Meanwhile in Iraq & Syria

[ssu]

Yugoslavia shows the correct way to handle these things.

Just like Bosnia-Herzegovina having the federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Republika Srpska. And now things are peaceful.

[Speaker to Animals]

I don't think anybody is going to be able to put humpty-dumpty back together again, it's kind of like Giant Lebanon now, Assad might be able to hold on to a cantonment, but restablishing total control of the Sunni majority and the entire territory seems pretty unlikely, even if Assad could hold on, even if he could negotiate cold peace, there's been so much blood spilled now, it's difficult to envision how it would all go back together again, the pieces are broken, they don't fit together anymore, seems more likely that its going to be permanently fractured, or the Sunni majority is going to win and take overall control, I don't see a path to the Alawite Coalition putting everything back together again.

The people who deliberately created this mess deserve to go on trial in the Hague.

[TheReal_ND]

[Smitty-48]

The people who deliberately created this mess deserve to go on trial in the Hague.

Assad is the main culprit, because he just kicked down so hard, went to the vicious brutal crackdown lever one too many times, so that he set off a Sunni revolt within his own ranks, and then it just burned out of control from there, with all sorts of elements exploiting the breakdown in the Alawite coalition, the coalition is not all Alawite, there's Sunni's in the coalition, but they make up a big part of the army, and when the army split, all heck broke loose.

[ssu]

Well, the Arab street has for a long time thought that ISIS is a creation of the US and Israel. Especially the Shiites think so.

Wasn't there this conspiracy theory that the leader of ISIS, the caliph, was an Israeli actor?

Like in one of those Iron Man movies, you know...

[TheReal_ND]

Ok...

[TheReal_ND]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/worl ... ussia.html

“I really think there’s going to be a lot of pressure on Russia to make sure that peace happens, because frankly, if Russia didn’t go in and back this animal, we wouldn’t have a problem right now,” Mr. Trump said, referring to Mr. Putin’s support for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.

“Putin is backing a person that’s truly an evil person, and I think it’s very bad for Russia, I think it’s very bad for mankind, it’s very bad for this world,” Mr. Trump added during an interview with Fox Business that aired Wednesday morning.

Foua & Kefraya evacuation has begun, meanwhile militants and their families are being transported to Idleb.
https://twitter.com/C_Military1/status/ ... 1991190529

Russian MoD says it will send drones to check out situation after Syrian military claims US-led coalition killed "hundreds" in Deir ez-Zor.
https://twitter.com/Lucian_Kim/status/8 ... 6555059200

[Martin Hash]

I'm afraid other people are going to have to listen to Trump, my idiot-receptors are burned out.

[Smitty-48]

The Isreali think tank is just stating the obvious, they don't want either the Sunni's or the Shia to win, they just want to keep them fighting with each other indefinitely, this is why the US "backed" Saddam Hussien, it's not that America had any interest in Iraq winning the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq was actually a Soviet proxy, the US just took a "when your enemies are fighting each other, let them" approach.

[TheReal_ND]

I'm afraid other people are going to have to listen to Trump, my idiot-receptors are burned out.

Have an Assad interview instead

Published on Apr 13, 2017President Assad's Interview with AFP..



Former @OPCW Head of Field Operations in Syria: Russian & Syrian version of Idlib incident possible, rebels have chemical weapons capability

https://twitter.com/Navsteva/status/852536703432749056