I need to go to China on Friday. Can we postpone the saber rattling until after I get back?

As opposed to the US’s agenda, use highly advanced drones to inflict collateral damage and most importantly name everyone killed in the damage “terrorists”

It’s a rare day when an Argentinian football player is the least assholish person in a picture.

It’s more like the Saudis trying to buy friends in the US. Lockheed gets money, the MIC wins, the Senators and Congressman in whatever state that produces these will have employment and tax revenue and will fight to protect the US’ “ally” Saudi, goad the US to fight Assad, and arm the “moderate rebels” even more.

The U.S. Kills just as many and nothing is said about it.

Killing innocent civilians without any warning just because a suspected terrorist might be around is pretty close to shooting random missile into a civilian population because a suspected terrorist might be around. The big difference is Putan hasn't been evil enough to blow up a hospital.

lol this is hilarious, also consider that the player is fortunate he wasn’t hurt near mid field. was he faking his injury and the medics were rooting for the other team? cause seriously, that toss at the end shows such lack of concern.

It’s soccer, it’s not like it’s a real injury anyway.

Not to joke about things so serious but it’s almost like they’re trying to clear through some old munitions before the ‘use by’ date expires.

Good. Lodged between nuclear sunni Pakistan, which is always only half a coup away from going apeshit, wahhabi Saudi Arabia and having to deal with Israel and US which reserve themselves the right to invade any middle eastern country at any time for any pretext, and had spent the last 15 years publicly entertaining…

I think all these comparisons are getting a little out of hand. Just ask Messi how taxing they can be.

Yup. I get all that. But I sometimes feel like most countries don’t give a shit about bribes, hence why most don’t give a shit about paying this money even if they lose the bid.

it’s the cost of doing business anywhere. This isn’t a FIFA problem. This is every event held at any given time in the world.

Which I agree with. I'm just saying that's not how FIFA (and much of the world) views these things. Which is why it's hilarious to me that everyone knew this was how business was handled, didn't care for decades, now all of a sudden give a shit and are faux-shocked because they are hoping to avoid prosecution.

I’ve worked in Indonesia and Venezuela and if you think you’re getting anything done (even as an American company) without a little money to grease the wheels then you’re living in a fantasy land. Cultural and systematic corruption will not be stopped because you decide not to participate. You just won’t get the job.

Keep in mind that Turkey has kept a policy of extending it’s airspace 5 miles within Syrian territory. That said, I don’t see why people should care about what Turkey thinks, considering that most of the oil that ISIS sells from captured syrian fields, go out through Turkey; while at the same time bombing the kurds…

Perhaps a better question is what the US is doing in Syria? They are there illegally for the sole purpose of killing Assad.

Ive never given 2 weeks, its a suckers game. Most jobs want you out as soon as you have an inkling of a thought that you're leaving, otherwise you can be gaining more insight on POAs and proprietary knowledge. Ive had coworkers share their future aspirations with bosses and immediately got put on "the list" if it…