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Pener Kropoopkin posted:ISIS could recruit fatties because they never have to get outside of a Toyota Hilux, so I doubt we'll have any problems. is abu hajaar more or less competent that the standard american conscript i wonder
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What is Turkey's pretext to invade Afrin??? And doesn't Israel completely control Golan, so if Assad went into it they might consider that "agressive"
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paul_soccer10 posted:What is Turkey's pretext to invade Afrin??? terror
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Jose posted:is abu hajaar more or less competent that the standard american conscript i wonder Their primary purpose is to be cannon fodder anyway, so it's equal. It's the hardcore veterans who are always the most valuable shock troops, not the volunteers from Belgium or the guys you press ganged for loitering in the wrong place & time. paul_soccer10 posted:What is Turkey's pretext to invade Afrin??? Turkey doesn't consider YPG to be distinct from the PKK, therefore Afrin is a terrorist statelet and needs to be pacified. Israel does have a commanding control of the Golan Heights, but there are militias and ISIS which control territories along the border of the Golan - and when the state retakes those territories by moving in their forces then tensions are gonna get high. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 13:52 on Jan 23, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/ZeinakhodrAljaz/status/955959626335506432 Alternatively, it could mean they're talking about a counter-offensive into the Turkish occupied zone between Afrin and Rojava, which would take the pressure off.
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If the YPG loses it means Afrin is going to be full of FSA Salafis, like another Idlib with Turkish flags. So after 4 days of ground operations, the FSA only controls a few villages in isolated pockets along the North and Northwestern borders of Afrin. It didn't make that much sense why they'd be making more headway there than from the east, but this guy fills in the geographic situation. https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/956135571663015937 https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/956141247823011846 Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 14:17 on Jan 24, 2018 |
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are YPG doing so well because there are enough kurds for it and/or because they get enough western support or is it because they have a defined territory in Syria and thats all they're interested in? I'm just curious why they appear to be so successful compared to everyone else its been ages since i looked at an up to date war map
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Jose posted:are YPG doing so well because there are enough kurds for it and/or because they get enough western support or is it because they have a defined territory in Syria and thats all they're interested in? I'm just curious why they appear to be so successful compared to everyone else YPG in Afrin can't get as much support from the West because there's nowhere for supplies to come in, except the few places on the Turkish side of the border where there's a Kurdish majority. Their real strength is political, and the ability to marshal & coordinate self-defense units. Having a concentrated and defined majority population is what really cements their power. In the east it all came down to American air power and supplies, coupled with big open unpopulated territories where it's much easier to advance and take territory even while ISIS was booby trapping everything they could. If you mean, how can the YPG control all of that territory - then again their primary strength is political, and it's a non-sectarian politics which helps maintain cohesion.
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i assume that assad and the YPG are essentially at a ceasefire as they both focus on different targets?
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Jose posted:are YPG doing so well because there are enough kurds for it and/or because they get enough western support or is it because they have a defined territory in Syria and thats all they're interested in? I'm just curious why they appear to be so successful compared to everyone else nah. it's because it's their homes and they live there. also explains why there are arabs among them. it's because they live there.
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Jose posted:i assume that assad and the YPG are essentially at a ceasefire as they both focus on different targets? For the most part, yes. They've always had bigger fish to fry. It's also never been in the YPG's interest to directly confront SAA forces, because they need the possibility to make a deal for autonomy. The SAA has attacked YPG before, but it's been sporadic and never lasts long. That's why the SAA only controls a tiny sliver of Al-Hasakah city now, since the YPG took most of it in a counter-attack a few years ago.
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Don't know if this is confirmed yet, but this is certainly something: https://twitter.com/CivilWarMap/status/956185218259607554
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https://twitter.com/mutludc/status/956198875450179585 At 1:20 they survey the damage from an artillery shell coming through the roof of a house. https://twitter.com/NorthernStork/status/956195977383350272 Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 17:32 on Jan 24, 2018 |
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Frijolero posted:Don't know if this is confirmed yet, but this is certainly something: it's going to be glorious
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Frijolero posted:Don't know if this is confirmed yet, but this is certainly something: Karl Barks posted:Assad's gonna realize he needs the ypg
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Jan 24, 2018 17:32
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the spokesman talking about giving up arms seems foolish in the extreme what is the state of a lot of ancient syria these days after ISIS blew lots of it up?
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https://twitter.com/SonKaleTurkiye2/status/956193272753524737 YPG hasn't been purely defensive, and has retaliated against Turkish artillery and air strikes. Rocket attacks into Turkey have been ongoing, and one of them hit a mosque in Kilis, killing 4 and injuring 20 people during prayers. Looking at the photo, it hit one of the domes. e: https://twitter.com/24Aleppo/status/956185254590545920 Aleppo 24 correspondent says protection units (YPG) are moving in convoys across the border of state controlled territory and Afrin. If this is true, then I'm not sure if it's actually SAA entering Afrin, or if they're just letting SDF/YPG through government territory, or if it's both. In any case, reinforcements flowing into Afrin will mean the Turkish offensive will be way more difficult than it should have been - and there's a good chance the YPG will actually win. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 17:42 on Jan 24, 2018 |
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how is earwulf and crew taking this, is the SAA now a settler occupying force?? well i checked and it's basically undecipherable to me https://twitter.com/earwulf/status/956195044033261569 Karl Barks has issued a correction as of 18:20 on Jan 24, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/Dalatrm/status/956108246011531264 the spice must flow babee e: https://twitter.com/HoseinMortada/status/956225094216486912 YPG in Afrin denies the Al-Mayadeen report that they agreed with the regime to let in the SAA. There must be some agreement reached though, if they're letting YPG travel through government territory. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 19:59 on Jan 24, 2018 |
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Jose posted:the spokesman talking about giving up arms seems foolish in the extreme there are various restoration projects planned or underway. restoring palmyra has been complicated by the fact that the SAA repeatedly lost control of the city and had to retake it from ISIS
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https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_150987.htmquote:Keynote address by NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller at the National Defence University in Istanbul, Turkey
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/Dalatrm/status/956108246011531264 sputnik radio [i know, i know] was claiming that the russians had acted as brokers with an offer of SAA troops and supplies if the YPG in afrin would fly the syrian flag. supposedly that was turned down yesterday tho.
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https://twitter.com/RudawEnglish/status/956505405374550016 It's good that this is finally happening, but if the low intensity war the Turks have been waging on the PKK isn't "an area of tension" then what the Hell is? Why didn't they suspend deliveries when the Turks invaded Syria for Operation Euphrates Shield? They're only doing this now because the Germans are afraid of their own Kurdish minority getting into fights with German Turks. https://twitter.com/yenisafakEN/status/956503192899956738 This is what years of German arms shipments actually look like.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/RudawEnglish/status/956505405374550016 We already saw them slap fighting once in the streets no?
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Lawman 0 posted:We already saw them slap fighting once in the streets no? German export Leopards have a much higher profile now that they're being used to attack the YPG directly. It's a public relations problem the German state won't be able to avoid.
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Germans are loving garbage people. Yes, let's dump billions in military equipment on Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but let's also feel bad about it 
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it's funny when pearl-clutching rules that were never intended to actually matter run into the reality of nato. they'll have to delay delivery for possibly months, very embarrassing.
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Frijolero posted:Germans are loving garbage people. End of history induced brain worms
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hitlers come and go, but germany and the german people remain
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Frijolero posted:Germans are loving garbage people. It's actually because the Germans worked really really hard on the Leopard II and in their incursions into the SCW the Turks have apparently been using 1914 as a how-to manual because the last two years of hilariously inept adventures have shown off a lot of blasted interiors of contemporary German military engineering. Usually after sending it into a city ahead of the infantry, or idling it in the wide-loving-open for some reason. If the turks had the common decency to find their rear end and roll over an irregular militia best on all sides in a week tops like an actual modern military I guarantee it'd be different, as it stands its just embarassing, especially with Russia right there watching.
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There's gotta be a 27-letter german compound word for one's disingenuous excuse to leave the party because its just too embarassing to explicitly say "im tired of watching the host poop on the floor and wipe it on their face, blaming the stink on Gulen"
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Willie Tomg posted:There's gotta be a 27-letter german compound word for one's disingenuous excuse to leave the party because its just too embarassing to explicitly say "im tired of watching the host poop on the floor and wipe it on their face, blaming the stink on Gulen" 
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Frijolero posted:Germans are loving garbage people. canada dumped a ton of equipment on SA right around the yemen blockade as well
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