Posted on 08/08/2021 6:10:57 PM PDT by elpadre
The streets of Daraa are empty these days, as if the war had returned to the city. The videos that appear on social networks under the hashtag #savedaraa are often grim – many houses were shelled by the Syrian army and completely destroyed and thousands of refugees are again leaving the city and nearby villages, fleeing yet another round of violence and hunger.
Daraa, an impoverished city surrounded by agricultural areas in southern Syria, became the cradle of the Syrian revolution in 2011. A decade later, it is still fighting against the oppressive regime and protesting negligence, poverty and violence, while Syrian President Bashar Assad is still trying to break its back. The fighting and the failure of the cease-fire agreement brokered a few years ago by Russia might produce serious destabilization in southern Syria and cause damage to regional security. The end of federalism in Daraa?
In 2018, Russia, which had intervened in the Syrian civil war three years earlier and secured a military victory for Assad, was working hard to achieve a reconciliation agreement between Daraa’s rebels and the Syrian regime. While other rebel-held cities and areas were pounded from the air and bathed in blood, Daraa was an exception, since the agreement stipulated that the rebels would be allowed to keep control over Daraa al-Bilad (the Old City of Daraa and a few additional neighborhoods) and would not be deported to Idlib, the only rebel-held province in northeastern Syria.
Bennett: Israel won’t accept rocket attacks from Lebanon “At that time Russia was definitely acting against the wishes of Bashar Assad, who believed that regime control should also be established in Daraa. But given the strategic position of Daraa, in close vicinity to the Israeli and Jordanian borders, Russia promoted the reconciliation agreement with the rebels in order to keep pro-Iranian elements away from Daraa,” Kirill Semenov, an expert on political and military issues in the Middle East with the Russian International Affairs Council, told The Media Line. (continues at link)
There are no American fingerprints on this battle and we should stay far, far away!!!
Russia near the northern border of Israel - interesting.
xxxxx them and be done with it.
Face it, they ain’t gonna change.
Oh, by the way, our border situation ain’t gonna change either without xxxxxx.
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
I bet we still have forces there. I’ve not heard a thing about pulling out there.
Some things are not spoken about.
*** There are no American fingerprints on this battle and we should stay far, far away!!! ***
Actually, the Free Syrian Army jihadis in Daraa have weapons supplied by the US and Israel.
The White Helmets are in Daraa. They are the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham affiliates(rebranded Al Qaeda).If those UK/US/NL funded propagandists snuff video ghouls are there, it is time for the legitimate Syrian Government to take back Daraa.
Every time the Syrian army wants to liberate Syrians from radical terrorists, the EU & UK go nuts. Daraa is just another example.
I smell America military creep. Sh*t,Bidung has gotten more done for the a-hole left than any other POS prez. He is on a roll and nothing will stop him.
Addendum: EU, UK, & US go nuts.
People can’t relate to the Antifa and BLM riots and the persecution of the January 6 patriots.
The people that support Antifa and BLM are the same people that supported the CIA backed war in Syria.
They supported the overthrow of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar are in power now due to the 6 million refugees from Syria. It wasn’t just Syrians, our government paid terrorists from all over the region to be mercenaries.
Now Biden is immigrating Afghanistans, and illegal aliens from south of the border.
CRT, Critical Race Theory, the theory that all whites are white supremacists, was created by Obama, Hillary, the McCabes, the Strzoks, Lisa Page, John Brennan at CIA, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr and Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, James Clapper, and Christopher Steele and many others.
These were the same people that attacked Trump.
The media that calls the January 6 rally an insurrection is the same media that fomented the Arab Spring.
Google, Facebook and Twitter worked for the Obama administration in killing 600,000 Syrians.
These are evil people.
I outlined much of this in a Gab post.
https://gab.com/Agitators/posts/106559794083484751
*** I outlined much of this in a Gab post.
https://gab.com/Agitators/posts/106559794083484751 ***
Will check it out.
They are few “good” rebel groups in Syria. The “free Syrian army” is one thing to its western backers and another to the majority that join it. Most would join a any one of the radical Sunni groups if it was as well armed.
Syria is the battleground of a religious proxy war between fundamentalist Shia militias predominately aligned with Hezbollah and Iran versus radical fundamentalist Sunni groups heavily influenced by the Syrian Muslim brotherhood and behaving much like Al Queda. “Civilians” who don’t align themselves with either of those sectors remain under constant pressure and threat to do so. It is a three way war with the Syrian government, Hezbollah-Iran-linked militias and Muslim Brotherhood influenced radical and violent groups. The Shias are getting the upper hand because Assad does not dare go after them and loose the patronage with Iran. If Assad and Russia were to leave Syria tomorrow, it would be a full scale Sunni-Shia “civil war” in Syria with the Sunni world in the Middle East having to decide whether or not to step in and counter Hezbollah-Iran in Syria. The Russian presence is preventing that circumstance at this point.
The “west” should be glad that Russia at the moment, and not themselves, is shouldering the burden for nominally holding destabilized Syria together; even though that large Russia presence at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea is a security issue for the west.
Please tell me when the US is going to close our terrorist training camp in Al Tanf?
When are we going to stop stealing Syria’s wheat, oil, and gas to sell? Earlier today a convoy of 80 US occupation vehicles headed to the Al Walid border crossing. It consisted of armed escorts, freezer units, and oil tankers. Did the same run Thursday of last week.
Why 2 days ago did the US transfer 40 Daesh terrorists from a QSD prison in Hasaka Province to the US base in Al Shaddadi, Hasaka?
We were not invited there, and as to a religious proxy war, majority Sunni Syria does not support the Wahhabism that the US supports.
Yeah, because our own country is being invaded and destroyed, but we should care about Syria. No thanks. Anybody who wants another futile mid-east conflict is welcome to go over there and sign up with whichever side he wants.
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