Message from @[Lex]

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2018-07-04 22:47:14 UTC  

Yeah I think he does have to find a way to keep things calm with Turkey if he's going to be cordial with the Kurds.

2018-07-04 22:47:39 UTC  

The Kurds, backed by the US, will likely look to curb Syrian state revenue by asserting majority Kurdish economic control over hydrocarbon-rich regions under Kurdish control. (Northern Syria, which is under chiefly Kurdish control, provides 90% of state revenue to Assad's government due to it being extremely rich in natural gas).

2018-07-04 22:48:07 UTC  

The US will likely look to strangle Syria's ability to finance itself so Russia has to pour more funds into the war and thereby weaken Russia financially and economically further.

2018-07-04 22:48:56 UTC  

Russia's already struggling deeply economically due to sanctions causing a contraction in their export market and a severe depreciation of the Russian currency.

2018-07-04 22:49:26 UTC  

I don’t care about the Middle East Personally

2018-07-04 22:49:35 UTC  

It's important

2018-07-04 22:49:37 UTC  

yes, because you're a brainlet.

2018-07-04 22:49:37 UTC  

I think both Kikes and Mudslimes are evil

2018-07-04 22:49:44 UTC  

If things get unstable, we get more refugees, that's the thing

2018-07-04 22:49:57 UTC  

Right now the Kurdish public school system is already funded by the central government.

2018-07-04 22:50:09 UTC  

The consequences over there have an effect on the west, so we do need an eye on it

2018-07-04 22:50:30 UTC  

The Middle East is an essential battleground for the US-Russian rivalry and the global Jewish system of geopolitical and financial control.

2018-07-04 22:51:20 UTC  

Some of the most important corridors for natural gas and oil transmission are in the Middle East.

2018-07-04 22:51:24 UTC  

Energy is the name of the game.

2018-07-04 22:52:13 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/432618126295695380/464201799394525184/Middle_Eastern_pipelines.jpg

2018-07-04 22:54:57 UTC  

https://republicstandard.com/balkanizing-syria-barcelona-process-is-a-nato-crusade-for-bolton/
https://republicstandard.com/balkanizing-syria-the-genie-in-the-nato-lamp/
Two good articles detailing the central importance of pipelines in past conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the modern Syrian conflict.

2018-07-04 22:55:15 UTC  

Lex, are you the dude on /sg/ who makes the cool maps?

2018-07-04 22:55:29 UTC  

I've made some of these.

2018-07-04 22:55:32 UTC  

The one I sent yes.

2018-07-04 22:56:28 UTC  

I meant the Australian guy who replaced Ebin actually.

2018-07-04 22:56:44 UTC  

Nah.

2018-07-04 22:56:54 UTC  

Figures.

2018-07-04 22:57:12 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/432618126295695380/464203051847122945/2018-06-29_12-33-16.png

2018-07-04 22:57:15 UTC  

Also

2018-07-04 22:57:38 UTC  

Does anyone else think this damages the pollster's reputation?

2018-07-04 22:58:36 UTC  

Gallup has posted some very pro-GOP material before. I think ultimately individuals offer requests for information which they know will provide a certain result and Gallup acquiesces.

2018-07-04 22:58:57 UTC  

They're likely personally asked by someone prominent/perhaps paid off to conduct research in this area.

2018-07-04 22:59:10 UTC  

I don't doubt the accuracy of the result however.

2018-07-04 22:59:18 UTC  

Teachers tend to be a very left wing slanted profession.

2018-07-04 22:59:40 UTC  

In this particular poll it was left open-ended

2018-07-04 23:00:27 UTC  

It may have been in COMPARISON to the nearest suggestion. Many perhaps said "I don't know" or perhaps there were many options.

2018-07-04 23:00:31 UTC  

But yes, that's definitely worrisome.

2018-07-04 23:00:44 UTC  

They should have provided more information to clarify what they mean by "overwhelming"

2018-07-04 23:00:59 UTC  

Pretty much yes

2018-07-04 23:01:19 UTC  

Once you get into it it's very vague and hard to tell how "overwhelming" is defined

2018-07-04 23:01:29 UTC  

Multiple-choice plus multiple similar answers

2018-07-04 23:01:43 UTC  

Just a sloppy poll job IMO

2018-07-04 23:02:35 UTC  

Later on they get actually asked questions

2018-07-04 23:03:36 UTC  

Ultimately the poll was probably paid for by someone because no one really cares what teachers think

2018-07-04 23:04:19 UTC  

They're not security professionals or anything and it shows with the second actual policy question, where the "somewhat effective" category is cut by nearly half and goes entirely into "not effective at all," representing that probably about a tenth of the teachers actually looked into school security.