Devs March 8 >E Ghouta; Tiger Forces reclaim long-lost Aftris Air Defence Battalion base, pushing on to town of Aftris next >Syrian govt has opened a second humanitarian corridor in E Ghouta as they prepare to split rebel enclave in 2 >N Hama; RuAf conducts multiple airstrikes on Kafr Zita in response to rebel shelling on SAA positions a few days ago >After 2 weeks of ground operations the SAA have reclaimed 50% of E Ghouta >Militants in E Ghouta attack a large civilian convoy attempting to reach humanitarian corridor near Douma, no casualty reports >E Damascus; Syrian security troops seize large amount of weapons designated for resupplying Ghouta rebels in routine vehicle checkpoint >Idlib; HTS shelled civilian targets inside the besieged Shiite-majority towns of Fouaa and Kafriyyah, killing 2 and injuring several more >Turkish FM; Ankara and Baghdad may carry out joint military operation against Iraqi Kurds after the May election in Iraq >Ankara urges US to stop kurdish militias from moving to Afrin to battle against Turkish Army >Lavrov; US neo-imperialist ambitions drive interference in other countries' affairs
In commemoration of the 5 years of gains in Damascus, it's time to remember what an epic year 2013 was. March 2013 was not only exactly 5 years ago but it was also the point of peak rebel control in and near Damascus. In April 2013 there was a large government counter-attack and from that point onwards the rebels in Damascus were in decline.
There are a few obvious causes for why March 2013 was the turning point.
-Syrian army had simply withdrawn from much of the country in order to defend the capital. Whereas in 2012 the army was spread throughout Syria, by 2013 they've abandoned large swaths of the north and east of the country specifically in order to regain initiative in key areas such as the capital. For example, practically all of Raqqa province was abandoned by early March, including the provincial capital.
-Intervention by Hezbollah and Iran - whereas in 2012 they were mostly playing an advisory role and were trying to avoid getting entangled, in February 2013 they've made a decision to intervene directly. Hezbollah started by invading the Qusayr region and various Shia volunteers under Iranian leadership starting landing at the Damascus international airport. This gave the army much needed additional manpower to turn the tide in its favor.
-Third reason is that in 2012 the government was still mostly concerned with preserving its own unity and avoiding outright disintegration of its inner core. Air force and artillery was used relatively sporadically out of fear of massive civilian casualties and entire army units were told to just defend their bases due to fears regarding their political reliability. By 2013 the threat of government disintegration had largely passed. The unreliable government members were weeded out and high-level defections had completely ceased in March 2013. What remained of the regime was united in combatting the uprising, and that gave the army enough confidence to unleash its full might against the rebels at around the same time.
what is /sg/ pro turk about? there dictator for life(erdo) is a psycho pro jihadi. they basically ban the internet. kurds are fighting for direct democracy vs sharia law plus they are protecting there villages from genocide from the idlib zoo plus i haven't read a Turk post i liked
>direct democracy A. No their not their fighting for cringy Anarcunt LARP shit "Democracy" B. No democracy exists in the areas the SDF controls as Arabs are forced to use segregated "Arab Councils" C. Direct democracy can not function with a poorly educated borderline tribal society AKA Kurds
here's the issue. if Kurdistan is allowed to exist 2 things will happen. 1. Arabs will hate us even more and may turn to greater extremes than Islamism to fight us 2. the kurds will be in a very similar situation to Israel where all their neighbours hate them and will destroy them as soon as they have the chance
Ayden Adams
At least Erdogan is not an anarchist social justice warrior. It's hard to imagine anything worse.
a) all the ypg are forced to read apos books which democatic confederalism is one b)the people in arab areas are in arab councils HAVE MORE SAY then they do in assad areas unless they are part of the kleptocracy c)ypg read books and have a ideology they are prob more educated than average Americans
>m-muh dictator Leftist romanticism of the concept of democracy bothers me more than leaders doing non-democratic things to continue stability in their respective countries.
Landon Sanchez
>mfw the source for the 21 dead insurgents is a half assed ABC article saying a "unidentified high level intelligence official said anonymously" Your SF are trash
i agree with u but the turks have been bombing kurdish villages for a while now. the usa does not abandon its bases usa and zog they may be able to create rojava and all the mudslimes can reeee all about it
Ian Wright
>trying to impersonate me >failing it at the most fundamental level
>i agree with u but the turks have been bombing kurdish villages for a while now. the usa does not abandon its bases usa and zog they may be able to create rojava and all the mudslimes can reeee all about it
lol they have no wiki youtube facebook or any major internet sites they just have gov news where any journalist is arrested if they say anything bad about erdo thus they have most jailed journalist in the world
Blake Garcia
While the troops in Syria are sleeping, can somebody explain to me what the fuck is Xi doing with his new constitution?
I know it's not stricktly speaking related, but holy shit it's the global superpower changing it's basic law, not to mention that with our current trends Xinjiang/Central Asia General is sure to come in the next 5-10 years.
Hunter Nelson
>lol they have no wik That's a good thing though.
Somehwere between 2013 and 2017 it became a horrendously propagandistic fake-news spreaing CIA-cocksucking website that's only good for anything that's not remotely related to society or history or politics
Landon Rivera
Chilling? What did you expect him/China to do?
Blake Hall
>chinks >superpower M80, they have a lot of problems in their own country and their mainland neighbors hate them.
They have a long way to go before anyone can consider them as a "superpower".
David Thompson
MORE DEAD TURKS
Dominic Howard
anyone can edit wiki including cia but it is informative on many subjects. that not the point the turks are not allowed to get any info that is not state approved
Wikipedia is basically reddit, if not r/politics at this point anyone can edit, but everything must conform to the consensus of the majority, so the views represented are the views of that majority, and that majority isn't much different from that of r/politics
on top of that the rules in place are just horrendous. You have the 3-reverts rule, but that rule only applies to single editors, which means that every time there's a disagrement on the final version of the article the decision is left to a third editor, the one who comes to the article first, so you can easily edit any article with just 2 (in some of the most difficult cases) 3 different editors, wich the CIA surely can hire. It doesn't work with only the mospt popular article where there are alot of "watchers", but then again there it's just the rule of those watchers so making any substantial change is impossible because, you guessed it, only changes that satisfy those who wrote the current version count
tldr institutional arrangements ruling over wikipedia are shit and guarantee the current political bias to remain in place for ever
Aaron Brown
Kurds are backstabbers and Turks side with the moderate beheaders. The best outcome would be massive casualties on both sides.
i agree with u i remember when snowden was talking about a huge data center that was making copy of the internet and wikis info was changing every day. however if you are doing generic research at uni it saves lot of time and is informative
Geopolitically they don't have "neighbours" They can't even have a proper war with India due to geography. Safe from any land conflict with a possible exception of north.
Levi Cruz
sharia law fsa (turk in 5 years)bad vs direct democracy ypg good
Matthew Collins
Lel my brother asked me if this was some strategy game.
What's the point of using it tho? Arent coastal cities going to be devastaded with conventional nukes anyway?
Ethan Flores
I just told him I'm interested in international politics, don't want to reveal my powerlevel yet.
Parker Jenkins
Sneak attack.
Kayden White
Even in cuckgermany its available. Wew But sh*t now i cant sleep cause my mother went by plane and i am scared now :(
Caleb Carter
some psychos in Washington play the arming jihadis card hopefully they dont play the nuke one
Luke Robinson
Imblyign someone in the party won't rek him Even Stalin couldn't defend himself forever from pretendents Anti ballistic systems don't work in water
Nathan Barnes
>Russia >Having enough money to bankroll a bomb bigger than the tsar bomba, something too expensive for the fucking soviet union
Michael Phillips
No one hears an electric diesel sub coming. They can eliminate a whole battle group or a port. Plus if you gotta end the world, it has to be salted nukes.
Hunter Collins
Democracy is utter garbage. It will also be directly controlled by Israel and the US to make them a puppet state. Fuck off Neocon.
Brayden Anderson
I can think of a few cities that would be improved by that.
Sebastian Morales
Tsar bomba wasn't "too expensive" though.
In fact there's almost no difference in price between various high-yield nukes.
It's just that tsar bomba is strategically useless. Yuo were much better off with 5 nukes 20 mt each than with 1 100 mt
Anthony Murphy
Thermonuclears aren't that expensive. Hundreds were detonated just for dick waving. It's the energy that's too big for practical use. 60 megatonnes+ means a lot it will just fuck off outside of the atmosphere. Unless it's detonated underwater.
Liam Miller
Also dont forget that tsar bomba was never put into practical use
top yield soviet nuke was 20 mt
tsar bomba was just a test
Aiden Roberts
I'd still think financing a new nuclear program, on top of renovating the navy for its use (training, equipment, ect) can't be viable, especially when Russia is already attempting to modernize it's army, navy, and air force.
Parker Brooks
Remember that time we cruise missled your base and no one did anything lol
Luis Ward
we should be focusing on making weapons strong enough to wipe out astroids
