Israeli airstrikes hit a Russian weapons depot near the city of Tartus in Syria

Dec 16, 2024 12:53 AM

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Oops, they needed that.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

When you do a kiloton-range explosion... but it's actual kilotons.

2 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

2 years ago | Likes 141 Dislikes 2

you know Israel if instead of wiping out a bunch of children you had been helping ice Russian invaders you wouldnt be as hated

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

This kills the weapon depot.

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

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The explosion registered at a magnitude 3

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Everytime I see such shit I think: doesn’t humanity have bigger problems than fighting each other? Global warming, declining fossile fuels, drinking water, the journey to find out whether fusion reactors will ever help humanity or not, prevent AI from „protecting itself“ by erasing humanity, greedy billionaires, poverty, famine, healthcare.
But some assholes always spending insane amounts of precious resources warmongering

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

God that looks like a atomic bomb

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought I was looking at mount doom.

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2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

underappreciated comment

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Isreal are really going all out to win over the hearts and minds of everyone, aren't they?

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

BIG badda-boom.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is this in the town of Armageddon

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Nope. Tartus is some 200km further North.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

This was an "off-Broadway" production that will soon come to the big city

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Apologies, that question was supposed to be ironic - but thanks for the answer

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

How/why was it supposed to be ironic?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Armageddon is in the book of Revelation as a battle in the course of the world ending. Me asking if it was happening there was supposed to come across as a world weary checking on the progress of the end of the world🫣🫣🫣

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That’s not what irony is.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Shits gonna get out of hand. And finally give the powers that be the excuse to reset the markets, and steal the value.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

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2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

No need to point out it's a Russian depot. In reality Israel is currently striking any military asset, or potential asset no matter how small, not under their direct control. This strike wasn't about denying arms to Russia. It was about denying arms to the new anti Russian/Iranian regime in Syria. Under the thin veil of an excuse that Israel's treaties were with Assad and his end means Syria should be treated as hostile now for some unknown reason. But it's all just self defense, ask them.

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 5

Are we sure that's not a small nuke? Jesus Christ.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

states it's a weapons depot, so this is likely several weapons. a LOT of them. Frankly, I think it's safe to assume that anyone who amasses this many weapons is someone who belongs in a locked psych ward, not in charge of a nation.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Any bomb that is big enough in kilo tons these days can be compared to a small nuke. Excluding radiation

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

And the guys that just stand there warching the pretty explosion while the rest of us have hit the deck.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Genocidists fighting genocidists.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 7

2025 is going to be lit, y’all.

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

Oh dear. Are the Two assholes fighting each other now? Letthemfight.gif

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

Someone check in with the pilot, might be disturbed that they didn't get to murder any Palestinian babies with that bomb...

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

*fallout thumb mushroom cloud comparison image*

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

Luckily for the locals if it isn't a nuke there won't be any harmful EM radiation... unless you're close enough to experience the infra-red. Radiating sound, however...

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ruzzians? They'll prolly be assad, too

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I would like to vote for this as the 2025 gif

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2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not expecting Imgur to be a news site or anything, but isn't this 2 months old? https://www.newarab.com/news/did-israel-target-russias-hmeimim-airbase-syria-strikes

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Nope, yesterday.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thanks for the links @XXXploitMe & @brotrustme. Your usernames didn't inspire confidence, but it all checks out :)

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No, this is from today according to various sources and confirmed by NASA FIRMS. It is, however, not a Russian depot but one of the former SAA. This post has some images and timestamps:
https://x.com/nz_trav/status/1868523390195454370

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I was under the impression Russia hadn't entirely left any of their bases yet, but have no way to confirm this.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They evacuated a lot of man and material from their bases last week, there have been satellite images of transport planes and them withdrawing their S-400 systems. Their bases are the port of Tartus and the airbase near Jableh. They seem to be in talks with HTS to strike a deal that would allow them to keep it. But the West currently makes their recognition of the new Syrian government dependent on them NOT allowing the Russians to keep their bases. Also Russia bombed HTS, so there's that.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Funny how you're the first one to point out that it's not Russian. Speaks to the quality of imgurians foreign policy expertise that they didn't find that part significant.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's smart to be skeptical of the new interim government of Syria and the rebel groups that overthrew Assad's Russian/ Iranian backed regime, but Israel are currently illegally bombing the buffer zone and taking more territory of the illegally occupied Golan Heights. Any "Russian" weapons and munitions now belong to the very anti-Russian/ anti-Iranian Syrians. Israels' attacks are immoral, illegal, and driven by their intent to create "Greater Israel".

2 years ago | Likes 124 Dislikes 15

This. Then a few years from now when the kids of the murdered civilians become terrorists and whoever runs Syria wants their territory back Israel will go "The terrorists hate us because we a Jews".

2 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 6

Well, they will not be terrorists, but freedomfighters. Ofc. for Israel they are terrorists.

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

isreael been commiting ilegal genocides since 1947 , you guys suprised?

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

Frankly was obvious that the most immediate danger to Syria wasn't going to be the rebels (they seem fairly level headed at the moment), it was going to be Israel trying to take advantage and not even offering the rebels the opportunity to back up their words with actions. They're opportunistic bastards after all, but also they have a history of shutting down attempts at establishing democracies in the middle east.

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

Israel just wants some "lebensraum" ... /s

2 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 5

you can drop the /s

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

It's the /s of snark not sarcasm (he said, because editing is not possible it seems)

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This has actually gotten pretty complicated now, a bunch of Druze communities in the area are petitioning to join Israel because they're afraid of how the HST will treat them due to their religion and the their religions requirement to be loyal to the government of the country they're in. Right now, Syria doesn't technically have a government, so they're kinda in limbo.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Syria has a government, foreign dignitaries have been meeting with them in rapid pace, there's an immense amount of work and stabilization but there is a transitional government that announced a 90-day window.

Israel is just fucking everything up with more war crimes, like usual

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

I'm sympathetic to their fear about the future of Syria, but most of the info I've seen of HST and the interim government is that they're *saying* they want to protect minority and religious freedom/ rights, which I hope turns out to be true. In any case, that doesn't make Israel's attack justified or conducive to peace. Quite the opposite, and if things go hot, it'll be the people in the middle who burn the most.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

You're 100% spot on and these attacks are doing two things; firstly and most obviously they are radicalising the population and so strengthening the targets they claim to be going after.

And secondly there are no doubt voices in the newly formed administration who are now saying hey we better throw in our lot with Iran and Russia because we're under attack by a superior force here who are occupying giant chunks of our country.

The tone deafness of the Biden administration has been shocking 1/

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

From start to finish. He got lucky when the last Iranian leader; a stalwart anti westerner, died in a plane crash and was replaced by a moderate who's platform included reapproachment with the west, the reopening of nuclear talks and the easing of sanctions.

Yet he's ignored him completely and made himself look even more senile and corrupt than he already did by backing the genocidal warmonger who fills his parties wallet with campaign donations over the moderate.

Now he's repeating the 2/

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

Process in Syria, Israel will get its eternal war; Russia will get its permanent middle Eastern presence, Iran will remain stable and firmly on a path to nuclear weapons and the losers, well they are the Palestinians, the Lebanese, the average Syrian, the average American and eventually the average human when what little remains of the global rules based order comes fluttering down in tatters and we find ourselves in a war where even the survivors wish they had died. Utter fucking disgrace. 3

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I haven't heard of anyone in Syria's interim government, which is largely formed by various rebel groups that have been fighting against Russian and Iranian backed forces, and composed of people who have lost a lot of loved ones to Russian and Iranian bombardments, suggesting they "throw [their] lot in with Iran and Russia", and I can't imagine anyone in that interim government suggesting that and being taken very seriously, to say the least.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Right now? No.

Give it a few weeks of bombing and Israeli ground invasion.

It's simple geopolitics; if I was a Syrian military advisor right now I'd take one look at the rampaging IOF, another at the 2 Russian frigates off shore, another at Putins prized bases that really are strategically vital to Russia since they can't access the black sea anymore.

And I'd be on the phone to Vlad saying, yup you can keep your bases if you do something about these missiles and planes.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

What about Turkey's 'buffer zone'? And their threats to the Kurds and stated desire to reshape the post WW1 borders? We just going to ignore that and focus on Israel? They want to expand the old Ottoman lands and send the Kurds off as they did the Armenians. And fuck the Russians and their weapons stock piles, Israel is doing us all a favour destroying them so they can't be used against Syrians or Ukrainians.

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 7

This is hasbara. What-about-ism isn't a good faith argument.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

The issues with Turkey and the Kurds isn't the focus of this post, or the comments on this post I'm addressing, which is framing this as Israel vs Russia.

I'm not overly familiar with the Syrian Kurds' wants, but from the limited sources I have read it's more like they want a province within Syria rather than a nation of their own. I might be wrong or the very few articles I've read might be reading a fringe view, IDK. I do know Türkiye wants some kind of buffer because...

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Actually, I'm not gonna continue with that thought until I have more information from Kurdish sources about what they want, both in Syria and Türkiye. All I know for certain is what I said about Israel's attacks not doing anything to attack anything that was ever really likely to end up in Russia's possession unless a lot of pretty wild changes happen WRT the interim government, the various rebel groups, and the citizenry who are not sympathetic to the government that was backing Assad.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

What about it, exactly? How is that relevant to Israel's bullshit, exactly?

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 4

Exactly, literally nobody cares if Turkey annexes parts of Syria and persecute the Kurds. Nobody. Why is that?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I'm willing to bet that plenty of people do. But maybe bringing it up in completely unrelated shit ain't the way to discuss it duder.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

nothing better than watching assholes fight other assholes. Well in this case watching war criminals fight other war criminals

2 years ago | Likes 480 Dislikes 33

Canada vs Poland?

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 10

Russia vs Poland, Finland …..

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Wonder who supplies the Israeli missiles.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Except its going to be the working class civilians that have to take the damage and/or flee to a country where people will hate them for being refugees.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

About 13 years too late for that

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Derp, didn't realize this wasn't recent. lol

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The footage is recent, just the civil war in Syria has been going on since 2011. Millions have already fled when it first kicked off. "flee to a country where people will hate them for being refugees" that specifically is what happened over a decade ago

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Surrounded by civilians though...

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

actually, staying home, having a nice breakfast, reading a good book and petting a dog or cat is better, but I get your point. If only we could put them all together in a locked room with a sharp stick to let them settle their differences without us.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Agreed, but as we all know, the real casualties are always the civilians

2 years ago | Likes 141 Dislikes 4

And the historical sites :(

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Really? While I understand what you mean, I really would much rather the assholes just stop fighting altogether and do other, less invasive and evil assholery.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Every time this happens our weather gets a little worse.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

I would agree if there weren't so many children trapped between these monsters

2 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

[USA studiously avoiding eye contact]

2 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

What we are watching in real time is land being stolen from a people. Parts of Syria are being annexed. And sooner or later that will lead to another war ffs.

2 years ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 10

Sorry to be the one to have to tell you this but war is here. It is -now-. We're in the thick of it.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It already started with Ukraine. Just a matter of time before Russia or North Korea let loose something nuclear.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 21

I'm more concerned about Israel nuking someone. By comparison to Israel, Russia has been very tame

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 9

its just that Israel doesn't have any real opposition that can fight against a professional experienced army. If the West somehow decided to give Hamas the same support as ukraine did, you wouldn't really be able to tell the difference.
russia is bombing/shelling civil structures too after all.
on another note, they all earned each other there. everyone's trying to kill the other. was only a matter of time until someone really went all in.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 8

Gazans were living in their homes and then Israelis came and started murdering them and so you think they deserve genocide for trying to fight back? You are a sick human being

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Russia has been tame?! Are we looking at the same war? Russia literally destroys entire towns/city's. Tortures/kills POW, kid napped 10's of thousands of children and so much more, while constantly threatening nuclear war if we give Ukraine too much assistance.

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

Yeaah no.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Me, Living on an island nation that over half the world fucking hates: (Sweating at rapidly approaching war)

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Taiwan?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 5

England. Why would half the world hate Taiwan???

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

What imperial pound of cocaine makes you think England is a nation? It's more like a state of Great Britain.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think "half" is an underestimation. Just remember, Britain has invaded 173 out of 195 countries in the world!

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Well I originally did say OVER half. I was being generous and hoping some countries cooled off a little. But yeah. If people wanted to bomb England they have a lot of fucking good reasons.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Israel isn't fighting Russia, they're destroying any defensive capabilities the new government has. They've already destroyed the Syrian naval fleet and air force. These aren't Assad's exclusive weapons, they're Syria's. Israel never misses an opportunity to seize land. Right after Assad fell, Israel was quick to move in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Israeli_invasion_of_Syria

2 years ago | Likes 121 Dislikes 12

And the UN is going to force Israel to give it back right? /S

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Israel, being an expansionist genocidal fascist state? Just like the Revisionist Zionist terrorist founders wanted it to be? I'm shocked. Shocked I say.

... Wait, no. Not shocked at all. FUCK ISRAEL. As a nation, it deserves to not exist. On the world stage, it deserves to not exist. It is illegitimate.

2 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 13

This kind of rhetoric fuels the zionists who declare all these atrocities and expansionism as "necessary" in the face of omnipresent threats to their existence. What, you want to forcefully relocate all Israelis?
What Israel needs is a dissolution of the Apartheid system, similar to South Africa (hopefully learning from their successes and mistakes) and a massive cultural and political shift.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 18

Zionist pieces of shit will use ANYTHING to justify their bullshit. Who gives a fuck?

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

Unlike the genocidal terrorists that founded Israel, I don't think a counter-Nakba is right, and nobody is calling for a Nakba of the Israeli's. That's the zionist thing to do. We're not genocidal terrorists. A call for a dissolution of the nation is not a call for a dissolution of the people.

2 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 5

The fall of Syria was almost definitely coordinated in part by Mossad with explicit approval from the west/US. Hezbollah were a major ground support network for Syria, and the disparate forces suddenly alligning to take 3 cities in 3 days doesn't happen without the likes of Mossad providing intelligence. However, as much as Israel are arseholes, having Russian weaponry fall into Al-Queda's hands so close to Europe is pretty worrying. There's no good guys in this war.

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 7

The US is backing al-Qaeda in Syria. There is plenty of criticism to level at Iran and their axis of resistance, but they have been actively fighting al-Qaeda and ISIS across the region. Were it not for Israel, the smart move would have been for the US to forge some sort of deal with Iran to result in more stability and less bloodshed. Unfortunately, stability doesn't serve Israel's interests.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Everything since the Abraham Accords and Oct 7th has been about removing Iran's powerbase, and reinforcing Turkey, Saudi, and Israel as the main powers in the region. Don't forget while all eyes have been on Israel / Palestine / Lebanon / Syria, the Saudis have been systematically wiping out Iran's proxies in Yemen, with less regard for civilian casualties than even Israel have in Gaza.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just like they did with Hamas ousting Fatah and replacing the PLO, Israel will be covertly supporting ISIS / AQ to run riot in Syria, while paying lip service to the SDF. Having recognised terrorist organisations in charge of their neighbours lands rather than "legitimate" govt is the perfect excuse to deny any real moves to statehood and justify military action & landgrabs.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The civilians. So yes, there are good guys.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

well obviously. I mean belligerents.

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