the fuck out of syria?

mr. jimmy dore has an idea.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjOr2YzrZDY&t=702s]

Maybe we should invade and "liberate" al-Bab?

The Revolution in Rojava

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-revolution-in-rojava

1. The Rojava revolution is the only one in the region that is supportable with enthusiasm and no shame. They are willing to work with the legitimate government of Syria and form a federation. We need to gain knowledge of the Rojava Revolution and IMO give major support to it.

2. The Turks and their Al-Qaedah and ISIS allies should be kicked the fuck out of Syria. ASAP. They funded the damn ISIS by allowing smuggling of oil out through Turkey's port to Israel. Turkey has no right whatsoever to invade Syria. I hope their damn army gets sent back to Turkey where they can eventually behead Erdogan.

3. The legitimate government of Syria, supported by the people of Syria have a legitimate right to protect its people from Turks, invading mercenaries and violent religious fanatics

If you want to learn about the Rojava Revolution you can freely download the book Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp at:

http://forum.mobilism.org/search.php?keywords=Rojava&sr=topics&sf=titleonly

Please do, its one liberation movement not many people know or care about.

by the the effectiveness of the Kurdish fighting forces.

As a final note, I hope that the DOD plans to do a thorough study of the YPG/YPJ. There are valuable lessons to be learned here. This a remarkably successful, self-trained and self-organized force. Although it possesses a small number of mortars, armored vehicles and other supporting arms, it is overwhelmingly a very lightly armed infantry force that can move rapidly on foot or in their fleet of light pickup trucks. The individual units enjoy tremendous freedom of action and display remarkable battlefield initiative down to the company equivalent sized force. The all female YPJ units seem to be far more than some new age publicity gimmick. Unencumbered by 100 pounds of equipment, they are effective against an enemy that is apparently terrified of dying at the hands of a woman. The YPJ fighters are also very effective in handling refugees and civilians in liberated villages. The Kurds may be on to something with their approach to the military art.

from several sources. Maybe the guy who's had dinner with the Taliban is right, but it's hard to know for sure.

Here is what is going on up to an hour ago, as far as I can tell:

The Turks and their Al Qaedah allies: AKA Al-Nusra, AKA "Moderate Rebels" AKA FSA, are stalled without air support on the outskirts north of ISIL controlled Al Bab.

The YPG (Rojava Kurds) have advanced about 12 km in the south of Al Bab since the essay map here was published, and are short about 12 km from joining the two sectors of Rojava. When they cut the main road, and they soon will, that will completely choke the ISIL oil smuggling route through Turkey and keep the ISIL rats from escaping. The Kurds are receiving air support.

The Syrian Army is far to the south but, as I mentioned, the Rojava Kurds and Assad Syrian Army have not been enemies and it appears as if post ISIL/post Al Qaeda Syria will likely become a confederation with an autonomous Rojava region.

One of the reasons is that the Kurds are considered safety by the people in the north, they are fighting often on foot with light weapons, and taking time to help refugees and protect them. Part of the strength is that women are enraged by the treatment of women by ISIL and joining the YPG/YPJ and SDF (northern Rojavan Kurds, Yazidi, other allies) in droves. They also have some very smart tacticians and propagandists.

Note: I hope I got the alphabet soup right. I will add the updated situation map as soon as I find it again.

Note in edit: I am certainly the least of people when it comes to military tactics (the little I learned was from reading extensively about the tactics of the USA civil war some decades ago). But it appears to me as if the Kurds are going to leave ISIL block the Turks on the north boundary of Al Bab and join to the south to surround ISIL in Al Bab , then, with their supply lines joined, move south joining the Syrian army to blast the last of the Al Qaedah rats out of Aleppo. Like I said, this can be considered a fantasy for now.

Thousands of people are escaping from Daesh occupied Raqqa to the north behind Rojava Kurdish front lines. Video here:

https://twitter.com/Herekol_Kurd/status/796622529779666945?lang=en

#WrathOfEuphrates #Raqqa. More than 5000 civilians returned to Hisha town after the expulsion of #ISIS rats.

https://twitter.com/DefenceUnits/status/798690542875971584?lang=en

As you probably know, these areas in the north are generally a mixed multi-ethnic population. The area is the breadbasket of Syria, used to have huge wheat production, although over production, drought and war haven't helped. I have the population figures for the different Rojava cantones from the Revolution in Rojava book linked earlier. In my opinion the only way this will work is if all ethnicities and religions can work and live together. That can only occur IMO under the secular mult-iethnic community based Rojava model.

To me, the biggest problem now are the Turks and that maniac Erdogan who has the dream of a new Turkish Ottoman Empire built on the bodies of the Kurds, Yazidis, Syriacs, Druze, Arabs and other people of the region.

I am busy thinking of how the Rojava revolution could be applied to Palestine/Holy Land: Hand in Hand Schools seem to hold the seed of a multi-ethnic state in the "Holy Land".

Added in edit: The Turks and their Al-Qaedah allies are busier attacking Rojavans than Daesh. USA and Europe seem to want the Turks to stall, not giving air support. Has someone in Washington grown a brain suddenly?

What the heck is that?