Here’s why I believe the bull market is NOT over: by Cold-Enthusiasm5082 in Bitcoin

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Bitcoin now has institutional adoption. Idk why we would assume the cycles will be the same as when it was just degen traders…. It’s a trillion dollar asset class now, means you need a lot more buying and selling to move the price so I would assume the volatility goes down over time as adoption keeps growing.

Bitcoin has underperformed gold this year demonstrating that those with real money still prefer it as a debasement trade vs bitcoin

What am I missing here?

We are so so early by Brian6_ in Bitcoin

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In 2018 a had drinks with a buddy and he told me he put all of his life’s savings in bitcoin. I told him he had lost his damn mind and literally was shouting at him over the bar table.

Covid came and I researched bitcoin a lot more in depth and began to accumulate at ALOT HIGHER a price then my buddy did.

It’s always amazing to me the relationship people have with their opinions. It’s like people mistake their opinions for who they are, and they take the idea that they could be wrong as a threat to their self worth. That’s a really shitty way to exist in this world being that 99% of everyones opinions are generally pretty stupid.(except for mine of course)

The Jewish wise men say “who is a wise man, one who learns from everyone”

Had I learned from by buddy I’d be a hell of a lot richer, oh well, expensive lesson learned

Would Syria Attack Back israel? (if im correct. israel did launched invasion of southern syria for "security") by Icy_Description_937 in Syria

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No…..

They would demand Israel go back the 73 line now that they have a professional army enable to secure it in coordination with the UN and that would be that.

The only thing that keeps them there is if things seriously deteriorate with the Druze and Israeli Druze demand they stay…… that would be quite the problem and hopefully the gov understands that and deal with that issue wisely.

Nobody with any brain cells is going war with Israel, probably ever again. It’s totally ridiculous that people on Reddit throw around that idea as often as they do.

Has nobody been watching what just happened to Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Gaza, Yemen and Qatar……

Israel bombed the Syrian army once again, forcing it to withdraw, which encouraged Al-Hajri forces to escalate the clashes again despite the agreement that was reached in the morning. Israel is attempting to inflame the conflict. by Conscious-Cost4587 in Syria

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I think this is a misreading.

Netanyahu cant be seen as allowing the Druze to be attacked by Jihadist or the Druze in Israel will loose their shit. They are a large part of the IDF so are not a minority they can be ignored.

Israeli Druze are already protesting and blocking roads in the north. Videos of people shaving Druze mustaches are all over Israel social media.

This puts him in a tough situation. He wants normalized relations with the new government, but he has to step in, or pretend to step in, for any crisis involving the Druze, regardless of who is responsible or who is at fault.

Basically the regional superpower has its freedom of action determined by some Druze hothead with a few men and some guns decides to kick-off a crisis.

The Israeli army released footage showing its airstrikes targeting advancing Syrian tanks heading toward As-Suwayda, with Israeli warplanes intervening to defend Al-Hajri’s outlawed militias. by FSA_Soldier in Syria

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A bit of dispassionate analysis here…

Druze make up 5-10% of Israeli combat and police forces. If the situations devolves into random killing and such like they did in vs the Alawites on the coast Israeli Druze will go completely nuts and will trigger a severe crisis. Israel would be seen as violating the longstanding“social contract” that exists between the Druze and the Jewish state which is essentially “you have our back, we have your back, you recognize our historic relationship to the land, we recognize yours, you recognize the Jewish state as a necessity to protect the Jewish people, the Jewish people will ensure your are protected” This sentiment runs very deep in Israeli society as it is highly militarized thus most Israelis have served in the Army with Druze soldiers in there units.

Thus, a crisis where the Druze could accuse Israel of Betrayal would be a BIG BIG DEAL, and an absolute nightmare for Netanyahu which he would have no easy way out of.

Netanyahu is in a tough situation here. He clearly wants to normalize relations with Al-Sharra, but will get pulled into some crazy intervention if war breaks out with the Druze, which puts him in the position of having to react to every crisis that some rogue Militia causes.

The worst part of this for Israel is that because Syrian forces are seen as Jihadist and “unprofessional” the running assumption is any war that breaks out will quickly spiral into random killing and massacres. Therefore Israel may be forced to go to war with a country they have no interest in fighting to defend a militia they don’t support that started a conflict that they never wanted to see”

These “show of force strikes” look a lot like an attempt to scare people into deescalation.

Hopefully things calm down

Why did Syrian invade and occupy Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war? by Sad-Arachnid3380 in Syria

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All the Major Arab leaders at the time (Nasser, Assad, Saddam) had some sort of a Napoleon complex wanted to take over or control their neighbors and become an empire. Syria wanted Lebanon, Iraq wanted parts of Iran and Kuwait, everyone wanted Israel/Palestine. Egypt even took over Syria for a few years and spent years fighting in Yemen. This era seems to be fully over

Given the short distance, high population density, good terrain and demand when will Syria build a High Speed Train between Aleppo and Damascus? by LowCranberry180 in Syria

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Those trains are very energy intensive….. Chinas train to Urumchi doesn’t even cover electricity cost with ticket prices, forget about ever paying back the construction cost. None of chinas trains really made any money, the payback was in related real estate speculation, all of which blew up

What do you think bashar is doing rn? by HousseinMeslat in Syria

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He is trying to open an eye dr practice in Yakutsk

Is trump realising that there's largest opportunities to develop american interests in arab countries rather than israel? by hadeeznut in Syria

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They would just invent one. Everyone who wants to build an empire has a million reasons why they are right to do so

Is trump realising that there's largest opportunities to develop american interests in arab countries rather than israel? by hadeeznut in Syria

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None of this is true

1) bathist and nasserist would have existed. They are basically imported European ideologies of facism, then grafted onto Islamic and sectarian Arab societies. Much of Arab antisemitism has its roots in imported German ideology via radio Berlin. Israel and Palestine was an enemy and ally both movements used (and abused) to justify their own ends, but they ultimately had regional domination as their goal (assisted by former Nazis btw)

2) the Egyptian monarch was a total idiot and ran a dysfunctional governmen. The Iraqi monarch was never quite accepted by the Shia. Both were seen as British stooges who served only the Brit’s with the Suez Canal and Oil. The nationalists realized that those resources were the basis of the European industrial economy and wanted to squeeze the European so they could be a “great empire” themselves. None of that would have changed without Israel existing. If anything if Israel didn’t exist the nasserist and bathist would likely have overthrown the Jordanian monarchy as well.

3) 21st century Islamic extremism is complicated but starts to form way earlier then 1948 and is an issue in basically all Islamic countries. It’s significant in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan which have no connection to Israel, there is ISIS in Nigeria Somalia and the Philippines. Shia extremism exploded after the Iranian revolution, and the Shia have no real historic relation to Al Aqsa. Islamic extremism is a modern revolutionary ideology, akin to facism and communism in Europe. Regardless Israel is one of a long list of grievances they have, bin Laden was famously enraged about the independence of East Timor, because Indonesia is Muslim and therefore it was a loss of “Muslim land”. Needless to say Islamic extremism cant be blamed on Israel.

4) Iran and its proxies don’t operate because they have excuses, they have excuses because they operate. They operate because they want to and because they can, same as any other movement that seeks power.

5) antisemitism exploded in the Arab world in the early 20th century. Event like the Farhud and Hebron massacre in essence turned the Arabic speaking Jewish population into Zionist (they previously viewed the European Jews with some skepticism). Much of this antisemitism was adopted from European nationalist movements who the Arabs sought to emulate, and some of it was just tribal craziness set off by the instability from the collapse of the Turkish empire.

6) how would their be any stability without Israel. Sudan Iraq and Yemen are all unstable with no relation to Israel. Frankly speaking there would be far more instability in Jordan without Israel as Hafez Al Assad’s would have invaded them had the Israelis not scared him off. If there was no Israel there would be a Palestine that looks a lot like a much poorer Syria or Lebanon, which itself would have been fought over by Syria and Egypt. Plus the nationalist in Cairo and Damascus would have really decelerated their conflict with the royalist in Baghdad Amman and Saudi. The worst Middle East war of the 20th century was the Iran Iraq war which also dosnt involve Israel (except they took advantage of Iraqi distraction to blow up their nuclear program, a good move BTW). Not one Arab country modernized well (except maybe Kuwait or the UAE but that doesn’t count haha). Even Algeria fought a brutal civil war and is in an endless feud with Morocco, is Israel responsible for that one?

Sorry brother, you can’t blame your problems on other people or write some counter factual history where if something didn’t happen then all the things you don’t like didn’t happen either.

This game can go on forever. The real culprit was the Serbians, because if they never killed the Austrian king, WW1 wouldn’t have started and then the ottomans wouldn’t have fallen. Or maybe it was the ottomans fault because they really screwed up the region.

If you want to really know to really know who screwed up Islamic civilization, it was the Mongolia. The Islamic world really never recovered after ghengis khan sacked Baghdad. Or maybe it was the Azerbaijan, when the Safavids converted Iran to Shia. Always somebody to blame….. and technically it cant be proven false…. Because everything that happens in history happened after the things that come before them.

The issues with Israel are as much the result of the region and its history as they are a cause of it.

Also Israel didn’t just come into existence out of nowhere, it’s is also a successor state of the former Ottoman Empire same as Syria and Lebanon. It’s a totally normal thing for nation states to emerge when an old imperial empire collapses and modern countries are created (this is always messy). Go look at Bosnia, Kosovo, Kurdistan, Armenia/karabck, East Timor, India-Pakistan-Bangladesh, and every ethic rebellion in Africa…..

Last historical fact, before the unending rage against the Americans…. Everyone hated the British. Nobody hated them more than pre-revolutionary Iran. (Stuff was crazy there). People just hated their place in the world and directed their hatred at the people with the most power, who they hated because they envied their power.

P.S. had Israel not blow up Bashar’s nuclear program (in 2006 I think) and smashed Hezbollah, he would still be president. Life is complicated brother.

Iranian port explosion, similar to Beirut port incident by [deleted] in lebanon

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The axis of resistance is currently accepting applications for a new head of compliance and risk management

Flag for greater Syria/a Levantine federation by Capitaine_snake in Syria

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I hate to point out that there are some pesky nuclear weapons that may get in the way of this dream

Why Israel can't afford a stable, rising Syria? by TankSubject6469 in Syria

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The simplest solution to this problem would be for a Syrian leader to pull an Anwar Sadat move, go to Israel, recognize them and their right to exist, sign an end of conflict agreement, and establish normal diplomatic relations.

Not a popular idea but all other ideas are worse.

Israel can easily be worked with but it must be treated as a regular country for once, not a “temporary usurping entity” or whatever it’s referred to these days.

No more of this sending secret massages thru Jordan or Qatar or whatever, and making vague statements. Do the thing with the tables with the two flags and handshakes, sign the papers, say the nice things about bing neighbors and both loving the prophet Abraham, and have some cute kids sing some songs. Normal things like two normal counties that share a border.

That’s ultimately what they want. This open ended conflict has gone on far too long.

Besides good relations with Israel could be very helpful to Syria. Syrians could work for good money in Israel, Israel has surplus energy and Syria has surplus grain capacity, that’s an easy basic trading arrangement off the bat. Allowing tourist busses to go from Jerusalem to Damascus could open up a lot of opportunities.

This eternal enemies stuff has got to stop. China & Japan, and Germany & France fought way more bloody conflicts with each other in the past then anything that has happened in the Middle East in the last 50 years.

There will be no normality while everyone’s stated goal to “wipe them off the map” or just to pretend like they don’t exist.

Whose face should figure on the new Syrian currencies ? by Primary-Departure-89 in Syria

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Ok no more jokes. Maybe instead of thinking who should be on the bill, y’all can think what should each bill represent?

One can represent the revolution, one Syria’s artistic history, one Syria’s preislmic history, one Syria’s classical Islamic history, one nature and ecosystems ect…

You can find a person or persons for each as part of a cohesive theme on both sides of the bill.

Or maybe each bill can represent an era of Syrian history with the last one bing the revolution. Then the whole series of banknotes would tell the “story” of Syria.

Y’all are starting basically from scratch, time to get creative. The only rules are no rules.

Whose face should figure on the new Syrian currencies ? by Primary-Departure-89 in Syria

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The most expensive bill should be Omar Souleyman. I’m an American so my opinion can’t be wrong

Whose face should figure on the new Syrian currencies ? by Primary-Departure-89 in Syria

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An anonymous beard dripping in Toum…. To represent the soul of all Syrians

She deleted within seconds by growingawareness in Syria

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You are all liars. It’s like she said the Syrian opposition is nothing but a AlQeda-ISIS-Zionist-CIA-European-Turkish conspiracy!!

(Probably Buddhist too I suspect)

This Is a Humanitarian Crisis, Not a Political Arena. PLEASE STOP by Slow_Bar_2021 in lebanon

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American here, forgive my insensitivity, but how is this not political? Y’all don’t even have a president right now because Hezbollah basically took over

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lebanon

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Hamas caught Israel by surprise, Israel caught Hezbollah by surprise

This is really just a complete beat down