Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Middle East: Odenathus - Ghosts of the Desert - Extra History" video.

  1. It's also the thing that people who call themselves Arabs now, i.e. in Syrian Arab Republic and Egyptian Arab Republic, are mostly descendants of the native peoples, they just choose a pan-Arabic identity, retroactively becoming Arabs even if their ancestors lived in Levant or North Africa and never the Arabian peninsula. So, most Syrians or Egyptians nowadays call themselves Arabs, while being, well, Syrian or Egyptian. Same with Nabatea, which is basically Jordan and Sinai, too. It's worse in North Africa where countries like Tunisia, Libya, Algeria and Morocco are Arabs on paper, but are all Africans with not a part of their lands in Asia. Kinda the same with Balkan peoples and Bulgars calling themselves Slavic. It's a extra-national identity over genetic ethnicity.
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  2. We would have Persian popes instead of Italian gypsy ones. Big deal.
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  3. and all of that to keep a dictator Assad in power... russia should be destroyed. Hopefully Turkey helps us achieving moscovia delenda est!
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  4. You mean transferred from one russian puppet state to another... ruskies literally left a weapons cache for ISIS in Palmyra, retreated, daesh took the weapons, left Palmyra and the russian army reentered. Thankfully, Kurds and USA were too strong and defeated ISIS even with endless stream of ruski weapons given to daesh by the russian federation. But the rest of Syria was destroyed by russian barrel bombs, missiles and artillery. See, ISIS, no matter how abhorrent, DO NOT HAVE AVIATION, so all airstrikes that destroyed Syrian cities were made by russia. Live with that.
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