One of very few videos out of eastern #Aleppo, shows Al-Shaar district in ruins.
A scene of total devastation.
https://youtu.be/N1C50-J2Ewo
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One of very few videos out of eastern #Aleppo, shows Al-Shaar district in ruins.
A scene of total devastation.
https://youtu.be/N1C50-J2Ewo
Oh mate...
Back in 2010:
- Iran was on the best way into bankruptcy;
- Iran had no integrated radar coverage of its airspace (this was so poor, that international airliners underway over Iran had to deconflict each other via radio!);
- no integrated air defence system;
- nor any kind of strategic depth: indeed, what it had in terms of air defences was concentrated to few neuralgic ares (Bushehr, Qom, Tehran).
Also, its major ballistic missile projects were only entering the final phase of R+d.
In 2016, Iran has:
- strategic depth (because it is in control of most of Iraq, large parts of Syria, and Lebanon),
- a well developed radar network;
- even better developed, and fully integrated (although centralized too), air defence system;
- air defence weapons like S-300, Buk-M1 - and a host of local variants manufactured in cooperation with China (nearly all of which are entirely unknown in the West);
- fully developed series of solid-fuel propelled ballistic missiles with a range out to 2,000km;
- and de-facto control over the Hormuz Straits.
Yes, Iran is spending deftly to uphold Assad; but, thanks to the de-facto lift of sanctions, it's also flush with cash. On the contrary, Iran is therefore in control of a (quantitatively) biggest military force in the Middle Est, and half the World-wide oil/gas reserves.
Perhaps I cannot analyse soberly, but well... if nothing else, that itch in my big toe tells me that Iran nowadays might be in a slightly better position than six years ago.
Next step of the diplomatic peaceful resolution of the Syrian crisis: liberating east Aleppo from inhabitants!
As I said yday: The most frightening aspect about the slaughter in #Aleppo is that we now only see air strikes in #AssadPutin media footage.
VIRTUALLY no social media reporting coming out of eastern Aleppo due to no fuel and power....occasional bombing videos BUT from Russian propaganda media outlets like RT and Ruptly...
Russians "liberated" Chechnya in the same exact manner...standard kill all the civilians and latten everything and the problem goes away.... Russian military doctrinal approach...has never changed...
They are not just killing thousands right now.
They also managed to silence the opposition coverage of their slaughter in eastern #Aleppo.
Russian state TV shows fleeing civilians from regime-captured parts in #Aleppo
Then show what they really flee from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIG15K_8FVs#
UN humanitarian chief says 16,000 people are displaced in rebel-held Aleppo with no working hospitals + little food
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mi...idUSKBN13O0P5#
UK demands air drops of aid into eastern Ukraine BUT then states they fear for their aircraft....what wimps...then say nothing at all...
BREAKING: East #Aleppo fully liberated from hospitals and people - @mod_russia
Once again, a nice explanation on why are Russians as insistent on bombing civilians in Idlib and western Aleppo Governorates:
Keeping the Lights On in Rebel Idlib: Local Governance, Services, and the Competition for Legitimacy among Islamist Armed Groups
Quote:
...Rebel-held Idlib is a showcase for how rebels can pursue influence in nonmilitary spaces, as they reverse-engineer international aid dynamics and, through relatively sophisticated administrative structures, compete with each other for legitimacy. It also demonstrates how, in a civil conflict, even seemingly mundane municipal services like trash disposal and road repairs can be inseparable from issues of political and military control. The civilian and military opposition in Idlib had hoped to create a revolutionary alternative to the Syrian state under the Assad regime. In important ways, they have fallen short. But the service bodies and administrations they have built have shown how insurgents can challenge an incumbent regime’s claims to state legitimacy; how they can construct functioning, participatory government, even amid an ongoing civil war; and how they can invest those efforts to win local legitimacy.
...
Footage
A small town in rural #Idlib province this morning.
@SyriaCivilDef save civilians after #AssadPutin attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83zV-mv-9Jg#
One of the first videos from besieged eastern #Aleppo today.
Post-apocalyptic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1C50-J2Ewo#…
Deliberate Russian hacking attack on a German journalist working for BILD who has been a strong voice against Russian actions in Syria and especially Aleppo.
Why am I under intense #AssadPutin hacker attack?
Because I oppose the #WarCrimes of the two regimes.
Latest hacks in #Russian.
Good night.
Russian cyber warfare hard at work in Germany supporting their efforts in Syria....Russian non linear warfare clean and concise......as you can get it...no need to prove intertwining.....
PERFECT example of a recent DDoS email spamming attack on a US security blog site krebsonsecurity.com who posts materials on Russian hacking efforts...Russians slipped up when they posted from Russian Tumblr
Backtracking indicated originating servers were Russian based.
THIS was his report that triggered the hacking attack.......
Verzweifelter Hilferuf aus Aleppo:
Die Assad-Truppen tten, plndern, rauben
http://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/a...3528.bild.html
Info coming from SCD.....Cries from Aleppo...The Assad troops are killing...plundering..robbing civilians at will....
Morozov suggests a de-facto division of Syria. Division is Russia's answer to everything.
Back to 1984?
NEW MAP: Militants in #Aleppo suffer crushing defeat. #SAA reduced enemy territory by 40%. #Syria HD:
NOTE ...first of all it was not the SAA as it does not exist and secondly a strategic withdrawal is not always a crushing defeat...
http://imgur.com/a/5SPHH
While losing territory is inherently a negative event ..trying to hold a large area with limited resources...then it makes sense to pull back and defend what one can....
The enemy in this case Iraqi Shiai militias and Hezbollah have the advantage to pick the time and place of attack if one is encircled and the heavy Russian and Assad bombings do not help at all....
In the end ...if the rebels can hold out far longer with the daily media drumbeat of the atrocities and genocide against civilians hitting MSM....it is a win in the end...
BESIDES we still have not heard the last from KSA.....Turkey and Qatar...now that they are free from Obama constraints...
In eastern Ukraine....in the Donetsk International Airport a group of UAF held out longer than Stalingrad against massive Russian and mercenary shelling's and ground attacks....the Syrian rebels have always made it a point to protect civilians and if necessary they will allow them to ease out of the last pocket but I do not see the rebels giving up any time soon....in the end the UAF unit called the Cyborgs were killed when Russian Spetsnaz used gas and then blew up the building on top of them while they were singing the Ukrainian national anthem over the radio to their higher command and in this case the rebels are driven in their eyes by a higher god and are good urban fighters.
AND this is no sectarian war......??????
Footage from #Syria-#Russia interpreter shows East #Aleppo civilians on streets mulling future, Shi'a religious chants blaring from vehicle
"Don't get blindsided by looting... Strip copper wires from the walls, even," pro-#Syria regime joke in #Aleppo
Civilians of #Hanano #Sakhour who wish to leave #Aleppo are being taken to #Jibrin near Airport, reports of males taken for conscription
NOTE....seriously doubt for conscription as to why would Assad trust Sunni's out of Aleppo with guns in their hands again???....PROBABLY executed and or prison.....
MORE PROOF that the US Kurdish proxy YPG/PKK fights for Assad and Putin against FSA NOT Islamic State.....
Unconfirmed from #Efrin #Afrin: #YPG soon sending large military convoy to link up with troops in #SheikhMaqsoud, passing thru #Handarat
NOTICE the Obama WH does nothing....they could have called for the meeting but choose not to.....
France calls for UN Security Council meeting over #Aleppo battle.
https://goo.gl/IkdG2Q
Interesting Erdogan public statement...if actually true then Erdogan has undergone a reawakening in his views of Russian intentions in Syria and over Aleppo....
VIDEO: Erdogan says today that the reason Turkish troops entered Syria was to end the rule of Assad - @abdbozkurt
Turkey's angry president #Erdogan slams the @UN Security Council, says he gave up on hopes for the UN delivering justice in #Syria.
Turkey president #Erdogan declared today Turkish troops entered into #Syria to finish off Assad's oppressive rule & restore justice
COULD be that he feels no longer constrained by the US and Obama....and the TAF/FSA operation has been proving itself a solid operational success in the configuration it is in....using TAF artillery...armor and TAF SF along with FSA ground troops...AND more importantly Turkish AF CAS....
There are several questions in this regards, including:
- is that wishful thinking of various sympathisers of the Syrian insurgency?
- or Erdogan's ploy to attract such?
- or Edrodan's ploy to attrack those supporting transnational jihadists?
- But, and foremost: has he got enough troops for such an intention...?
That is: he probably has enough troops, but if the Turkish military in its current condition can pull something of that kind... I have my doubts about this.
Seems the Russians have hit Hezbollah/Syria, perhaps the IRGC too, for the third time in less than three days. Some of Assad-fans are talking about 50 KIA in just one of attacks in question.
Charles Lister is wondering:
On one side, I lean towards reminding everybody about my question Does the Russian Air Force Even Know What Is Going On in#Syria?Quote:
3+ reported incidents of airstrikes targeting #Iran-backed militias across #Aleppo in recent days. In Nubl/Zahra, Retyan & Rasm al-Nafl.
Friendly Fire? Russians? Turkish revenge? Israeli Air Force?
On the other... seems they are striking Hezbollah/Syria, perhaps the IRGC too - but not Hezbollah/Lebanon. So, perhaps it's intentional, 'sort of'.
...while victorious, pluralist fighters against Daesh (GRAFFIC!!) - read Assadists - unleashed upon Aleppo are talking to each other:
if you leave a washing machine god will not forgive you.