Hippokleides

Moderate Opposition Leader.

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

Schrödinger's Badenoch:
simultaneously fully African and fully British until Prime Minister's despatch box is opened.

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

>be Pro-Opposition Syrian fleeing Syria to Britain to escape Pro-Assad Syrians
>arrive in Britain
>it’s full of Pro-Assad Syrians fleeing Syria to Britain to escape Pro-Opposition Syrians
>tell them “go back to Syria”
>“no”
>they tell me “go back to Syria”
>“no”
>start brawling

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

If only we had listened to David Cameron and Hilary Benn, those Toyota Hiluxes could have been paid for by British taxpayers, and supported by UK warplanes! O sic transit gloria mundi!

[Xenocosmography @xenocosmography]

DEI has to be punished at least as harshly as it has previously been rewarded, otherwise we're not getting rid of it.

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

@FistedFoucault "My dream realised, at last!"

[Bovril-Gesellschaft @BovrilG]

In an attempt to quell concerns about a resumption of sectarian violence in Syria, a member of HTS's inner circle has stated that when adjusted for salience, 75% of mujahideen support a relaxed and inclusive form of Wahabism welcoming to people of all faiths and none.

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

"Situation in Syria is unclear"
"I am looting the president's underwear drawer"
"Serious people can't write off the SAA yet"
"I was a captain in the SAA"
"This wouldn't happen in 2012! I have a geopolitics podcast!"
"It is 2024. Allahu Akbar!"

[JUICE @juice8882]

🧵Heres how Assad can still win:
🛡️Hold the Mountain Line, and Grind Jihadi Johns troops down so he has no Manpower
➡️Attack Hama - Hama will be weak, as all troops have gone to Damascus
🐎Use Calvary to suppress revolt in Towns on the Coastline

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

@ConcreteHorizon @QuintSee @Tauroctonia Not, I grant you, a great bargain, but appears to be the most logical explanation of his behaviour.

Stay strong, Phil! There's still time to recant your demonic deal and seek God's mercy!

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

@ConcreteHorizon @QuintSee @Tauroctonia It's because he made a pact with the devil:
he gets to enjoy a moderately sized twitter following and a podcast so long as he never admits he was wrong about anything, to anyone, at anytime. When he does, he forfeits his immortal soul and is dragged immediately to hell.

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

@0starkafterdark @Paracelsus1092 @ViciousRicardan Good call. He's hugely overrated!

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

@BovrilG The ingenuity of the American lunatic is unmatched.

Even if somebody is willing to protect you, it doesn't mean they can.

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

"They have taken Aleppo and Hama. We have withdrawn from Deir Ezzor, but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes... Drums. Drums in the deep. We cannot get out. The Jordanian border has been sealed... We cannot get out... They are coming."

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

Assad cursing his overly diverse, underskilled and sullenly resentful underlings before jolting awake and remembering he no longer works for the NHS.

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

@Babygravy9 @infowars The risks of a new Russian empire are overplayed, the risks of a new Turkish empire underplayed.

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

@GrayConnolly That Kurdish state would be invaded by Turkey within five minutes of its announcement without rock-solid external security guarantees (which it wouldn't get).

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

@wallaceme @moveincircles Welcome to X, granddad.

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

@jhjhjj83030558 @kunley_drukpa Well, he was.

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

@stephen_wigmore It's been years since I paid any serious attention to Syria but I admit the speed of the collapse completely blindsided me.

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

That's it: no road into Syria for militias from Iraq. Israel bombing Hezbollah coming in from Lebanon, Putin not taking calls. Assad is on his own, with an army that doesn't fight.

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

BREAKING - Syria's Albu Kamal border crossing with Iraq falls under Kurdish SDF control - two Syrian army sources @Reuters

It's a vital transport route for Iran and its network of regional allies, linking Tehran to Beirut via Iraq and Syria

[Hippokleides @Hippokleides]

@stephen_wigmore I guess the full story will come out eventually. There'll always be someone to say I told you so.

[Niccolo Soldo (Fisted By Foucault) @FistedFoucault]

Ideally, Europe gets to send Syrian migrants back home now