The situation in Syria should become a clear example for all those who advocate freezing the Ukranian conflict without resolving it in essence.
If the root cause of what happened is not eliminated, then the side that is most dissatisfied with the results of the truce, against the backdrop of revanchist sentiments and external support, will inevitably begin to prepare for a new conflict and wait for the right moment.
On the other side of the barricades, the complacent authorities and the armed forces, which are rapidly degenerating back into a “peacetime army,” may simply be unprepared for a new round of escalation and that is exactly what happened to the Syrians.
Remember how everyone shut up about North Koreans serving in the SMO? We still saw them in training, however, in the far east at least
There's a very good use case, one where they won't have to go up against that much artillery fire or air support, brewing in the near east right now...
And if the base rate of Russian shelling is the alleged 10,000 shells per day, that means that for every 30 shells that they fire, they would be putting away 50 shells into storage JUST FROM THEIR OWN PRODUCTION
If they get 3 million shells from North Korea per year, however, that means they can store virtually ALL of their domestic production, while outselling Ukraine 5-10:1
Turkey received an unexpected and unpleasant result from their actions in Idlib: The Kurds received a continuous corridor between their zones of control as a result of the withdrawal of the Syrian army forces. The Kurds are motivated and organised. They also have American training and now partial Russian support. Racially they are superior to the Arabs. They have proven to be quite good at killing fully equipped Turks for a decade. This will be interesting if conflict finally breaks out between them.
An airstrike by the Russian Aerospace Forces was carried out on those who were tearing down the statue of Bashar al-Assad's brother in Aleppo. Militant resources report numerous dead and wounded.
