Originally Posted By: Jetronic
Originally Posted By: Virtus_Probi
Well, Al Qaeda promised a nonstop rain of airliners piloted by their terrorists crashing into every major city in the US after 9/11, and they didn't quite pull that off.
Maybe if the Russians had actually helped out by bombing ISIS targets (like the US is still doing) instead of more moderate Syrian opposition militias, things would be slightly less scary now?
I doubt that....
ISIS didn't loose any territory until after the russians started bombing. I really don't know what NATO had been doing for 3 years...
Most of the territory ISIS had lost was to the Kurds in Northern Syria and also in Iraq (where Russia is not operating). ISIS making big gains close to Damascus, which helped lead to the Russians stepping up in the first place...despite that, the Russians concentrated a lot of their effort on Aleppo, which was NOT held by ISIS.
Originally Posted By: Virtus_Probi
Well, Al Qaeda promised a nonstop rain of airliners piloted by their terrorists crashing into every major city in the US after 9/11, and they didn't quite pull that off.
Maybe if the Russians had actually helped out by bombing ISIS targets (like the US is still doing) instead of more moderate Syrian opposition militias, things would be slightly less scary now?
I doubt that....
ISIS didn't loose any territory until after the russians started bombing. I really don't know what NATO had been doing for 3 years...
Most of the territory ISIS had lost was to the Kurds in Northern Syria and also in Iraq (where Russia is not operating). ISIS making big gains close to Damascus, which helped lead to the Russians stepping up in the first place...despite that, the Russians concentrated a lot of their effort on Aleppo, which was NOT held by ISIS.
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