Paphitis:
The Turks are not inferior to the Russians at all. The Turks can deploy MORE troops, MORE Tanks, MORE aircraft and MORE Ships. They are militarily far superior to the Russian deployments in Syria.
40 odd aircraft of the Russian Air Force just won’t cut it against the TAF and RSAF. Not even close!
It is not what you have got that is significant ..... it is what you can do with it!
The Turkish army has only ever fought lightly armed guerrillas and then with complete air superiority. Faced with a well trained and well armed opponent ........... they will drop their weapons and either surrender or run for their lives. The Saudi’s will be even easier ........ they are like trying to push a piece of string! They will not even advance unless the US is there to hold their hand.
............ and Pootin would probably not attack them.(Turkey/Saudi)
Oh yes he will ........... you can bank on it!
....... so the Australian SAS and Commandos might be task with deploying into Kurdish Areas specifically to provide them with a shield from any Turkish Aggression. Turkey will not be able to attack them if there are allied troops among them.
Will the Australian SAS/SBS wear orange hi-viz jackets so that the Turks/Saudi’s can identify them and avoid killing them when they get in the way? I think your countrymen are a lot brighter than that!
The Kurdish Forces are key to the Coalition's strategy and as such are protected.
Yes ...... by the Russians!
He(Assad) is a war criminal who is killing civilians, has used Sarin Gas on his own people, and millions of people don't want him.
He has yet to be judged! It is irrational, as Assad pointed out in his interview, to kill his own people and the evidence clearly says otherwise (
listen/read what he says ..... it makes perfect sense) He did not use Sarin gas, again no evidence and what evidence there is points the finger at your ‘
moderates’! A far greater number of Syrians would prefer the stability of Assad remaining in power than having a bunch of brain dead Islamist running the country according to Sharia Law.
Remember, until the US stirred up the Islamic malcontents with another of their ‘
coloured revolutions’, Syria was a prosperous country with a growth rate of around 5%. But Assad had a Central Bank that was independent of the US World banking system and he also proposed to trade in currencies other than the Petro-dollar ...... that made him a marked man as far as the US Elite were concerned. That is why ‘
Assad had to go!’ It was not because he was the tyrant you seem to think, is hated by his people and they needed the US’s benevolence to protect them, that is all bullshit ........... it was to protect US interests. The Russians have said very clearly today that they are working with Assad because they do not want Syria to end up in the same unholy mess the Western powers created in Iraq and Libya. Good for him ..... at least he sticks to his principals.
........(Assad) absolutely no respect for other religious creeds and ethnicities.
FFS .... before the US interfered Syria was stable, tolerant, secular and encompassed all religions. If you want to accuse any counties of tyranical intolerance of other religions and minorities ........... try looking first at your coalition partners ..... Israel, Saudi, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar and of course ........Turkey!
You're a very sad individual to expect Syrians to live forever under his control when Millions can't even get papers for their existence.
If that is the case let the Syrian people (
all of them) make the decision. Why is it you are so frightened of allowing him to stand for election!
It is because you
KNOW that it is odds on he will get re-elected. The people want their country back ...... just like it was before YOU interfered. The only ones that fear Assad are the people who became the butchers who called themselves the FSA and the kaleidoscope of Islamic extremists you have encouraged, supported, financed and armed!
Fact is, Syrians have put up a brave fight against Assad. They want their freedom. I can't stand in their way, not when 300,000 were killed mostly by the Assad Regime btw and not DAESH or any other militia. That is a fact.
It is not a fact .... it is bull shit! The Syrians have been fighting ISIL as well as having to fight against Erdogan and the terrorist you have been using to fight a proxy war to meet the demands of the US just to serve its hegemonic aspirations. That is why your coalition has made such poor progress over the 4-5 years, You have concentrated your efforts on supporting these terrorists to get rid of Assad and have made the Syrian people suffer for it. The SAA and the Russians are being welcomed by the Syrian people as LIBERATORS!
Kikapu:
USA might support a ground operation of Turkey going into Syria which has been USA's dream for a very long time, but USA will not be leading a ground operation with her troops, which is what the invading armies need to hide behind the USA's skirt, so not to be decimated by the local forces plus Russia. As I've said, once Turkey and others commit themselves to enter Syria, they will be left on their own to deal with the Syrian army, PYD and the Russians and will not be backed by NATO.
I agree with you and the independent news outlets make the same observations. The MSM with its obsession with demonising Putin, all toe the official US/NATO line. The coalition suffers the illusion that there is such a thing as the ‘
moderate opposition’. As Assad points out in the interview ..... ‘
opposition’ is a political reference ...... if the opposition decides to take up arms
to remove the elected government (
any government .... anywhere) then they meet the definition of a terrorist. ‘
Moderate’ terrorists are an illusion and the ordinary Syrian has had enough of them and their ideology.
