The Syria story: 2019
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Reports of hundreds of Russians killed in Syria attempt to exploit war : RIA cites Lavrov
About 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked Russian private military firm were either killed or injured in Syria in an incident this month, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters last week.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-lavrov/
reports-of-hundreds-of-russians-killed-in-syria-attempt-to-exploit-war-ria-cites-lavrov-idUSKCN1G30PG
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Over 150 Syrian civilians dead after 2-day barrage of attacks
Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Some Syrians feared more violence Tuesday after government forces bombarded East Ghouta over a two-day period, killing more than 150 civilians.
On Tuesday morning alone, 45 civilians -- including 12 children -- were killed by air strikes, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2018/02/20/Over-150-Syrian-civ
ilians-dead-after-2-day-barrage-of-attacks/7941519146132/
Yep, as I've said earlier, Russian and Syrian troops are good at killing women and children. When it comes to well trained troops, not so much.
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Originally posted by THGRRI:Quote:You're kidding right?
Originally posted by 1kiki:
For the first time ever, an Israeli jet was shot down.
Israel needs to rethink whether it still has air superiority.
Or is that a real attempt to save face for Russia?
Either way, sad
Air supremacy is a position in war where a side holds complete
control of air warfare and air power over opposing forces.
And that my fried would be Israel and the U.S.
The Russian air force watched these two raids from the ground.
I would add, from inside bunkers.
Russia attacked American troops in Syria. Big mistake...below is a
conversation about what happened.
'They beat our a--es': Russian mercenaries talk about humiliating
defeat by US in reportedly leaked audio
The audio recordings, in which voices can be heard saying
200 people died “right away,” appear to back up reports from Reuters,
Bloomberg, and the Pentagon that roughly 100 – if not more –
Russians died in the fight. Reuters has cited sources as saying
the advance’s purpose was to test the US’s response.
First clip:
“The reports that are on TV about … well, you know,
about Syria and the 25 people that are wounded there from
the Syrian f— army and – well … to make it short,
we’ve had our asses f— kicked. So one squadron f— lost
200 people …right away, another one lost 10 people … and
I don’t know about the third squadron, but it got torn up pretty badly,
too … So three squadrons took a beating …
The Yankees attacked … first they blasted the f— out of us
by artillery, and then they took four
helicopters up and pushed us in a f— merry-go-round with heavy
calibre machine guns … They were all shelling the holy f— out of it,
and our guys didn’t have anything besides the assault rifles …
nothing at all, not even mentioning shoulder-fired SAMs or
anything like that … So they tore us to pieces for sure,
put us through hell, and the Yankees knew for sure that the
Russians were coming, that it was us, f— Russians …
Our guys were going to commandeer an oil refinery,
and the Yankees were holding it … We got our f— asses beat rough,
my men called me… They’re there drinking now …
many have gone missing … it’s a total f— up, it sucks,
another takedown … Everybody, you know,
treats us like pieces of s— … They beat our asses
like we were little pieces of s— … but our f— government
will go in reverse now, and nobody will respond or anything,
and nobody will punish anyone for this … So these are our casualties.”
Second clip:
“Out of all vehicles, only one tank survived and one
BRDM [armoured reconnaissance vehicle] after the attack,
all other BRDMs and tanks were destroyed in
the first minutes of the fight, right away.”
Third clip:
“Just had a call with a guy – so they basically formed a convoy,
but did not get to their f— positions by some 300 meters.
One unit moved forward, the convoy remained in place,
about 300 meters from the others. The others raised
the American f— flag, and their artillery started
f— ours really hard. Then their f— choppers flew in and
started f— everybody. Ours just running around. Just got
a call from a pal, so there are about 215 f— killed.
They simply rolled ours out f— hard. Made their point.
What the f— ours were hoping for in there?! That they
will f— run away themselves? Hoped to f— scare them away?
Lots of people f— so bad [they] can’t be f— ID’d.
There was no foot soldiers [on the American side];
they simply f— our convoy with artillery.”
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/russia-leaked-audio-humiliating-def
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Russian cargo plane crashes in Syria; 32 dead
MOSCOW — A military cargo plane crashed as it was descending to land at a Russian air base in Syria on Tuesday, killing all 32 people onboard, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The Russian military said an An-26, with 26 passengers and six crew members onboard, crashed just 500 meters (1,600 feet) from the runway. The military blamed the crash on a technical error.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-cargo-plane-crashes-in-sy
ria-32-dead/ar-BBJWewW?li=AA4Zpp&ocid=spartanntp
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How long can Putin afford to keep this up SIGNYM. He simply doesn't have the budget to carry on.
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Ah, Syria.
Much has happened since Syria was posted about as its own independent topic.
For one thing, Israel and Saudi Arabia became open partners in the "topple Syria" project. Of course, one warlike theistic government would have much in common with another.
Since Saudi's proxies (terrorists) have failed to do the job, Israel has pulled a lot of provocations in Israel. The one that caused Russia to respond was the shooting down of a Russian reconnaissance aircraft as if flew over the Mediterranean. As a result, S300s were installed in Syria. Isreal then launched an attack on Damascus airport, using a commercial jetliner as a human shield for its attack.
But, no matter. Despite Trump's weaseling out of his withdrawal of American troops, the Kurds ... facing "extermination" by Turkish troops ... are drawing up agreements with the Assad government.
So despite the Trump administation's plan to carve up Syria ... like "Picot-Sykes on acid" ... the fun is done. Our pet terrorists ... both the jihadi and the Israeli kind ... have lost.
Fuck the deep state and their plans for world domination. The sooner Trump stops listening to/ tolerating these assholes, the better off we'll all be.
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Quote:I'm sorry, Trump is no longer withdrawing troops from Middle East? How new is that?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Ah, Syria.
Much has happened since Syria was posted about as its own independent topic.
For one thing, Israel and Saudi Arabia became open partners in the "topple Syria" project. Of course, one warlike theistic government would have much in common with another.
Since Saudi's proxies (terrorists) have failed to do the job, Israel has pulled a lot of provocations in Israel. The one that caused Russia to respond was the shooting down of a Russian reconnaissance aircraft as if flew over the Mediterranean. As a result, S300s were installed in Syria. Isreal then launched an attack on Damascus airport, using a commercial jetliner as a human shield for its attack.
But, no matter. Despite Trump's weaseling out of his withdrawal of American troops, the Kurds ... facing "extermination" by Turkish troops ... are drawing up agreements with the Assad government.
So despite the Trump administation's plan to carve up Syria ... like "Picot-Sykes on acid" ... the fun is done. Our pet terrorists ... both the jihadi and the Israeli kind ... have lost.
Fuck the deep state and their plans for world domination. The sooner Trump stops listening to/ tolerating these assholes, the better off we'll all be.
I know it was incredibly stupid of him to announce to the world our future troop movements, but I thought it was a done deal.
Are you hoping the Kurds flourish, or are exterminated?
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Quote:He's been convinced by neocons in the Senate and elsewhere to stretch out the withdrawal for three months. Meanwhile HIS appointee, James Jeffrey, is asking the Kurds not to make any deals with Syria while "they" (the USA) makes some kind of deal with Turkey in the hopes of balkanizing Syria (ie creating some sort of Kurdish statelet in northern Syria.)
I'm sorry, Trump is no longer withdrawing troops from Middle East? How new is that?
I know it was incredibly stupid of him to announce to the world our future troop movements, but I thought it was a done deal.
The USA is using the excuse of being worried that Turks will "exterminate" the Kurds, which is a pointless idea, because the Kurds are ALREADY asking Syrian troops to move in as Americans withdraw, so there will be NO "vacuum" created. Plus, if Erdogan does something incredibly stupid, Putin will probably put Erdogan's nuts in a vise in some fashion.
Quote:Oh, I obviously hope the Kurds survive. Syria is full of "minority" religions, ethnicities, and languages - Kurds (who btw are not Arabs), Druze, Alawites, Christians, Shiites, Sunnis, Yazidis, etc. They survive THANKS TO THE ASSAD GOVERNMENT, which is itself minority Alawite.
Are you hoping the Kurds flourish, or are exterminated?
The only similar government in the Middle East that I know of is Lebanon, which made power-sharing among the Sunnis, Shiites, and Christians a formal part of their constitution, which ensure that the President, Prime Minister, and Speaker are all of different religions at any one time.
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Just as an aside, I heard interesting distinctions being made between the Kurds in Syria, northern Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. The Kurds in Iran are more-or-less folded into the Iranian population. The Kurds in northern Iraq are kind of tribal and have been controlled by the Barzani family for decades, who also control the oil flow. The Kurds in Turkey believe in some sort of anarcho-Marxist ideal, and the Kurds in Syria are more "nationalist". Kurds are thought of as IRANIAN peoples.
The idea that all of these conflicting aims and (especially) power structures could actually be brought together into some sort of greater Kurdistan (which btw I previously thought made sense) is apparently an unworkable idea due to the long separation of the Kurdish people into various nations and their eventual political and economic evolution along different lines.
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According to mideast newpapers, a UK-based Syrian rights group, and the BBC ...
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US Army Takes 50 Tons Of Gold From Syria In Alleged Deal With ISIS
As the remaining pockets of ISIS fighters faced imminent defeat in northeast Syria, the United States allegedly gave them an offer they couldn’t refuse: give us your massive caches of gold - or die.
According to reports by Syrian state news agency SANA, U.S. forces struck a deal with ISIS whereby the terrorist group would give up 50 tons of gold across eastern Syria’s Deir el-Zour province in exchange for safe passage.
The precious metal, worth about $2.13 billion, was plundered by the self-designated “caliphate” as its reign of terror spread across Syria and Iraq between 2015 and 2017.
Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah reports that local sources claim U.S. Army helicopters have already transferred the gold from the U.S. forces’ base in Kobani, the Kurdish-controlled city that lies close to Syria’s northern border with Syria. A portion of the gold was also distributed to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which dominates the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The news comes after SANA claimed that locals witnessed U.S. helicopters airlifting large cases of gold amounting to about 40 tons from the al-Dashisha area in Hasaka’s southern countryside earlier this month. The gold was purportedly looted by ISIS from Mosul in Iraq and other parts of Syria.
The Syrian state media outlet claimed that ISIS leaders were on-hand to guide the U.S. helicopters to the places where the gold was stashed, “closing a deal by which Washington spared hundreds of the terror organization’s field leaders and experts.”
The claims by the Syrian government outlet coincide with reports by U.K.-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR), which alleged that the U.S. and its Kurdish allies had been sparing ISIS fighters in hopes of acquiring the group’s war spoils.
The SOHR said:
“The U.S.-led coalition forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deliberately do not target the areas under the control of the ISIL terrorists and commanders in Eastern Euphrates in Deir el-Zour as they are trying to locate this treasure by forcing the ISIL militants to speak about its location after surrendering.”
Syrian and Russian media alike have long alleged that, contrary to Washington’s claims, it is waging a war on the extremist group. U.S. forces are instead collaborating with them in myriad ways.
During the destruction of ISIS-controlled Raqqa in Syria by the U.S.-led coalition, a secret deal was struck with the group that granted members safe passage as it evacuated the area. The deal, uncovered by the BBC, ensured the survival and freedom of many top ISIS leaders and a number of foreign fighters.
The U.S. still maintains its base in al-Tanf at the Syrian-Jordanian border in contravention of international law and against the wishes of the Syrian government on the pretext of combating ISIS. Moscow has repeatedly accused the United States of forming new armed groups from the remains of ISIS, where they are allegedly given free rein and pop up “like a jack-in-the-box” to ambush Syrian troops before fading back into the U.S.-controlled region.
https://themindunleashed.com/2019/02/50-tons-gold-syria-isis.html
If true ... and I have no reason to believe that it isn't ... this is exactly what happened in Libya. Qaddafi had a large gold reserve; and was going initiate a pan-African gold-based currency. THAT, of course, was his mortal sin: Like Saddam, he was going to go off the petrodollar reservation, and that just wouldn't be tolerated,
So, whatever happended to that approximately 150 tons of gold and approximately the sameamount in silver? No one is saying, but I'd bet that some western nation stole it.
MORE ABOUT LIBYAN GOLD
https://awfulavalanche.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/who-stole-143-tons-of-
gold-from-the-libyan-people/
Aside from rhyming with Iraq (It too was going
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