Iranian soldiers have been training Syrian militias since 2012 [Atta Kenare/AFP Photo]
Al Jazeera: FSA rebels: We would have won if not for Iran
In the summer of 2012, the leading commanders of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were confident that momentum was with them.
A bomb blast deep inside central Damascus had just taken out four senior commanders of the Syrian army, including the country's defence minister, Dawoud Rajiha, and his deputy, Assef Shawkat, who was also President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law.
The explosion, believed to have been carried out by an insider sympathetic to the opposition cause, gave hope to rebels that it was only a matter of time before Assad met a similar fate.
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WNU Editor: The momentum was in favor of the Syrian rebels in 2012 .... but it became stalemated when Iran got involved. What broke the stalemate was Russia's involvement in 2015 .... air power and the use of accurate artillery changed the dynamics on the ground completely.
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The "rebels" never managed to capture any more of Aleppo than the suburbs.
A "commercial", "industrial", "entrepreneurial" city of 2 million, a center for early protests, and yet, in 2012, they managed to seize an area which had 250,000 people, of whom 180,000 fled to regime held areas by 2013, and by 2016, had only 30,000 people.
From the very beginning, many Syrian's noted that the "rebels", wern't rebels, but jihadi's.
No matter how weak the regime, how ineffective the military, how misfocused the Security Service, you can't "win" a Civil War with only 2% of the population.
You can however, cause a lot of damage and get a lot of people killed in the process.
More so, when you have rich and powerful outside sponsors.
I'm pretty sure Russia has taken note.
That is a rewriting of history. They held most of Syria, at least it was out of government control and the Kurds were sitting on the sidelines. It was close, and had the rebels had a little more firepower, that probably would have tipped the balence.
"The momentum was in favor of the Syrian rebels in 2012 .... but it became stalemated when Iran got involved. What broke the stalemate was Russia's involvement in 2015 .... air power and the use of accurate artillery changed the dynamics on the ground completely." - WNU
Yes, the American President, BamBam, didn't do jack.
He did leaflet oil tankers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamm-Bamm_Rubble
"If there is any justice in the world, Bergdahl will spend a lot of time in prison and history will soon accurately portray Barack Obama for what he actually was in office: a bumbling moron.
Presently, the deserter's attorneys are trying to get the trial dismissed because President Trump said mean things about Bergdahl. If Trump's predecessor hadn't been a blithering idiot, we could have skipped the embarrassing (for the nation) slobberfest in the Rose Garden and proceeded immediately to a trial." - Stephen Kruiser
https://pjmedia.com/blog/liveblogevent/wednesdays-hot-mic-30/
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