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by habal
06 Mar 2020 10:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

12 km M4 corridor
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by habal
06 Mar 2020 08:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

Assed's atrocities in syria know no bounds The'Nimr'Tiger @Souria4Syrians · 9h These Syrian boys have missed 2 years of education because Assad bombed their school in Idlib One of them told me he want to become astronaut like Barack Obama https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESXBBd9WkAAfpwB?format=jpg&na...
by habal
05 Mar 2020 21:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

the arrival of buk & pantsir into idlib has turned the drone scenario dramatically. Y.N.M.S @ynms79797979 · 2h The Syrian army has shot down a Turkish UAV personally signed by Erdogan https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESWRMg4XkAMwJrz?format=png&name=900x900 https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/image...
by habal
05 Mar 2020 19:32
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
Replies: 4234
Views: 1239617

Re: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir

John wrote:
Prem wrote:There is twitter rumor of Syrian Su 24 today escaped AMRAAM launched by by Turkish F-16 .
They lost one yesterday to F-16 AMRAAM right?
that was an L-39aero.
by habal
05 Mar 2020 17:00
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

At the time Russia is receiving Erdogan a tweet by the Russian Foreign Ministry reminds him how Russia defeated the Ottoman Empire and forced it to sign the Treaty of San Stefano in March 1878 in Constantinople. It has accused Erdogan of altering Syrian demography after occupying the Afrin province ...
by habal
05 Mar 2020 16:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

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Y.N.M.S @ynms79797979 · 55m Videos released by the Turkish Ministry of Defense, allegedly recording the destruction of SAA in Idlib, Aleppo and Hama provinces, have proven to be false.They contain significant traces of video editing and computer graphics, moreover, 90% of all published video materia...
by habal
05 Mar 2020 09:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

Ordinary citizens and Turkish lawmakers were especially furious that Turkey could not airlift its wounded soldiers in Syria because Russia declared a no-fly zone for Turkish aircrafts. As a result, they had to be evacuated by vehicle on bumpy roads to Turkey. Critical articles about how the war in S...
by habal
04 Mar 2020 11:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

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foreign deployment is just not about aircrafts and personnel as some seem to think. The support structure for deployment requires technical depth and deep manufacturing base. stock & source spares in adv (only if industry is domestic and deep manufacturing base) field-based jammers (EW warfare e...
by habal
02 Mar 2020 13:04
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

yes, all these countries are just not able to play with the big boys. It is just Iran in mideast that can stand up to a superpower. And that is why they are considered such a threat by all around them. Turks are quintessential pakis. SYRIAN ARMY SHELLS TURKISH POST IN SOUTHERN IDLIB. CASUALTIES REPO...
by habal
02 Mar 2020 12:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

Russia & Iran wanted to keep roads open that lead to TOP (turkish observation posts), but SAA and allies were not completely obliging so the drones were given a free day or two to carry out attacks and clear route towards OPs. Now these OPs are full of turkish troops, Iran has threatened to arre...
by habal
01 Mar 2020 23:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

Turkish drones strikes are destroying lots of Syrian tanks, AFV's, vehicles, artillery, MLRS, even some AD systems like Pantsir. Lots of credible video has been released.
most destruction is happening on twitter.
never take anything said during war at face value.
by habal
01 Mar 2020 23:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

turks lost 7 of their best anka drones in past 2 days. 4 were shot down in Syria today 3 were shot down in Libya. that means only 6 now remain operational total # in service is 13. Yusha Yuseef @MIG29_ · 1h Turkish backed forces ( HTS ) were searching for the body of the pilot inside the Downed Turk...
by habal
01 Mar 2020 23:01
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

I doubt turkey has destroyed 1/3rd of what they have claimed. It is a twitter war with turks spreading all kinds of fud just like ghafoora pakis twitter troll squads did during feb 27. Indian plane crashes of years ago was shared on twitter as latest crash. Turks are primarily H&D society just l...
by habal
01 Mar 2020 20:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

there is an uncanny similarity between ispr twitter war on feb27 and turkish twitter war on idlib. Same number of trolls dishing out misinformation on twitter.
by habal
24 Feb 2020 18:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2831124

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Please do not for a moment think that Indians are magically immune. Speculation can be China was developing varients that targeted westerners and americans were creating varients that targeted east asians (chinese?), so in the end the leaked virus ended up having properties to targeting asians and w...
by habal
24 Feb 2020 18:15
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2831124

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

very important source on origin of corona virus some points from source - most research on sars and mers corona (progenitor) virus happened in University of North Carolina bsl-3 labs where they were busy weaponizing the sars/mers virus. - all bsl3/bsl4 labs in US routinely send research scholars all...
by habal
14 Feb 2020 10:00
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Nipah Virus Outbreak IN Kerala-2018
Replies: 114
Views: 32129

Re: Nipah Virus Outbreak IN Kerala-2018

their diet is same ad that of bats in that they mainly eat fruits, but also drink blood of small animals once every while.
by habal
14 Feb 2020 09:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Nipah Virus Outbreak IN Kerala-2018
Replies: 114
Views: 32129

Re: Nipah Virus Outbreak IN Kerala-2018

more than bat, the role of civet cats need to be inspected. For instance this is an infected civet cat caught around same time as nipah virus was peaking.

by habal
17 Jan 2020 14:59
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
Replies: 6378
Views: 2074104

Re: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion

what is this murmur going on about UK offering tempest engine to India ? Also 120 KN engine for AMCA that UK is rumored to be proposing is also the same tempest engine or is it EJ200 modified at Indian expense.
by habal
17 Jan 2020 13:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1962
Views: 565731

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

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Admin note: please stick to West Asia and not pisko commentary on individual posters. You are going off tangent for the second time in a week. No more informal warnings
by habal
17 Jan 2020 08:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
Replies: 6071
Views: 1275512

Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis

the quid pro quo may not have been announced in public or there may not be a quid pro quo at all. Just threat issued and meek compliance. You can take your pick as per side of fence one is perched upon.
by habal
16 Jan 2020 09:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

russian humour Mutlu Civiroglu @mutludc 9h A large Russian military convoy arrived Qamishli tonight reportedly trying to go to Rimeilan area. Yesterday US forces prevented the convoy so it has returned back to Tal Tamir base. Earlier today when the convoy was passing through Dirbasiya city https://...
by habal
16 Jan 2020 09:30
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
Replies: 6071
Views: 1275512

Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis

Its my personal opinion for some time now that India (its managers) do not have the self-confidence to guts it out of a situation and create a favourable situation for itself. And by 'situation' I mean a geo-strategic situation which requires India to take leadership without help of powers that be. ...
by habal
16 Jan 2020 09:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indian Foreign Policy
Replies: 2499
Views: 533883

Re: Indian Foreign Policy

Come on Philip, Solemani is/was no Yamamoto. He is more like Himmler and the IRGC are akin to SS. They are not regular troops and report to the Ayatollahs. And even they are breathing a sigh of relief after realizing they are safer now. If Russia had to save Syria all by itself with its airforce, b...
by habal
14 Jan 2020 21:23
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - November 11, 2019
Replies: 2848
Views: 949643

Re: Terroristan - November 11, 2019

So in reality dg ispr was dg twitter.
by habal
14 Jan 2020 19:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1962
Views: 565731

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

Lisa wrote:Even stranger, to the best of my knowledge, not even one member of the Iranian Islamic Government is making this claim.
and thereby acknowledge that their SAM systems are spoofed ?? So then no commercial airline will land in tehran. game over.
by habal
14 Jan 2020 19:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1962
Views: 565731

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

[there were plenty of eye witness who saw it there are other videos as well including couple security cameras. The resolution of camera makes it seem like it is barely visible but in reality human eye could easily see it. :rotfl: I have lived next to palam airport, for the life of me, I have never ...
by habal
14 Jan 2020 16:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

With Soleimani & Muhandis taken out of picture by mentors, ISIS attempts to make a comeback in its favorite sukhnah, palmyrah, homs desert. As usual huge columns of ISIS in desert go invisible to satellites that can see SAM blips take off in tehran. ISIS launches heavy attacks against Syrian Arm...
by habal
14 Jan 2020 16:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1962
Views: 565731

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

Trump will now have to exercise one of two options that he threatened Iraqi PM a. Organize mass protests against your govt. b. I will assassinate you and your defence minister. which will he choose ?? https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/iraq-will-not-sign-agreement-to-keep-us-forces-inside-count...
by habal
14 Jan 2020 16:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

Oh oh looks like he doesn't know which way to roll. He wants all turkmen jehadis not absorbed in Libya returned back home to Idlib. https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-erdogan-vows-to-stop-syrian-armys-advance-into-idlib/ Breaking: Erdogan vows to stop Syrian Army’s advance into Idlib B...
by habal
14 Jan 2020 15:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1962
Views: 565731

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

https://countercurrents.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/is_belt_and_road_working_nikkei_map.png Hussein Askary Discusses The New Silk Road’s Advance Across The Middle East Anyone looking at a map of the Belt and Road Initiative will notice that Syria, Iraq and Iran’s stability and active participati...
by habal
14 Jan 2020 14:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1962
Views: 565731

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

It is mine sire. To imagine palestine, you have to imagine rain deficit areas of sindh, pakistan or somalia. You get the idea. All they cultivate there are date palms and that is coated in inch thick dust. There used to be a big river called Jordan, that flows from sea of galilee (it is fresh water)...
by habal
14 Jan 2020 12:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1962
Views: 565731

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

‘ Stop buying Iranian oil or face sanctions’: US in talks with China over Iran Washington has managed to "cut off probably over 95 percent of the oil revenues" of Iran, according to US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. He told Fox News that US officials are now working on the issue with C...
by habal
14 Jan 2020 12:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1962
Views: 565731

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

But the big question which many people on social media are asking is: why was this “videographer” standing in a derelict industrial area outside Tehran at around six o’clock in the morning with a mobile phone camera training on a fixed angle to the darkened sky? The airliner is barely visible, yet ...
by habal
14 Jan 2020 12:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1962
Views: 565731

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

birds eye view of west asia from desi perspective (Israel, Palestine, Jordan) Israel: It is the most water sufficient (for residents) country in mid-east. Nowhere else will you find water being used so liberally and availability so plentiful as in Israel. Yes, water is scarce but it is available fr...
by habal
14 Jan 2020 12:06
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - November 11, 2019
Replies: 2848
Views: 949643

Re: Terroristan - November 11, 2019

He was previously Director General 'strategic plans division' and also Director General Military intelligence. So pretty high up in the pecking order of generals. Also my reading is he was behind the maulana fazlur rehman sponsored Islamabad blockade/march. The qadiani is pulling out all stops to ex...
by habal
13 Jan 2020 23:51
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1962
Views: 565731

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

New footage broadcast by CNN from the ain al-assad base shows that the underground fortifications have been penetrated too. Really was nowhere to hide for these troops.

by habal
13 Jan 2020 23:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1960296

Re: Levant crisis - III

the Russian President was told by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to invite American president Donald Trump to Damascus. such a conversation arose when the leaders of the two countries were at a meeting with the Patriarch of Antioch John X discussing the legend about the apostle Paul, who was on t...
by habal
13 Jan 2020 19:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1962
Views: 565731

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

Trump blackmailed Iraqi PM abdul mehdi into giving up 50% of Iraqi oil revenue for reconstruction of Iraqi electricity grid that was destroyed in US bombing campaigns over the years. When the Iraqi PM refused the US offer and proceeded to China for rebuilding deal, he was threatened with assasinatio...