>US Navy can’t seem to find its way around our waters. Perhaps because it hasn’t figured out its name: Persian Gulf, as it's been called for 2,000 yrs longer than US has existed. Or maybe it doesn't know what it's doing in our backyard, 7,000 miles from home.
just a quick summary until the real devs roll in: Syria: ISIS killed two SAA officers, not much else happening Lybia: after big gains for the GNA yesterday, with many towns conquered from LNA, they are now consolidating the new frontlines, establishing the logistics for the next move. So not much happening now, probably for the rest of the day also. Yemen: nothing new
Robert Brooks
>Operation Aseman (Sky), one of Iranian security forces most successful counter-terrorism operations, the arrest of takfiri terrorist leader, Abdul Malik Rigi, detained on board a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Kyrgyzstan.
>The terrorist group’s criminal ringleader was arrested by Iran in February 2011. Rigi confessed that he was traveling to Bishkek to meet with a high-ranking US official at a nearby military base to discuss new terrorist attacks on Iranian territory.
>Syria: ISIS killed two SAA officers, not much else happening Not entirely relevant but I think it's become quite clear from their M.O.s that ISIS and FSA cooperate in Dara3a.
>Not mentioning the fact that the majority of Rigi’s kidnappings and beheadings and mass shootings and bombings were Sunni Muslims, when Iran neutralized this dangerous terrorist group, BBC and all the other news corporations wrote ‘Iran hangs Sunni rebel leader’
>Iraq, which relies on oil revenues for 95 percent of its budgetary income, is one of the least diversified economies in the Middle East. WTI crude is hanging at 18$ right now and the hot summer is coming. Expect unrests of all sorts coming in soon. I would not want to be government in Iraq right now...
Jack Taylor
at the same time population in Iraq has almost doubled over the last 20 years, creating ever more mouths to feed. Iraq is possibly heading for a subsahara tier cycle of poverty if oilprice does not recover within the next half year.
>254118476 >after big gains for the GNA yesterday, with many towns conquered from LNA, they are now consolidating the new frontlines, Actually, looking at the confirmed captures, a lot of the stuff from yesterday had been overblown.
They took a bunch of villages on their side of the mountainrange north of Tarhouna, but did not went south of the mountains.
All reports of significant advances to the south and east of Tarhouna had been bullshit claims
This did not mean that Haftar had not been raped hard yesterday and lost a lot of material and men, but neither is Tarhouna seriously threatened nor have the frontlines been broken as it appeared to be.
If the GNA keeps advancing, then maybe they will gain some more significant territory, but otherwise it had been more of a morale shock then a real military blow
Dominic Sullivan
That leaflet thing for the Wagner in Tarhuna is spicy. I don't think Russia will do anything forward but if they do pull back it'll with orders.
Jace Butler
Roughly what had been taken.
(this includes some areas south of the Tripoli Airport, which had been overlooked yesterday)
Not necessarily overblown, the frontlines just are exetremely fluid in Libya, as with Abu Gariyan
Jack King
The GNA is doing free airstrikes so that isn't going to take long to take anything they want. But it's not abut the quality of the armies, the both suck, the biggest difference is that the GNA seem to have a plan while the LNA are just sitting around.
Joseph Harris
>The GNA is doing free airstrikes Lmao
Luis Russell
All those air operations both are doing are drones, shooting shit unimpeded but the LNA have to strike at the dead of night or very early in the morning. Both sides use only 2 things, drones and turrets mounted in trucks. Haftar just had all his tanks sitting in a city doing nothing until they were taken.
Jace Morris
But are they really that fluid in the south? They look pretty stable in contrast to the Misrata/Sirte back and fourth.
>the biggest difference is that the GNA seem to have a plan We have to see in the next days. The coastal advance was a reconaissance in force which led to an unforeseen collapse.
Yesterday was a well executed attack from multiple directions with overwhelming local force concentration, and the results are good enough for libyan terms but are not really impressive yet and did change nothing
Luis Sanders
just watched a youtube on this. Interesting. It seems logical to me that in case of war one would try to attack vital infrastructure like this.
James Nguyen
Iraqis wouldn't attempt that because the floods would kill ten thousands in Iraq.
Logan Powell
Durr attack the enemy when they are strong-that’s how you win