Pro-Assad official says targeted bases were evacuated on Russian warning - Polidicks

“We have absorbed the strike”, the official told Reuters. “We had an early warning of the strike from the Russians ... and all military bases were evacuated a few days ago,” the official said. Around 30 missiles were fired in the attack, and a third of them were shot down, the official said. “We are carrying out an assessment of the material damages,” the official added. Pro-Assad official says targeted bases were evacuated on Russian.. So potentially the damage could be minimal, since they might had time to move their equipment away?

That's kinda an indication that Russia has channels to appeal to that don't involve US disclosure. Mattis said Russia was not informed, so how did they know for sure beyond the typical rumours? Smells like a leak somewhere, and, not only that, this is a clear posturing of defiance from both Russia and Syria saying that they 'absorbed' the strike. Scary times.

They said this the last time we dropped an airbase. "All the missiles missed, or where shot down." "Most of them where shot down, some of them hit, but nothing important." "Half of them where shot down, but they only hit a few important things." "Actually, all of them hit."

Or maybe with Trump babbling about how he might send missiles to Syria, they took preemptive measures on the likely places to be bombed?

If people evacuated every time Trump ran his mouth that would become a debilitating weapon in of itself.

If Russia said it, you can go ahead and ignore it because you know it's bullshit if Trump said it, you can go ahead and ignore it because you know it's bullshit

Wouldn't it be kinda dangerous to say "nah nah you missed me"? Kinda just encourages a round two to make sure the job gets done?

Maybe the country fucking up its own people and lying about it... could be lying for some reason? Idk how many hit for sure, but I sure as shit wouldn't take Syria's word on anything.

Well we used a 120 missiles(We used 56-60 missiles last time, double that from what Mattis said is 120) either dropped from planes or from ships. Definitely more than 30 hit their target seeing as Syria Live map had updates as far as Aleppo to Damascus. The funnier thing is that Russian counter-battery fire was silent in all this. Only Syria missile and air-defenses offered counter battery fire, Russia even knew before hand so this implies Russia willingly let this happen knowing their guys were out of the kill zones, or they dropped ball and got embarrassed like how when they lost 200+ of their old soldiers because they said they weren't. theirs and we lit them up.

My money is on Russia's promise of "retaliating" was a completely bluff and hot air for their own pride, knowing that whatever the US hit wouldn't significantly hinder their or Assad's war effort. It was probably just a show to make it seem that Russia won't back down against "American aggression", despite not viewing it as an actual threat to themselves in the slightest.

the fuck France you lil snitch

So how many missiles were fired and how many were shot down or hit target?

I'm fine with personnel not getting blown up in these war games. Especially since both Syrian and Russian soldiers are conscripts. As long as they destroy enemy installations and damage equipment and a statement is made, that's good enough.

Apparently 120 fired, don't know how many got through from a reliable source yet, the coalition will be undertaking their own damage assessment

tbh France probably saved everyone from some pretty major repercussions if a couple Russians got caught in the blast.

France was the only one with a brain in this situation, Theresa may and Donald Trump are as thick as pig shit.

Not entirely sure of figures yet or facts, but from what I've seen only three hits on targets were confirmed, many missiles were intercepted and none of the British missiles fired reached their intended targets. Looks like a bit of a disaster. I was surprised at the amount of missiles hit by SAA SAM's which are old Soviet tech S300's.

This was from Syrian/Russian sources, neither party has anything to gain from telling the truth

Knowing that the last time the US fired on that Syrian airbase with a bunch of just-about-to-be-scrapped Tomahawks and utterly leveled it, even though the Russians boasted that the area is defended by their missile defense systems... I'm going to say that very few to none were shot down. The strike almost undoubtedly accomplished its objective.

Is this so much a problem? I'd rather have the facilities destroyed over deaths, sending a message chemical weapons are not okay. Only problem I can think of right now is they would have just moved all their chemicals.

to be fair, they didn't really destroy the airbase either.

Yeah, not like France just did that of their own accord. Of course US/UK warned Russia as well. Everyone involved knows full well it's a proxy war, neither want to directly escalate that.

100 to 120 were fired Syria claims to have shot down 73 of the missiles but there is zero way to verify.

Something has been off about the attack, it seems like literally nothing of importance was hit at first glance, unless there is some serious damage control and absolutely no gloating Trump regarding what was hit. I'm feeling like Alex Jones was actually correct in so far as this was just to appease the screaming cross-eyed masses.

I wouldn't be surprised if nothing of importance was actually hit. The last time we fired missiles at Syria, the most damage we did was put easily-fixable potholes on their runways. It was just for show, really.

Way I see it is like this, "Listen, we can do a saturation strike on one of your air bases easily. Don't do it again." "Listen , we can strike dozens of targets across your entire country within a moments notice. Don't do it again." Now Russia didn't provide counter-battery fire but it's basically showing Assad(even if the Syrian Govt did gas their citizens, which I still believe was done by fleeing rebels). That the US and allies can EASILY strike deep into their areas including population centers and limit the civilian causalites to almost zero.

Pretty sure Syria was aware of this before the US sent any missiles at it.

I'm not even convinced Syria is a real place.

Just on a side note, I don't know anything about the syrian army, but russian conscripts don't serve outside of state borders nowadays as far as I know. All of the russian soldiers in Syria are actually contract soldiers.

you guys do know that Trump telling them "missiles are on the way!!!!" probably put them on red alert (or what ever equivalent in syria is) obviously their chemical weapon sites would be retaliatory targets too. even if France didn't give this away, trump basically gave up any element of surprise over fucking Twitter.