View of a ghost town- Russian drone over Damascus

[Levina]

The video shows the best view of Damascus taken by a Russian drone...and it now looks like a Ghost town, where tanks move about and fire into the buildings, soldiers are seen running to take position and bombs going off here and there.
4 million ppl have fled Syria since 2011 and this video shows you the reason why?
This is upsetting!
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Russian drone films fighting in Damascus – video | World news | The Guardian


@jamahir

 

[ConcealCarry]

Horrible devastation

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

An example, when country does not develops SAM , surface to air defences , and their airforce becomes old 2 generation older then rest of world

Their citizens are forced to flee , foreign governments drop weapons to the enemies of state and governments are crippled by mere signiture of few champions of world

If Syria had fired down the supply of weapon's planes , their country would have been alot more stable

 

[Levina]

An example, when country does not develops SAM , surface to air defences , and their airforce becomes old 2 generation older then rest of world

Their citizens are forced to flee , foreign governments drop weapons to the enemies of state and governments are crippled by mere signiture of few champions of world

If Syria had fired down the supply of weapon's planes , their country would have been alot more stable

Only the weakest link comes under fire.
If Syria had an army which could have put up a fight then nobody would have dared to attack them. This should be a reason why Iran never came under attack from US or by US supported allies.

 

[Solomon2]

Jobar used to be a Jewish neighborhood "prettily situated on a green fertile spot." Now its devastated.
The Russians probably couldn't escape thinking how similar it looks to wartime Stalingrad. (At least I couldn't.)

 

[Psychic]

Only the weakest link comes under fire.

They freely dropped barrel bombs from planes/choppers that resulted in many civilian deaths.

If Syria had an army which could have put up a fight then nobody would have dared to attack them.

Syria had an army and was some what well equipped as well.
The problem was defections. Syrian officers and men including Generals defected to rebels. There was a reason to do so at that time.

Jobar used to be a Jewish neighborhood "prettily situated on a green fertile spot." Now its devastated.
The Russians probably couldn't escape thinking how similar it looks to wartime Stalingrad. (At least I couldn't.)

Because of urban warfare, Syria's cities (Aleppo for example) looks like Stalingrad minus the winter factor. Snipers, tanks rolling through tight alleys etc.

 

[Levina]

Syrian officers and men including Generals defected to rebels.

What was the reason?
Not money for sure.

 

[ultron]

Jobar used to be a Jewish neighborhood "prettily situated on a green fertile spot." Now its devastated.
The Russians probably couldn't escape thinking how similar it looks to wartime Stalingrad. (At least I couldn't.)

It's nowhere close to Stalingrad. Damascus is intact except for a small bit of Jobar. The prophecy has not been fulfilled.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

 

[AugenBlick]

Ahh Damascus the seat of the Ummayaad Caliphate....how far have you fallen

 

[Areesh]

And I thought situation is little better in Damascus.

 

[jamahir]

@levina , i have some simple doubts about this footage...

1. some of the shots look too low to be from drone.

2. do drones have microphone??

3. some shots look quite still, like the one where someone runs across the compound.

nevertheless, when i saw the shots, and like solomon said above, the word that popped up was "stalingrad".

syria was safe before 2011 and then white house had to bring its "democracy'.

 

[AugenBlick]

syria was safe before 2011 and then white house had to bring its "democracy'.

You seem awfully pained

 

[jamahir]

What was the reason?
Not money for sure.

depends on the war's timeline.

for some it would have been money, for others it would have been sympathy with the reactionary forces ( qaeda, ikhwaan etc ) and for others, plain opportunism, for they would have seen the fate of libya and feared for they safety if they were to keep supporting the syrian government.

a example for the last category would have been this ( Syria's first astronaut Muhammed Ahmed Faris defects )... a cosmonaut, no less.

nato media kept insisting in 2011 that syrian government would fall and the naive among the syrians believed that... this is the fifth year of the war and syrian government still stands.

You seem awfully pained

certainly... a progressive society in ruins.

 

[AugenBlick]

a progressive society