Posted on 02/04/2016 6:52:18 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Syrian rebels battled for their survival in and around Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on Thursday after a blitz of Russian airstrikes helped government loyalists sever a vital supply route and sent a new surge of refugees fleeing toward the border with Turkey.
The Russian-backed onslaught against rebel positions in Aleppo coincided with the failure of peace talks in Geneva, and helped reinforce opposition suspicions that Russia and its Syrian government allies are more interested in securing a military victory over the rebels than negotiating a settlement.
After two days of what rebel fighters described as the most intense airstrikes yet, government forces had succeeded on Wednesday in cutting off the rebels’ main supply route from the Turkish border to the portion of Aleppo city that remains under opposition control. On Thursday, the government captured several more villages in the surrounding countryside, prompting fears among residents and rebels that the city could soon be entirely surrounded.
The loss of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and the most significant urban center to fall, at least partially, under rebel control, would represent a potentially decisive blow to the nearly five-year-old rebellion against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The rebels have maintained control of much of Aleppo since they surged into the city in 2012, prompting U.S. intelligence assessments that they eventually would topple the government in Damascus.
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Yep for the Russians, it’s to kill or to be killed.
BRAVO PUTIN!
While Kerry was sitting like a dumbass wanting to stall, you cut off supply lines and took their stronghold.
You are strangling Saudi Arabia economically and soon Erdogen will go nuts from provocation and youll simply kill him thus destroying the US and Saudis war machine in East.
Excellent!!!!!
DAMN SKIPPY! Hope they kill every US backed rebel.
This is great news for people who don’t want a wahabbist theocracy to replace Assad. Very good news for Syrian Christians.
Yep. I said it when Russia entered the fray - Putin is not in this for a brokered peace or settlement and eliminating ISIS is secondary. He is in it to win and victory for him is that his ally survives. Assad is no Saint and his support of Hamas/Hezbollah is well documented, but he was/is better than the alternative. This administrations feckless foreign policy and push for regime change in the Middle East has been a disaster across the board.
Just imagine what it would look like if the Egyptian military had not stepped in and tossed Obama’s choice to govern Egypt?
Check your local GOP candidates as well...most of them support what the US is doing in Syria and more.
Heartwarming family reunions in Nubl now the siege has been lifted: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=55c_1454587457
Obama’s Bay of Pigs. Kennedy betrayed the Brigade 2056 of Cuban freedom fighters by withdrawing crucial air support. Obama did the same thing by NOT sending the “moderate rebels” basic anti-aircraft missiles (Blowpipes, SA-7 knock-offs, etc. as well as some older Stingers. The Stingers were the single most important weapon that defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan).
Obama has chosen the said of the Islamists (Hamas, Hezbollah, Iranian Republic Guards and Assad’s killers) but that was to be EXPECTED because of who Obama is (A Red in a burqa).
Covert origins of ISIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXbuj7BPI
Origins of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJPOtPl-0NI
I like to know how ISIS is doing now?
this is more than that — though those poitns are important. If the Moslems win in Syria then Russia has a jihadi problem creeping up to Chechnya
Rebel....Rebel...you tore your dress.....Rebel...Rebel...your face is a mess...
The Islamic state can be crushed easily by a modern military with an air force — once the Rosjanie turn their gaze on them, they’ll bomb them to nothing — eastern Syria is flat, perfect aerial bombing territory
Rebels = ISIS
Destroy them
After Alepo, ISIS ...
Since Syria is the birth place of the Russian Orthodox Church -
No planes from the US ... no way to defeat the S400 system = downed US plane. Any major event will involve Turkey ... Turkey imagining that they can drive the Russians out ... prediction if that comes to pass: Turkey on its own; no NATO; and Turkish incursion is over in 15 minutes with major Turkish losses (essentially Army, AF and Navy eliminated); Turkey no longer able to stop the Peshmerga. This last is why I do not think Erdogan would be so foolish, but its the vainglorious Islamic pride so one can’t say for certain.
More recently - ask the people who used to be alive in Grozney ...
Apparently as soon as the west is secured, Russia will turn to ISIS areas - numerous Russian volunteers are already fighting on that front. With full attention, no one will be left alive - men, women, children a la Grozney ... the Russian way of war.
The Chechins look to Grozney and shudder ... which is why their jihadis fled south.
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