Syria and Israel exchange fire on the Golan Heights

[georgephillip]

You need secure airfields and runways on which to land those new planes, and airfields and runways are a commodity in which Assad is in increasingly short supply, as the Rebels capture more and more territory, and acquire more anti-aircraft assets from the outside.

How many airfields and runways did the "Free Syrian Jihadists" acquire today?

"Until the beginning of April, the FSA advances saw them capture four military airfields, hold several districts of the capital Damascus, seize the northern provincial capital of al-Raqqa, and make major forays into the south.

"These not only cut the road between Damascus and the commercial capital Aleppo, but also took rebel fighters down to the border with Israel at the Golan Heights, bringing with it the threat that the conflict might spill over Syria's borders.

"But in the past two months, a change of strategy by the government forces and squabbles among the rebels and their supporters have played into Assad's hands."

Do you think the Russians can't find enough airfields and ports to prevent Syria from joining Iraq and Libya?

Assad begins to gain upper hand in Syrian civil war

 

[Kondor3]

I dunno. I haven't got a crystal ball. But whatever planes and missiles that the Russians are dumb enough to transfer to Assad will be in Rebel or Hezbollah hands within a matter of weeks or a month or two.

Those that the Israelis haven't destroyed, anyway.

 

[georgephillip]

Before or after Palestine vanishes from the page of time?

 

[Kondor3]

Do you mean before or after Palestine vanishes from the map, and is forgotten by the rest of the world?

My money is on: Before

 

[georgephillip]

I dunno. I haven't got a crystal ball. But whatever planes and missiles that the Russians are dumb enough to transfer to Assad will be in Rebel or Hezbollah hands within a matter of weeks or a month or two.

Those that the Israelis haven't destroyed, anyway.

What does your crystal ball tell you about the ratio of IDF manpower to that of the Russians?
"Creeping annexation" works best in asymmetrical contexts.