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A brief overview of the recent developments in Syria:
- Clashes between the Syrian Army and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led forces continue on the contact line near Maarat al-Numan. Pro-militant sources reported a number of artillery and air strikes;
- The Syrian Army seized a number of weapons, including a TOW launcher, in southeast Idlib;
- A car bomb was neutralized by Turkish-backed fores in al-Bab;
- A Turkish solider died from wounds after an IED explosion near Tell Abyad.
And the Turkish OB post located near Jarjanz has reportedly been shelling SAA positions, which means it’s time for the SAA to start shelling them back.
The almasda article says both sides are firing at each other in tit for tat exchanges. Simple solution is that the Turks go home . https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkish-and-syrian-armies-trade-attacks-in-idlib-as-situation-worsens/
In bodybags.
Well at least that way they won’t return unlike the withdrawn US forces who drove around in a circle.
US forces are like moths, only instead of the light they are drawn to oil wells!
Not all of them circled luckily, just enough to stop the Turks stealing the oil from the Kurds.
Believe me, eventually they will have to. For the time being Russia will play along as there are other issues brewing in Libya. I hope Turkey takes the bait and intervenes in Libya it would be the biggest disaster in modern times, but I don’t believe Erdogan, an uneducated idiot has the balls.
As I would you guys before I went walkabout in the region, the Turkeys have failed in Idlib as they could not achieve a occupation zone to Hasakah, the SAA has encircled them in most places and extending its control as Syria is no longer very dependent on Russia and is getting far bigger Iranian and Chinese support. The dumb Turkeys have overreached and have no plan B. Sooner of later the SAA and its various allies will take on Turkeys. The SAA manpower is now in excess of 200,000 and the allied militias even more. The recent estimates of battle hardened Hezbollah from Lebanon is now over 120,000 who have rotated in out of Iraq, Syria and Yemen. The Turkeys are over-extended and have a pathetic military and the situation will worsen if they send their own Anatolian peasant cannon fodder to Libya. The Egyptians, even though no Heinz Guderian are far better than the Turkeys and have more lethal weaponry, not to mention short supply lines into Arab neighboring Libya and are already flying not so effective bombing runs from Mersah Metruh. If this war does take place, which I doubt, it will be the contest of the most inept fuckwit armies in the world. The Turkeys versus Egypt and UAE shitheads contest would be worth breaking out a bottle of Chablis and Caspian caviar.
You’re right, the SAA now numbers over 200,000 including those 25,000 FSA conscripts, and there are at least 100,000 fighters in the various Syrian and foreign militias willing to fight for Assad as well, so at least 300,000 fighters in total. Which makes me wonder why it’s taken so long for them to finish the job, the terrorists and opposition in Idlib number 90,000 at the max, probably nowhere near that and possibly as low as 65,000, so the SAA has 3 or 4 times the manpower as well as air support, it should be an easy and quick victory once the Russians finally decide to start up operations again, that’s if they start up operations again, hopefully they do. And Libya will be interesting, because even if, as you pointed out, it’s contested by 2 of the worlds most incompetent armies, one of them will have the Russians backing them and the other will have the US backing them, so it’ll be a bloodbath no matter what happens. I think Libya’s going to make Syria look like a safe haven soon, those terrorists Erdogan’s sending to Libya will be wishing they could go back to safe old Syria soon.
You are a pretty astute observer yourself. From what I saw, the SAA was a mostly Sunni conscript army prior to 2012 and was geared for a conventional cumbersome war with Zionists. From 2012-2017 it was plagued by defections, low morale and casualties. After Russian and Iranian intervention, especially the large scale induction of Shia diaspora, the situation stabilized and is now in SAA favor. However, in the end game the casualties have to be kept low as there will be a final fight with the Turkeys and Americunts if they don’t leave Syrian voluntarily. This war has another few years to go unfortunately, it can be sooner if Russia gets tough.
I think Idlib only has days to go before we have victory there, just a few more days of intense fighting with just a few more towns gained and Idlib will blow like a pressure cooker, atm it’s just simmering but when the SAA and Russia begin a new combined air and ground assault, it’ll only take days to blow. When that happens 90% of Idlib, Hama, and Aleppo will just collapse like a house of cards, the fleeing terrorists will head north to the Syrian/Turkish border and try to re-establish themselves there, and the SAA will then have a really hard slog to clean up the last 10%. As to the Turkish occupied areas of Ar Raqqah and Al Hasakah I’m not sure what’s going to happen, I’m hoping Assad pushes the matter and provokes an incident that forces the Russians to back him over the Turks, but that’s a very risky scenario and I’m not sure it’d be something Assad would really do. Perhaps attrition by continued SDF/ALF attacks, combined with possible future heavy loses in Libya, will hopefully cause Erdogan to abandon Syria to concentrate on Libya and Iraq alone, leaving the Russians to protect their interests in Syria [stop Turkish PKK and Syrian YPG]. As to the US I think Trump still intends on getting out but I believe he’s waiting for the Turks to go first, when the Turks leave I think the US will too. Lavrov made a very interesting comment about the SDF and the US a few weeks ago, he said that because of the US withdrawal, the SDF were ready to give in to Assad and accept his terms, but as soon as the Turks invaded, they went running back to the US, which then had no choice but to help them. If Discus was working correctly I’d link the speech and the government website it came from, it was quite shocking, and very revealing, and also bodes very well for an eventual departure of the US without a confrontation. Let’s hope it doesn’t take years to win the war, because I’m really hoping it’ll be just days or weeks to win in Idlib, and also want to see both the Turks and US out by the end of this new year, fingers crossed. Cheers.
Hahahahaha so the wahhabi turks are lost along with their arab wahhabis nothing is working for them at the moment
I hope a war of total Wahhabi fuckwits in Libya does take place :) it would be hoot as the most dumbass and loser armies fight it out in Libya’s sands with US and French weaponry. The Egyptian morons with Rafale can not even hit a large building with precision guided munitions.