Posted on 12/06/2024 2:49:29 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
• Syrian rebels are speeding toward the major city of Homs, where residents are fleeing ahead of potential clashes between the rebels and regime forces.
• The rebels seized Hama to the north on Thursday, the second major city taken from President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in just over a week of fighting.
• A new uprising has also emerged in the southern Daraa province, with rebels there claiming to have taken a major military base and announcing that their “destination is Damascus.”
• Russia’s embassy in Syria has urged its citizens to leave the country, citing “the difficult military and political situation.”
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This has Turkey and the Biden regime written all over it
At least the Kurds can defend themselves.
But it's going to be open season on the Christians and the ruling Alawite sect in Syria.
“This has Turkey and the Biden regime written all over it”
Assuming the Neocons do win this round, then what next?(other than several million Christians in Syria being massacred) Do the Neocons REALLY think that ISIS and the other terrorist groups they’re funding will roll over for them (the Neocons)? And then you have the Trump Factor in 6 weeks...
Highly unlikely, to this point. The rebels havent really done much fighting is my impression. They also aren’t getting Turkish armor or air support, as nobody has mentioned these.
It looks much more like the Assad forces have simply been collapsing, starting with all the Hezbollah troops simply going home last week. And this seems to have started a cascading morale collapse. The rebels seem to be just advancing into a vacuum left by the retreating Assad forces.
How Turkey or the US managed such a Syrian forces collapse is going to take serious explaining.
Nope, far more likely are external factors, starting with the total collapse of Hezbollah and local Iranian leadership, after the horrendous casualties Israel inflicted on them. Since then the Assad side hasnt been able to round up enough men to make a stand. And thus forcing retreat after retreat and a collapse in morale.
We visited there fifty years ago. Most countries over there have access to water via ONE fresh water well. That's where towns settle.
Damascus has TWO permanent fresh water wells. THAT'S why it's been so important over the millennia.
Once you get off the tourist areas the locals do NOT like any foreigners. However, that was a long time ago. I wonder if things have changed for the better.
With the infamous Assad regime still in charge I think things will just get worse.
PIT-HOLES
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FWIW We bought beautiful Damascus linens back then. THEY are still around and in great shape.
Trump is going to send troops to kick the rebels out of Damascus? Your imagination is acting up I think.
“Trump is going to send troops to kick the rebels out of Damascus?”
Where did I say that, or are you making up crap about me again?
In any case, once our allies there (ISIS and the other terrorist groups) complete their genocide of Christians in Syria, there won’t be any benefit for Trump to try to re-establish their government.
You mentioned the Trump factor. That isnt going to recover the Assad regime, nor keep the Russians in Syria.
Those guys south of Damascus are said to be Druze. These arent natural allies of the Sunni Islamic rebels. There are deals being cut.
Apologies to that cartographer but Syria is not getting the Golan Heights back. Looks like they can barely hold Damascus as it is.
The Kurds are a US “protectorate”, able to call on US logistics and air support. And they have, this week, with the US bombing Shiite militias advancing from Iraq.
“You mentioned the Trump factor. That isnt going to recover the Assad regime, nor keep the Russians in Syria.”
I know you guys that run on emotions don’t give a crap as to what comes next after your regime-change operations are successful in a country, most of us conservatives are interested in just that.
For example, what did the Neocons gain by trashing the Libyan government? And why did it take Sisi REVERSING the Neocon regime change in Egypt to bring some stability there?
You guys may enjoy throwing people out of power just for the fun of it, but others want to know exactly what we gain from it. For example, in Iraq, our only gain from that ‘nation-building’ operation is about $3 TRILLION of new national debt, back here in the US at least.
The Druze in the area, in Israel, Lebanon or Syria, are Israeli allies.
The rebel forces have been able to move quickly because there is virtually nothing between the various cities. The pink striped sect on this map appears to be mostly empty desert.
The pink stiped area actually straddles two governmental districts. The lower half has about 76,000 people. The upper portions lines run in a direction that make it impossible to estimate the pop in the pink striped part. I suspect most of the population lives along the river that splits the area of control as shown right now.
There is really no point in capturing this part as I have noted there is nothing there to capture. It would just be about bragging rights as to has the largest piece of pie.
Probably.....The Regime change they wanted in the beginning under Obama.....However what Syria gets in leadership, if Assad does fall, they may very well regret.
This current situation is something thats happened on its own, no US involvement apparent. There are other people in this world who make their own decisions and act on them.
Trump will want to flip Syria to the US alliance. Get them to make peace with Israel and move away from Iran. Assad made a mistake - not entirely his fault - getting so close to Iran. He was duped by Obama, Hillary and Putin and thought too highly of his allied proxies. They have been devastated by Israel leaving Assad in a perilous position. The writing is on the wall for the Iranian regime and Assad needs January 20 to come quickly.
With Syria flipping to the west we can get Lebanon and Syria to make peace with Israel, further isolate Iran, and take the air out of Erdogan. We already got enough problems with NATO, Turkey can’t rely on Russia, so Turkey will have to stand down.
But I don’t think Trump will want to send US troops, on that we agree.
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