What are the odds of them gaddafying Assad?
Im ignorant
Are the rebels the good guys or the bad guys here? Or is everyone a bad guy?
Im ignorantMost of the players in the Syrian civil war have generally been bad guys except for the Kurds and their allies, who defeated ISIS.
Are the rebels the good guys or the bad guys here? Or is everyone a bad guy?
They're anti Assad who is backed by RussiaTbf that doesn't necessarily mean they are good just because they are fighting terrible people themselves.
They're also anti Isis
You decide.
They're not exactly good people from what I'm reading about them. They might actually be more authoritarian than the Assad regime, but as long as they don't somehow take over the government (which would be a tall order for a group that only holds power in the Idlib Governate, the province to the west of Aleppo) they can still be useful.They're basically affiliates of Al-Qaeda. The only use they really had was to act as a thorn in the side of ISIS when they held territory.
There's a chance that they could destabilize the situation enough where more moderate elements of the opposition forces start taking action as well to try to prevent extremists from seizing power.
I feel like Im the only person still pissed off about the KurdsSame here. Supplied the ground troops and did the heavy lifting to defeat ISIS and then the US (specifically Trump) takes all the credit/lets Turkey bomb them.
I feel like Im the only person still pissed off about the Kurds
Most of the players in the Syrian civil war have generally been bad guys except for the Kurds and their alliesWhich certainly takes the US out of consideration.
Which certainly takes the US out of consideration.I really appreciate this comment (I'm Persian with Kurdish family), but the US did help the Kurds a great deal when nobody else did while yes, backstabbing them. I remember when the US first attacked ISIS with Obama bombing the militants who had those poor Yezidis surrounded on Mt. Sinjar, no doubt averting a massacre there. Hard to put the US in the same moral category in this conflict as Al-Nusrah, ISIS, and Bashar Assad.
The Kurds deserve an independent Kurdistan, and it's simply unconscionable to argue otherwise.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f65b9831.jpgBeat me to it
They're basically affiliates of Al-Qaeda.
Yeah, it's literally anyone and everyone who hates the Assad regime and the Russians stationed there (and ISIS who still have a scattered presence in the south) from Kurds and moderates to the most extreme terror cells you can think of.
Also, Visegrad24 is a far right news organization so I'm very careful about using them as a source, but their reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war has always been so
That must have something to do with it. It's been years since the last major offensive, and this is major
https://i.gyazo.com/adfdafdfef768e458f5e2d166cd40f9c.png
Each of those flags is a settlement the rebels have secured in the last 24 hours
Is this an actual thing? I'm seeing zero on it on my national news site.
Yeah, Hezbollah losing so much of its army and entire command stucture doesn't feel coincidental to this
I hadn't considered that variable, but holy moly does it make sense when I think about it. Looks like Israel fucking around is going to ignite smoldering conflicts in the region.
I hadn't considered that variable, but holy moly does it make sense when I think about it. Looks like Israel fucking around is going to ignite smoldering conflicts in the region.Yeah, there's already a power vacuum in the region and it looks like everyone involved (at least in the Syrian civil war) is fighting again to get as much as they can out of it. The rebels (again likely with Turkish support) are fighting (and walking all over) the pro-Assad forces in the west and the Kurds and Turks are fighting in the north.
Yeah, there's already a power vacuum in the region and it looks like everyone involved (at least in the Syrian civil war) is fighting again to get as much as they can out of it. The rebels (again likely with Turkish support) are fighting (and walking all over) the pro-Assad forces in the west and the Kurds and Turks are fighting in the north.
I don't see any of these groups marching on Damascus anytime soon so the regime is probably currently not under any threat of being toppled (unless these groups have sleeper cells in the south), but things are definitely heating up again.
I think Trump supported the moderate rebels in the last major offensive. It would definitely be on brand for him.Didn't he pull out all US support and pretty much left it up to Russia and Turkey to fuck over the people we had been working with on the ground?
Didn't he pull out all US support and pretty much left it up to Russia and Turkey to fuck over the people we had been working with on the ground?
Though he also blew up Irans favorite general