Syrian Civil War: News #9

Vann7 wrote:

par far wrote:
This is what makes me mad and makes no senses, why is Russian Air Forces not focusing on Al-Raqqa? Go for Al Raqqa, why are not more forces, fighting the terriosts, the terriosts in Al-Raqqa, if the Russian and Syrian forces don't go to the east of Euphrates, than the Russian intervention was a waste.

Because Raqqa is far away from Syrian Army positions and there is nothing there anyway.. capturing territory just for the sake of capturing is not the goal. but to destroy terrorist supply routes is more important and lock them. Syria also needs yet to retake all Latakia and IDLIB that is more closer to Russian military base ,which is far more important.  Once Syria capture all Aleppo and IDLIB ,the war pretty much will be over ,because what ISIS have in eastern syria is largely desert and empty place. For Syria to continue to exist , it is extremely important ,that the army have control of Damascus and Latakia and all cities that connects them. So a free road from Damascus to Aleppo needs to continue open and that means fully clearing Aleppo ,homs and hama. and IDLIB is important for keeping TUrkey and NATO and the terrorist as far as away of possible of the Russian base. Because any artillery attack with smerch rockets could reach The Russian military base. So Syria needs first to secure Russia military base and keep and open fast road from Damascus to Latakia and after that secured.. little by little push NATO backed terrorist more and more towards the IRAQ border or Turkey border ,jordan or Israel.
But the most important first is secure the biggest cities first ,that could be better defended  for being closer to Russia military base.  That said.. ALeppo and IDLIB and fully finish the clean of latakia have to be done first.

starman wrote:

Vann7 wrote:
But the most important first is secure the biggest cities first ,that could be better defended  for being closer to Russia military base.  That said.. ALeppo and IDLIB and fully finish the clean of latakia have to be done first.

I heard up to 10,000 rebels are trapped in eastern Aleppo. Surely if that many can be eliminated, the end is in sight.

franco wrote:
The Syrian Army Commander for Aleppo said the other day that they estimate only 2500 hard core fighters left.

par far wrote:
Hey Vann, what you are saying is correct but for Iran capturing East Syria, is very important, that is Iran's supply route to Hezbollah.

Russia, Syria should face war crimes investigation, says John Kerry

U.S. secretary of state accused pair of 'targeted strategy ... to terrorize civilians'

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/russia-syria-war-crimes-john-kerry-1.3795860

US calls for Syria investigation attempt to distract from ceasefire failure - Russian FM spox

US is trying to distract attention from its own failure to implement the ceasefire deal by calling for an investigation into Russia’s actions in Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"The US side just could not fulfill the ceasefire agreement. They themselves told us that they do not have the means to put pressure on the opposition,” Zakharova said, as quoted by TASS.

https://www.rt.com/news/361981-syria-investigation-us-failure/

kvs wrote:

Such ploys are effective because most people in NATO are mentally deficient.    They do not think and just lap up whatever excrement the media
feeds them.   Seriously, what would Russia gain by staging a single incident?   If Russia was going to attack it would be a 1st nuclear strike.   Massive
and overwhelming.   Some isolated nuke on some 2nd rate US asset would serve negative purpose not just zero purpose.   But the average western
media consumer simply does not think enough to see this obvious problem with any false flag, including MH17.

Humans are tribal trash.  They act much more like lemmings than individuals.   All the mythologizing about western individualism is so much propaganda
nonsense.  If anything, "westerners" are more credulous than other people on this planet.   They give their governments and mass media sources the
benefit of the doubt.   People in Russia and elsewhere do not for the most part.  

kvs wrote:How come there have been no new attempts to break the siege from the outside?   Are al-Nusra and the rest of the jihadi vermin
overextended?   If so, then their collapse may be rather rapid when it comes.

storm333 wrote:The paint schemes could relate to planes being used for adversary training. If they are employed in Mideast bases, it adds credit to what you are saying.