Posted on 10/05/2015 5:08:54 PM PDT by amorphous
The move is a blow to Britain and America’s mission to wipe out Islamic State but maintain an opposition to brutal dictator Assad
Russia has sent its crack special troops into Syria to back up President Bashar al-Assad’s bid to wipe out his opposition.
Vladimir Putin’s feared Spetsnaz unit and a covert para battalion ghosted into the war-torn country and are preparing for an all-out assault on rebels fighting the regime – including moderate units such as the western-backed Free Syrian Army.
A military source said last night: “Putin’s marines are there to guard the airbases they are using against sabotage by rebels. But Spetsnaz and air-assault troops are not there to provide security to static objects, they are extremely aggressive and highly trained.
“They are there to mop up after air strikes, call in air strikes, go on extremely covert missions against rebels and ultimately wipe them out.
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“The move is a blow to Britain and America’s mission to wipe out Islamic State but maintain an opposition to brutal dictator Assad “
Trying to defeat Twiddledee without hurting Twittledum. Even in this Wonderland we’re in you can’t do it. Off with all their heads.
Putin was not head of Russia then.
Spetsnaz vs US Special Forces; This is going to be Epic. No more “fighting” 19th world mouth breathers with a rusty AK who think the world is flat. And with only Russian air cover...
It’s GO TIME.
The truth is the USA/CIA/Special Forces have been running muslim terrorists in Syria for years, including ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh. This is OSINT from years back - see reporter Aaron Klein’s article.
Wonder why the US “can’t find” or eliminate ISIS despite them having miles long convoys in their brand new Toyoya SUVs - during the daytime no less?
Wonder why the US spent half a billion dollars of your money to train 4, repeat, 4 “anti” ISIS fighters who instantly handed their weapons to ISIS? Guess where the money went?
Wonder why ISIS also drives USA HUMVEES and HAS AND KNOWS HOW TO FIRE US Optical wire-guided TOWs?
Wonder no more.
The US trains ISIS in ISIL via CIA & Special Forces. They also train them in neighboring countries like Jordan. And yes, they even bring them to CONUS and train them here.
To those fools who besmirch Spetsnaz, go back and look at how the Russian REGULAR army fought in WWII. Know that Spetsnaz EXCELS at counter-jihadi ops - The Israelis are the only comparable counter-jihadi force.
Putin’s a POS as well, attacked a Christian Nation in Ukraine, crocodile tears.
But it may have an effect of voters throwing the weak Demonrats out of office.
He was head of the wars in Chechnya, wars, not war, took them 2 of them. Maybe one of his cohorts was in office but I’m sure Putin was powerful.
Warriors! Islamic vermin hate to see warriors coming for them ... I send them God Speed and safe passage.
soetoro’s sycophants. Moderate jihadists only want to kill the male Infidels and enslave the females.
Russia under Putin is very different
from Russia under Yeltsin and Gorbachev.
Once Putin was in control he used a scorched earth system in Chechnya and wiped out any opposition there.
Top notch operators. Saw them when I was in. They train with our NATO operators including GSG9, GSDE, GROM, SAS, KSK, US Seals (esp. DEVGRU), CIA SAD/SOG, Delta, etc.
TOP NOTCH OPERATORS.
Surprise! The Soviets Nearly Won Afghan War
When Soviet generals shifted, in mid-1983, to a counterinsurgency strategy of scorched-earth tactics and the use of heavily armed special operations forces, their progress against the guerrillas accelerated. Over the next few years, the Soviets increased their control of Afghanistan, inflicting many casualties -- guerrilla and civilian. Had it not been for the immense support -- weapons, training, materials -- provided to the Afghan guerrillas by the United States, Saudi Arabia, China and Pakistan, Soviet troops would have achieved outright victory.
Rambo took out a whole squad of them in “III”
The question has to be asked, would Afghanistan had been better off today had the Soviets won, and the Islamic radicals wiped out?
Yes I am well aware that hindsight is 20/20.
Before my time but in the 60s Afghanistan was destination for tourists - for hippies into Buddhism and also for hippie druggies looking to get pure heroin.
Any idea how many there are?
Obama lost Syria years go, the “rebels” are so compromised by extremists, that any legitimate rebellion fighers have long ago left... so you have various extremists fighting Assad... Assad is no saint, but those trying to remove him are of the ISIS ilk and are 1000 times worse.
Russia is sadly doing what should have been done in the first place when Wahabbist Fundamentalists began marching across the middle east in the 60s.
Saudi oil is one of Putin’s goals here. Dead ISIS great, dead Russians great. Dead Israelis explodes the middle east.
RE “...What was President curtain hanger doing today?..”
Figuring out he could confiscate your firearms.
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