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How the Lights Have Gone Out For the People of Syria (bbc.co.uk)
dryriver shares an excerpt from a report via the BBC that shows what the impact of the Syrian war looks like from space: Six years of war in Syria have had a devastating effect on millions of its people. One of the most catastrophic impacts has been on the country's electricity network. Images from NASA, obtained by BBC Arabic, show clearly how the lights have gone out during the course of the conflict, leaving people to survive with little to no power. Each timelapse frame shows an average of the light emitted at night every month from 2012, one year after the war began. They show that the areas where Syrians can turn lights on at night, power their daily lives and get access to life-saving medical equipment, have shrunk dramatically. The city of Aleppo was Syria's powerhouse and home to over two million people. But the country's industrial hub became a battleground and remained so for more than four years. Russian airstrikes against Syrian rebels began in October 2015 and the timelapse shows the city in almost complete darkness at night throughout 2016, when the battle for Aleppo was at its peak. As mains power supplies dropped off, ordinary people had to be creative in finding alternative sources for light and power.
Seriously? There were Russian troops on the ground at that base. You're going to act like the odds of accidentally hitting Russian troops while lobbing dozens of cruise missiles from hundreds of kilometers away is totally a nothing thing, but that the odds of hitting Russian aircraft when shooting at Assad's aircraft (after tracking them from takeoff from Assad's airbases (rather than the Russian airbase at Hmeimim)) is by contrast absurdly high? Do I even need to mention that as a consequence of Trump's attack Russia shut down the deconfliction line? It was reestablished just recently.
Are you talking about US troops in Syria? Because those have increased by an order of magnitude under Trump.
The hypocrisy is so glaring here I need sunglasses.
You seem to have made the assumption that Democrats care more about disliking Comey than they do about obstruction of justice. Seems Trump made that assumption as well.
Bad assumption.
Going from 22% support for bombing Syria as punishment for using chemical weapons to 86% support just because the president changed is not a simple case of "they always like it". Meanwhile, Democrats only shifted by 1%.
FSB hits! FSB hits! Your democracy dies. Do you want your possessions identified?
You can choose to believe what you want, but the Nazis, too, did prisoner exchanges where it was useful to them. Assad's pockets of Foua and Kafarya have been being steadily evacuated to his territory in exchange for the rebel evacuations.
Right now, Assad is trying to create a contiguously unified territory while trying to shove the rebels into as small of a pocket in Idlib as he can. And it's proven too hard to eliminate them by force from their positions in these pockets because of how well dug in they are among the rubble; he's been trying for years.
FSB hits! FSB hits! Your democracy dies. Do you want your possessions identified?
You've wrongly assumed that the Syrian civil war was caused by outsiders. It was mainly caused by the al-Assad family's dictatorial, kleptomaniac, discriminatory and murderous behaviour.