the government is a disaster and there is corruption and pollution and poverty...that this poor person should waste their time hating Israel and adopting some foreign conflict as their own...as logical as to take up Burma too
But we are conditioned to see it as normal...anyway also we are conditioned to see as normal the "need" of every regime to burn US or Israeli or other flags in this region...the pathetic way that chauvinists burn others flags....a ridiculous past time.
And it is presented as legitimate...imagine having to grow up in some place like this and seeing the flags of other countries trampled and burned...why..."because that's what we do"...
The Iranian regime occupation of the region picked up where some other nationalists and extremists left off...the use of fake hatred directed at far away countries to distract from failure, occupation, corruption, poverty at home.
Meanwhile Iran strips the economy of Iraq, poor Iraq is dependent on Iran for basic things...bombed by Turkey too...and the people are expected to dislike Israel...convenient for the regimes that exploit this.

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A comparison with the images of a drone used on January 3, shows some differences in construction (wing attachment etc); but the basic concept appears similar. Image
We can see here via @nafisehkBBC the photos from the Jan. 3 drones;
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I’ve taken a few tests in the US, one was at a temporary drive thru at a hospital in Portland, Maine, another at a curbside of a health clinic and another at a drive thru of a health clinic in NY…they were all PCR tests…so why they can’t just have a cubicle outside?
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Thread: People's responses to antisemitism are sometimes guided by their politics...to the point they treat antisemitism on their side of the political spectrum like it was just a bad joke at a cocktail party but "we're all in the in-crowd so it's ok, please don't say it so loud"
Basically it amounts to "please don't hate us all as a group, we're on the same political team so if you can just tone down the antisemitism next time, let me educate you about how to say it slightly differently, or just don't say it out loud next time"...
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It’s funny to see the Ankara regime accounts on here celebrating Ankara lira “gains” and its “strength”….after weeks in which it was weakening now they post that it got better…economic nationalism is so boring and banal…the whole thing is chicanery anyway
Does anyone believe that the lira really weakened so much so quickly and then magically went from like 18 to 10 to the $1 overnight…the whole thing is some scheme cooked up by Ankara…it’s not based on reality of the economy
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🧵Please not the “Turkey could help confront Russia in Ukraine”….the same fantasy narrative that claimed Turkey would confront Iran-Russia in Syria so US should give Turkey eastern Syria…and Turkey will confront Russia so its conflict with Armenia should be supported; nonsense
First of all you should never empower one vicious authoritarian regime that crushes media in order to confront some other adversary….second Ankara is buying S-400s, it is a partner of Moscow. It’s not confronting it. It has its own allies like Azerbaijan…but not NATO, US etc
the fantasy of: Ankara will confront Iran-Russia “so let’s support-ignore its crackdown” on minorities….airstrikes on Sinjar, trafficking Syrians to Libya….same old story, it always ends with having to back Ankara extremism…so “hopefully” in the future Ankara will fight 🇮🇷 🇷🇺
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For instance, ok I’m interested in any confirmed successes Ankara’s drones had, whether it is supposedly striking hundreds of armed vehicles in Syria or Armenian vehicles…but how can any of it be confirmed. It’s usually just reports of Blitzkrieg like success at face value
Other drones, like loitering munitions also used against Armenian forces are relegated to non-existent because no one bothers to quantify their use or success…it’s like a footnote (“and there were other drones”)…
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