At heart Jolani is simply a very clever politician with the lack of scruples needed to survive the wars in Iraq and Syria. The kind of figure Machiavelli wrote The Prince for. - ThreadSky

aphclarkson.bsky.social • 90 days ago

At heart Jolani is simply a very clever politician with the lack of scruples needed to survive the wars in Iraq and Syria.

The kind of figure Machiavelli wrote The Prince for.

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aphclarkson.bsky.social•90 days ago

There is an almost Shakespearean dimension to Jolani's rise for which any analysis needs to focus on the moment embodied in this image

aphclarkson.bsky.social•90 days ago

https://www.mei.edu/publications/crossroads-idlib-hts-navigating-internal-divisions-amid-popular-discontent

aphclarkson.bsky.social•90 days ago

psyllobora22.bsky.social•89 days ago

The IS fanboys REALLY hate Jolani iirc

yungdreyfusard.bsky.social•90 days ago

1917 energy

dov.bsky.social•90 days ago

Or the Granma

euantaylor.bsky.social•90 days ago

What do you mean by that reference? I would just like to learn more.

yungdreyfusard.bsky.social•90 days ago

after the october revolution of 1917 the interpersonal relations of a very small group of people, the core of bolsheviks around lenin, suddenly became a matter of world-historical importance

anothercinna.bsky.social•90 days ago

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

sigmalibra.bsky.social•90 days ago

On the plus side, finally a photo from Syria that doesn't look like the entire female population mysteriously vanished.

aphclarkson.bsky.social•90 days ago

https://x.com/HamdiRifaiJD/status/1865085477553905873

sigmalibra.bsky.social•90 days ago

Can't access, not on Twitter.

ianrobo.bsky.social•90 days ago

well he wonlt be protecting his kurdish citizens will he ?? so is he as bad as Assad, nope, not on the surface but in 6 months time what will we think of him ?

cheriegrant.bsky.social•90 days ago

Well you know what they say about power. Men like him get drunk on it. Then they become minsters themselves.

cheriegrant.bsky.social•90 days ago

Monsters

ianrobo.bsky.social•90 days ago

yep once they have the hands on the state and no guardrails ...

goldbirdwing.bsky.social•90 days ago

All he needs now is to be into crypto for the usual suspects to like him.

cheriegrant.bsky.social•90 days ago

He gave me a bad vibe. Thinks he’s special. He is easily corruptible.

leoneow.bsky.social•90 days ago

Complete with a sort of young Fidel Castro look.

daphnelawless.com•90 days ago

Many have noted that he also kind of looks like Volodymyr Zelenskyy

hughmurnaghan.bsky.social•90 days ago

If he is the sort of person (a thinking leader) that Machiavelli was hoping to inform, he might prove to be something quite special, because The Prince always seemed to me to be a manual for good government.

bfranchini.bsky.social•90 days ago

Would that be a good thing or a bad thing ? Certainly it is hard to identify who are the good guys and who are the bad ones, but then this is Arabia, a chaotic region plagued by religions…

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