Syrian Army Is Ready To Launch Large-Scale Operation In Greater Idlib – Report

SAA has all to make this and other action on the whole Syria land, with the help of Russia airforce. What has happened so far is that Russia has continuously stop SAA offensive on Idlib to please Erdogan who is Putin’s friend.

Agreed entirely. Putin’s double-dealing with Turkey are simply a disgrace with regards to their so-called “strategic ally” Syria to which they do not even offer the expected degree of protection a smaller power should expect from its patron. Damascus has practically open-up its military, political and economic sovereignty to Russia, and does not even get an hermetic protection for its mainland or its integrity. Israel strikes and humiliates it at will, Turkey and the US encroach on their territory from multiple sides to this day.

If Moscow persists in such “talk to all, deal with all” with a zero-risk approach without developing an ounce of principles or audacity involving a firm grip vis à vis other competing actors, they will end up setting an extremely bad precedent for times to come where the encounter critical common interests with a future actor entailing a deep partnership. Indeed any government willing to deal with Russia on strategic matters will do so while being extremely wary of their treacherous nature and hence will probably only moderately walk the Russian line anywhere even if they come with major concessions, lucrative and generous MoUs, or other official understandings.

As much as I understand pragmatism and patient chess-play are a norm in geopolitical calculation, and friends & foes can change overnight and need to be viewed as ever-changing factors, I do not see Moscow behaving like an ally should even by these cold standards, with regards to a country that conceded so much to them unconditionally. The least they could do is to secure their national integrity, which Putin seems absolutely not interested, willing or in a hurry to address, and even adds insult to injury by evidently using pieces of Syrian land as a bargaining tool with Turkey.

I mean, as the saying goes, with an ally like this, who needs enemies ? The only thing saving Moscow from a major confidence crisis with Damascus is that the usurper sitting at the throne in Damascus is one of the region’s most pathetically weak and thoughtless leaders that his country has ever seen in more than a century. His father must be turning a thousand times in his grave every day. Who could imagine Israel doing its constant pin-prick attacks there in such total impunity when Hafez Al-Assad was in power ? the IDF still recalls the regular losses they had when provoking skirmishes over the Lebanese border regions, at this time Syria was in tit-for-tat mode and almost always took down their attacking birds whenever they tried something fancy around. A4s, F-4s, F-15s, F-16s, you name it. All of those types fell at least once. Today ? no comment. And the collapsing home-front is not an excuse anymore. Syria has the military ability to respond hard in the Golan every time Israel strikes, just as Hezbollah does in the Shebaa Farms whenever needed as well and Tel-Avis tries to question the status-quo.

Exactly. This, and tocontinue his forey into the NATO ally’s military establishemtn through S-400 and Su-35/57 deals.

Saa wants pay rise first. then maybe

What pipeline deal? Where did you get that info; from Jewish newspapers? The pipeline is already finished in the Turk section of the pipeline. Agreement was signed long time ago and if Turkey breaches their part of the agreement they will face penalties which are proscribed in the contract. So Russia doesn’t have to become patsy of Turkey or anybody else like you pretend them to be. What are you saying actually is usual anti-Russian propaganda accepted and parroted by the people without independent critical thinking . Badmouthing Russia is the easiest way to find scapegoat and cover SAA’ s real limitations. Nobody is blocking SAA in liberating of anything, specially not Russia who would prefer to get rid of Jihad lunatics as soon as possible. Hezbollah and Iran are not helping any longer SAA . And on top SAA is spread over even more territory now, on the other side of the Euphrates. So they simply don’t have enough soldiers to quickly mount big offensive. I was stating well known facts. But you were talking only assumptions. You do not explain why would Russia be in submissive position to Turkey with that “pipeline” when the contract was signed long time ago and pipeline built already? Turkey also buys lots of gas from Russia, they need Russian gas. And they need profit from gas “Turk stream” transit so HOW can they blackmail Russia without hurting themselves why would they do that ?! It is Russia who saved Erdogan from failed CIA coup and since Erdogan can’t trust US he can’t also trust their stooges from EU either. So that leaves only Russia and China option as world powers support of his regime in case things got worse with US and NATO. Specially now when they are in process of buying S-400?! They also have loans from Russia and depend on Russian tourist coming to Turkey and they have huge loans and investments from China close allay of Russia. So how exactly For simpleton it is easy logic pipeline in Turkey = dependent on Turkey If you can have proves for your propaganda

As the US gave SAA back their northern border with Turkey, east of the Euphrate, getting that sorted out has naturally been a priority. Not to worry Commander, one step at a time.