JQPublic1
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I'm not engaging you in a discussion on Russian involvement here. I'm content to just debunk the false notion that Assad isn't fighting ISIS.I remember that time of year 2016.Newsweek published this account of the battles to control Palmyra in October 2015. Unless you have some compelling reasons to invalidate that report it undermines your premise that Assad isn't fighting ISIS.What fight against ISIS? If there really was a fight against ISIS it would in syria have died years ago. But ISIS is Assad's golden opportunity - he can slaughter hundreds of thousands of his own people to make sure his own round a-hole remains on the seat he was promised ages ago and now is denied.The relevance I see is in the contextual sense of whether Assad was behind either chemical attack. We hear clues such as the ✈ that dropped the munitions was traced back to the Shayrat air base. But I remain skeptical of such reports from undisclosed sources.i shall hold this course until more facts indicating otherwise are revealed.Whether Assad used Sarin or chlorine gas this time or last, or even whether he did either of those things is irrelevant.
I have heard just the opposite. Some sources posit that the relative leniency of Trump's strike was predicated upon the notion of allowing Assad to keep most of his planes and runways intact so as not to hinder his fight against ISIS.The man has been anything but part of the solution to squashing ISIS in Syria, and that makes him part of the problemI was going to ask that too, but since you beat me to it...LOLWhat fight against ISIS?
Inside Putin's and Assad's war against ISIS
At the time the statistical bombing strike situation by Russia was, give or take a child or two, 30% on ISIS, 70% on rebels and civilians.
Impressive ..that some still think it's about ISIS. Putin is a bit of a fool, but one thing he does know and giggles at at nights, is that ISIS will survive elsewhere anyway.