Devs March26 >SyAf/RuAf launch multiple airstrikes against HTS in Idlib as many pour in from E Ghouta towns >E Damascus; Hundreds of militants bussed out from Arbeen, 238 HTS fighters/863 civs, more waiting to depart >TASS; 5,500 militants of Faylaq al-Rahman and family members evac from E Ghouta to Idlib, 4,900 of Ahrar al-Sham leave Harasta >W Aleppo; Heavy clashes between HTS and Jabhat Tahrir Souriya ongoing, HTS remains on offense but lose several men and some vehicles >SOHR; Tens of thousands of civilians have stayed in their homes throughout various districts in E Ghouta that are now under SAA control >Raqqa; Unconfirmed video allegedly showing clashes between Al-Bukhamiss Arab tribesmen and Kurdish forces emerges >Opposition sources claim Al-Bukhamiss are staging an uprising since Sunday afternoon in Al-Mansura against Kurds, burning tires/capturing checkpoints >Houthis launch as much as 7 ballistic missiles at military installations in Riyadh, 1 person killed >Former Israeli MoD; John Bolton urged him to strike Iran before it achieved nuclear weapons capability during his UN Ambassador tenure >Egyptian police kill 6 militants linked to Alexandria bombing
>The jihadist civil war in northern Syria has recently intensified, with both Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and Jabhat Tahrir Souriya trading offensives in the Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama governorates. >On Monday, Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham would get the better of the two jihadist groups, killing a large number of fighters from Harakat Nouriddeen Al-Zinki (JTS group). >According to pro-opposition activists, HTS launches a surprise attack against Harakat Nouriddeen Al-Zinki inside the west Aleppo town of Maklabis >As a result of this HTS attack, scores of Zinki fighters were killed, including one of the group’s top commanders. almasdarnews.com/article/hts-annihilates-large-number-of-zinki-fighters-in-west-aleppo/
Jaxson Morgan
>China’s yuan-denominated crude oil futures launched overnight in Shanghai with 62,500 contracts traded in aggregate, meaning over 62 million barrels of oil changed hands for a notional volume around 27 billion yuan (over $4 billion) >Glencore, Trafigura, and Freepoint Commodities were among the first to buy the new contract >Many awaited the launch eagerly, seeking to tap China’s bustling commodity markets, although doubts remain whether the Shanghai futures contract will be able to become another international oil benchmark. These doubts center on the fact that China is not a market economy, and the government is quick to interfere in the workings of the local commodity markets on any suspicion of a bubble coming
>As a result of these tight reins on the new market segment, some analysts believe international investors would be discouraged to tap the Shanghai oil futures. If the first day of trading is any indication, however, this is not the case, at least not for large commodity trading firms. >Additionally, Bloomberg reports that contract grades in Shanghai crude oil futures exchange could account for around 200 billion yuan in trades, based on China’s current import volumes, helping the nation in its efforts to internationalize its currency
>Now that China is the world’s leading consumer of oil, Beijing can exert some real leverage over Saudi Arabia to pay for crude in yuan. It’s suspected that this is what’s motivating Chinese officials to make a full-fledged effort to renegotiate their trade deal. >Once the oil markets are upended, the yuan has an opportunity to become the dominant world currency overall. This will further weaken the dollar. archive.is/HcJ0T
>President Putin’s massive election victory and the fallout from the Skripal case have provided Global Times – an English language newspaper published under the auspices of the People’s Daily, the official organ of China’s Communist Party, and therefore reflecting the views of China’s leadership – with the opportunity to give Russia strong backing as it comes under renewed Western pressure. >The first editorial, published on 16th March 2018 under the title “West hopes to hurt, intimidate Russia”, makes clear that China sides with Russia over the handling of the Skripal case >The second editorial, published on 19th March 2018 under the title “Western sanctions boost support for Putin”, makes the same point, though rather more trenchantly >Both editorials see the Skripal case as a continuation of the Western campaign to undermine President Putin in order to disrupt Russia’s independent course.
>Global Times then proceeds to draw lessons from this for China, which is itself now starting to come under economic pressure from the US >Firstly, as the first editorial points out, the West is as capable of applying sanctions pressure on China as it is against Russia >Secondly, Russia has managed to resist the West’s pressure in part because of its “rich natural resources” – ie. its economic self-sufficiency – but also because of the strong national spirit of its people >The implication is clear enough: in order for China to be able to resist Western pressure – the application of which I suspect the Chinese leadership believes is only a matter of time – China needs the same two things that have enabled Russia to resist Western pressure so successfully: a spirit of national unity and economic self-sufficiency.
Landon Gonzalez
>strawman >self-hating burger
*cringe*
Sebastian Allen
(You) Reposting
>literal ship junction jam Coal, iron and copper from Australia and iron from Brazil They almost tripled their imports on coal and doubled iron imports It was absolute mayhem in northern Australia, there were queues of ships waiting up to FIVE WEEKS to load on Queensland during December-January This rush was not normal
Wasn't some guy developing a Syrian Civil War mod for this?
Jonathan Hughes
What’s chinks has to do with this?
Zachary Lopez
BREAKING: >Leaked Images Allegedly Show US Military Tanks Arriving In Jordan >Sputnik news agency recently uncovered leaked images of U.S. military equipment arriving in Jordan’s Aqaba Industrial Port via the vehicle carrier ship “Liberty pride” for the upcoming participation in the annual war drill “Eager Lion.” During the unloading process, the images reveal the “M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks, the M113’s variation for medical evacuation and the M2A3 Bradley armored personnel carriers” were offloaded from the 199-meter (652 feet) military transport vessel, said Sputnik >Sputnik indicates that Eager Lion war drill is an important military exercise between the U.S. Armed Forces and Jordanian Armed Forces, along with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain. Further, the war drill could flare up tensions on the Jordan–Syria border, and as we know, sometimes war drills go live.
>However, Muraselon news agency ignores the Eager Lion war drill and believes the United States coupled with the Jordanian Armed Forces could be preparing for the next regional war along the Jordan–Syria border. twitter.com/zerohedge/status/978412580019556352
Adam Foster
making ready I guess also, most importantly, telegraphing to everyone "we are making ready, dont try anything"
Jace Cook
Fuck maghrebois
Tyler Butler
And by making ready I mean ready against a sanction/embargo war
>And by making ready I mean ready against a sanction/embargo war The following months will show if it really escalates to a proper trade war. The mutts are great at hiding their true intentions.
Jacob Barnes
>patriotNANI?.webm
Eli Sanchez
>m-muh monkey model >doesn't count, didn't have super armor on it yet t. /k/
those were just the common responses to videos of Abrams and Leo2s getting btfo in Iraq and Syria
Elijah Ward
>The following months will show if it really escalates to a proper trade war It wont It didnt make much sense then, but it makes now, they stockpilled for this and everyone knows They can take anything for long enough, probably longer before the west overcomes the shock of cease of cheap chinese imports Probably being the key word, but thats their gamble I believe. Smart little arthropods
Knowing Hezbollah and IRGC has dug in deep along the Damascus-al Tanf highway i kinda want it to happen just for the shitstorm that'd be bound to happen when US troops finally faces a well equipped and cunning adversary.
>rootless shamegoat impostor outed himself again with his mountain jew proxy >deleted post in shame Hahahahaha, imagine being this much of a miserable failure!
>Probably being the key word, but thats their gamble I believe. China isn't reliant only on materiel imports from the west though, they also import mass amounts of consumer goods believe it or not. They won't gamble to cut themselves off from the rest of the world i believe. Are you le best turk?
Joshua Moore
>The mutts are great at hiding their true intentions. current scuttlebutt is that Trump already folded on the tariffs in exchange for a few things, like China buying more US semiconductors rather than Japanese or Korean but we'll see what goes down
We'd cover it up like Baghdad Airport battle, at least until Hezbollah shows up captured Americans
Jonathan Turner
>well equipped and cunning adversary. >he believes in kh*mmies' propaganda
>“We reserve the right to respond against Iran at the right time and right place,” the Saudi Coalition Spokesperson Turki Al-Malki told reporters on Monday. >The Gulf kingdom has blamed Iran for the Houthi attack on the Saudi airports and military installations, claiming that the Islamic Republic supplied the Yemeni group with these missiles. >Recently, the Houthi forces have begun firing the newly manufactured Badr-1 ballistic missile into Saudi Arabia, prompting the latter to accuse Iran of supplying the weapons.
How come only a few realize it but /sg/ is instant? Im not badmouthing or anything, im actually glad that there are autists out there with whos minds im in tune to. Its just that i found out no 8 hours ago and cant really fathom the fact
Carter Diaz
Welp It was fun to be back, if only for a short time, gotta go sleep Goodnight /sg/
This happened today (26th of March) in Batman, Turkey. Negotiations failed between two PKK members and Turkish soldiers. Both PKK members where killed in this firefight.
On the same date another three members killed in Mardin and 10~12 (still no clear number) killed in Hatay (possibly YPG/J members) and 12 killed in northern Iraq.
Angel Stewart
It's still rumor tier mostly from vets, and the truth won't be known until US collapse and muh archives open, but allegedly at the airport US forces got the fucking shit kicked out of them with rumors of around 2-300 US soldiers killed
If you search for it you'll find all crazy stuff like the US using a neutron bomb or some newtech there, but there's evidence that something major did go down based off blackouts of certain reporting on days during the battle.
I suspect if the US has a Soviet style opening of out military archives that we lost far more soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan than we claim
Christopher Collins
>muh aryans you are cringier and cringier with your stale memes as days pass by
Looked out for the Saddam international airport battle, some reports state that many of the bodies did not have wounds from shrapnels or bullets.
Though could just be bullshit stories.
Justin Martinez
>its finally happening it's been happening for a while China's been making friends all over the middle east for a while now, they even sent special forces to Syria to hunt down Chinese Muslims who joined radical groups there. they know that US influence is shrinking and are getting ready to take their place as hegemon of the middle east
Checked >but allegedly at the airport US forces got the fucking shit kicked out of them with rumors of around 2-300 US soldiers killed Sounds fun and all, but in the grand scheme of things the invasion went very well. Initially, i am not referring to the post-war occupation. The US army, implying that this whole thing is more than just a rumour, will have learned from this. Probably. >a neutron bomb or some newtech there Probably bullshit tbqh, blackouts could refer to them simply not reporting what was happening. Time will truly tell, though i am not holding my breath about this in particular.
Like I said, rumor tier, but there's enough elements that something could have certainly happened. I doubt we'll ever know until US collapses and the true stories about the wars come out
allegedly, 2 Chinese special forces groups are operating in Syria there's also North Korean specops there
Don't mind the New Zealander, he's from /ptg/. He's known as the McCain poster, and while he isn't necessarily pro-Trump, anyone who spends that much time in the company of MAGAfags isn't the brightest.
Henry Harris
I think Norway got pressured into it by the EU desu. Norwegian foreign ministery stated several times today that they would not expel any diplomats, most likely because of the jailed Norwegian "spy" in Russia. Suddenly, 8 pm out of nowhere they announced that 1 russian diplomats would be expelled and has 1 week to leave
