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DevAdvocate said:
Let's look at what RT is actually saying:

"Islamic State militants have lost “most” of their ammunition, heavy vehicles and equipment in Russian airstrikes, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. At least 86 ISIS targets were hit during 88 sorties in the last 24 hours."

86 ISIS targets were hit in 88 sorties in 24 hours. Now I never bought into the myth about ISIS sweeping all before them because the fact is they've not actually fought anyone of note (the Khurds apart who seemed to have kicked their arses) but for Russia to have claimed to have destroyed most of ISIS in 24 hours is laughable.

Western experts seem to agree.

Charlie Winter, a senior researcher for the anti-extremism think-tank Quilliam, said reports on the ground of Isis territorial gains “run contrary to Russia’s claims”.“I highly doubt that even the Russians, who will be party to much of Assad intelligence, know where the “majority of ISIS ammunition, heavy vehicles and equipment” is located

Dr Andreas Krieg, an expert on the Middle East from King’s College’s Department of Defence Studies, said the positions Russia had said it was targeting "have been in the hands of moderate rebels for months now" - not Isis. "They also do not have the precision strike capability that Western air forces have," he said. "These claims that Isis has been significantly weakened are either highly exaggerated or wrong."
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Thanks Dev and that seems to clear up that aspect but my question wasn't so much "is that article true?" but more "what's going on Dev?".
 
stopmeandslapme said:
Thanks Dev and that seems to clear up that aspect but my question wasn't so much "is that article true?" but more "what's going on Dev?".
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**** alone knows <laugh>

Looks like the Russkies are doing Assad's dirty work by attacking the Syrian rebels, apparently the Yanks just dropped in a load of ordnance for the Rebs and the Russians destroyed that. So I've read.

There are also some conspiracy theorists out there who say the Yanks are actually the ones arming IS. Apparently there's evidence of this although I've not seen it.
 
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UK has a fertile history of propping up tyrants. I can only fathom your fervent pro-Britishness in things like this by assuming it's because you were in the army.
 
There's a trend among the Left in Britain to engage in apotheosis when it comes to Putin. It's usually the same people who see America as the devil in world affairs.

Putin's an extremely dangerous man, not just internationally but locally where he oversees the brutal treatment of political opponents and minority groups. Anyone who admires Putin clearly knows **** all about him other than the bullshit spread by those nutters on the extreme left.
 
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Aye, the manic support for Putin on this thread from manic lefty supporters is incredible.
 
Kunt Fish said:
There's a trend among the Left in Britain to engage in apotheosis when it comes to Putin. It's usually the same people who see America as the devil in world affairs.

Putin's an extremely dangerous man, not just internationally but locally where he oversees the brutal treatment of political opponents and minority groups. Anyone who admires Putin clearly knows **** all about him other than the bullshit spread by those nutters on the extreme left.
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