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2022-03-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Will Russia Bring Syrian Fighters to Ukraine?

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Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 Assad's finest? What they hell, is this a drive by Putin to demilitarize the islamics? Choose a conflict and pour them all into it. Next up, Taliban?

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-13 00:14|| 2022-03-13 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 What's next? Recruit General Ursus?

Posted by borgboy 2022-03-13 00:28|| 2022-03-13 00:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Bashar al Assad inherited the Baathists from his father — Arab Socialist, not Muslim as such, though his tribe is traditionally a Shiite variant.

Turkey’s local Turkik Muslim Brotherhooder and ISIS remnant paramilitaries, and Al Nusra and its Al Qaeda franchise and Muslim Brotherhood allies are the religious ones in Syria.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-13 00:45|| 2022-03-13 00:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Post-conflict mop up and security crew. Bad things happen? Vlad reports, "hey, wouldn't us."

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-13 00:52|| 2022-03-13 00:52|| Front Page Top

#5 This is most likely a sign the conflict's getting close to its endgame. Hope for everyone's sake that Zelensky takes Bennett's advice.

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 00:55|| 2022-03-13 00:55|| Front Page Top

#6 I can almost see the Time Magazine 'Man of the Year' cover and caption. Nobel Committee probably already drafting prize narratives.

"President Biden's secret negotiations with Putin pulled the world away from the edge of nuclear conflict."

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-13 01:13|| 2022-03-13 01:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Before they leave they should talk to some of their brothers who went to Libya on behalf of the new Ottoman Empire.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-13 10:13|| 2022-03-13 10:13|| Front Page Top

#8 They can't, their dead.

Posted by Chris 2022-03-13 10:26|| 2022-03-13 10:26|| Front Page Top

#9 they should talk to some of their brothers who went to Libya on behalf of the new Ottoman Empire.

A bunch of them — still unpaid because Neo-Ottoman Sultan Erdogan the First is still paying off his new 1000-room palace — were shipped off to Azerbaijan to bully Armenia with. They reportedly were not paid for that work, either.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-13 10:57|| 2022-03-13 10:57|| Front Page Top

#10 #9 - Dictators gotta Dick

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-13 11:47|| 2022-03-13 11:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Russia will if it needs men to walk in front of them and soak up all the bullets.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-13 12:26|| 2022-03-13 12:26|| Front Page Top

#12 #4 Post-conflict mop up and security crew.
#5 This is most likely a sign the conflict's getting close to its endgame.

Yeah, those things.

After playing Calvinball in Syria for a while, I can see how a war with actual sides might have some appeal for the Syrians.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-13 12:36|| 2022-03-13 12:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Getting close to throwing in the towel, thank God:

Zelensky Ready to Negotiate, Open to High-Level Peace Talks in Jerusalem
Tom Ozimek
Mar 12, 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that he’s ready to hold high-level peace talks with Russia, flagging Jerusalem as a possible location and expressing hope that Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett could help broker a deal

Putin struck an optimistic note on the several rounds of technical negotiations between Ukrainian and Russian delegates in Belarus, saying he saw a positive shift in the discussions.

Moscow has demanded that Ukraine cease military action, pledge never to join NATO and enshrine neutrality in its constitution, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory, and recognize the separatist-controlled regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states.

Zelensky earlier signaled openness to a compromise with Putin on some of his key demands for halting the offensive in Ukraine, including on NATO membership and the status of the contested territories

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-13 12:54|| 2022-03-13 12:54|| Front Page Top

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