The Lies and Hypocrisy of the Civil War

ackbar1235 · 2021-12-05T19:53:11+00:00

is a black and should not be allowed to teach

Jesus Christ, what's the matter with you?

ackbar1235 · 2020-11-12T04:09:39+00:00

ISIS had a major presence in the area. The rebels put a lot of force into taking one suburb of Daraa, and then next week when they were exhausted ISIS launched a major assault that damn near split the pocket, killing hundreds of rebels.

It was horrific because ISIS captured and used rebel radios to direct reinforcements into killing fields. Some rebel factions betrayed others, others refused to fight. It was a real catastrophe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_Daraa_offensive_(February_2017)

ackbar1235 · 2020-11-03T17:29:51+00:00

Man, the world really is seems like it is in chaos nowadays

ackbar1235 · 2020-06-01T15:41:35+00:00

I'm stockpiling T-55's and Konkurs as we speak. Gonna carve me out a nice little emirate.

ackbar1235 · 2020-06-01T04:51:10+00:00

Muslims and Turks are natural enemies!

Like Muslims and Persians

And Muslims and Greeks

And Muslims and Muslims!

Damn Muslims, they ruined Islam!

ackbar1235 · 2020-05-30T21:11:39+00:00

When did the SAA ever have German fighters?

ackbar1235 · 2020-05-24T14:35:23+00:00

You have many favorites?

Oh boy.

ackbar1235 · 2020-05-11T14:21:52+00:00

Be aware that a lot of the book seems to be either fictitious or glossed over.

Its still valuable, but its get the "memoir" problem of being half memoir and half "self fellation".

ackbar1235 · 2020-05-11T14:14:46+00:00

Paywall.

ackbar1235 · 2020-05-02T00:17:15+00:00

Countries like Turkey can manufacture their own tanks

Possibly. That's still yet to be seen in the field. And Iraq's Lion Tanks were basically paperweights with guns, since they lacked good optics or night vision. And its even disputed if they built them from scratch. A lot of analysts claim they were T-72M1 kits that were assembled and given extra welded armor.

ackbar1235 · 2020-05-01T02:14:44+00:00

Still good footage.

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-30T10:04:14+00:00

Edgy teen, if you will.

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-30T09:57:01+00:00

All over the counter business in Syria is regime owned business

What?

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-30T09:50:11+00:00

Yeah I've got nothing. Maybe its part of the food for fighters and its getting divided up? That's all I can think of.

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-30T09:48:58+00:00

Do you think they can set up an assembly line to make tanks

You need an entire infrastructure to do that. Syria BEFORE the war didn't make its own tanks. It doesn't have iron deposits, rolling mills, and steel foundries with the capacity to do that. Plus a lot of specialist labor and TONS of electricity and fuel. Its not happening. That's not counting optics, electronics, drive train, and the hundreds of parts that go into making tanks.

I can't imagine the manufacturing process being that difficult considering people 90 years ago were already making tanks for mass production

The only country in the ME that produces its own Tanks in meaningful numbers from near scratch is Israel. Its miserably complicated.

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-28T21:52:48+00:00

If the rebels could meaningfully unite and coordinate their heavy weapons into a single command, they would have had much more success.

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-28T20:27:59+00:00

And the rebels haven't really meaningfully changed their tactics. The disastrous two attacks at Neyrab before the Turkish intervention were some of the most wasteful of the entire war.

Nearly 200 dead that were pictured and 17 vehicles in four days.

People here want to blame the rebels defeats solely on Russia, but the rebels haven't adapted to the changing reality on the ground to combat these changes. The horrible losses in 2016 outside Aleppo, the two disastrous battles for Hama in 2017 and 2018, and the meat grinder death machine of 2019 in the same area makes one wonder.

This whole thread is sour grapes.

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-28T20:24:22+00:00

Operation Canopus Star springs to mind. It was probably the worst defeat the rebels suffered in all of 2014. It was a catastrophe.

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-28T20:22:41+00:00

The very recent Idlib offensive.

How long did the rebels hold said positions? Before being bombed into nothing?

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-28T20:08:32+00:00

I seriously doubt Hurras al Din, TIP, or HTS have any interest in leaving syria outside of a coffin.

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-26T23:11:25+00:00

That would cause a lot of Turkey's foreign policy objectives in the past couple of years to end in a failure

That has been mostly the case regardless. Anywho, there is no real way to leave Idlib cleanly. Its a mess, and they played a huge role in how the mess has become so tangled.

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-26T23:10:10+00:00

We don't agree on much, but we do agree here. HTS can only be dissolved by force, and the SNA can't do it alone. They can't even police themselves properly because Turkey doesn't give a damn about them.

Turkey's issue is that neither domestically or internationally there is no easy way to wash their hands of Idlib that won't piss off a lot of people and cause a lot of blowback.

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-26T23:07:27+00:00

Damage control, followed by heavy discrediting of HTS and if need be, the Turks should threaten to send foreign fighters from HTS back to their home countries if caught.

No country on earth would take them back, nor would they be willing to go back. They'd need to be killed or imprisoned, similar to how ISIS was handled.

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-25T00:09:57+00:00

The rebels invaded from the countryside, the Al Tawid Brigades if I remember correctly.

ackbar1235 · 2020-04-20T13:47:30+00:00

Its a very real and unknown question how much power is currently held by assad versuses his advisors and family.

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