End of ISIS

[MartinCarpenter]

Most prominent thing on UK news is maybe the Americans air dropping a load of ammunition into the middle of a civil war. Because that's always going to work well. I don't expect sanity from the military, but this does seem a little bit extra special.

To be clear - I don't think just blaming the west would be at all fair either, this seems to be a very messed up affair indeed with lots of countries involved

[soheil_hooshdaran]

I guess only the supreme leader of Iran says so.
Before 1992 the culprit were the powers of the east (SSSR) and west (The united states), now SSSR is finished off. But the
Great Britain was always condemned since the Qajar dynasty

[John McKenna]

Yes, the Anglo-Norman crusader King Richard I only got as far as the environs of Jerusalem.

[soheil_hooshdaran]

You see?
There is a good reason to condemn GB for their clumsiness!

[Michael Farthing]

Ah, in those days it was just England. The Scots (and even the Welsh) are entirely innocent! And anyway, as I said earlier this Richard chap was really French.

[John McKenna]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/612 ... rror-group

All just Putin propaganda or is there something in it?

Peter D Williams may be right about the eventual fate of IS, but the Sunday Express have appended a question mark.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Ah, I had forgotten that the Russians have form here from Chechnya. If they end up doing in Syria what they did in Chechnya, that may change things on the ground (to use a euphemism). I had not heard of the 'Blazing Sun' flamethrower missile launcher before:

"The mobile killing machine features thermobaric weapons that are capable of destroying as many as eight tower blocks in one strike."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/612 ... terrorists



Being a civilian there...

[Peter D Williams]

Afternoon Friends

Could not post as we have been away in Cornwall. I recommend all of you lot go at least once a year to Cornwall to relax and chill.

More good news Russian airstrikes in Syria 'redrawing battlefield lines', sending ISIS fleeing https://www.rt.com/news/319054-syria-ai ... rgets-hit/

[NickFaulks]

More good news Russian airstrikes in Syria 'redrawing battlefield lines', sending ISIS fleeing https://www.rt.com/news/319054-syria-ai ... rgets-hit/

I didn't realise that anyone still believed this stuff.

[John McKenna]

Apart from the vasty majority of Russians and an indeterminate number of non-Westerners in the rest of the world, you mean.

As for belief in the media in general, I am highly sceptical of most, if not all, of the West's media including the politically incorrect P(ropaganda) C(ommunications) Minitruluv (Ministry of Truth & Love) Orwellian daydream that the BBC and the rest of it has become.

Of course, it's all endlessly more sophisticated, slick and subtle than the growling of the lumbering Russian bear - even after it's modern makeover.

Good luck in the hunt for real unadulterated facts and analysis of what they might, or might not, mean.

[Peter D Williams]

More good news Russian airstrikes in Syria 'redrawing battlefield lines', sending ISIS fleeing https://www.rt.com/news/319054-syria-ai ... rgets-hit/

I didn't realise that anyone still believed this stuff.

What is factual incorrect about The Russian airstrikes redrawing the battlefield lines in Syria?