SYRIA thread

**Gilrandir** · 02-21-2018, 10:26

Originally Posted by CrossLOPER

This would be where YOU provide proof that there WAS a spike, so that you can solidify YOUR claim that the list that YOU provided wasn't mememagic.

Using the same logics one would say that a list of celebrities at an Oscar ceremony was a fake because it had Elijah Wood, Channing Tatum, Garth Brooks and Benedict Cumberbatch.

My proof is what I see and hear from the media and around me. When I was a kid all the names around me and those I heard on TV were usual Sergeys, Alexanders, Andreys, Olegs, Vyacheslavs and so on (with an admixture of typical Ukrainian Bogdans, Tarases and Oxanas). Starting with Perestroyka I began to encounter names which I could have seen before only in Russian classical literature of the XIXth century - Anastasia, Arhip, Agafya, Varvara, Nikita, Gleb, Agnia and so on. I can't say they were numerous - but they were in evidence which wasn't spotted before. Now I hear such names from time to time as well.

Now in the list I counted 5 out of 74 such names - which is not a pecentage to make a conclusion on the artificial nature of the list. If the compilers of the "fake" list were that stupid they would have included at least 20 of such strange names. And if they were wise they would have included none of them filling it with Vladimirs, Vladislavs, Antons, Igors and the like.

So even if the list is fake (which I don't rule out) the names on it can't serve as a clue to determine whether it was so.

Originally Posted by CrossLOPER

Gilrandir, what age would those boys be right now?

You are right, this list is from 2015, but it only underscores the tendency that I noticed about 25 odd years ago.

Originally Posted by Fragony

Different operation, this is operation Olive Branch. Turkish troops are going to clash with Assad's troops who come to the aid of the Kurdish forces, bad. Turkey is a wild dog lately, hopefully a stray soon as the Nato can't get involved, the risk of pissing of Russia is too high

Operations are different, yet the pattern is the same - overrunning a part of another country.

**Fragony** · 02-21-2018, 11:43

Originally Posted by Gilrandir

Operations are different, yet the pattern is the same - overrunning a part of another country.

Turkey has a history of doing a bit more than just that

**Crandar** · 02-21-2018, 12:42

What the hell is a "Greek Imperial Putinist"? A Byzantine on kryptonite?

Anyway, an assault against the Islamist warlords of eastern Ghouta is probably imminent. Brace yourselves for the upcoming media propaganda.

The equivalent of Bana Alabed has already been invented and Guardian is dropping innumerable tears for the civilian casualties caused by the Syrian Army, conveniently omitting those of the other side or forgetting to mention that we are talking about a siege, where the besieged are Islamists, including al-Qaeda.
I predict many pundits, paid by the Emirs of the Persian Gulf, appearing out of the woodwork to cry about Obama's red lines and how morally bad is that we don't invade countries anymore. For the sake of the children and democracy, of course!