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Syria – Deadly Bomb Strike Warns Turkey To End Its Escapades
The last three days of the Idleb campaign were quite eventful.
The Turkey supported Jihadis threw everything they had against Saraqib where the M4 and M5 highways join. This enabled the Syrian army to take some 40 towns and cities at the southern front. The whole Ghab plain has now been liberated and the frontline has been massively shortened.
Idleb governorate Feb 25 2020
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Idleb governorate Feb 28 2020
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Saraqib fell to the Jihadis but they paid a very bloody price for it as the Syrian and Russian airforce continued to intensively bomb the approaches to the city. A new defensive line has now been established around Saraqib and the Syrian army is preparing to recover it.
To take the large area in the south in difficult terrain and against little resistance was more important than the temporary loss of Saraqib.
Yesterday saw a extraordinary escalation as the Russian airforce bombed a Turkish infantry battalion which went south of the M4 highway and came near to the southern frontline. Metin Gurcan deciphered the event:
What exactly transpired on Feb. 27? At around 5 p.m., a Turkish mechanized infantry battalion, comprised of about 400 soldiers, became the target of an airstrike on a road between al- Bara and Balyun, some 5 kilometers (3 miles) north of Kafr Nabl in southern Idlib. According to local sources contacted by Al-Monitor, two Russian Sukhoi Su-34 and two Syrian Su-22 fighter jets had launched intensive bombings of Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) targets in southern Idlib at around 11 a.m. that day. The same jets hit the Turkish convoy in coordinated action, the sources said. A first, a relatively lighter strike by the Su-22s forced the convoy to stop, after which the pounding intensified, forcing the soldiers to take shelter in several roadside buildings. What followed next was likely the dropping of KAB-1500L bombs — a variation of advanced laser-guided bunker buster bombs capable of penetrating to depths of up to 20 meters (65 feet) — by the Russian jets. Two of the buildings collapsed in the attack, leaving the Turkish soldiers under the rubble.
At least 35 Turkish soldiers, some say 55, were killed and some 60+ were wounded.
The incident was a signal to Turkey that its escapades have to end.
Throughout the last weeks Turkey had used large armed drones to attack the Syrian army. The Turkish troops in Idelb governorate had additionally used man portable air defense missiles (MANPADs) against Syrian helicopters and Russian bombers. Enough was enough.
Turkey does not have permission to use drones within the Syrian airspace. On Wednesday Syria's air defense destroyed one of them.
To use manpads against Russian planes is an act of war. The Russian strike was a reminder to the Turks that it is quite able to wage one.
Russia denied that its planes had launched the attack and Turkey accused Syria of doing it. But these statements are designed to deescalate and to allow for continued peaceful relations between Russia and Turkey. Both sides know very well what really had happened.
There is still Erdogan's threat to launch a full sized attack on the Syrian army on March 1. He threatened to push it back to the old Sochi memorandum ceasefire lines. Russia has moved two frigates into the Mediterranean Sea which are armed with cruise missiles.These will be used if Turkey really attempts to implement its idiotic plan.
NATO and the U.S. have both rejected getting involved in the Idleb affair. Turkey is on its own and Erdogan will have to be careful. He is not only losing in Syria but also in Libya and he can not risk to further upsetting Russia because the Turkish economy depends on it.
Oh how they play the great game!
How does one see through the fog of war?
It’s all about the economy stupid!
Erdogan cannot risk the Lira crashing,
Below that USD 6 peg.
Erdogan cannot lose all that Russian trade.
The self appointed Sultan will play both sides,
As best he can. and take as much as he can.
But make no mistake, it is all according to,
Pre-planned / agreed arrangements with Putin
The Grand Game Master.
It’s already been agreed that saa will take m4
All of the recent Turk drone footage is from
Several weeks of compiling both Syria and Libya.
Most drone attacks from Libya.
They have shot down 6 Turk drones In a week.
Turkish army is not going to risk losing its
Agreement for safe drone surveillance flights
Over Syria by arming them.
Please don’t think that Haftar can knock out 6,
But saa + Russia is only able to get 1.
Was probably 1st and only armed drone to cross
Into Syrian airspace.
If everything was not preagreed terms,
Saa would have continued East from base 111
2 weeks ago, and sealed the border crossing
And supply lines.
Not gone and taken most of the south of m4
Turks must put on a show,so takfiris don’t
Take their tunnels under the northern wall,
And not go blow up instanbul.
Now that takfiris think they are winning
Sariqib back, the ones who always planned to
Go back to Europe, have a small window to happily
Cross turkey to get trapped in the euro border
Zones, once it gets closed again after March 5
Meetings. While not dreaming of hurting their
Turkish brothers.
The fighters who are “winning sariqib”,
Shall soon be destroyed once saa starts
Counter offensive, and su34 bomb from above.
Just like they think they are currently retaking
Algarhib plain, now that saa going to focus on
Sariqib again.
Twitter owned by ussa/zio/assrahel.
Pumps up their new reaquantence sultan propaganda
Aimed at confusing the saa regulars /youngsters,
Not the 25th 4th and 5th.
Helps paint the picture better for the fog.
Erdogan accepts zio help, first thing they
Do is screw him and Target Hezbollah.
If the zio info did score him the missile hit
On saa generals, fired from Turk territory,
He got his revenge for the 40 elite commandos
Who tried venturing to far south,
PASSED THE AGREED LINE.
once saa retakes m5, and m4.
Turkish heros never betrayed takfiri head choppers.
Meanwhile the land border now closed again
After March 5 meeting. But sultan let
Head chopper have a chance, he didn’t sell
Them out. Even though they will be stuck in
What will be left of the sealed idlib killing
Zone. Only escape then, is to go fight evil
Ruskies in Libya for Turk brothers!
LOL
So obvious it is!
Ps
Russia will never attack Turkish land, that trigger
Article 5.
Syria will attack Turkish land if it were to actually
Turn into a real war.
But that will never happen, because
Long B4 then kaliber cruise missiles will
Erase the 45 something Turkish “observation points”
Aka Putin’s leverage, that are all
LEGAL Targets on Syrian land,in 5 minutes
From just the parked ships in tartus.
Causing Literally THOUSANDS OF TURKISH
TROOP LOSSES IN MINUTES, with no source
Of any Turkish recourse!
Which the majority of, are now far behind
Syrian lines!
As for all the 6000 Turkish troops that have poured
Into idleb since 2020.
They are there preventing worse chaos
Amongst the syrians stuck behind head chopper
Lines, as the saa advances.
Sure, erdogan the sultan dreams of
Keeping idlib, albab, jarblus, rojva, and the
Rest, all the way to mosul.
And he will keep it if he was Allowed.
But being Allowed to drill the entire
East med for oil and gas, and get
A carving of the Libyan oil!
All split and agreed with the
Grand Master Vlad!
That’s where the bank is at!
It’s the economy stupid!
And Vlad stands by his Allies and commitments
Assad is reclaiming every inch of Syria,
On that you can guarantee!
Posted by: BernCron | Feb 29 2020 20:32 utc | 196
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