Syria and Russia are determined to end the war before the agreed upon ceasefire set for this Friday.
ISIS supply routes from Turkey to Aleppo and Raqqua have been cut off. Aleppo is on the verge of falling. Hundreds of rebels are surrendering. Syrian forces have advanced toward Raqqua have captured hilltops surrounding Raqqua and is poised to launch an assault shortly. If Raqqua is liberated, ISIS is done. All moderate rebel forces who have pledged allegiance to ISIS will quickly fold as well.
Turkey is trying to distract Russian operations by shelling Syrian forces north of Aleppo. Furthermore, Turkey has staged an "invasion force" on Syrians northern border to preoccupy Syrian defense forces.
Saudi Arabia has also sent planes to Insirlik, Turkey for possible operations. Pledged 150k troops for a US-led ground operation.
Trainloads of military equipment has been seen leaving Gulf States (Kuwait, Qatar) and Saudi Arabia.
Russia and Syria have less than a week to defeat ISIS before USA and its allies are prepared to rescue ISIS.
Edit1: Ceasfire date is Friday, 19 FEB 2016
profanion ago
You mean the one who bombed schools and other civilian buildings?
53army ago
So... it's only Russia who bombed schools and civilian buildings?
profanion ago
I'm not saying that Russia was the only one. But it seems to do more collateral damage than non-collateral damage.
NoneOfTheAbove ago
Can I get source for that, for the current state of ISIS (because I'm not caught up on my reading on the subject, not because I don't believe you)?
dontwatchtv ago
The post is based off multiple sources. But, go to veteranstoday.com if you want a good run down on what's happening in Syria.
NoneOfTheAbove ago
Thank you! I've never been to that site and it looks pretty good.
k_digi ago
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160212/1034667291/aleppo-liberation-media-silence.html
Russian media talking about western media silence on Aleppo liberation.
fagnig ago
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/15/middleeast/aleppo-syria-survival-story/ Todays news.
You probably wont get a "liberation" narrative though, thats more a russian crowing, meanwhile the fighting there is causing more refugees to leave the area. Only russia/assad would be portraying this as sunshine and rainbows.
markrod420 ago
Its heartening to see so many people paying attention to the fact that we are deliberately creating these enemies. Sometimes i wonder if im the only guy who realizes that if it werent for our support these guys would be throwing rocks.
Drenki ago
If ISIS is done, so is their pre-text for throwing out Assad.
cky_stew ago
Is there a source on any of this?
dontwatchtv ago
go to veteranstoday.com. It's a pretty good source for what is happening in Syria.
ginx2666 ago
We know muslims are treacherous bastards. It's literally one of tenets in their terrorist manual to pretend to be peaceful and meek until there's enough of them in a territory to wrestle the control. No to mention ISIS recruiters and terrorists posing as refugees.
What I'm saying is there has to be more permanent way to get rid of surrendering ISIS terrorists than demilitarizing them and jailing them.
mleczko ago
Genuine question to Americans: how does it feel to be the terrorist?
MyDrunkAccount ago
My bad, let me call off the troops...fuck...looks like I lost the super secret number we're all issued to call in military maneuvers...Obama's not going to be happy with me, that's the third time this month already...fuck...I'll just try to play it cool at the next meeting and bring up the idea of withdrawing all our troops and abandoning my oil wells in favor of human rights like it's a brand new idea...I don't think anyone else has suggested that yet and usually radical ideas are very well tolerated so it should be fine. @mlezcko, consider the terrorism over.
XAPHAN ago
Everyone is talking like Assad is not some murderous thug.
crazy_eyes ago
Which countries political leader in this world is not a murderous thug?
Dingolicious ago
At least you know what you're getting with Assad, rather than these western funded ISIS shitbags!
antiplebbitor ago
Why the fuck is this listed under v/conspiracy instead of v/news where it should be?
Truth is NOT a conspiracy!
dontwatchtv ago
news = government propaganda
I don't post in v/news because the sheeple would down vote this post to the bottom rungs
forgetmyname ago
So now the Russian economy will be booming?
forgetmyname ago
water is more important than oil
Smeagol ago
Not if you're halfway across the world from said water and oil.
Fembot ago
I must have missed something. Why are the US and allies trying to rescue ISIS? WTF is up with that?
OrangeKraken ago
Because generally you want to protect your investments.
ShineShooter ago
CIA created them with funding from Kandahar opium farming, then barack hussein obama gave them a shitload of guns, let them take a shitload of US vehicles parked in Iraq, then gave ISIS warnings before bombing their convoys.
6double5321 ago
The spice must flow.
xXx_420_xXx ago
Fuck. I've read those books since I was a kid, and I've never realized they're about oil.
XAPHAN ago
This.
turdovski ago
I like how in western media, sponsoring murdering terrorists is ok as long as it's them fighting against "evil terro russia"
pitenius ago
I'm tired of being the bad guy.
Liber ago
Would you rather be the dead good guy?
AssaultMonkey ago
At this point, I might settle for being Russia. I'm half way through The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and I now detest the people who have been ruling the US.
tux ago
Yup. The US is run by greedy criminals.
Liber ago
Pretty much all the western countries are run by criminals!
aileron_ron ago
America has been at this for how long, Russia has been at it for under a year and look at IS run.
fagnig ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russias-move-into-syria-upends-us-plans/2015/09/26/6b285a06-5bba-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html
September. 6 months. And to be fair, the western coalitions 'destroy assad, with only rebels and jets/drones', was a different kind of effort, than, 'dig out assads forces with your own ground forces, plus planes and drones, and now the nation states own troops, and dominate the ground and sky with no resistance from NATO'. Its no surprise russia has seen such success, the NATO plan was ineffective.
escapefromredditbay ago
theres already video of cia-backed rebels with anti-tank missles, specifically using them to kill russin commanders. technically, ww3's fighting already has been kicked off
escapefromredditbay ago
well fuck, that was easy as soon as someone actually put the effort in
dontwatchtv ago
NATO is about to invade Libya to fight ISIS. I bet that war will last 15 years.
Pepper-theDoctor ago
how many years has the US already been fighting there? 5 years?
Sciency ago
Hope yall are ready for 4 dollar gas again. And I have a funny feeling Russia will finish isis off just a handfull of days before election time, with oil spiking up again a couple months after inauguration.
Just my .02.
dontwatchtv ago
That'll be too soon. We won't see $4 gas for 10 years. As soon as we get rid of our Priuses and Hybrid vehicles for SUVs and full size pickups.
JJWeavil ago
We're on the verge of very interesting times.
TahTahBur ago
Yes. I bet within a week there will be some "plot twist" in the main stream media narrative that enables a new phase of this war
putinpunhere ago
"Its time to go full blitz! We need to get done with DAESH to avoid an additional, and potentially devastating, front."
Onlio ago
I'm fully rooting for Putins boys to pull this off
foltaisaprovenshill ago
Agreed, I don't relish the idea of Israhell's plan of annexing EU and America into "Greater Israel". Disgusting fucking genocidal inbred freaks.
Javik2186 ago
Within a week, before Friday. I hoping a large battle will take place, a big enough battle that will make The Battle of Kursk or Stalingrad tiny in comparison.
Internet_Celeb ago
It's either that or ww3
DoucheBagMcGee ago
WW3 or bust is what I always say!
ElspethTirel ago
Why not both?
IMO, this is all just set up still...TPTB are setting the Middle East up for the greatest war of all time.
jervybingly ago
It would be the Likud Party's wish: armageddon. Israel was in on the planning of this clusterfuck, but their IDF is letting other countries' armies do their fighting.
ElspethTirel ago
This entire scenario is how the anti-christ is supposed to come about. When a group tries to force the Biblical end times to happen, that gives birth to the anti-christ. It is in all the major religion stories, but this is almost directly what the Kabbalah says will happen.
It is like if Jesus came back and the Christians had him crucified again. Directly contrary to what their belief system says to do.
dontwatchtv ago
I think so too. Right when the world's financial system is about to crash.
It's a shame that China stayed out of Syria. Even if Russia and Syria gets attacked by NATO, I don't think China will help Russia.
crusade ago
Staying out would set China as the world's premier power afterward.
shmegegy ago
they will try to pull something big in Damascus before that happens IMO
Internet_Celeb ago
Turkey has 2 ground forces queued up on eastern front of Syria (rumors of them already crossing border)
Conveintently to the south east you have "war games" North thunder being staged
And earlier Qatar called for more support in Syria
Oh, and the house of Saudi is on the Jordanian border waiting.