ASSAD MUST GO HAS GONE
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2024 Syrian opposition offensives - The first Syrian rebel offensive against Government forces since March 2020
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Most of those people there will support literally anything, and the amount of people who want islamists/sharia law is far highe than people willing to admit. A lot of them are just mental cattle. Also there has been no rearmament nor industry due to the sanctions imposed by the west, making it difficult for Assad to really get the economy kickstarted. People downtrodden by this and seeing a way out of the war (even if it means them dying in the process and another 10 years of war) they will take. SAA is also not that good of an army, it has the usual issues of Arabian military nepotism and incompitence. You just saw what has happened a numerous amount of times on display.
I recall in the 1960s the USSR pilots made notes that the Syrian pilots they tried to train seemed to "not have a grasp of basic laws of aerodynamics or physics" and had increasingly high levels of trouble to teach them even in the basic of flying. Air to air combat wa also seen as hopeless. This is an issue they have always had for a long time.
Sometimes people are right, people are wrong. Whatever the case, nothing ever happening bros are hanging rn.
Enoch Emery
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It's not been a month yet, but your thoughts?
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It's still kind of nuts that this long drawn out conflict has seemingly ended so anticlimactically (It will surprise me if this truly marks the end of the civil war), yeah very casually followed this before and knew Assad was always basically nothing without Iran and Russia, but you expect at least one moderately sized battle would be needed to break the back of the SAA, you'd expect to see a fair amount of reports of fanatical SAA and SAA aligned units refusing to rout or surrender, I can't think of a single instance in war were an army seemingly just ceased to exist this quickly.
If there's anything to take away from this, it should be that even if the civil war did turn into a proxy war between the US, Turkey, and Russia with Iran, at least by 2024 Assad himself had practically zero real domestic supporters, and anyone acting like actual Syrians give a shit Assad might have died in plane crash is outing themselves as naive at best or a propagandist at worst.
If there's anything to take away from this, it should be that even if the civil war did turn into a proxy war between the US, Turkey, and Russia with Iran, at least by 2024 Assad himself had practically zero real domestic supporters, and anyone acting like actual Syrians give a shit Assad might have died in plane crash is outing themselves as naive at best or a propagandist at worst.
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There had been stirrings IIrC in Daraa(southern Syria) and skirmishes continued in the north for months. It looks to me like HTS rebuilt and reconstituted itself in the four years since the last ceasefire.
The Assad regime on the other hand was hated by the majority Sunni population. It held territory, but only through Russian firepower and Iranian technical support. Many rebel groups in “reconciliation” rose up(basically rebels that agreed to Soto fighting to pacify a given area).
The Assad regime probably wasn’t composed of particularly intelligent people to start with, and the intellectual capital keeping it running was based out of Moscow and Tehran, and well they both have bigger problems at the moment. Add on lack of popular support-the Syrian “army” was basically a collection of Shia militias, Iranian advisors and Russian air support. It was hollow, and weak at the knees.
Without the vast resources Iran, Hezbollah and Russia poured into it-it just shattered like glass.
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I wouldn’t say anti climatically, I was glued to my screen for the whole week. This was like an offensive on a speedrun
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Well we can probably rule out the idea of an Alawite SAA remnant holding out in the coast, a mob in Latakia just tore down a statue of Assad Sr. If Assad's own people have turned on him there, truly there's no safe place left in the country for him & his crew to retreat to & try to make a stand in.
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It’s honestly goes to show just how much Arab regimes, or at least the old ones that are relics of Arab socialism and Nationalism were completely without any mass base or allegiance, rotted out and reliant on external patrons and apathetic or passive populations.
There was also the fact life hadn’t improved in Syria at all, even when the civil war was at its lowest ebb. People were unable to afford basic necessities, prices were skyrocketing and corruption only further rotted out the state.
(As an aside, Sunni Muslims on chomping their lips at slaughtering religious minorities, HTS’ statements about tolerance to the contrary). I think they’ll try to exterminate the religious minorities-or at least drive them out of the country. But they’ll make a conscious effort not to broadcast it like ISIS.
There was also the fact life hadn’t improved in Syria at all, even when the civil war was at its lowest ebb. People were unable to afford basic necessities, prices were skyrocketing and corruption only further rotted out the state.
(As an aside, Sunni Muslims on chomping their lips at slaughtering religious minorities, HTS’ statements about tolerance to the contrary). I think they’ll try to exterminate the religious minorities-or at least drive them out of the country. But they’ll make a conscious effort not to broadcast it like ISIS.
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At the end of the day, what mattered most is that everyone had fun.
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There is no point in being loyal to a man or dynasty that has left you to fend for yourself.
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This is less "Arab regimes" more like Syria Iraq Libya and Yemen.
No shit when the rebels drove on and entered Damascus they found entire neighborhoods that were destroyed in 2011 and they haven't been repaired probably weren't even touched.
Daddy jolani Said pinky promise we won't kill minorites therefore I believe him!
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Those are probably all S*nnis. Latakia city has a high S*nni population.
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Australian Girl throws a tantrum and ragequits a Xitter space over laughing emojis:
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Anyone with the most basic knowledge of Islam and Arab politics knows that message is empty. Only someone incredibly naive and foreign with massive biases would take it at face value.
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The only ones causing you shitskin subhumans to flood europe is the jihadis who toppled the only moderate regime in the Middle East. Quit blaming white people for everything you do.
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Maori Kiwifruit Growers
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Basically
Because Arabs love to say one thing and do another. Let's see if there actions match their words.
LMAO
but actually the Israelis are just inside the UN Golan Zone. I wouldn't be surprised if they go RIGHT UP to the border. because remember the golan looks like this:
Israel probably will make the border look like to enforce security and ensure that the rebels don't get any smart ideas and also to ensure that the Druze don't get killed. We like our Druze.What's a Zigger?