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What you expect from a group that still cant aim down the sight?Isn't Turkish backed rebels supposed to be doing the ground fighting against YPG? Turkish army suffered quite a few casualties if it's only operating in an advisory and support capacity. How much combat are Turkish troops actually involved in?
I give 2 shits about Donbass or your dumbass. If you think I am Ukrainian or anti kremlin troll then get your head examined. Your russian bs won’t fly with this American.He is butthurt anti-Kremlin troll who is not working for anyone. He was kicked out of Donbass in 2014 since when he is spreading all kind of BS rumors and fantasies on internet about Russian failures in Ukraine, Syria and elsewhere.
Our difference.Above video shows daily life in Al-Bab today. This is a town where one of the most bloody fights in Syria happened a year ago. Now see how alive the town is, how the buildings are standing. Compare that to Raqqa or Musul
We don't understand it either. If it was up to me, I'd attack Tal Rifad first. Maybe the aim is to push pkk away from border so they can't hit Turkish towns.I still don't understand turkish strategy.
Focus on the valleys south and north of Afrin and capture the moutains around them before, then cross the valleys until it reaches the city.
Battle in the western moutains are the hardest because they are the highest and the most defended and fortified.
This is what happens when politicians interfere in military matters: we lost 11 soldiers today. This can’t go on like this. We need to change the strategy and shake hands with Assad. Otherwise we will bleed to death in Syria.
Interesting development;
I think this would be a strategic mistake- Turkey should not allow the PKK-YPG issue to contain it and use 100% of TR focus, and it should not fear such organizations. Turkey has clear foreign policy objectives in Syria, and if TR wants to become the dominant regional power it cannot look the other way in Syria. Let's take your proposal and imagine for a minute that this became the new norm, what would happen? Assad would gain full control over Syria, all of the rebels and oppsotion groups TR funded would have gone to waste, TR would lose credibility as a reliable partner and the 3 million Syrian refugees would linger in TR for many more years to come. On a geopolitical realm- TR would be defeated in the game of regional powers, and instead of becoming dominant it would become subordinate to Iran (Iran--> Syria-->Lebanon, etc reach- Iran is the base for Shiite Islam and all such regimes will gravitate to it, hence why Iran wants the Allawites in power in Damascus and Hezbollah in power in Lebanon, and not to forget the Shiite's in Iraq that Iran has tremendous influence over.) TR would be cut out of that and instead be left to play with the PKK problem all by itself, forever.
The goal of these operations is to ensure that TR creates a buffer zone, an area of influence, a region where it can help facilitate millions of Syrian refugees to retrun back to Syria- hence the YPG problem will be extinguished all together if the Arabs fill in those areas, it will have a military/political presence in N. Syria. This is just one small part of a grand plan to become the dominant power in the ME, you can also see military bases in Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, N. Cyprus, N. Iraq, etc. Iran sees this and that is why they are pissed and of course will send arms to demoralize TR and change it's course- and it appears they have succeeded with you .