What's the deal with Aleppo...
MSM is all excited about it.
What is the real significance of this battle?
Aleppo
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Speaker to Animals
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Re: Aleppo
Hamburger Hill with ruined buildings.
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Kazmyr
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Pretty succinct way of putting it.Speaker to Animals wrote:Hamburger Hill with ruined buildings.
The only reason I can think of this being a big deal is the "Someone needs to do something about this!" approach. Since the UN is essentially tits on a bull (Aleppo is an alarm bell: the international system has failed), somebody ought to be stepping in.
*nudge nudge*
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MilSpecs
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Re: Aleppo
and the bodies of children strewn among the rubble.Speaker to Animals wrote:Hamburger Hill with ruined buildings.
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kybkh
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Just as many bodies in Yemen and Iraq.
The Syria-Russia conflict has been driven by the media for over 2 years now. If not the constant white knighting of CNN we'd hear as much about Aleppo as we do Sana'a.
The Syria-Russia conflict has been driven by the media for over 2 years now. If not the constant white knighting of CNN we'd hear as much about Aleppo as we do Sana'a.
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Montegriffo
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Re: Aleppo
It will mark the progression from open warfare to insurgency as IS has lost most of it's territory in Syria now. Although they have re-taken parts of Palmyra while the Syrian forces have been retaking Aleppo.DrYouth wrote:What's the deal with Aleppo...
MSM is all excited about it.
What is the real significance of this battle?
Expect more deaths of innocent victims.....
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.
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MilSpecs
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Re: Aleppo
Not disputing that. The number of young children affected is just particularly heartbreaking right now.kybkh wrote:Just as many bodies in Yemen and Iraq.
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SuburbanFarmer
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Re: Aleppo
I'm not terribly well-informed on the topic, but I believe that Aleppo is the first modern instance of total siege warfare on a city. It's been a long, long time since we've had to witness an entire population starving and dying in front of us. If they still had functioning cell towers in the area, the world would be in an absolute panic at this point. There are very, very bad things happening there.
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DrYouth
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Re: Aleppo
So basically Assad vs Rebels...
How does this go down geo-politically at this point?
Who is backing these particular rebels?
How does this go down geo-politically at this point?
Who is backing these particular rebels?
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Montegriffo
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So much more complicated than that. You have rebels and Assad both fighting IS while at the same time fighting each other.DrYouth wrote:So basically Assad vs Rebels...
How does this go down geo-politically at this point?
Who is backing these particular rebels?
Think China in WWII where both sides of the civil war attacked the Japanese but had no truce between each other.
It's the complication and the lack of a clear enemy/ally distinction which has kept the west out of the conflict so far.
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.
