Turkey has again threatened to strike Syria.
Many people are focused on the Russian-Ukrainian war and the World Cup, but few people pay attention to the fact that Turkey is going to beat Syria again.
According to CCTV reports, on November 27, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey has the right to take various measures at home and abroad to maintain its own security.
Some analysts have pointed out that the territory pointed out by Turkey is Syria.
The melon-eating masses have lost count of the first direct use of force by Turkey against Syria, after Turkish air strikes on northern Syria had already begun.
And the facts are even more bloody, over the past ten years, the countries involved in beating Syria, in addition to Turkey, are the United States, Russia, Great Britain, France, Iran, Israel ....
What kind of country is Syria, with such "charm", which can attract aircraft, artillery and missiles from all countries to bend their waists and yearn for it?
Syria is ancient.
Syria is ancient, the initial stage of human civilization, here is the ancient Egyptian empire to expand its sphere of influence to the north, and then the ancient Jews, the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian kingdom, also fought in this land.
In the 5th century BC, the Persians crossed Syria and attacked ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, and in the 4th century BC, the first emperor of Europe, Alexander the Great, from ancient Greece, crossed Syria to begin the conquest of the Persian Empire, and finally established the world's first Alexander Empire across Asia, Europe and Africa.
After the rise of Rome, Syria was the eastern province of Rome, and then became the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire or the Byzantine Empire, and after the rise of the Arabs, it was conquered by the Arab Empire, and during the Umayyad period, the capital of Syria, Damascus, once became the capital of the Arab Empire, and the Damascus knife was also the world-famous cold weapon.
Map of the Arab Empire
In the days of the Crusades, there were Western knights with crosses painted on the Prancing Horse.
After the rise of the Mongols, it was the final conquest of the Third Western Expedition of the Mongols.
At the end of the 14th century, after the Turks established the Ottoman Empire, they destroyed the Mamluk dynasty, and Syria became an Ottoman province.
Syria is young.
During World War I, Turkey became a member of Germany's Allies and became a defeated country, Turkey was dismembered, and the Arabs in Syria and other places had hoped for independence, but in the end Syria became a trust area of the victorious power—in fact, a French colony.
During World War II, when mainland France was occupied by Germany, de Gaulle rebelled under the banner of Free France, and only reluctantly recognized Syria's independence in order to win the support of the colonies.
Charles de Gaulle, leader of Free France during World War II
However, after independence, Syria was not at rest, and domestic coups were frequent. The foreign war with Israel continued to be lost, until the Arab Socialist Baath Party, which was of the same origin as Saddam Hussein in Iraq, came to power, the situation in Syria gradually stabilized, but the war against Israel was still not won.
In the 70s of the 20th century, after the Assad family's Hafez completely took power, Syria achieved relatively long-term stability. The current president, Bashar al-Assad, is the second generation of the Assad family in power and the second son of former Syrian President Hafez.
So Syria is very young.
The Assad family, which has been known for 50 years, has been known to the Assad family
Weak country and civil strife become a punching bag for a big country?
But such an old and young country has become a punching bag for a big country. In particular, since 2010, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom and France, one of the five permanent members of the United Nations, have beaten Syria. Neighboring powers Turkey, Iran and Israel also participated in the fighting.
In Syria in 2011, because of the color revolutions in the Middle East and the continuous civil strife, Westerners thought that the opportunity to overthrow the Assad regime, which has always been pro-Soviet and pro-Russian, came out, so the Syrian opposition came out, the United States, France, Britain, Germany paid for the gun, Turkey also actively participated in it, forming a huge, diverse and factional opposition armed forces.
Syrian civil war
Iran shot. The Syrian civil war is raging, seeing the allies gradually weakened, Iran took the lead, after all, the Assad regime and Iran belong to the Shiite side, have the same friendship, so Iran paid for the gun, and the Syrian government army fought against the opposition forces, although the results were fruitful, but only to keep the Assad regime, and failed to turn the tide of the war.
Russia shot. In 2015, at the joint request of Syria and Iran, Russia appeared, under the favorable conditions of obtaining long-term free use of air and naval bases, Putin sent Russia's sea, land, air and space elites to the Syrian battlefield, in the name of "anti-terrorism", the opposition armed forces were killed, at that time Russia even sent the only aircraft carrier, the momentum can be described as huge, although Russia lost a lot of losses, and even lost a lieutenant general, but finally turned the tide of the Syrian war and let the Syrian government army take the initiative.
The end of the US military. "I him," was then US President Donald Trump's boast after his strike on Syria, and in April 2017, when the Syrian opposition was passive and lost its cities one after another, the Americans fired 60 Tomahawk missiles at Syria under the pretext of the Syrian army's use of "chemical weapons".
The first battle of the current President Joe Biden in office was to order air strikes on targets in Syria.
The US Navy launches Tomahawk missiles
Britain and France shot. At the same time as the end of the US military, Britain and France also announced a strike on Syria, the same reason as the United States, the so-called Syrian government forces used "chemical weapons". The British and French armies were also similar to the American approach, and their lives were too "noble", so their attacks were all missile long-range strikes.
After the United States, Russia, Britain and France, and four permanent members of the UN Security Council, Israel came to an end.
Israel is Syria's feud, Syria is directly involved in 4 of the five Middle East wars against Israel, and from the beginning of the hard to the present, it has never been soft on Israel, and it is the country that has participated in the most wars against Israel among Arab countries.
For a period of time after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, Israel did not participate in the war, but seeing that the Syrian opposition was becoming more and more useless, Britain, France and the United States were only fighting, and Iran, which claimed to "erase Israel on the earth", gradually grew larger in Syria, so Israel took action, regularly and uninterruptedly bombed Syria, and even the latest imported American-made F35 fighters were used.
Sure enough, it is the rhythm of "taking advantage of your illness to kill you".
Israel strikes Syrian F35s
And the last one is Turkey, the most fierce shot, and everyone fights.
Turkey is the biggest direct supporter behind the Syrian opposition. It can also be regarded as the "ally" of many Syrian opposition forces, but the Syrian opposition faction is too complex, so complex that there are also Turkey's uneven forces, such as the Syrian Kurdish armed forces that take advantage of the chaos, although they are supported by the Americans, but Turkey's sworn opponent, because Iraq, Syria and the Kurds in Turkey are bent on uniting and establishing a "Kurdistan" in the Middle East. This, of course, cannot be tolerated by Turkey.
So in 2019, after an unpleasant fight with the United States, Turkey quickly sent troops to deal a severe blow to the Kurds in Syria, although the Kurds used the weapons of US aid and also overturned a lot of Turkish German-made tanks, but they were still beaten enough by Turkey, so the Kurds angrily accused the United States of being ungrateful.
Panther tank of the Turkish Army
Entering Syria to fight the Kurds is not finished. In 2020, the Syrian government army was gaining momentum with the help of Russia and Iran, while the Turkish-backed opposition forces lost their armor, and finally Turkey had to play a rogue role in drawing a safe zone in Syria's territory near Turkey, and using Turkish troops to protect these remnants of the Syrian opposition. Of course, this caused dissatisfaction among the Syrian government forces, and as a result, the Russian-Syrian coalition clashed with Turkey and the Syrian opposition, and Turkey suffered a lot of losses.
Turkey is angry and corrupted, but of course it cannot attack the Russian army, so the Turkish army launched a fierce blow on the Syrian government army, which choked the Syrian government army enough.
That is to say, whether it is the Syrian government army or the Kurdish armed forces, Turkey fights anyone.
Nowadays, in Syria, the long-term stationing of the United States, Russian and Turkish troops is the norm, and it is a well-known fact that there are Iranian troops in Syria, and even the Allah party armed forces in Lebanon have established a stronghold in Syria, while it is common for Israel to hit Syria with aircraft and missiles on weekdays.
The US military fought Syria in order to show the status of the international boss and get a piece of the chaotic Middle East.
Britain and France fought Syria to show that they are good brothers of the Americans.
Russia's fight in Syria is to understand pressure and strategic interests, and its participation in the Syrian war once diverted the world's attention from Russia's annexation of Crimea, and there are free air and naval bases to use.
Iran is fighting Syria in order to expand Shiite territory.
Israel fought Syria so that Syria would never be strong again.
Turkey fought Syria to protect the younger brother, fight the Kurds, and restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire.
Anyway, everyone has a reason to fight Syria.
But what's wrong with Syria? If there is any mistake, it is an immutable truth: backwardness is beating.