These shortcomings are well-known to the US military, which is why most of what they do now is send special forces to train and equip local militias and separatists, followed up with NGOs to make them seem like oppressed freedom fighters.
Absolutely, that’s why the cold war 2 analogy fits really well. The US only attacks when it has an overwhelming bully-like advantage, otherwise it does clandestine ops through third parties. Their strategy with color revolutions is, increasing destabilization, pitting groups against each other, then balkanization, then swooping in the aftermath and setting up a reactionary US friendly puppet… which has been working well in the ME but failing against China / Russia now.
Syria’s def one of the front lines. It could go either way, we really gotta hope Assad can fend off the US’s attempts there.
Yeah, the weird thing with Syria is US policy advisors have been saying it’ll be just like the USSR in Afghanistan, like Russia doesn’t know what that looks like and haven’t planned for such a scenario
Absolutely, that’s why the cold war 2 analogy fits really well. The US only attacks when it has an overwhelming bully-like advantage, otherwise it does clandestine ops through third parties. Their strategy with color revolutions is, increasing destabilization, pitting groups against each other, then balkanization, then swooping in the aftermath and setting up a reactionary US friendly puppet… which has been working well in the ME but failing against China / Russia now.
Syria’s def one of the front lines. It could go either way, we really gotta hope Assad can fend off the US’s attempts there.
I think the Syrian war is pretty much over for the US, it will be mainly for Russia and Turkey to decide how things will play out there from now on.
Yeah, the weird thing with Syria is US policy advisors have been saying it’ll be just like the USSR in Afghanistan, like Russia doesn’t know what that looks like and haven’t planned for such a scenario