>On 14 March 2016, President Putin announced during a televised meeting with Defense Minister Shoigu and Foreign Minister Lavrov that the mission which he set for the Russian military in Syria "has been accomplished" and he ordered the withdrawal of the "main part" of the Russian forces from the country. According to a BBC diplomatic correspondent, Russia's intervention achieved its main goals: it consolidated President Assad's position, enabled his forces to re-take key pieces of strategic territory and ensured that Assad remains a factor in any future Syrian settlement.[29]
>>56513327
Now that settles the
>Russia has no power projection
meme once and for all.
>literally MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
No wonder he and W. liked each other so much
>>56513336
>replying to yourself
>>56513327
Pro-government forces capture 400 settlements and 10,000+ sq km of territory[29]
Russian forces partially withdraw[30][31][32]
Air-strikes to continue post-withdrawal[33]
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35807689
Source.
>>56513357
Nice reading comprehension
Also, I responded to myself because it would make the post too long.
>According to a BBC diplomatic correspondent, Russia's intervention achieved its main goals: it consolidated President Assad's position, enabled his forces to re-take key pieces of strategic territory and ensured that Assad remains a factor in any future Syrian settlement.[29]
I don't like that the rest of the world seemed to not care that Russia was dropping cluster bombs and unguided iron bombs on civilians purposely.
We bombed a hospital in Afghanistan by accident and the entire planet lost its collective shit.
>>56513327
"Russia will entire a new Vietnam quagmire in Syria"
President Barack Obama, October 2015
>>56513423
Source for these claims??
Also, there have been non-stop articles about the collateral damage caused by Russian airplanes
>>56513436
Enter*
>>56513453
>Source for these claims??
Which? that they killed a shit ton of civilians?
Or that they used those weapons?
>>56513423
Imagine if we just did it Russia did Syria.
>Bomb Vietnam with a 60 country coalition that was there even before us, bombing.
>Secure 1 base MAYBE 2
>secure Saigon
>Welp, WE WON! Pack it up fellas, we're going home. Ajnother war well won!
>What about the NVA and VC still out ther-
>WE
>WON
>GOD!
>>56513570
Meant for
>>56513436
cucks.
>>56513515
Stop SAYING THINGS I DON'T LIKE!!
Pic related!
Now go, shooh.
Dig up some sort of links I can immediately dismiss.
Appease me.
>>56513515
Purposefully bombed hospitals.
And no, SOHR is not a legit source since it is rebel backed.
>>56513570
Except most of the Syrian population is in government hands.
Did you ignore this quote?
>According to a BBC diplomatic correspondent, Russia's intervention achieved its main goals: it consolidated President Assad's position, enabled his forces to re-take key pieces of strategic territory and ensured that Assad remains a factor in any future Syrian settlement.[29]
>>56513336
I still respect the Russian military more than the American military.
>>56513614
Where does he say "mission accomplished"?
>>56513392
Did the US not accomplish its original objectives in taking Iraq?
>>56513515
>Cluster Bombs
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/12/20/russia/syria-extensive-recent-use-cluster-munitions
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-video-shows-cluster-bombs-detonating-in-the-dense-1759289467
>Civilian Casualties
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/12/syria-russias-shameful-failure-to-acknowledge-civilian-killings/
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/09/syria-apparent-russian-airstrikes-kill-civilians
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/russian-air-strikes-kill-1000-civilians-syria-160120135601455.html
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/23/middleeast/russia-airstrikes-syria-amnesty-report/
I gave you amnesty, HRW, western sources, and middle eastern sources, so don't come with your shit.
>>56513656
Russian Cluster bombs in Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXoIy3IKEso
based ruskis тбх
Doctors without borders was hit by Russia too, and more than once apparently.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/doctors-borders-calls-deadly-hospital-attack-syria-deliberate/story?id=36952507
http://www.ibtimes.com/who-bombed-doctors-without-borders-hospital-syria-msf-slams-deliberate-airstrike-2307826
http://time.com/4214735/doctors-without-borders-msf-syria-hospital/
>>56518086
lmaoing at these cucks
>More Cluster bombs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZO6ZDQrbxQ
Russia effectively:
>showed off their weaponry, already an increase in Russian defense contracts bc of this
>effectively weaponized Syrian refugee crisis in EU, italy n hungary might vote against the sanctions on Russia
>increased geopolitical clout as appearing as super power willing to side with government at odds with NATO
Literally syria isn't anything to Russia, Ukraine is more important to Russia
>>56514421
At least we spend millions and millions of dollars on the most high tech bombs/missiles to minimize collateral damage while Russia mostly uses cheaper conventional weapons at the cost of killing more civilians.
>>56518094
Totally not hitting rebel forces, I mean the one saying rebel phrases filming it 1km away is totally a civilian
>>56518125
>Baghdad
>Belgrade
>all over Afghanistan
beg to differ
>>56518127
>rebel phrases
All muslims say that.
He probably was a government (Assad) fighter.
At least they're keeping their involvement minimal so they don't get dragged into decade+ long conflicts that just weaken their power.
>>56518152
Compare that to scorched earth policy in Chechnya
More refugees for EU helps Russia
>>56518152
Yes, and you are comparing that to who else?
If every country went on a bombing campaign, the US would get the less collateral damage.
The US has experience trying to minimize collateral as much as possible.
Russia, China, and other countries would kill in one week, what the US kills in a year.
The US gets a lot more attention, that is why when one civilian dies at the hand of the US, the world goes >HUR DUR
But when Russia kills 1000 people in a few month, nobody gives a fuck.
>>56518175
Literally fighting an insurgent force within your own borders that is abducting and killing your own soldiers
Completely different tactics needed, scorched earth was necessary to deal with that
>>56518086
Try actually reading that. None of the articles has any source. Most say the hospital was bombed and no one has any idea by whom. Then it immediately goes mentioning Russia.
I'm very sorry for you if you can't filter your news.
>Russia says it's US
>US says it's Russia
>fucking gommies
>>56518188
You have no sources for your claims. Comparing completely different wars with different enemy numbers and civilian density is not balanced
you're just making up shit from your head because it's ideal
>>56518152
I'm not saying the US is perfect with regards to civilian casualties and stuff. I have family in the military, I know a lot of soldiers are just stupid young men who don't care in any conflict. But we still kill less civilians than Russia and probably China if they got involved in a war. Because a) we get more attention since we're the only super power, so we're held to a higher standard, and b) the military industrial complex means our government really doesn't mind spend billions and billions on r & d to make weapons more precise.
>>56518198
There is no difference fucking difference
Russia doesn't care for innocence lives/collateral damage. Especially in Syria Russia wants EU to be flooded with Syrians to get leverage over them cuz of sanctions
The USA went house by house in ramadi/fallujah remember
>>56514421
Thank you buddy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJpZfpYQw40
>>56518213
>Hospitals start getting bombed in syrian held territory right after Russian involvement in the area.
>Who could it be
Also, I'm referring to the other sources with respect to civilian casualties not exactly the hospitals. They have sources, and one of those is amnesty.
>>56518243
Where are the female soldiers? Or the Asians and Blacks? I don't think even saw a single Hispanic soldier. That's how you know Russia is evil and fighting to preserve white supremacy in their neo colonialist wars.
t. western media
U niggers are retarded i swear
Nato has a decade plus in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and other conflicts in that area
To say Russia is better at less civilian damage is just utterly retarded jesus
>>56518221
I just posted numerous sources from international NGOs, to middle eastern news sites. How about you read some of them.
>The report focuses on six attacks in Homs, Idleb and Aleppo between September and November 2015 which killed at least 200 civilians and around a dozen fighters. The briefing includes evidence suggesting that Russian authorities may have lied to cover up civilian damage to a mosque from one air strike and a field hospital in another. It also documents evidence suggesting Russia’s use of internationally banned cluster munitions and of unguided bombs in populated residential areas.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/12/syria-russias-shameful-failure-to-acknowledge-civilian-killings/
Start with amnesty, if you want.
>>56518221
Also, the report mention September to November.
That is 3 months, and they already tallied up to at least 200 civilian casualties.
>>56513423
>We bombed a hospital in Afghanistan by accident and the entire planet lost its collective shit.
Yes, an AC-130 gunplane accidentally spent 30+ minutes circling a hospital while firing a modified howitzer at it point blank while a doctor was on the phone with Air Force command.
Could have happened to anyone.
>>56518329
He's probably the same person that said this >>56518198
He is retarded
you americans have no idea how much damage jimmy carter's human rights have done to humans all over the world
>>56518086
No source. Hell one person somewhere claimed it was an A-10.
>>56517971
Gotta break some eggs to make an omelet.
If Russia stayed in longer...
>Russia "liberates" Syria
>kills way more civilians than the US because they're using cruder technology and their government/pro government media doesn't care as long as Russia's interests are defended
>all the crimes of the Syrian regime become associated with Russia
>Muslims come to see the US is the lesser of the two evils
>the west is finally respected in the Muslim world again
>the terrorism dramatically decreases
>>56518399
>point blank
I don't think you know the meaning of that word
The US was receiving intelligence from the Afghani. They told them to bomb that building and so they did.
It wasn't an accident in the sense that he accidentally pulled the trigger, but just bad intelligence.
>>56518305
lol
Hand to hand combat.
Marines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SQuRCSrjAQ
this is why the world laughs in kerry's face and you lose wars >>56518453
>>56518415
>>56518175
>Chechnya
That war actually ended.
Iraq has killed from 150k to one million plus and the place is still fucked. Iraq also posed no threat to the US.
>>56518446
>No source
Here Have Doctors without Borders
>Airstrikes in Syria have killed at least 35 Syrian patients and medical staff in 12 hospitals in northern Syria since an escalation in bombings began in late September, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.
According to staff at the hospitals, the attacks, which have also wounded 72 people, targeted medical facilities in Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama governorates, including six supported by MSF. Overall, six hospitals have been forced to close, including three supported by MSF, and four ambulances were destroyed. One hospital has since reopened, yet access to emergency, maternity, pediatric, and primary health care services remains severely disrupted.
Just to recap:
>Airstrikes in Syria have killed at least 35 Syrian patients and medical staff in 12 hospitals in northern Syria since an escalation in bombings began in late September
>LATE SEPTEMBER
Just happens to be at the same time that Russia came to the party.
What could it mean?
>>56518243
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWC8J93prJU
>>56518446
If you guys are still to lazy to read, have a VIDEO.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/world/middleeast/syria-hospital-airstrike-doctors-without-borders.html
>>56518461
>>point blank
>I don't think you know the meaning of that word
Point-blank range is any distance over which the trajectory of a given projectile fired from a given weapon remains sufficiently flat that one can strike a target by firing at it directly. Point-blank range will vary by a weapon's external ballistics characteristics and target chosen.
>>56518446
Forgot source for >>56518526
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/civilians-and-hospitals-repeatedly-attacked-bombing-escalates-northern-syria
>>56518526
>>56518540
jesus christ you deserve 100 years of obama and hillary clinton rule.
>>56518526
>Just happens to be at the same time that Russia came to the party.
>What could it mean?
False flag by Turkey? Funny how it happened after the US had bombed those very same MSF doctors.
>>56518562
I'll vote for Hillary if you don't post feet.
John Kerry wants to appear worried, but he is along with Obama the main political culprit for the genocide committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Worse, ISIS is a creation of the US drive to curb the Syrian government of Bashar al Assad and Iran's influence in the area. Any late progressive remorse like that seen in 'Killing Fields' the movie is worthless. The warnings were duly presented.-
>>56518570
>Those very same.
It happened in Afghanistan, a totally different country.
>>56518570
By late September the Russians were already flying over Assad Rule territory.
If Turkey had done that, they would have radar evidence, among other things to prove that it came from Turkey.
>>56518540
Still no indication it was Russia.
>>56518553
>http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/civilians-and-hospitals-repeatedly-attacked-bombing-escalates-northern-syria
No mention of Russia.
Are you arguing a hospital was bombed? We all know that. But Russia had no motive and there is nothing linking Russia to the attack.
>>56518615
ISIS was born in Iraq not Syria.
>>56518638
No, they haven't.
But it is obvious as to who it was.
You can keep with whatever you are trying to convince yourself, but I already gave you lots of proof in Russian bombing of civilians. A Hospital or two wouldn't be a surprise for anyone.
>>56518329
>ammesty
>mfw the Lion is now in the mopping up phase of Saudi/murican backed jihadis
Thanks Russia :3
>>56518329
Yes, but the US does the same, and has also not signed the treaty against mines.
Remember depleted uranium rounds?
War is messy when you big powers get involved
>people think this is the end
>>56518671
>ISIS was born in Iraq not Syria.
Do you have a point?
>No, they haven't.
>But it is obvious as to who it was.
Yes. Turkey.
ANyone can make claims. Why is there no NATO radar data? I can blame American stealth fighters if I want. Still no basis.
>>56517971
>American complaining about cluster munition usage
>Used them in Libya themselves
>>56518224
If your bombs cost more doesn't mean they are more accurate.
>an unknown period ago
>now that we neolithics control the middle east, this is the end of conflicts in the middle east
>a gorillion years ago
>now that we jews control israel, this is the end of conflicts in the middle east
>thousand years ago
>now that we catholics occupy the middle east, this is the end of conflicts in the middle east
>thousands of years ago
>now that we arabs control the middle east, this is the end of conflicts in the middle east
>hundred years ago
>now that we french control the middle east, this is the end of conflicts in the middle east
>hundred years ago
>no no, now that we BRITS control the middle east, this is the end of conflicts in the middle east
>within the last century
>now that we americans have subdued the middle east, this is the end of conflicts in the middle east
>within the last few decades
>now that we americans have subdued the middle east… haven't we been here before?
>within the last decade
>now that we jews pretend we control the middle east, this is the end of conflicts in the middle east
>today
>now that we russians have subdued the middle east, this is the end of conflicts in the middle east
>fifty years from now
>now that we chinese control the middle east, this is the end of conflicts in the middle east
>…
>>56518951
Not inherently, but money does buy more accurate guiding systems and stuff in this case. Our military has mapped the world to a resolution of iirc 6in by 6in and they are constantly updating that elevation map, and our missiles/bombs use radar and constantly compare its readings to the map so that the bomb/missile knows where it is to that resolution of 6in by 6in. That's pretty precise.
>>56519017
>pretending it's unique to the middle east
Humans have constantly been at war everywhere, I don't think any region was peaceful until the modern era. Even Europe was regularly ravaged by war until recently, and if you count Ukraine it still sort of is.
itt anal blasted putin drones
>>56518723
They have a cease fire. So probably the conflict will be frozen.
>it's another episode of passive aggressive americans
>>56519331
>imgur filename
>>56519370
AM I BEING DETAINED
AM I FREE TO GO
>>56518243
Dude that video was pure testosterone. manliest video i've seen. gotta respect that
>>56519035
Comparing videos of our bombings and yours-yours are even worse sometimes.
>It's an american bitching about russia episode
just stop
>>56513327
They set out possible goals and achieved them.
>collateral damage, cluster bombs, casualties
Russia is bombing your country, it's inevitable.
>MUH INNOCENT KIDZZZ AND WOMENZZZ
Actually american air strikes primary targeted lone thigs in the middle of deserts since kurds don't operate in big cities and coalition pretty much only bombed for kurds. RuAF had to operate in the most dense populated areas like Alepo, Idlib and so on with much more intense graphic. We had more fly hours in a month than the whole coalition in few years.
>>56518549
>T. Simo
>>56519331
