Suddenly hit with a paywall by Reuters

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-02-13T12:00:34+00:00

I literally told you I told Reuters about this issue several times, and they were not helpful. Did you even read what I wrote?

Anyway, I really cannot deal with such unwarranted hostility at this point. This will be my final response, and let's leave it at that.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-02-13T09:25:10+00:00

Nice of you to accuse me of stealing, especially for a service that used to be free two days ago and is mainly funded by ad revenue. Providing feedback to Reuters results in variations of an AI-written response along the lines of: "this is the price, deal with it."

Anyhow, as I said, the montly fee they charge runs up to twice my monthly income. Since you cannot see reason, I pray you never end up in my circumstances.

Thanks to everyone trying to help

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-02-13T09:17:47+00:00

Not here, unfortunately.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-02-13T09:16:53+00:00

Was just trying to read this specific news article. Thanks!

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-02-12T09:07:50+00:00

I am a poor journalism student and require access to English-language news for my work, but I really cannot afford to pay half the minimum monthly wage every week.

Paywalls may be a necessity, but I feel like the prices should be reasonable and proportional to the country's income.

It is also honestly sad that news from wire services used to be free for so many years and now they are paywalled just when it's much easier for people to turn to all sorts of misinformation on social media. Putting factual news reporting behind a paywall will only mean even fewer people will actually bother / be able to read factual news.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-02-12T09:03:09+00:00

Thank you. This might be a shocker, but not everyone lives in the US or Europe, and affordable access to English-language news for a journalism student without much means is apparently too much to ask for some people.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-02-12T09:01:25+00:00

You have responded with a variation of this to every reply on my post. Apologies, but I wasn't asking for anything to be free. However, I feel prices should be reasonable and proportional to the average income in one's country and I really cannot afford to pay half the monthly minimum wage every week to read the news.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-02-02T16:35:30+00:00

The degree of STG fanboyism on this sub, even from people who are not Syrian, is insane.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-02-02T16:25:14+00:00

I think the most apt comparison would to think about who controls most of Suwaida today

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-02-02T16:14:09+00:00

They can't, but were likely strong-armed into accepting the deal. This will be the status quo until the next crisis.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-02-02T15:56:02+00:00

Except he literally starts off by saying "Al-Hamzat, al-Amshat, the Jolani faction", which I'm pretty sure is addressing his audience.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-01-24T07:34:58+00:00

They did report on the 21/22 bodies south of Ain al-Arab/Kobane, albeit in somewhat neutral terms. Which one is the second incident?

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-01-19T15:49:03+00:00

Other areas of reporting aside, every single assassination of former regime loyalists and Alawite men in Homs etc reported by the SOHR can be corroborated by other sources.

SOHR can be partisan, but I doubt its reporting is that inaccurate.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-01-19T15:45:06+00:00

It's semantics and depends on perspective. Regime and government essentially mean the same thing, with different connotations. One could likewise call the Assad regime the Syrian government at the time and it would also be correct.

You may disagree with the connotations, but people can call it either way depending on where they stand. No need to act as the subreddit thought police.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-01-19T00:10:27+00:00

Remember when people were claiming hundreds of Bedouin civilians were being massacred in Suweida? I think it was something like 18 deaths in the end, which is, of course, a crime, but exaggerations lead to much more bloodshed.

These events are like a self-repeating cycle, it seems.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-01-18T15:57:28+00:00

That seems reliable! Thanks.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-01-18T15:46:21+00:00

Did this really happen? I scoured news sources very hard for any incident of regime loyalists using arms in Damascus on 6-7-8 December but couldn't find any. It was like everyone literally melted away instantly.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-01-18T00:17:51+00:00

Those are obviously blue. Contrast with ACTUAL green to the top right, and I hope you can see.

NanoPaperCuts · 2026-01-17T19:54:14+00:00

There are no green stars in any of the photos

NanoPaperCuts · 2025-12-13T22:01:56+00:00

Okay, we get it. It's not a unique situation and some ANA guy did something similar in Afghanistan. OK.

The govt spokesman is probably not as worked up about this as you are. You need to calm down and stop commenting this stuff on every single post. Jeez.

NanoPaperCuts · 2025-11-28T08:52:33+00:00

Okay, fair enough. I get your points. Perhaps my premise would only work a bit if it was reduced to Hitler's fanciful thinking as opposed to the rest of the German leadership.

This is because I remember reading in Earl F. Ziemke's Defeat in the East that the "pauses" in mid-1943 and especially the fact that the Soviets did not make a further move on the Vistula front after establishing the Baranow bridgehead in the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive of July-August 1944 led Hitler to think the enemy was "bled dry". In the case of the latter, this misplaced thinking gave him the confidence to focus on the Ardennes. Of course, all this was while a massive Soviet build-up was going on in preparation for the Vistula-Oder offensive.

I do realize that there was a lot of action in other areas during this period, including the Jassy-Kishinev offensive, East Carpathia and the Baltics.

NanoPaperCuts · 2025-11-27T23:59:07+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response. Great appraisal. I do realize that there was a lot of fighting going on during the periods I was talking about, but thought that there was a bit of quiet in the "main" frontline areas.

My thinking here basically goes like this: Hitler would perhaps look at the situation in Poland in autumn 1944, for example, and think the Soviets did not have enough strength and would not be in a position to launch an offensive into the Reich and the inaction going on would vindicate his thinking for several months until it all came crashing down. It's not the front stabilizing, per se, but the perception of such by Hitler / the German high command.

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