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by **Get Real!** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 3:06 am

Russian Weaponry in Syria Giving US Military Experts Goosebumps
http://sputniknews.com/military/2015102 ... perts.html

New PM Tells Obama Canada to Withdraw Fighter Jets From Syria, Iraq
http://sputniknews.com/world/20151021/1 ... -jets.html

FOX News ‘Analyst’ Impersonating CIA Operative for Decades Sent to Jail
http://sputniknews.com/us/20151021/1028 ... -Jail.html

‘Assad doesn’t have to leave tomorrow, can be part of transitional process’ – US State Department <-- Moving the goal posts every week! :lol:

https://www.rt.com/usa/319119-us-assad-syria-russia/

by **Robin Hood** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:10 am

KALIBRating the foe: strategic implications of the Russian cruise missiles’ launch
http://orientalreview.org/2015/10/13/kalibrating-the-foe-political-implications-of-the-russian-cruise-missiles-launch/

Accurate to within 3m over 1500Kms and all 26 were on target....... Hmmmmm ....... so that is why the US Carriers have been withdrawn from the Gulf. :roll:

by **Paphitis** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:32 pm

Robin Hood wrote:KALIBRating the foe: strategic implications of the Russian cruise missiles’ launch
http://orientalreview.org/2015/10/13/kalibrating-the-foe-political-implications-of-the-russian-cruise-missiles-launch/

Accurate to within 3m over 1500Kms and all 26 were on target....... Hmmmmm ....... so that is why the US Carriers have been withdrawn from the Gulf.

Mmmmm... You can't be serious? Is this another tongue in cheek?

The USS Nimits has been withdrawn for maintenance from August and is scheduled to redeploy in November.

They can't stay at sea forever and there is at least 1 Carrier Group in the Mediterranean.

Further to this, a Cruise Missile is only good for stationary targeting and not for moving targets like an Aircraft Carrier with multi layers of Defence not least of which, all the Cruisers, Destroyers and Frigates which surround it with HARM and CIWS as well as the 75 fighters.

Not to mention the fact that even if an attempt was made by Russia, you have WW3 and its bye bye to the Kuznetsov! Pootin is not that stupid!

by **Tim Drayton** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:11 pm

There are reports that the battle to liberate the strategically important city of Ramadi has started.

Fierce battle against 600 ISIS members in Al-Ramadi

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/webtv/r ... amadi.html

by **Tim Drayton** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:26 pm

The following looks like an informed analysis of how things are changing in the region following Putin’s intervention in Syria, setting out from the premise:

Vladimir Putin does not need anyone to tell him that his plan in Syria is wrong, a formula for disaster or that it is delaying any possible political solution. Nor does he need anyone to tell him that the war he began will not achieve the goal of ending terrorism; rather it may increase its dangers. He knows all of that, and perhaps he also realises the strategic consequences for Syria, and even Iraq, but he only cares about the gamble he is taking with the US, and he has a feeling that there is something he could win out of it.

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and leading to the conclusion:

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However, those who believe that the Russians went to Syria only to fight against terrorism are mistaken and there is no need for them to wait any longer to change their positions. The criticism of US strategy as ineffective is reasonable, but the Russian strategy is more worrying because it wants to end the Syrian conflict to the advantage of Assad and Iran, neither of whom mind coexisting with Daesh as long as Russia provides the means to contain its extremism. Nevertheless, far from going to Syria in the interests of Tehran and Damascus, it is more likely that Putin is using the war on terrorism and messing with it as a means to provoke the US and Europeans and lure them into negotiating with him regarding Ukraine and strategic security. So far they have refused to do so and do not mind a long term confrontation in Syria as long as they are not getting their soldiers involved. The Americans, like the Russians, are interested in using Daesh and benefitting from the fight against it in order to achieve other goals that have nothing to do with Syria.

Proxy war in Syria starts race to Al-Raqqa
by Abdel Wahab Badrakhan

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/artic ... o-al-raqqa

by **Tim Drayton** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:43 pm

From the web site kept going by the anti-Daesh movement in Raqqa.

Russia lied about targeting ISIS
http://www.raqqa-sl.com/en/?p=1515

by **Tim Drayton** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:53 pm

Reports are still limited, but it looks like the Iraqi armed forces have launched a major offensive against Daesh.

Iraqi forces advanced on three fronts against the Islamic State group Sunday, flushing out pockets of resistance in and around Baiji and closing in on Ramadi and Hawijah, officers said.

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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/1 ... ie0g27DOGd

by **repulsewarrior** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:02 pm

When asked how the Syrian Christian community and its militia are doing today in light of the recent developments, Issa noted that two additional factors are now at play: the relationship with the Kurds and the Russian intervention in the Syrian war, whose impact has yet to unfold.

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/origina ... z3pEbZqo00

...an interesting article.