Posted on 02/06/2016 12:02:04 AM PST by tcrlaf
It's a bad time to be a "moderate" in Syria: Even the Washington Post is now reporting that Al-Nusra and other freedom-loving moderate groups are losing the war.
As the SAA closes in on Aleppo, Russia is paving the way for a new offensive in northern Homs.
And by "paving the way", we really mean "36 hours of continuous airstrikes"
For 36 straight hours, the Russian Air Force has pulverized the Islamist rebel defenses in northern Homs, as the Syrian Arab Army’s 47th Brigade of the 11th Tank Division and the National Defense Forces (NDF) prepare to strike the imperative villages of Harbinifseh and Kisseen that are located along the Orontes River.
According to a senior officer from the Syrian Arab Army, the Russian Air Force’s powerful airstrikes over northern Homs are part of the largest aerial campaign launched by the Russian Federation since the advent of their participation in the Syrian Conflict
Trusted western media outlets are already crying foul, accusing Russia and Assad of derailing peace talks.
The reality is that the west and its Arab client states wanted terrorist groups to have a seat at the negotiating table, which was (rightfully) unacceptable to Moscow.
It looks like Russia has found a more effective way of negotiating with Al-Nusra and Ahrar Al-Sham: Surrender or be turned to dust.
(Excerpt) Read more at russia-insider.com ...
The US conducts far more attacks in Syrai than Russia
????? I don’t support Obama and he seems to be following your recipe book.
Under the current state of things the Chinese are there already. I would rather HAVE US running things there.
If you don’t support 0bama then fine sounded like it. In any case I don’t have a recipe book and the ‘he’ I was referring to is Putin not 0bama.
I hate Obama
Hate is not good, it eats one up - despise is what I prefer.
“Why people think this thug Putin is so great escapes me.”
Unlike SOME PEOPLE, I don’t let McCain and Obama tell me who the bad guys are. I do my own research, and my conclusion is that they are ALL BAD GUYS, but the least worst is Assad.
So if Putin is helping Assad, that is better then what others are doing, even if one of those ‘others’ happened to get himself elected and is running (ruining) my country.
Few more weeks of the latter before offering the former would be ok, and a better chance of acquiescence.
If you see the Russian Carrier move towards Libya, and Egyptian Tanks rolling towards Bengahazi it will be a sign. Saudi Arabia may well pay for it as they see ISIS as a threat to them.
Yeah,
I have heard about 75 percent of our attackers come back without dropping their payload.
And when we are attacking it as often as not hits a chemical outhouse or some such.
Puttie hits real targets and collateral damage be damned.
Shouldn’t hide military stuff in mosques, hospitals or grammar schools.
Homs never has been a good vacation destination.
Putin is NOT hitting ISIS targets
No,
He is helping Assad consolidate and retain power as opposed to what odungo and hillary have done which is go in to Lybia and take out a very bad guy and what ha you then?
Power vacume and every faction going against each other, total anarchy.
Same in Iraq thanks agan to odungo.
Afganistan soon to follow
Assad is a mass murderer like Putin
and they could make a case that so was Bush or Obammy. So?
Talking about order.
Get rid of the thug in charge and bedlam breaks out.
Were wacky Kadaffi still in Lybia, yeah, he was a thug but the whole place wasn’t how hill and B.H.Obammy left it.
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