Is the Aleppo offensive in Syria another Hail Mary along the lines of Ukraine’s Kursk invasion? From Alastair Crooke at strategic-culture.su:
To seek a deal on Ukraine is to treat the symptom and to ignore a cure, Alastair Crooke writes.
‘Doomsters’ is an occasional Russian expression used to categorise commentators that only see the ‘dark side to events’ (a vice quite prevalent during the Soviet era). Marat Khairullin, a highly respected Russian military analyst, says, “Today, a network of mercenary war bloggers has begun another round of moaning – this time about Syria, where apparently everything is lost for Russia”.
“Many see the events in Syria (and some add Georgia to the mix) as attempts to open additional fronts against our country. Perhaps that’s true. But in that case, it’s more appropriate to draw direct parallels with the reckless attack on Kursk, which left the Ukrainian armed forces in an almost hopeless position”.
Khairullin views the activation of this jihadist insurgency in Syria as a similarly ‘desperate’ act. The background is that the Syria-Russia-Iran coalition had – thorough the Astana negotiations – “cornered the remaining Syrian terrorists into a 6,000 sq. km enclave. Without delving into the details, it was a process reminiscent of the [Ukrainian] Minsk Agreements—both sides were utterly exhausted and thus agreed to a ceasefire. Importantly, all sides understood this was only a temporary truce; the contradictions were so profound that no one expected the conflict to end”.
Aleppo fell quickly these past days, as “one division of the Syrian National Army outright defected to the Islamists (read: Americans)”. The defection was a set up. Northern Aleppo was occupied by the Syrian National Army, fully controlled, armed and funded by Turkey, which dominates northern Aleppo.
It’s just two bases and they [RF] have probably already cleared out.
Set up a new one somewhere else.
Had to turn off that Churchill docu because I could see that they were trying to paint Putin as the next Hitler and it wasn’t all that subtle.
Way too much shit Golem talk with our demockracy, our preshus and all that horseshit, only for the dull and drooling.
Some Obama speech writer, retired MIC warpigs, betrayus Petraeus and other Derp State dregs who consider their cause as holy and just while the serf peasants are only wanted for taxes and votes to give it that patina of legality.
The everything is Hitler card will expire one day?
I thought Syria was more for Israel’s benefit to hit Iran next?