Russian air strikes Saturday targeting the Islamic State group in Syria have sown “panic”, forcing some 600 “militants” to abandon their positions and head to Europe.
Intelligence shows that militants are leaving areas under their control. Panic and desertion have started in their ranks.
One question that’s been asked repeatedly over the past thirteen months is why Washington has been unable to achieve the Pentagon’s stated goal of “degrading and defeating” ISIS despite the fact that the “battle” pits the most advanced air force on the planet against what amounts to a ragtag band of militants running around the desert in basketball shoes.
With USA aside and Russia at the lead in the the past three days alone Russia has managed to undermine material and technical resources of the terrorists and significantly reduce their combat potential. Russia said they will not only continue the strikes by our air force but also will increase their intensity against ISIS terrorist!
Those of a skeptical persuasion have been inclined to suggest that perhaps the Obama isn’t fully committed to the fight on ISIS and Putin is.
The implication in all of this is that a modern army that was truly determined to destroy the group could likely do so in a matter of months if not weeks and so once Russia began flying sorties from Latakia, the world was anxious to see just how long the various rebel groups operating in Syria could hold up under
The answer, apparently, is “less than a week.”
According to The Kremlin, the structure shown in the video is (or, more appropriately, “was”) “an ISIS hardened command centre near Raqqah.” Su-34s hit it with concrete-piercing BETAB-500s setting off a series of explosions and fires that “completely destroyed the object.
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Commenting on the video filmed by a Russian UAV monitoring the assault near Raqqa, Konashenkov noted, “a powerful explosion inside the bunker indicates it was also used for storing a large quantity of munitions.
“As you can see, a direct hit on the installation resulted in the detonation of explosives and multiple fires. It was completely demolished.”
One cannot help but be amazed with the pace at which this is unfolding. If any of the above is even close to accurate, it means that Russia is on schedule to declare victory over ISIS (and everyone else it looks like) in a matter of weeks, Russia also says their intelligence has located Jihadi John and will be targeting him in the coming days.
This is not only extremely embarrassing for Obama, but would also effectively prove that the Obama Administration has never truly embarked on an honest effort to rid Syria of the extremist groups the Western media claims are the scourge of humanity. This is a Russian military defeat of US interests/allies. Let’s recognize it for what it really is and also note that it took Russia only 2-3 weeks to accomplish what the US has been “trying” to do for almost a year.
What about those 600 military aged men, they will be in Europe calling themselves ‘refugees’ within a week as clueless Germans clap for them holding Willkommen signs as these ISIS militants enter the Hamburg Airport.
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