And will pretend, no doubt, to be innocent refugees so they can move in next door
to you courtesy of Britain’s bogus bishops who refuse (for politically correct
reasons) to do the right thing and distinguish between genuine Christian refugees
as opposed to all the other murdering riff-raff!
Zero Hedge October 17, 2015
The thing about ragtag groups of
militants that display a penchant for extreme violence is that in the absence
of serious opposition, they can rack up gains at an alarming pace.
Of course there are plenty of
(possibly credible) theories out there, which suggest that some of what you see
in the videos released by ISIS is for show and we won’t endeavor to assess the
degree to which the group’s brutality is real versus staged, but one thing is
clear: regardless of who is funding, training, and/or supporting them, there
are obviously fighters on the ground in the Mid-East waving the ISIS flag and
committing atrocities in its name.
That works well when it comes to
destabilizing fragile states that are already beset with sectarian bickering on
the way to claiming large swaths of territory from a defenceless citizenry.
But you can’t intimidate a modern
fighter jet by waving around a sword and if you’re a newbie on the Mid-East
militant scene, you can’t scare a three decade veteran by beheading a couple of
people, which is why if you’re ISIS, the combination of the Russian Air Force
and Hezbollah ground troops is absolutely terrifying.
As we documented earlier today, Hezbollah and
Iranian troops are advancing on Aleppo and Moscow is backing the offensive from
the sky which means that the hodgepodge of anti-regime forces that control
Syria’s largest city will almost (and we say “almost” because there are no sure
things in war) certainly be routed in a matter of weeks if not days, which
would effectively serve to restore the Assad regime in Syria.
After that, the Russian bear and
Qasem Soleimani will turn their eyes to the East of the country and at that
point, it is game over for ISIS.
Apparently all of the above isn’t completely lost on al-Nusra and Islamic State fighters because if you believe the Russian media (and we’re not saying you should), Sunni extremists are now shaving off their beards and running for their lives. Here’s Sputnik:
Hundreds
of ISIL fighters are fleeing Syria for Turkey, as Russia’s Defense Ministry previously
said, and reports are popping up that they are leaving their beards behind.
Now obviously, these are just pictures of hair on the ground with razors, so
that shouldn’t be interpreted as anything that even approximates definitive
evidence of a full-on ISIS retreat but put yourself in the following situation
for a moment. You’re a Sunni extremist and your regional and Western
backers have just abandoned you. You are now under siege by the Russian Air
Force. If you survive the air strikes you will soon have to come face to face
with the fiercest, most experienced Shiite militia on the planet and if you
somehow manage to survive that, well then you have to fight the Quds Force (“how do you shoot the devil in the back“?).
What would you do?
Cowardly Jihadis shave off beards and flee war in GIRLIE clothes