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also pin this unlike last time

It's hard to not look at this and compare it to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Enemy nation of the US run by geriatric leader won't do what the moment actually calls for because he's more worried about dying in his sleep, so he lets all his allies get rolled up one by one.

The South Korean National Assembly could vote to revoke the martial law with a majority vote of its 300 lawmakers. 190 lawmakers just voted to lift the martial law. Now the question is whether Yoon will actually lift it. The law requires Yoon to comply.

Per YTN, the South Korean military is saying the martial law will remain in place until the president says otherwise/officially lifts it. Just to be clear, there was no particular 'emergency' as far as actual North Korean threats to South Korea are concerned.

Russia Hands Control Of Baltika Breweries Back To Carlsberg

A presidential decree has handled control of the Russian brewery corporation Baltika back to Danish multinational beer conglomerate Carlsberg, the largest foreign investor in the Russian beer industry.

Baltika was placed under state administration last summer as Carlsberg attempted to sell their Russian business off while failing to provide sufficient information about the new owner to authorites. Carlsberg called the move an "illegal takeover" and wrote off their Russian business completely. In retaliation Carlsberg attempted to transfer licensing rights to brands such as Kronenbourg and Tuborg away from Baltika, leading to a lawsuit in Leningrad that resulted in Baltika keeping the right to use the brands in Russia.

The Russian government has not commented on the motivation for today's decision but according to Danish television, rumors in Russia says that Carlsberg has struck a deal with the Russian government either to stay on the Russian market or to sell the business in an orderly fashion.

• Source: Interfax, December 2nd 2024

Can someone point me to a history on Syria? I know the basics of the civil war, but I want to learn more about the history of ba'athism. What was Syria like before ba'athism? What changes did it bring? How has it changed over time?

People here seem to be highly critical of Assad now that things are collapsing. How did conditions deteriorate into a civil war?

I was under the assumption that although things were bad in Syria, everyone would be better off if Assad had won the civil war relative to the other groups that were in direct conflict with him. Is this true?

Ok I wake up and Syria has fallen to the dumb ass terroists? Is this Lybia 2.0? What the fuck man?

Terrorists have broken through to Homs and are 6 km from the city center, military sources report :"The Assad regime is dead. We will establish a government based on the People's Council, which will be institutional and not based on one ruler making arbitrary decisions," said HTS militant leader Abu Muhammad al-Julani.

Some news and combat footage from the Donbass for today.

Russian forces liberated the eastern Donetsk People’s Republic settlements of Novy Komar and Blagodatnoye (north and south of Kiev-occupied Velikaya Novosyolka): https://southfront.press/in-pincer-grip-russian-army-approaches-velika-novosilka-from-different-directions/

In addition, yesterday Russian forces also liberated the DPR settlement of Starye Terny (northwest of partially Kiev-occupied Kurakhovo): https://southfront.press/no-way-out-de-facto-ukrainian-garrison-surrounded-in-kurakhovo/

A Russian FPV drone dropped a grenade right into the open hatch of a Kiev regime armored vehicle (18+): https://sputnikglobe.com/20241204/watch-russian-drone-take-out-ukrainian-armored-transport-with-precise-strike-1121092268.html

Despite openly wanting to destroy Hezbollah, HTS now sends a letter to Lebanon wishing for 'positive relations'. Egypt and Jordan have urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to form a government in exile – Wall Street Journal

barnier more like dernier hon-hon

Romanian parliamentary elections results with all votes counted

Electoral threshold to get into Parliament is 5%

PSD: 22.30%

AUR: 18.30%

PNL: 14.28%

USR: 12.26%

SOS Romania: 7.76%

POT: 6.39%

UDMR: 6.38%

Well,not great,but not terrible

Possible coalitions are an unholy PSD-USR-PNL alliance, a cordon sanitaire against the reactionary right, very up in the air, seeing as USR was the anti-establishment party when it was founded and the two others are the establishment

PNL-PSD-UDMR could theoretically happen but it would get people to riot seeing the exact same coalition what was in power until now stay in power and only supercharge the anti establishment reactionaries

The other obvious one is the reactionary Frankenstein AUR-SOS-POT,but SOS is a wildcard, oscillating between being pro Georgescu to anti Georgescu

Anyway,the country is basically ungovernable and any coalition would have a hard time doing much of anything

Next week,the second round of the presidential elections and the end of this absolutely insane election season

Edit:PSD is basically the kingmaker

They decide to ditch the liberals,it's libover

They back them,they squeak out a cordon sanitaire against the reactionaries

Erdogan: Syrian opposition's goal is Damascus! The Turkish leader also openly supported the militants in his statement and expressed hope that they would go to the end.

CNN is reporting Assad is not in Damascus anymore, no idea if this is true since CNN have been hyping these terrorists for weeks now.

Democracy is when you just say no if the wrong candidate wins.

I guess it's Assadover for now, HTS will probably control most of the country while Assad attempts to create a state in Latakia (or he flees to the UAE). At this point who knows what is going to happen to Syria, I doubt peace will last long, these terrorists will 100% attempt to invade Iraq and Lebanon, and infighting is also a huge possibility.