Den välkände strategi-analytikern Gregory R Copley ger sin syn på segern i Palmyra och IS’ förutsättningar att överleva i Syrien. Den militära operationen i Palmyra tog bara 3 dagar, vilket visar vilken styrka den syriska armén besitter när de har ryskt flygunderstöd. Det visar samtidigt på IS’ svaghet och att de inte klarar sig utan stödet från sina allierade.
Inom USA-administrationen har man börjat tänka om när det gäller stödet till IS. Men Turkiet kan inte ge upp, tror han, för om IS förlorar, hotar inbördeskrig i Turkiet när kurderna stärks.
“For ISIS to survive, it needs support from allies: Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the US”
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Reports that Syrian government forces have retaken the city of Palmyra from ISIS forces prove that the terrorist group is incapable of withstanding a conventional assault, Gregory R Copley, strategic analyst and editor of Defense & Foreign Affairs told RT.
A commander of the Desert Falcons unit of the Syrian army told RT that the "military operation to retake Palmyra lasted three days," adding that the "main difficulty was that there were a lot of mines along the roads."”
“The strategic analyst then said a mouthful when he predicted that in order for ‘Daesh’ [a term for Islamic State that is considered derogatory] to “survive” it will need “a lot of support from its allies.” Copley went on to list those allied countries as “Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the US.”
However, with respect to the United States reportedly offering assistance to the group, Copley admitted, without elaborating, that some people in the United States are beginning to have “second thoughts” about the idea.”
““Copley concluded with the rather disturbing observation that the Turkish government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “cannot afford to let Daesh fail at this stage because if it does then the war gets carried back into Turkey and the civil war which it is now waging against the Kurds will expand terrifically.””
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/337351-isis-survive-us-terrorism/
Karta över Palmyra med omnejd:
http://www.edmaps.com/html/syrian_civil_war_in_maps.html