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Russia Claims ISIS Now On The Ropes As Fighters Desert After 60 Airstrikes In 72 Hours
One question that’s been asked repeatedly over the past thirteen months is why Washington has been unable to achieve the Pentagon’s stated goal of “degrading and defeating” ISIS despite the fact that the “battle” pits the most advanced air force on the planet against what amounts to a ragtag band of militants running around the desert in basketball shoes.
Those of a skeptical persuasion have been inclined to suggest that perhaps the US isn’t fully committed to the fight. Explanations for that suggestion range from the mainstream (the White House is loathe to get the US into another Mid-East war) to the “conspiratorial” (the CIA created ISIS and thus doesn’t want to destroy the group due to its value as a strategic asset).
The implication in all of this is that a modern army that was truly determined to destroy the group could likely do so in a matter of months if not weeks and so once Russia began flying sorties from Latakia, the world was anxious to see just how long the various rebel groups operating in Syria could hold up under bombardment by the Russian air force.
The answer, apparently, is “less than a week.”
On Saturday, the Russian Ministry of Defense said it has conducted 60 bombing runs in 72 hours, hitting more than 50 ISIS targets.
According to the ministry (Facebook page is here), Islamic State fighters are in a state of “panic” and more than 600 have deserted.
Here’s what happens when the Russians locate a terrorist “command center”:
According to The Kremlin, the structure shown in the video is (or, more appropriately, “was”) “an ISIS hardened command centre near Raqqah.” Su-34s hit it with concrete-piercing BETAB-500s setting off a series of explosions and fires that “completely destroyed the object.”
Here’s RT:
Surgical airstrikes by Russian fighter jets have knocked out a number of Islamic State installations in Syria, including the battle headquarters of a jihadist group near Raqqa, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
“Over the past 24 hours, Sukhoi Su-34 and Su-24M fighter jets have performed 20 sorties and hit nine Islamic State installations,” Igor Konashenkov, Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman, reported.
Konashenkov added that yesterday evening Russian aircraft went on six sorties, inflicting strikes on three terrorist installations.
“A bunker-busting BETAB-500 air bomb dropped from a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber near Raqqa has eliminated the command post of one of the terror groups, together with an underground storage facility for explosives and munitions,” the spokesman said.
Commenting on the video filmed by a Russian UAV monitoring the assault near Raqqa, Konashenkov noted, “a powerful explosion inside the bunker indicates it was also used for storing a large quantity of munitions.
“As you can see, a direct hit on the installation resulted in the detonation of explosives and multiple fires. It was completely demolished,” the spokesman said.
And here’s the Russian Defense Ministry taking a page out of the US Postal Service’s “neither rain, sleet, snow, nor hail” book on the way to serving notice that nothing is going to stop the Russian air force from exterminating Assad’s enemies in Syria:
Twenty-four hours a day #UAV’s are monitoring the situation in the ISIS activity areas. All the detected targets are effectively engaged day and night in any weather conditions.
Now obviously one must consider the source here, but Kremlin spin tactics aside, one cannot help but be amazed with the pace at which this is apparently unfolding. If any of the above is even close to accurate, it means that Russia is on schedule to declare victory over ISIS (and everyone else it looks like) in a matter of weeks, which would not only be extremely embarrassing for Washington, but would also effectively prove that the US has never truly embarked on an honest effort to rid Syria of the extremist groups the Western media claims are the scourge of humanity.
Summed up in 10 priceless seconds…
Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2015/10/03/russia-claims-isis-now-on-the-ropes-as-fighters-desert-after-60-airstrikes-in-72-hours/
The wickedly weaved blanket of deception and lies by the west is coming unraveled.
This is a better policy that the United States policy. The United States policy is that of supporting the “moderate murdering rebels”. This is an embarrassment to the world. This policy has created the Syrian REFUGEE crisis and has caused over 200,000 deaths of Syrians. The policy of supporting the “moderate murdering rebels” has utterly failed.
The only way the US can regain its world view is to sponsor a MEGA PEACE CONFERENCE and really do it. Force the parties into PEACE otherwise economic sanctions for all. And all PROXY ARMIES MUST GO and strong teeth economically for any PROXY army activity.
“…but would also effectively prove that the US has never truly embarked on an honest effort to rid Syria of the extremist groups the Western media claims are the scourge of humanity.”
How many pictures have there been, for years now, of long ISIS caravans in the desert, moving from city to city with impunity, out in the open desert? The proof there’s been no war on ISIS has always been in everybody’s face, all the time. So, something just now has dawned on you? You’re just now getting some proof?
It’s because of even a lack of common sense in so many people that we even have the likes of Obama. Therefore, until there’s a cure for stupidity, even military efforts are temporary. Okay. Back to sleep, everybody…
Matthew 15:14 …And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
It didn’t take long for the cowards to flee!
More on the agenda here……
/global-unrest/2015/09/have-the-useless-thinkers-sealed-our-fate-2468834.html
Russia’s campaign of air strikes in Syria is set to last between three to four months and bombardments will intensify, a senior Russian lawmaker said on 2 October. The announcement comes a day after the US accused Russia of launching “indiscriminate military operations against the Syrian opposition”.
“There is always a risk of getting bogged down but, in Moscow, they’re talking about three to four months of operations,” Alexei Pushkov, the head of the lower house of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, told French radio station, Europe 1. He added that more than 2,500 air strikes in Syria by a US-led coalition against Islamic State (Isis) had yielded no results and was a pretense.
“I think it’s the intensity that is important. The US-led coalition has pretended to bomb Daesh (IS) for a year, without results,” Pushkov said. “If you do it in a more efficient way, I think you’ll see results,” he added.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/syria-russia-says-air-strikes-last-three-four-months-accuses-us-pretending-bomb-isis-1522142
Information on casualties among civilians appeared in Western media before Russian aircraft left ground, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
Media reports about civilians in Syria allegedly being killed by Russian airstrikes appeared before Russian aircraft even left the ground, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
“As for any information in the media on civilians suffering [from Russian airstrikes], we were ready for such information attacks. I draw your attention to the fact that the first reports on civilian casualties emerged before our planes even left the ground,” Putin said at a meeting of the Russian Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/information-on-civilian-casualties-appeared-before-russian-jets-in-syrian-airspace/5479350
Russia is full of crap too. US Government, Russian Government, ISIS, all working together…it’s no different than a soap opera. Keep you occupied and not thinking for yourself.
“Out of Russia shall come the hope of the world.”
Edgar Cayce, America’s “Sleeping Prophet”, 1930s…
America’s “Sleeping Prophet”, ….mmmm hhmmm, That’s me. I woke up today in the middle of a dream.
I was dreaming coach Saben asked former Alabama running back and current Oakland Raiders wide receiver Amari Cooper to visit with the Alabama players and maybe give them some pointers. It must have been true….Alabama receivers played their best game so far this season beating the Georgia Bulldogs 35-17.
Obama has been stating that the Russian approach will be ineffective and will make the situation worse.
He also states Americans must give up their guns.
Now in the second case the use of guns to prevent crime is 300 times their use to commit crime so we can see why he has a problem with that.
Extrapolating to the first case, it is easy to see why he thinks the Russians will be ineffective …….. to him effectiveness means destroying the country and creating an exodus of refugees.
Thus it is not without cause that it says in Revelations
Apocalypse 17: 15-18
” …. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh [nuclear], and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” [USA Inc.]
Good luck with that.
The Obomber has lost the hand to Putin and the Russians; they endured the October Revolution and then suffered through some seven odd decades of horror, including WW-2. They know that the time is up and they have to stand and fight, so they chose too. They learned from Afganistan and Cuba very well indeed.
jdp… Yes, Obama had all this time to bomb the ISIS HQ but didn’t why? the HQ was apparently built by USA contractors, ISIS never built anything, they just moved in.
Putin has seen IS as a problem that could actually affect Russia’s own interests and just thought, “I’ve had enough of this crap, let’s sort it.” No pussy-footing around, talking will not work with IS, just nip them in the bud before they REALLY get a grip. This is one area where a hammer WAS needed – not a toothpick!
Frankly, I resent OUR tax dollars being wasted by O idiot…..paying mercenaries, stockpiling them with weapons, vehicles, etc., e.g…then wasting airplane fuel and bombs pretending to fight against a takeover created by O idiot, the mossad and McCain. Why aren’t people protesting against o idiot…. are they really that stupid. Do we actually need to get some kindergarten watercolors and paint pictures before the numbskulls understand the truth. No wonder it was so disheartening throughout history, that some truly believe the constant Zionist lies they projected about history. Beyond conceivable logic.
” No wonder it was so disheartening throughout history, that some truly believe the constant Zionist lies they projected about history. Beyond conceivable logic.’
Even some UN delegates apparently are computer illiterate brain dead human waste….clapping O idiot during its general assembly speech. they should be quarantined as a threat to their respective countries instead of being sent as their delegate representatives to the UN.