Paphitis wrote:Well it looks like the Iraqi Special forces are inside Mosul already with little resistence.
Expect a very quick end if things continue in this fashion. early days still, but all of our expectations have been exceeded enormously and confidence is high.
The DAESH leadership has fled Mosul from what we understand.
We folks, it looks like all of you have a lot of egg on your faces. now you are seeing how it's don'e properly without pissing off the entire Sunni population, some which undoubtedly support DAESH.
You need to be pretty desperate to support DAESH, but we actually recognize that our last Iraqi puppet was walking a fine line towards Assad style criminality against the Sunnis and we made some changes to unite the country of Iraq.
Whereas Syria will never be united ever again, for as long as Assad remains.
The world is watching folks. And the historians are writing our legacy.
Your intelligence information is obviously far more advanced than the facts on the ground suggest. So far the Iraqi forces have captured a dozen or so villages and a couple of small towns, using tanks, artillery and of course coalition air power. Well done .... but the real battle has yet to start. They are still 20-30kms from the urban conurbation of Mosul proper ...... then the going will get very tough and will likely grind to a halt. The more rapid advances are being made by the Peshmerga who (according to you) have promised not to enter Mosul City. Yeah ...... they are then going to stop and wait for the Iraqi forces!
US military spokesman said he expected it to be a long and ferocious battle as Daesh were a formidable opponent. He seems to be at odds with your assessment of the situation, maybe you should give them a ring and tell them where they are going wrong.
The West will NEVER unite Iraq. No invasion and regime change by the US has ever managed to do that in history ..... anywhere. Even their own country is deeply divided internally and they need a civilian military force to deal with it. Maybe they should go home .... sort out their own problems ...... and show the world how it should be done.
Once Syria/Russia have got as many civilians out of Aleppo as possible, they will exterminate YOUR terrorists. Getting civilians out has been difficult because YOUR terrorists are shelling the crossing/exit points and picking people off with snipers, the civilians take their lives in their hands to reach government controlled West Aleppo. All shown live on RT from an exit point they were covering with a camera crew. Didn't see any reports about this on Western MSM.
The cessation of attacks in Eastern Aleppo by Syria/Russia has been extended by 24 hrs. YOUR terrorists have carried on shelling and killing, as would be expected. I note you ignore this completely, in your trumpeting.
There are also many civilians being used as human shields and as hostages ..... I believe YOUR forces are now coming up against the same problem according to BBC. It will be interesting to see how the Iraqi's deal with it. They are also saying many hundreds of civilians have fled ..... no mention of just 79! Many fled North to the Peshmerga forces. BBC news is now reporting that apparently, the coalition has no plans in place for dealing with the tens/hundreds of thousands of refugees expected to flee Mosul City as the Iraqi forces get within artillery range of the city proper.
So far your hot air boasts and attempts to ridicule the real situation ......... just make you look even more out of touch with reality than normal!
BTW: You still have not provided any ratification of your wife's expertise on events in Syria, or anywhere else for that matter .... so I will assume, as usual, you are making it up as you go along.
