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In which case, while I don't think we should be selling anything to Saudi at all, it's hard to blame anyone. Although given Saudi's previous, it seems nigh on guaranteed that they'd end up hitting civilians with them.

So we signed up to a provision to prohibit and prevent the use of cluster bombs and then sold them to Saudi anyway. Great. That doesn't look hypocritical at all.

To go back to my original post, my point wasn't 'Assad is misunderstood'. My point was that clearly mistrust of the media is now rampant and is touching far more people than just me and Parky. At what point does this become a failure of the media? Or do we just accept that Russia has played the propaganda blinder of all time? Have to admit to being curious to learn how the UK based SN4HR knows exactly who is killing who, although obviously the government forces will be doing the majority of it since they're the ones making inroads.

I think you're making the right call, personally. Don't cave to peer pressure from Gemmill, he's not the one who'll have to deal with the emotional fall out (if any) and the possibility that watching this film could turn your child over to the dark side in the future

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/dec/18/assad-no-peace-for-the-wicked-cartoon Nice cartoon from the Guardian on the Syrian issue but what is interesting is the comments. They are nearly universal in condemnation of the media (including the Guardian) for assuming Assad and Russia to be the bad guys, and all such posts receive a large number of recommends. A number of the people posting these are commenters that I've seen on the Guardian for years, so I know they aren't Putinbots (who are always obvious anyway). This for me is interesting and demonstrates in a single comment section that 1) a large number of intelligent people who read the Guardian think the MSM is misleading people over Syria and 2) irrespective of who is right, this means that, as I've stated before, mistrust of the MSM is at an all time high. That video I posted last week seems to demonstrate that the MSM don't even have reliable sources on the ground in Syria...

The Ctrl-Left strikes again.

If the received wisdom is that no cockney manager is capable of a league win percentage of higher than 15% then maybe they're right.

Fish is very literally getting blamed for everything now.

Wait what? Was there a point in recent past where it's not been ok to say Happy Christmas?

Aye that's good news, nice that the money will go on to help others. Sad story this but it's genuinely nice to see people making an effort within the footballing community. Also nice to hear that Rio Ferdinand is donating that much money to so many children. He's gone up in my estimation of him.

I hope our problem with him is now fucking clear to people. It was around that in the last 18 months-ish of his time with us ffs.

That Claude guy is brilliant.

None, IMO. They've been thrown under the bus of geopolitical bluster and shows of strength.

He always goes for 1-0.

KCG's strategy has been pretty successful tbf.

That's probably the most comprehensive review I've read on here. Cheers Parky.

:lol: Holy fuck...

How is it possible that The Fish hasn't posted in this yet?

Agreed, very interesting. If the Clintons hadn't fucked up the US-Russian relationship, maybe we wouldn't be where we are. It's hard not to have some sympathy with Putin as much as we want our Western hegemony to continue and for Russia to ultimately be absorbed into it. We're seeing a bit of an 'Empire Strikes Back' moment presently it seems. Hopefully Russia isn't resurgent to the point it was, although the history here definitely has shades of 1920-30s Germany about it.

Interesting! Thanks for that.

Do you think he'll be a success here though? Conte seems to have gotten off to a better start even if you consider that the squads are of comparable strength.