There’s that cartoon about the outbreak of WW1 showing the escalation from Serbia to Austria-Hungary to Russia to Germany to France and the UK:
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/cade1c1b-60b9-4206-98c4-09bfc5a271eb.jpeg
Ooh dang, love it. John Bull on the very edge, love the details of each character’s clothing.
It’s probably closer related to Ukraine fighting back.
yes, natually, ukraine took both iran and hezbollah off the board
Russia focusing on Ukraine over Syria…
Russia unable to devote any military force to anything else while it tries to win in Ukraine
And Ukraine literally operating in Syria, as well.
TIL
Ukrainian intelligence sent about 20 experienced drone operators and about 150 first-person-view drones to the rebel headquarters in Idlib, Syria, four to five weeks ago to help Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the leading rebel group based there, the knowledgeable sources said.
I love it because it’s noncredible as fuck. A nation being invaded says “Hey let’s go fuck up Russia’s proxy war too.” Like who the hell??
And it worked. Absolutely bonkers.
They took Russia out. I’m not sure Iran and Hezbollah are invested on it enough to keep it without help.
I don’t want to trust any group that celebrates by shooting rounds of ammo in the air… seems like they make bad choices.
Rest my case 😆
The Yosi-MAHTAH Brigade of True Believers could hold Syria. They’d have a Six Flags and a Bass Pro by 2026. Let’s hope and pray that Sam can lead the martyrs to victory there soon.
Wasting ammo is a sin. It’s worse than wasting good beer, but not as bad as wasting meat. Source: my cosmology.
Well, the HTS leader explicitly told them not to do so, but there’s not much that can be done to enforce that
Just according to keikaku
If by “paragliding” you mean thousands of drug fueled antisemitic “Palestinian” Arab Jihadis invading Israel to rape and murder 1200 Israeli citizens, and take hundreds as hostages back to gaza where those who weren’t murdered outright are still held today, in the single worst loss of Jewish lives since the Holocaust, then yes, that’s exactly what precipitated where Syria finds itself today
I could have done without the “Palestinian” erasure, and the conflation of IDF and civilians killed on Oct 7th - just like it’s important to delineate between 7,000-17,000 Hamas fighters and at least 20,607 dead civilians the IAF bombed callously with AI driven targeting.
But otherwise you’re mostly right; Iran/Hamas set the stage for the Israeli overreaction, Hezbollah attacking the north in ‘solidarity’ and Iran loosing their chess pieces, whilst Russia was bled out in Ukraine and distracted.
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The Hannibal Directive lays the single largest claim on that death tally, but do go on.
