Technicians at Syria's Hmeimim airport where Russian aircraft are deployed. © Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti
Micah Halpern, Observer: Is Syria Another Afghanistan for Russia?
ISIS intends to force Russia into another costly quagmire like its miserable failure in Afghanistan (1979-1989).
ISIS attacked a Russian military base in Syria on May 14th. Four Mi-24 attack helicopters were burned, 20 trucks were destroyed, a storage depot was hit and a MIG-25 fighter jet was damaged. The base is known as T-4, sometimes also called Tiyas in Homs province.
ISIS is hitting Russia hard and the jihadists are proud of it. One day after the attack, on May 15th, ISIS went on one of their websites, called Amaq, and claimed credit for the destruction. Ten days later, on May 25th, the British press “broke” the story. The BBC, The Independent, The Daily Mail, the Guardian and various other news services ran articles about the attack—but only after an independent intelligence company named Stratfor headquartered in, of all places, Texas, published before and after satellite photos of the Russia base.
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WNU Editor: Syria is not Afghanistan .... Afghanistan was a conflict between a good portion of the Afghan population and the Soviet military with its Afghan allies .... Syria is a conflict that involves multiple groups fighting amongst themselves and the Syrian government coupled with the intervention of literally everyone in the Middle East. But it is true that in Russia itself there are a lot of concerns (and worries) that Syria may become another Afghanistan .... and Putin knows this.
3 comments:
Syria cannot become another Afghanistan for Russia, unless U.S. want to push in that direction.
But if U.S. choice to sacrifice another country only to damage Russia, then they lose what remains of their credibility, even for Europeans.
If someone want to transform Syria in another Afghanistan for Russia, it may end instead in a huge Vietnam for all the West.
The destruction of the Russian attack helos does not bode well for the Russians. There doesn't seem to be any governmental entity in the region which is not compromised by the Islamists.
The U.S. while not fully engaged against ISIS due to the abominable CINC, is not going against Russia like in Afghanistan.
In Afghanistan Iran was against Russia. Here they are allies. China is not against Russia like it was in Afghanistan. The British are not supplying Blowpipe anti-aircraft missiles to ISIS like they did to the Afghans.
Syria is no Afghanistan.
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