Baybars Han
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Pfffttt thats what happened when you move your armies so slow in a contested area.
Oh yes they are. You should actually captured tal abyad ,ras al ayn and ayn al arab in day1. Considering the proximity of those cities to turkish borders all at the same time. But all i see is you're fooling around capturing villages one by one as opposed to multiple villages at the same time. Eastern Manbij should be secured so that future russian+assad troops heading to the city blocked,but you dont. And there you have it. Now you're stuck with tal abyad and ras al ayn while getting sanctioned. Failinh to meet your intended goal of a full safe zone stretching from ayn al arab to hasaka.
In one day???? Is this guy for real? Unless you carpet bomb the area how can you capture all of that while there is thousands of armed fighters with atgm etc? If you do the first option there will be 10x sanctions and thousands of pictures massacre genocide etc. You have no idea what your talking about
Can Turkey still invade territory with Russian troops inside of them? What can Russia actually do against Turkey in all honesty? Russia can't attack a NATO member directly or shoot down one of it's planes. It could do strikes against FSA but risk being shot down by F-16C with AMRAAMs. Time for Turkey to rethink S-400 purchase with these Russian moves.
Its not just about military means. When everyone is against you, its not easy. How can we face EU+America and all the rest and add Russia to that equation too. We have to be politically smart in some way while going after our own interests.
I think we missed the point. I believe our aim was to go in and then force a political decision for them to withdraw voluntarily, I dont think they expected themselves to move to Syria/Russia side which is a mistake. Its going to be very difficult politically to bomb Russian troops now to take those areas.
Lets see what happens. As long as we can get a better advantage/safer than before the operation its an achievement.