Diese Karte gibt einen allgemeinem Blick auf die militärische Lage in Syrien und im Irak am 23. Juni 2017. Die von den USA unterstützten demokratischen Einheiten Syriens (SDF) sind noch immer mit der Erstürmung der von IS-besetzten Stadt ar-Raqqa beschäftigt. Die syrischen Regierungstruppen rücken im ländlichen Gebiet von Palmyra und im westlichen Teil der Provinz ar-Raqqa gegen IS vor.
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Erdogan was recently quoted:
“They’re not tankers, just Turkish lamb sausages…”
Surely, it would be simpler for the Russian Air Force to destroy sections of the road as opposed to destroying tankers? If a section at the head and the rear of a tanker convoy is destroyed, the road beomes impassable; then those tankers become unusable; they are isolated and cannot escape or move to an alternative route. Presumbly, this would also be less costly in terms of arms utilised.
Does not take very long to fill in a hole with a couple of dozers.
This huge business didn’t happen overnight, but has developed over the past dozen or more years as the Kurdish north in the days of Saddam had a defacto southern border that held Saddam for the most part out of the area and allowed the Kurds to develop this business with/via Turkey. Recent realities on the ground likely expanded the existing business using existing infrastructures. and will likely continue even if stolen Syrian oil is excluded. Technically even the Kurdish business is illicit as theoretically Kurdish Iraq is part of Iraq, but ? What a bunch of confused politics.