Maliki destroyed Iraqi Army long before ISIS made their big move. Fool dismantled many good units and sacked commanders replacing em with his loyalists. Bunch of corrupt amateurs. There are some still very capable units, but they are insuficient.
But Pesmargha shouldn really be the ones calling...
He was always YPG shill, but idiot believed Syrian rebels and YPG are and will be buddies with YPG as a main actor. When SDF came about it was it. You see his avatar pic, syria in the yellov circle... then ES came, and he had a mental meltdown. It was funny to wach.
YPG basicly sield its fate in TAl Rifaat earlier this year. Remeber it was the first phase of encircliment of rebel held Aleppo. Cutting rebel Estern Aleppo from the norther countryside and turskih border living just a small pocket. Then they proudly displayed dozens of bodies of rebel fighters...
In KGR all other countries talk to Barzani and dont give a shit what Baghdad thinks. Why would Turkey?
Is quite ironic that the most stabile states are traditional monarhies. All of them who had revolutions endeed up with fucking despots and idiots. And Repulic was just in the name. All of...
What? History very much metters. I ll gave you and exmp from the Bosnian War. France was one of the most pro-serb gov in that time. Why? cause they were their allies in WW1., and Bosniaks fhougt for their enemies those who stayed for AU (indeedonly after Fatwa from Istanbul came, cause most of...
except, rebels priority wasnt ISIS in north Aleppo. It was and still is the regime. They would simply pull out. And then YPG with US help will swoopp in as they intended in the first place. Or Turkey would need to put 1000s of its soldiers and fight directly a US proxy force.
US tried to make...
Shia arabs hate you to death cause iranians want to turn Iraq intheir client state. And Turkey is kinda on their way. And Shia kinda hate you for few 100 years, cause this little thing Ottoman Empire did last time they tried to do similiar thing. Ever heared about Ottoman - Safid war? So, its...
They dont need to all become doctors, lawyers. That infact wouldnt be a good thing. Cause as much as any country needs higly skilled profesionals like those, it also needs the guys who you know fix your plumming, take out your garbage, work in factories, and the building sites. Architects draw...
OMG. Im spending to much time reading ansd following turkish press. When ever i glence over Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread section, my mind reads by default "Guests" as Gulenists :lol:
Liwa al Mutasim footage of the capture of Kafra and Duwaybiq in N. Aleppo
Jarablus revived thanks to Turkish efforts as new houses built
http://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2016/10/06/jarablus-revived-thanks-to-turkish-efforts-as-new-houses-built
This is how it should be done. This...
That battle (battle for Derna) and the war in general is seen as one o defining moments of not just US navy's history but US military history in general. It was the first battle fought by US on foreign soil after American revolutionary war Both the pic and the lyric "to the shores of Tripoli"...
Suprise, suprise.
And WH wonders why those Turks in Ankara refuse to see them as a CT partner in Syria.
Of course its must be Erdogans fault - sarcasm off
Maybe. Who knows, its a crazy world. And much of these high level stuff is above our paygrade - we can only speculate or in best case drop an educated guess
Hell, Brits sold its Rolls Royce jet engine to the fucking Soviets during the kickstart of the Cold War era.