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

[mindlessobserver]

Remember how much Russia & Iran helped Armenia?

This really should not be forgotten either. Russia was treaty bound to defend the Armenians and the Iranians had given their usual "of course we are on your side against the perfidious Turks and their American Masters.

Amounted to absolutely nothing the Armenians got fucked over. The usual subjects on this very forum like Catnik (@Feline Supremacist ) and Beetlejuice (@Badungus Kabungus ) even had the temerity to blame the ARMENIANS. As if it was THEIR fault Russia betrayed them because they decided to side with NAFO or some such nonsense. Ignoring of course Armenia's desperate pleading to western government came after it had become clear Russia was going to betray them, and Iran wasn't going to do shit.

The USA gets alot of shit for being a feckless Ally, but it has NEVER refused a call from a State it has a defense treaty with in response to another State invading it. That honor goes to Russia, just last year with the Armenians being the recent example. Assad should have seen what happened to them and realized he was in deep shit. He got too complacent and believed what happened to Armenia could never happen to him.

I feel like I am being a bit unfair to the Russians though. Its not that they wanted to betray their allies. Its that they can't do anything to help them. Their entire army and MIC is committed to a trench war in Eastern Europe. There is no slack available to send to help their clients.

Jesus, come here looking for Syria news, and see the same Russia vs Ukraine bitching that's been going on for years now, alongside MindlessObserver's weed fueled 'hot takes'.

Pretending the Ukraine war doesn't loom large over what is happening in Syria is ridiculous. Russia could have saved Assad, but for the fact they are totally committed to fighting another country in Europe.

 

[World in Scarlet]

 

[Judge Holden]

SAA exiles crossing into Iraq and being taunted by Iraqi border guards. They must be glad to have finally found someone who did worse than they did at Mosul in 2014.

Between the past few years...decades....ok like half a century plus now of absolutely pitiful arab military humiliations caused by how hilariously fucking inept and corrupt their militaries are to the bone, and the exact same shit in Afghanistan being demonstrated in 2021, I am unironically looking forward to whenever Iran gets into a serious shooting war/civil war to see how they fare by comparison.

Given what I have heard through various grapevines I don't exactly have high hopes but will be interesting to see just how they measure up in the "collapse in three seconds and devolved into a schizophrenic rout" metrics we have seen in the region so far

 

[los pepes]

It works fine, unless your multi polar allies decide to fight wars they cannot win and bring the wrath of other great powers in the Multi Polar world down on your head simply by nature of the fact you are in their camp, and helped them attack those others great powers.

Team Z's cope about Multi polarity had a really fatal flaw. The USA remains a major power in their new Multi Polarity fever dream. And not just the USA either. Israel, France, and Turkey also get a say in this new dynamic.

If you look at it specifically the Russian/Iranian/Venezuelan etc version of "multi-polar" really boils down to them being able to bully and dominate their regional neighbors/and or own people that are too weak to stand against them on the local scene, but then trying to whine and nag their way into some kind of welfare-like promise from countries stronger than them to not bully and dominate them on the global stage.

It's basically some skinnyfat 35 year old manlet walking up to a weak little old lady, tapping her on the shoulder and going "the strong are supposed to dominate the weak, this is the natural order of things, you must do as I say", and then crying about how unfair it is when a UFC fighter taps him on the shoulder and says "you say the strong are supposed to dominate the weak, that it is the natural order of things, therefore you must do as we say".

Hence you have the oddity of countries that openly proclaim the concept of spheres of influence when it means they can subjugate their weak neighbors suddenly howling at the moon when told of the possibility that their own county might then fall in the USA/NATO sphere of influence.

 

[John Badman]

>tfw shitskins actually pull what zegroids couldnt.

Zizzy zizterz, I don't feel zo good.

Itz zover

 

[Mound Dweller]

@Feline Supremacist Please come back I truly miss your takes and honestly want to see what the alternative view is, It'd be worth sharing for literary value alone
Gotta let them see the whites of your fangs, you must have so much to show.

 

[World in Scarlet]

Lol.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Some stuff I've only seen on the Syrian Civil War subreddit just now...

SAA exiles crossing into Iraq and being taunted by Iraqi border guards. They must be glad to have finally found someone who did worse than they did at Mosul in 2014.

An SAA trooper who just retreated from Homs finds almost a full free minute to seethe at everyone & everything. Iran, Hezbollah, Russia, his boss, his boss's wife...

https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivi...soldier_who_moments_ago_left_the_homs_region/

Statue of Hafez al-Assad being toppled in Homs just now.

 

[Onepumpplumpchump]

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And Assad was never heard from again.

 

[John Badman]

I really don’t see how Russia recovers as a superpower after this series of unfortunate expeditions. Their economy will collapse without those Wagner wells. They’ll forever lose their port. I’m thinking it’s Joever.

 

[Clyde Cash's Left Teste]

Is the US politics general thread filled with poltards or tankies? Seems like a lot of them feel like the US should do a pro-Assad intervention LMAO what the fuck is going on.

Just leave Syria alone, it has its own problems to deal with that we shouldn't be messing with.

I am unironically looking forward to whenever Iran gets into a serious shooting war/civil war to see how they fare by comparison.

2024 has not been Iran's year and I get the feeling that 2025 will be even worse for them

 

[Judge Holden]

The wikipedia article of participants in this stage of the war is gonna rival that of the Nigerian civil war at this rate

 

[World in Scarlet]

Is the US politics general thread filled with poltards or tankies? Seems like a lot of them feel like the US should do a pro-Assad intervention LMAO what the fuck is going on.

That thread is an echo chamber hugbox for the mentally deranged. It's not a place for discussion of anything.

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[Mound Dweller]

That thread is an echo chamber hugbox for the mentally deranged. It's not a place for discussion of anything.

All you gotta do is discuss bro, slap some points down lets assess some predispositions and make that echo acapella.
Or just seethe I guess.

 

[Chuckwagon]

The American MSM is now beginning to report on the imminent final fall of Damascus, with rebels converging on the city from multiple directions and all Iranian forces having 'pretty much' evacuated from Syria. Heh, try telling us something we haven't already known for hours, CBS. (Archive)

Also, local rebel outfit Faylaq al-Rahman has returned to their hometown of Ghouta after being kicked out of the region in 2018.

 

[Billy_Sama!]

I thought the US withdrawal of Afghanistan was bad but Iran and Russia is pulling a "hold my beer"

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

And Assad was never heard from again.

It would be quite something if he really was never heard from again and nobody but a small select group of direct witnesses knew what happened him, it would be one of history's great mysteries, did Bashar manage to escape Syria and is now living in hiding or being protected by the Iranian/Russian government?

Until decades after the Syrian Civil War ended, an elderly former Syrian officer near his death bed uses the last of his strength to guide a group of government officials and reporters to a small courtyard in the outskirts of Damascus, he points towards the ground as the shovels are used, and eventually uncover the decayed skeleton of a man with a bullet hole in the back of his skull, and DNA testing would finally end a decades long mystery.

 

[not william stenchever]

I thought the US withdrawal of Afghanistan was bad but Iran and Russia is pulling a "hold my beer"

"Last Antonov out of Latakia"

 

[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]

Looks like multipolar diplomacy is going swimmingly; Türkiye probably regrets bothering at all with partnering up with Russia in Astana with diplomatic heavyweight Iran as much as it does obtaining those S-400 systems:
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"Noooo, you must ceasefire immediately and negotiate with the guy who dropped chemical weapons on you, even after you've kicked his ass."

Ah yes the old "he dropped chemical weapons on his own people" lie.

 

[Hillary Clinton's Ass]

I thought the US withdrawal of Afghanistan was bad but Iran and Russia is pulling a "hold my beer"

We have yet to see Syrians holding on the sides of some Antonov and later falling down to their deaths. Nor they have left some suicide bomber get too close to a checkpoint and kill some of their guys while overseeing the withdrawal, instead, they are simply vanishing with all the equipment they can move.