Bombardment maybe, but getting troops there against air and sea control seems more tricky to me. I am not really a military guy though
Bombardment maybe, but getting troops there against air and sea control seems more tricky to me. I am not really a military guy though
One of the key events in the first half of the Peloponnesian War was the Battle/Siege of Sphacteria, where a couple hundred Spartans were besieged and captured/killed by Athens. I don’t think it’s a great analogy though
reminder for myself
I have pretty severe ADHD. I don't hide it but I don't really talk about it much either because I don't really have anything that interesting to say about it. It fucking sucks and makes my life notably worse. I wish I didn't have it. That's about all there is to say.
The classic example is that Cleopatra is less distant from us than she was from the Great Pyramid, yet to most people it’s all just ancient Egypt.
influence and control over the red sea and the arab world, they have some additional reasons in each individual conflict though
UAE and Saudi are fighting a proxy war across half the Middle East and East Africa
MTG Arena splash screen, showing the qualifier weekend as January 17
@mtgarena.com @fireshoes.bsky.social @wotc-news.bsky.social My friend made top 250 mythic in Limited but as can be seen in this SS, it shows his qualifier date as Jan 17 ingame, while everything else says Jan 10. Which is correct?
@mtgarena.com When and which formats is the September qualifier weekend? All the information I can find seems to be for 2024.
Egypt is insanely mismanaged and broke
Assad falling is no guarantee of a better Syria replacing him, but his continued rule is a guarantee that a better Syria couldn’t
Now that barrier is gone and I hope against hope that Syrians - the ones whose country it is - finally get to live free
July 2024 estimate from SNHR of Syrian Civil War casualties
reminder of how mindbogglingly evil Assad was
This is the Turkistan Islamic Party, one of Jolani's strongest allies
just a prank haha
First example of prerelease overhype more accurately
People thought it would be insane and it was trash
What if you threw a coup and no one was willing to kill for it
Forgot about the Peruvian coup from 2 years back
decades of brutal repression by the Assad regime finally exploded in the early 2010s. for a few simple examples, read about the Syrian Mukhabarat or what happened to Hama in 1982
can't believe the Iranian ally would verbally support the Iranian ally