Syrian and Turkish armies open fire on each other for the first time since Erdogan [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | October 29, 2019 | Ross Ibbetson

[C19fan]

Syrian and Turkish armies opened fire on each other today for the first time since Ankara began its incursion against the Kurds.

Artillery and machine-gun fire was exchanged near the village of Assadiya, south of the border town of Ras al-Ain, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Six Syrian soldiers were killed, according to the war monitor.

President Bashar al-Assad had bolstered Kurdish strongholds in northern Syria after Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan began his offensive on October 9 to establish a 75-mile wide, 20-mile deep buffer zone.

[C19fan]

POPCORN!!!! Hopefully there will be WarPorn on YouTube.

[chris37]

Cool.

Fire away.

[treetopsandroofs]

You’d think our Rat RINO warhaws would be happy.

[treetopsandroofs]

warhawks

[treetopsandroofs]

“Hopefully there will be WarPorn on YouTube.”

Big Media could recycle that gun range video for us.

[Spirochete]

Someone else’s problem.

[Wuli]

I only hope Trump told Erodogan to not look for our help, or NATO’s help in any contest between him and Assad. Turkey is stronger on paper but Assad has Russian support if he needs it. Also, Erdogan is using a lot of hired help in Syria - former ISIS & Al Qeuda “refugees”, so Turkish families will have fewer body bags returning home. That hired help knows the landscape and has battle experience fighting Assad, and losing to Assad. They lose mostly because Assad knows he is outnumbered and employs a scorched earth policy as much as he can - simple, brutal and mass destruction where he finds his opposition is sitting. Tons of “collateral” civilian deaths and casualities, but effective to Assad’s purpose.

[Kaisersrsic]

It will be very interesting to see how the Russians walk this tightrope . . . Do they prioritize the Syrian bird in the hand (and the port of Tartus) or do they pursue the Turkey in the bush.

[Seruzawa]

Sans a common enemy these 14th century thowbacks will always turn on each other.

[nikos1121]

Crazy. Trump got us out of there, and now surrounds the oil. And I think he made it clear what would happen if someone tries to get it.

[Zhang Fei]

[Sans a common enemy these 14th century thowbacks will always turn on each other.]

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They have a common enemy - the non-Muslim world. But even Alexander needed to unite the Greeks before he ventured forth to conquer the world. Obviously he did not unite them by sitting around a campfire singing kumbaya. It involved bloody wars occasionally culminating in events like this:

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thebes#Alexander’s_march
[Alexander punished the Thebans severely for their rebellion. Wishing to send a message to the other Greek states, he had the 30,000 Thebans not killed in the fighting sold into slavery. The city itself was burnt to the ground, with the exception only of the house of Pindar, which Alexander ordered be left intact out of gratitude for Pindar’s verses praising Alexander’s ancestor, Alexander I of Macedon.[6]]

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Would-be world conquerors have to start somewhere.

[dfwgator]

Winning!

[Boogieman]

NATO is a defensive pact, and Turkey invaded Syria, so they can’t ask for help.

[MrEdd]

But there is no more collateral damage at all coming from Assad, then there is coming from Isis, and Assad is the legitimate government.