Putin Is Not Withdrawing From Syria, He’s Just Getting Started
Evidence That Russia Is Deploying New Vehicles, Preparing For New Offensives
16:56 (GMT)
This post has been updated.
Let's get this out of the way -- there is absolutely no evidence that Russia is withdrawing from Syria. In fact, despite the Russian government's claims and the Western media's coverage of the story, evidence suggests that the opposite is true.
Furthermore, this has happened before -- in March of 2016 Russian claimed it was drawing down its Syria presence, evidence suggested that they were in fact doubling down there, and the Russian claims were amplified by an uncritical Western media.
Let's start with today's claims.
CNN is running the headline "Russia 'starts to withdraw' forces from Syria."
Continued: http://www.interpretermag.com/putin-middle-east-pivot-january-6-2017/
Since a few months ago, it was reported that Russia was drawing down only to go on to the major Aleppo offensive, I am skeptical of such stories saying that they are starting to withdraw.
