You can bring in a million ground units and they will be toast by RuAF all the same without proper air-support!over 3400 Turkish Tanks,Howitzers,MLRS,AFVs,IFVs enetered Idlib in the last 20 days
another large Turkish military convoy entered Idlib 23.02.2020
thank you bro, with this stats now we know what Syrian people think and where everyone stands. after all what matters is what natives think of foreigners and themselves.regarding the opinions of Syrians.. there was a poll conducted by some western organization called ORB International, it was conducted in all reagions including in Rebel controlled areas.
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In a rare survey of public opinion across all 14 regions of Syria, our face-to-face poll of 1,001 adults shows:-
There is a total rejection of dividing the country up; 83% oppose the country splitting into autonomous regions. There is also a great appetite for free and fair elections (and 41% say Assad should be allowed to stand).
But what of the millions of Syrians who have left the country since the start of the conflict? Of the three in ten (30%) respondents who say a first-degree family member has left since the start the war, only 24% think their family member will return if Assad wins, 65% if the Opposition forces win, and 66% if a transitional period begins.
41% say Turkey has a positive role.
41% say Russia has a positive role.
in areas outside of Assad contrtol 20% say Russia plays a positive role.
15% support the YPG.
10% support AlNusra/HTS.
30% support the EU.
32% support Iran.
35% support Hizbollah.
40% support opposition.
40% support Assad.
57% view Turkey negatively.
58% view Russia negatively.
64% view Iran negatively.
57% view Assad negatively.
88% view Alnusra/HTS negatively.
58% view the opposition negatively.
About ORB International
ORB International has been polling in fragile and conflict states regularly since 2004. Our work has covered Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Mali etc.
ORB International is the UK representative of Gallup International, one of the world’s longest running international research associations.
Edit: source.
https://orb-international.com/2018/03/15/syria-public-opinion-snapshot-2018/
no problem, indeed people from both sides keep on claiming that Syrians are supportive of them, in reality more than half of Syrians tend to view almost everybody negatively.
you can cover your eyes & ears as much as you want, this is a western organization, or do you mean even the west is now secretly conspiring with Assad against Turkey/HTS? I guess we have to take your word over that of ORB since there is no way you are wrong.
No mate i dont think so. There is a reason why so much loads are coming into syria despite sporadic attacks here and there. if im not wrong i think they are here to battle against assad and russia. Maybe erdogan and his military advisors have a plan in place. Russia might think they are untouchable but Erdogan might bring a surprise in the last minute and that surprise is kept as a last resort. Erdogan knows all of the regime and russian forces are no match for the turkish army and doesnt want to ruin relation with russia and wants to avoid if possible. Erdogan cant do anything against russia is a narratives built up here on the PDF by enemies and turkish traitors but massive turkish mobilisation of military gear make no military sense if erdogan cannot do anything to the untouchable russia.
Without achieving air superiority, you CANNOT operate a conventional ground force on foreign ground. The only way Turkey could pull this off is by involving Turaf or a third country af. Then you have at least a theoretical chance to succeed! Without an af, you are toast. there is simply no way you can overcome the flexibility, precision and fire power that ruaf posses without air support!
