JohninMK wrote:Looks like they got there! Do they go straight ahead into the desert or turn right?
HELL TO THE YES!!!
JohninMK wrote:Looks like they got there! Do they go straight ahead into the desert or turn right?
JohninMK wrote:Looks like they got there! Do they go straight ahead into the desert or turn right?
Shouldn't they been doing that already? As well, according to the video I posted earlier on the other thread, the S-400's are only working at 60km instead of full 400km due to agreements. Did they decide to cancel agreement after US shot down the Su-22?
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Love it!auslander wrote:Mother said this morning that as of today no more cooperation with US in the 'avoid incidents diconfliction' gig they've got going. You know, the one where Mother called US about the 2 hour bombing of SAA in May and got in essence put on 'hold'.
Amongst other places: http://tass.com/defense/952119
Lavrov is pissed to say the least as is Mother.
Another Israeli Land Grab in Syria
Israel has used the war in Syria to solidify its claim to the Golan Heights
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An Israeli soldier watching over Syria's Quneitra province
An Israeli soldier watching over Syria's Quneitra province
For the last five years, Israel has been providing money, weapons, logistical support and even direct military assistance to "moderate rebels" with the goal of creating an Israeli-controlled "buffer zone" to ensure that the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights stay forever-occupied.
In other words: Israel is occupying more Syrian land to protect the Syrian land that it's already occupying.
According to an in-depth report by Nour Samaha,
Israel’s “safe zone” now unofficially runs roughly 6 miles (10km) deep and 12 miles (20km) long beyond the demarcation line of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The effort is intended to prevent the Syrian government and its allies, specifically Lebanese Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, from maintaining a foothold along the Israeli fence. Israel used a similar tactic to establish a zone of control in the south of Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war.
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For Israel, establishing a buffer zone in southern Syria not only creates distance between its border and pro-government forces – particularly those backed by Iran – it also cements Tel Aviv’s control over the occupied Golan Heights, an area of Syrian land that the Israeli army captured in 1967.
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Israel's proxy forces have a foothold in Quneitra
Israel has never hidden what it hopes to gain from the chaos in Syria.
Israel's deputy minister for diplomacy Michael Oren said in April that "there is no Syria to negotiate with", meaning that Israel's illegal occupation of the Golan should be recognized by the international community.
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Damascus has long accused Israel of aiding "rebels" in southern Syria. As Samaha reports:
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A case in point was the Syrian army’s offensive on East Samdaniyeh in April. “When the militants could not advance, the Israeli army attacked Syrian army positions in the area using the pretext of a mortar landing in the occupied Golan,” said one Syrian government military source. “This has happened on several occasions in the past, such as during the clashes around Khan Arnabeh last year and the battle of Tel Shaar in 2015.
The war in Syria is far from over, but Israel has already received what it wanted.
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JohninMK wrote:Apparently only one got through, says Israel
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JohninMK wrote:I hope the US$ were worth it.
Think this was an SUV bomber who last week did an amazing bit of driving round the block, knew exactly where he was going, and detonated outside what looks to be a command point.
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promo of upcoming ISIS release from #Raqqah suggests that SDF loses are way bigger than what we thought
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Not sure that is correct, it could have been a way in or out from the west but I would have thought that most escaping would go down the river road towards Maaden and then go south, or if not, straight on.PapaDragon wrote:
No wonder Kurds were desperate to stop SAA from taking that intersection. Now they will actually have to fight ISIS head on in order to take Raqqa. No more easy solutions and cutting corners.
JohninMK wrote:
promo of upcoming ISIS release from #Raqqah suggests that SDF loses are way bigger than what we thought[/i]
PapaDragon wrote:
From Reddit:
https://twitter.com/24Raqqa/status/876842385451491330
About 50 fighters of #SDF killed today in ambush of #Daesh at Bitany neighborhood in #Raqqa.
I am under no illusions as to the parentage and possible command lines of the SDF and ISIS. It is even possible that one is CIA and the other Pentagon and they are fighting each other for different objectives related to the US Deep State.Vann7 wrote:
I posted the news that Russia military told today ,that US coalitions are backing ISIS
and you continue promoting fake news that contradict what the Russian government and general staff claim.
JohninMK wrote:I am under no illusions as to the parentage and possible command lines of the SDF and ISIS. It is even possible that one is CIA and the other Pentagon and they are fighting each other for different objectives related to the US Deep State.Vann7 wrote:
I posted the news that Russia military told today ,that US coalitions are backing ISIS
and you continue promoting fake news that contradict what the Russian government and general staff claim.
This even goes as far as, without tipping off the SDF and ISIS footsoldiers by disguising them as 'humanitarian, reduce our casualties moves', allowing particularly ISIS, but could be other, manpower to move in a country, move to another like Iraq to Syria, or even to a new location like Africa of Afgan, watch out for Iran as next.
So the SDF around Tabqa and Raqqa could genuinely believe that they are going balls out against ISIS and against them ISIS is on its Jihad earning its virgins, neither aware of how they are being played. As per war through the ages.
To say that I am putting up "fake news" just because it is not what the Russian MoD is saying misses the point. They are well aware of the reality of what is happening and have to make the points that they are able to just as the US does. Sometimes both attempt to mislead, that is part of their job. Ours is to try to see through the dust kicked up by them and others.
I would suggest that most of what I put up here turns out in time as OK to reality, some falls through the cracks and I often make stupid comments. But that is what life here in a (b)leading edge war news thread is all about.
But it is invariably taken as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.franco wrote:
Both sides tell their version of the truth and only a fool would take either of them at face value. My problem is that for the last decade or two, my side's (ethnically and nationally) truth has been further from reality then the Russian version. It pisses me off greatly!
JohninMK wrote:But it is invariably taken as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.franco wrote:
Both sides tell their version of the truth and only a fool would take either of them at face value. My problem is that for the last decade or two, my side's (ethnically and nationally) truth has been further from reality then the Russian version. It pisses me off greatly!