While Pentagon officials sought to emphasize the sheer amount of equipment they’ve destroyed in the last year, they also conceded that a solid year of war against ISIS has left the group in control of all of its major cities, and capable of mustering major attacks across the region.
The Pentagon may be underselling it, if anything, as while they hyped the Kurdish victory in the small north Syrian town of Tel Abyad, they neglected to mention the gains ISIS has made in Iraq in the past few months, most notably capturing the major city of Ramadi.
Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren also sought to downplay last week’s ISIS attack on Kobani, calling it a “limited incursion” that was quickly repelled by Kurdish forces. He did not mention that some 300 civilians were estimated to have been killed.
The Pentagon even claimed ISIS had lost “a quarter of its territory,” a claim that doesn’t seem to be supported by recent estimates that they control more than half of all of Syria, and certainly made some gains in Iraq as well.
Warren claimed ISIS “isn’t as powerful as they would like you to believe,” but since they’ve been able to carry out major attacks against targets in both Iraq and Syria, as well as abroad, and still control cities encompassing millions of people, it seems they remain plenty powerful.
Yet another message that usg will help to create, will destroy, will demolish will kill with or without friends being directly involved, for those that are involved they need to be silent partner, absentee landlord as Turkish Erdogan regime is, as Angela Markell is, as that Swedish king is, as the European neo fascism are, as the neo far right Europe politics is based on, yet, behind the curtain their plans are to continue helping ISIS via Turkish, a NATO member that serves the interests of these regimes and Saudis dictatorial regime, a system where although rich in capital but without any human rights, without any basic social freedom for its citizens.
But Ditz? –ISIS is USA spon'$ored and trained !
A little public charity to keep the babies from starving
Solution is very simple, the UN should sanction unto bankruptcy any nation so dictatorial and enslaving as to allow those in the upper half to hoard all the wealth.
Problem is, there be not one democracy, not even one government on earth, that does not allow the upper half of society to enslave by poverty the laboring-class lower half.
Well then, all nations should be required by international law to pass at least a forth of the wealth down to the lower half of society.
Most profound, the lower half of society worldwide, it has no wealth circulating within it except minimum wage and a little public charity to keep the babies from starving.