Just about a day after US airstrikes pounded the city of Raqqa where ISIS had adopted as the capital of its Caliphate, the Islamic terrorists have recaptured a town close to it from Kurdish led forces. This leads me to ask just how much the airstrikes are working. Do we begin to think of a different strategy like the coalition contributing ground forces? But then that reminds me of post 9/11 Iraq...scratch that. Let's try a little more airstrikes or something entirely new.
Greece
The "No" vote in Greece that rejected terms of an international bail out is giving serious concern to creditors. The government in Greece with scant space to celebrate this victory must come up with a better plan. I think that will be the hard part. I'm thinking that next plan would be to create a new currency that will be used to finance Greek banks which are currently entirely broke. This will be a clear signal of asking to leave the eurozone. I'm still not sure who stands to lose the most from Greece's exit from the eurozone but I guess there are other ideas in the heads of both Greece ruling party and EU ministers of finance.
Boko Haram
Despite the emergence of a new party in government that swore during the campaign to have the silver bullet against Boko Haram, the terrorists are seemingly waxing stronger and more ruthless. In the past one month that the new government got into office, number of attacks have increased and more frequent. In only two days there have been up to five attacks in several different states that are outside the north east states that they were confined in to at the close of the last government.
In other issues, Lionel Messi has again failed to win another international final. Life can be hard at times, even to the god of soccer.
Cheers everyone.
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