2024 Syrian opposition offensives - The first Syrian rebel offensive against Government forces since March 2020

[555777555]

I don't think he can even rally support in Latakia. The Allawis and the Christians will probably slit his throat too. He's led them to ruin.

It doesn't get said enough. Even though Latakia and Tartus is mostly Alawite, most of the Assad supporters are in Damascus. If Damascus falls, Assad falls.

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

Still waiting for those 100,000 elite paratroopers to take back Hama.

 

[Intensening Rapeye]

It’d be weird if Iran and Iraq join in, then Turkey.

 

[2spoopy4u]

At this point if Assad hasn’t left the country, he’s not getting out.

I'm beginning to wonder if he's not already dead or powerless. I think something's gone terribly wrong in the Assad regime for things to turn around this much this quickly for them. I'm thinking food issues maybe? Starvation is an easy way to persuade submission and clearly the regime has not established a working economy for some time. I think the people suggesting drugs replacing the pre-existing economy there are maybe correct. We all know how poorly those things can spiral and how angry they can make locals who begin to get harassed by drug cartels, etc.

Maybe Iran is truly pulling on them because:
1. They're baathist and have history.
2. They don't want mass starvation on their border and masses of refugees.
3. Potentially something strategic to do with Israeli bullshit.

This might be emergency intervention on all sides too... which might suggest mass starvation and a horrifically out of control administration on part of Assad's regime (i.e. basically none). Something tells me the Russian's were maybe their last hand to feed on and they have been too busy in Ukraine.

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That said... it is curious how these "IS and friends" insurgencies have suddenly reappeared again. Something's going on. I've been a little out of the loop for this war for a few years though (Holy shit, 13 years long now, haven't checked since maybe covid?). Last time I checked IS was all but gone from there and now suddenly they're back. Maybe these could be the reason why people are allowing the rebels to just waltz in. They don't want more IS bullshit.

Personally, I think IS is a psyop operation to create intentional "proactive" blowback while acting as a selective breeding honeypot for "extremist types". This seems to be a common strat all over the globe now, especially with thawing the Taliban's extremism. The idea is to pool in extremists to honeypots and then executing them through uneven warfare. But it could also mean they use IS to manipulate these forms of conflicts nowadays. We all know they have US/Israeli connections though (I mean IS had a spot bunkered literally on the border of Israel for some time and the Israelis were "just ok" with that).

IS is as real of a "rebel force" as /pol/, Stormfront or KF even (kek). Some LARPy bullshit. The vids and their quality prove that they're being groomed at least by competent people somewhere that are manipulating them.

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>The Turkish Foreign Minister to his American counterpart: The Syrian government must conduct a dialogue with the opposition
Yeah this is not a good sign. Something really bad is happening and it might even be genocide. We will see... probably in about 24 hours at this rate. :^)

 

[World in Scarlet]

NYT published an article claiming an interview with him.

They say in it it was 1h long, but they took only like five sentences and the rest is about half a wikipedia article worth of superficial fluff about him and HTS.
Not worth reading.

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[mindlessobserver]

They say in it it was 1h long, but they took only like five sentences and the rest is about half a wikipedia article worth of superficial fluff about him and HTS.
Not worth reading.

They must assume their readers are idiots who cannot handle an hour long interview with a man shaping history. Checks out though, since you would have to be an idiot to read the NYT these days.s

 

[draggs]

Ever since the last time Turkey tried to poke Israel with a stick and got absolutely nothing out of it in 2010, Erdogan has assiduously avoided situations where he would get humiliated by the Joos again. He doesn't want his shiny HTS proxy army to get chewed up and spit out by the IOF like it has chewed up and spit out Hamas/PIJ and Hezbollah. Erdo needs HTS to help him deal with the Kurds, not get wasted by relentless Joo bombing campaigns. The Mossad has been helping him build up the groups operating under the HTS umbrella for years, the Joos have all the deets on Jolani and the rest of em. What they don't have is any problem with using those deets to slaughter HTS if necessary

 

[Anasûrimbor Kellhus]

I love everyone in this thread pretending to care about the Syrian people, all that virtue signaling about the "oppressed syrian peoples" will go away when Syria is reduced to Libya 2.0 with open sex slave markets and less than third world conditions. Just be honest you don't care about Syrians you just hate Assad. I also can't wait for everyone cheering on the "moderate rebels" to start crying when there's a rise in extreme jihadism in the region as well as an influx of terrorism and rapefugee incidents in europe when the next migrant waves start as a result of this.

The reality is you just want some material to jerk yourself off to of assad getting assraped by bayonettes like Gaddafi did.

Please don't cry when this:


Is inevitably replaced by something like this when this is all over and stabilized:

 

[Shovelbird]

And the Turkic people in Central Asian might as well be Arabs after the mongols carted off anyone educated and killed anyone with a spine... TWICE.

Are you always this retarded or are you trying to troll?

Also you forget that the Ottomans only got to the gates of Vienna because they had an alliance with the French and the Italians were otherwise engaged.

And the British were engaged with the French when 1776 boogaloo started, it's called strategy and choosing when to attack. Your point?

Additionally, their army was almost entirely non-Ottoman.

Newsflash, Empires use their local subjects as auxiliaries and the sky is blue. Virtually entire Timariot force is 100% turkic.

Seriously, you are at this point spewing BS

 

[mindlessobserver]

I love everyone in this thread pretending to care about the Syrian people, all that virtue signaling about the "oppressed syrian peoples" will go away when Syria is reduced to Libya 2.0 with open sex slave markets and less than third world conditions. Just be honest you don't care about Syrians you just hate Assad. I also can't wait for everyone cheering on the "moderate rebels" to start crying when there's a rise in extreme jihadism in the region as well as an influx of terrorism and rapefugee incidents in europe when the next migrant waves start as a result of this.

I have never once pretended to care and have been entirely consistent in my opinion that Assad must fall because he let his country be used as a staging ground for Russia and Iran. That said, I really do hope that the Syrian people get the Government they deserve and can live in safety and prosperity with it. But at the end of the day Assad made his choices, picked his allies and let those allies do what they wanted. He made powerful enemies doing this, not the least of which being 2/3rds of his own population.

A Monarch that rules by fear and terror can only rule as such so long as not one chink in the armor is made. The moment the façade of power is broken, it always breaks. Assad was at the end of the day a false King, and now he faces the Judgement of Heaven. His country is laid to ruin, beset on all side by foreign powers who either prop him up or tear him down. His people rise in revolt, the land is despoiled, and their great works are destroyed by foreign bombs.

Watching Al-Jolani, I got some good vibes. That is a man who has seen some shit. Maybe he is full of Shit, but he is saying and doing the right things. He is being ruthless to his enemies, while merciful to the defeated and the helpless. He doesn't enter cities to destroy and pillage but to build. His men obey him, and he exhorts them to be more then animals. Those are the traits of a King who holds the Mandate of Heaven. I think after everything Syria has endured he is allowed the chance to try. Assad on the other hand had his chance and he blew it. The judgement on that front is clear.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

I for one, welcome our resident Turkposters and their proud yet complicated history as temporary allies in the fight to harvest Resistard tears

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

The Syrian Opposition in the south just announced to no one's surprise they're heading for Damascus.

Who do you think gets there first?

 

[not william stenchever]

Maybe he is full of Shit, but he is saying and doing the right things. He is being ruthless to his enemies, while merciful to the defeated and the helpless. He doesn't enter cities to destroy and pillage but to build. His men obey him, and he exhorts them to be more then animals. Those are the traits of a King who holds the Mandate of Heaven. I think after everything Syria has endured he is allowed the chance to try. Assad on the other hand had his chance and he blew it. The judgement on that front is clear.

It's looking like Assad is getting his shit pushed in and the people taking him to pound town are at the moment acting immensely better than the rebel groups were in the earlier stages of the civil war. I am going to be cautiously optimistic that they'll continue to not be shitheads but if they turn shitheads in victory than mea culpa for having a false hope.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Its not over until its over. Damascus could hold out for months or fall in ten days depending on what their soldiers are willing to die for and how good they can manage supplies through Lebanon.

 

[draggs]

I love everyone in this thread pretending to care about the Syrian people,

I don't care. My country spending 20 years and 5 trillion dollars worth of caring about subhumans and getting nothing for it will do that

all that virtue signaling about the "oppressed syrian peoples" will go away when Syria is reduced to Libya 2.0 with open sex slave markets and less than third world conditions.

I don't care. See above

Just be honest you don't care about Syrians you just hate Assad.

Correct

I also can't wait for everyone cheering on the "moderate rebels" to start crying when there's a rise in extreme jihadism in the region

I don't care about subhumans jihading each other

as well as an influx of terrorism and rapefugee incidents in europe when the next migrant waves start as a result of this.

I don't care about subhumans jihading Yerps either

The reality is you just want some material to jerk yourself off to of assad getting assraped by bayonettes like Gaddafi did.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy

Please don't cry

Don't worry about that

 

[Gog & Magog]

What are the odds either the Iraqis or the Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militias cross the border into Syria in mass? They have ample reason to support Assad and prevent the approach of Sunni insurgents.

 

[not william stenchever]

What are the odds either the Iraqis or the Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militias cross the border into Syria in mass? They have ample reason to support Assad and prevent the approach of Sunni insurgents.

Border's closed due to AIDS by the will of Allah

 

[Mound Dweller]

Its not over until its over.

It's fucking over, this isn't a proper endsieg with a well motivated core actually holding out in the vain hope for something, these are the desperate gasps of a rapidly necrotizing crumble, the second a superior force slaps it's muhammedean cock at the gates of Damascus it's gonna happen again.
Depending on whether he prefers to go down in the capital like herr schekelgruber or make a break for his Sytre ala el colonel there may or may not be an actual battle at some point but as of right now it's over.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I love everyone in this thread pretending to care about the Syrian people, all that virtue signaling about the "oppressed syrian peoples" will go away when Syria is reduced to Libya 2.0 with open sex slave markets and less than third world conditions. Just be honest you don't care about Syrians you just hate Assad. I also can't wait for everyone cheering on the "moderate rebels" to start crying when there's a rise in extreme jihadism in the region as well as an influx of terrorism and rapefugee incidents in europe when the next migrant waves start as a result of this.

The reality is you just want some material to jerk yourself off to of assad getting assraped by bayonettes like Gaddafi did.

Please don't cry when this:
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Is inevitably replaced by something like this when this is all over and stabilized:
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Personally don't care about Syria. It's full of sandniggers. That said Assad is a bitch that hasn't has his ticket called for far too long. The bastard gasses his own people. If the people in Syria want to change that, and it seems so, who cares?

 

[Ghostse]

Still waiting for those 100,000 elite paratroopers to take back Hama.

Just building the Cauldron, my friend.

Syria is reduced to Libya 2.0 with open sex slave markets

Will Partisangirl be in those open-air sex slave markets? Asking for a friend.

What are the odds either the Iraqis or the Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militias cross the border into Syria in mass? They have ample reason to support Assad and prevent the approach of Sunni insurgents.

Virtually none as they'd have to go through the Sunni-held areas of Iraq to get there.

Your point?

Turkroach posturing is helliaiously gay. Just like the average Turkroach.

Newsflash, Empires use their local subjects as auxiliaries and the sky is blue. Virtually entire Timariot force is 100% turkic.

Naw son. It was people who were landed and included a wide assortment of peoples. Most of the dudes getting on horse back were non-turks and local to areas taken over by the Otts. The Balkan Timariots - which were heavily used on the campaign due to proximity - were mostly christian. As were the Janassaries (originally) who also did most of the fighting. I'm sorry you are a turkroach, but you need to accept that without a bunch of foreign mercenaries an slaves to press into doing your fighting the turks are completely gay sandniggers.

Multiple sultans lamented how absolutely dogshit Arabs and Ottoman-turks were at combat.