From the regime's perspective it's better to have rich Syrians pay the state to get outta military service(badly need money even though Syrian currency is basically useless elsewhere) as opposed to bribing a corrupt military officer who will lie and say that person is serving. And yeah just like in our civil war you can buy your way out of military service. Heres the memo thought I posted it before. The "FSA" twitter account makes it seems worse than it actually is, only involves refugees in Latakia province.
"Reporter" who is essentially a mouthpiece for Al-Qaeda successfully left Aleppo, unsurprising that most/all of the people who tweeted final messages are still alive and have left
Tangential at best but Nigeria Pres is saying they forced out the last enclave of Boko Haram http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/organisations/boko-haram.html
not terribly surprised there. would be curious how much on the up-and-up the government's campaign is or if they do a whole lot of questionable shit to cleanse Boko Haram from an area.
my router routinely kicks me off, so sometimes I look at this thread and think "why can't these fuckers post links that work?! jeez." Followed by a, "ah fuck, stupid inferior linksys."
Turkey's bought oil from ISIS and supported Nusra among others. He's completely full of shit as usual.
Well, hold on to you butts. We're going to invade Iran w/in 18 months. I'm sure it will work out great.
It's like, maybe we can let Russia fuck around in the middle east for the next 5 decades and waste a shit ton of money. They learned their lesson for a bit after Afghanistan.....it seems we'll never learn ours.
Vietnam and Korea were much more brutal lessons that we ignored :( The best lesson of all was Desert Storm. Someone raises hands against you? Beat them nearly to death with a baseball bat and don't waste your time trying to nurse them back to health.
We straight dominated Desert Storm. If Iran invaded a country, I'd be all for repeating that. No troops on the ground, take out their radar then just unmercifully rape their entire military infrastructure. But that wasn't good enough for lil bush.
You have to love Israel- They are defying a unanimous U.N. Security Council vote by continuing building operations in an area Palestine hopes to make its capital one day: https://www.google.com/amp/www.lati...lements-20161227-story,amp.html?client=safari
I doubt we invade Iran, they really aren't the current problem it's safalist extremism Wait why should I believe that this administration knows anything
Letting Sunni extremists turn against Shia Iran would be beneficial to the US. Iran supported Sunni extremists against the occupation so it would be great to see it turned around. The Middle East is such a clusterfuck no one wins.
Question for military guys in here. Aren't most IED's remotely detonated by cell phone? If so, are there not devices that are able to kill cell signals over short distances?
After Humvees/MRAPs started riding around with better and better jammers (red/green system?), they moved back to old-school wire and/or pressure activated detonators.
"8 ISIS gunmen killed when a JFS member exploded in checkpoint belonging to the former accompanied with heavy clashes between the two. " Yarmouk area near Damascus
That would suck if you were assigned a suicide attack against another Sunni jihad group. That can't be very glamorous.
Years to build up defenses, urban fighting, and we don't want to turn it into Ramadi or Fallujah where 80% of all buildings were destroyed.
I'm guessing since the indoctrination is basically "anyone that isn't us are infidels" the delusions of grandeur stick pretty well.
Did you read the tweet? No it's just a random guy in Aleppo attempting to take a picture of a civilian airliner.