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Caught On Tape: Russian Air Force Destroys Dozens Of ISIS Oil Trucks
Earlier today we revisited Islamic State’s most important revenue stream: crude oil.
When US attack planes destroyed 116 ISIS oil trucks on November 16 (allegedly after dropping leaflets warning “innocent” drivers to scatter), it purportedly marked a shift in strategy. "Somehow", the Obama administration had grossly underestimated the proceeds ISIS derives from the illicit oil trade while overestimating the damage US warplanes had inflicted on the group’s oil infrastructure.
Additionally, Bloomberg suggests the Pentagon routinely declined to take out tanker trucks for fear of collateral damage. “None of these guys are ISIS. We don’t feel right vaporizing them, so we have been watching ISIS oil flowing around for a year,” Michael Knights, an Iraq expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told Bloomberg.
There are a couple of things that should jump out at you there. First, it’s not exactly clear why it matters that the administration “underestimated” the amount of revenue ISIS derives from oil. That is, the difference between $100 million and $400 million per year would be quite meaningful if you were talking about a corporation here, but this is a terrorist group. Sure, it matters that they’re making four times more than you thought when it comes to assessing their operational capabilities (the more money you have, the more you can do), but it shouldn’t matter when it comes to formulating a strategy to cripple their ability to produce oil. It’s not like you can say “oh, well they’re only making $100 million per year, so that’s fine.. now if it’s $400 million, that’s where we’ll have to draw the line.”
Second, since when is the US worried about collateral damage when it comes to taking out “terrorists?” As The Intercept laid bare in a series of recent investigative reports, 90% of those killed in drone strikes aren’t the target. It’s not as if the CIA isn’t aware of that statistic each and every time they pull the trigger on an MQ9 Reaper.
So sure, perhaps the US overestimated the effect its airstrikes were having on Islamic State’s oil production capabilities and perhaps The Pentagon was concerned with killing innocent truck drivers, but it could also be that, as Sergei Lavrov suggested earlier this week, the US has until now intentionally avoided hitting ISIS where it hurts in order to keep them in the game and ensure they can still be effective at destabilizing Assad. If you cut off the oil trade, they lose the ability to battle the regime.
In any event, there are other pressing questions about ISIS and oil and we encourage you to read more in “The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking,” but for now, we turn to Russia and The Kremlin’s efforts to dent Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wallet.
According to Russian General Staff spokesman Colonel General Andrey Kartapolov, “around 500 fuel tanker vehicles transporting illegal oil from Syria to Iraq for processing have been destroyed by Russia’s Air Forces.”
“In recent years, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and other extremist groups have organized the operations of the so-called ‘pipeline on wheels’ on the territories they control,” Kartapolov continued, adding that “in just the first few days, [Russian] aviation has destroyed 500 fuel tanker trucks, which greatly reduced illegal oil export capabilities of the militants and, accordingly, their income from oil smuggling.”
Without further ado, the video from the Russian Defense Ministry:
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Looks like you could see this truck formation from the space station.
The US military couldn't find them, even though our satellites can read their license plates?
They left off the plates so the trucks could not be identified, thus preventing US "Intelligence" from finding them!
This^
What better giveaway that our lying government is fostering ISIS?
Follow the money.
Let's face it. Obama mishandled the middle east and now the terrorists are taking their vacations in Paris and are looking forward to visiting NY in the next few months.
Thanks Obama
Let's face it. The Only thing Bath House can handle is a dick.
All of this is by Soros, Khazar State Dept and UN design. Obola is a nightmare but the Bush and Clinton clans (who are best friends) helped destroy the Mid East and murder millions of innocents too.
Obola, the Bushes and Clintons are all See Eye Aye moles. Bushes and Clintons are Rockefeller/CFRs stooges and Obola is a Red Shield puppet.
Never seen so many trucks in one place, very strange.
True its strange, something doesnt add up.
Wow. So many tanker trucks. And so many new Toyota pickups. Funny how a 'terrorist group' can manage to assemble such a collection, isn't it. And I hear they now have their first operational ground attack missiles. Somebody's head is going to roll for this.
As for the Russians, they might be better off with more iron bombs, cheaper.
erdogan probably will be assasinated in the not-to-soon-future...just to much a liability
i give em 6 months max.!
Erdogan's son owns the tanker company shipping ISIS oil.
http://russia-insider.com/en/fight-against-isis-russia-aint-taking-no-pr...
But.......
Those weren't oil trucks Pootie bombed - they were ISIS Condom container trucks used to re-supply the ISIS front line beastie boys....
Hide your sheep......Hide your goats......hide your little girls
Its unfortunate waste of resources though, I wish they handle it on the ground and confiscate oil. But I understand, Russians have enough of it and dont give a fuck.
What were these trucks doing next to each other.. Hit few all go to hell. Dumb assess.
Just watch at 1:00 on
wikipedia on chain reaction.
Chain reactions are one way in which systems which are in thermodynamic non-equilibrium can release energy or increase entropy in order to reach a state of higher entropy. For example, a system may not be able to reach a lower energy state by releasing energy into the environment, because it is hindered or prevented in some way from taking the path that will result in the energy release. If a reaction results in a small energy release making way for more energy releases in an expanding chain, then the system will typically collapse explosively until much or all of the stored energy has been released.
So for 15 years we've had the 'global war on terror' only to find out America was behind ISIS and the butchering of so many innocents. This isn't the America I knew. The blowback from encouraging terrorism will start with the French and then ripple across the entire globe. America's reputation will be in tatters for 50 years. Why would the US resort to such a stupid and callous strategy? Desperation and stupidity. Financial consequences are a certainty. Makes it a real easy decision to move to a less dollar dominated world. Obama is evil and inept. Failure and humiliation. That's what he gets for listening to John McCain.
Please realize that it's not "desperation and stupidity." Rather, it's the absence of consequences. The people ordering remote-control executions are safely protected in heavily-guarded Capitol Hill and various military installations. The only people in danger are you and me in populated public places.
If you're right Rapetrain, that implies the people in DC care only about themselves and power. Ok, you're right.
http://russia-insider.com/en/russian-shock-and-awe-355-isis-targets-dest...
The Bear Awakens: 355 ISIS Targets Destroyed by Russian Air Force in Last 48 HoursHow long will it take Saudi Arabia/the CIA/Turkey to replace all that terrorist hardware?
Nice video of ISIS oil stuff being hammered.
Pepe Escobar
http://russia-insider.com/en/fight-against-isis-russia-aint-taking-no-pr...
In the Fight Against ISIS, Russia Ain't Taking No PrisonersBy blowing a Russian airliner out of the sky ISIS may just have miscalculated
Additionally, Putin debunked - graphically – to the whole G20 the myth of a Washington seriously engaged on the fight against Daesh: “I’ve shown our colleagues photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil.” He was referring to Daesh’s oil smuggling tanker truck fleet, which numbers over 1,000.
Apparently acting on Russian satellite intelligence, the Pentagon then miraculously managed to find tanker truck convoys stretching “beyond the horizon,” smuggling out stolen Syrian oil. And duly bombed 116 trucks. For the first time.
could not help but copy one of the funniest comments on Pepe's article at informationclearinghouse:
"Ali Baba and the 40 thieves, the more Putin exposes them, the more the US and its goons look more like thugs resembling a mafioso clique.
So much for the "free world" and its leader."
This destruction of capital makes me sick. "Illegal oil" sounds just as retarded as "illegal drugs" and "illegal cash."
The only reason Putin isn't worse than the USSA is because he doesn't have as much money. But they are both enemies of freedom and liberty everywhere.
You're so wrong and if you knew anything about history you would know how wrong you are. When the Talmud Jews converted the Khazzars in the 700's and started to mould them and use them as their own personal killing machine, it was the white russians, the original russians, the Ukrainians, who went south to defeat them and drive them out of the Caucasuses area. The Russia population suffered from the same affliction that has been visited on just about every culture in the world, greed and avarice at the hands of an entitled elite who didn't give a damn for anything except their own luxury.
This is what the fight is about. Will the world be dominated and controlled by a few thousand ultra rich oligarchs or will it be a healthy population of people who strive to be the best they can be, and have the opportunity to be it?
The people who lived in 700 are irrelevant. They are dead.
Try opening a business in Russia. Or being a liberty activist. It's even worse than the USSA.
You are correct - there is MUCH red tape bureaucracy in Russia left over from Soviet times. But they are working on that. As for liberty activists, you don't understand Russia or Russians so I will let that pass.
under tpp russia will have to pay BP for all the oil they bombed
Russia's not part of tpp.
What a beautiful sight.
I bet that makes Bandar Bush's blood boil in Riyadh. The Russians should go for Ras Tanura next.
Was this staged?
this is exactly why we, indeed the world needs Moscow and the alpha male residing in the Kremlin to lead in this fight and not Washington and...well...whatever the hell it is that's sitting in the oval office right now.
I admit I wasn't sold on Putin until recently, I mean I followed his career over the last 15 years and did have a certain respect for what he has accomplished, pulling Russia back from the brink and righting the ship as he did. but in my own jaded mind I thought it impossible that any politician, no matter where they were from of what nation they headed up could possibly be any different, or better, then the elitist, public trough feeding, psychopathic parasites that inhabit DC.
I'm not saying the man is god's gift to the world or without faults, but then again no man is. but he is, if nothing else a real stand up, red blooded genuine male, a man's man as it were. that is something we have not had at the helm here for a very, very long time. so long in fact we have forgotten what it's like, the idea of being a man is something that our PC .gov social engineered propaganda machine culture has worked very hard to destroy. they have, needless to say, been very successful at it.
say what you will about him but Putin is better equipped to lead in this time and situation than anybody the western world can muster up by a long mile. so IMHO it's about time to sit DC at the kids table, to be seen and not heard while the real men sort this out.
and I am absolutely fine with Vladimir Putin taking the lead.
But
At this point in time, my friend, Putin IS God's gift to the world.
There is no one else restraining the fiend that is America today.
Lipstick on a pig until Putin bombs Riyadh
And Doha - no one ever thinks about those few rich arrogant little pricks in Qatar, that tiny speck of shit on the Gulf. They have financed as much as the Saudis and have instigated many nasty little tricks across the ME. Their oil fields and gas production facilities should be turned to glass.
Does Toyota make oil trucks? If so they will be getting a big order from the CIA soon.
80,000 Barrels per day capacity and about 200 per truck so at least 400 trucks plus it would take a few days to deliver and do a round trip. Hmmm I think Daesh just lost about half their rolling pipeline.Now for the other half.
"Blowed up real good"
Now, that's collateral damage ?
As an Air Force Pilot, I'm finding myself rooting for the Russian Air Force to Kick some ISIS ASS! Weird...
Now we know why ISIS never attacked anything in the US homeland.
There was a tacit understanding between Obama and Bhagdadi to leave each other aone.
If ISIS did not attack any US installations or bomb NYC, then Obama would not attack ISIS' tanker trucks and prevent them from getting to the market.
Obama also got the benefit of more oil being sold which lowered the price of crude and hurt Russia, which was Obama's only goal.
Meanwhile: Arms war heating up... 'China Orders 24 Super Advanced Su-35 Russian Fighters' http://russia-insider.com/en/china-buys-24-su-35-russia/ri11290
Soon there will be not money for oil. HAHAHA!
Life is good comrades.
Such long lines of easy targets
mabbe only the bullets are enough to take out these from air
Shoot all vehicles of ISIS
ISIS finished
Someone has sharted in their white underpants. It won't be hard to figure out whose unwinding derivatives contracts in the next days. Dead to rights implication in conspiracy to false terrorism events.
Ding, ding. Goodbye motherfuckers.
$400 million for that number of ISIS fighters plus expenses doesnt add up.
My cousin Boris is truck salesman for GAZ in Stavropol. He tell me, Yuri, you come back this year! Is good year for Boris. Break all sales records! Company in Syria lose all transport due to war. Boris replace truck!
The Obama Administration is intentionally and willfully withholding fire on these enemy combatants – which is what they are as logistics/money is what keeps an army alive. The CIA has been protecting their own. Now I am convinced of it.
Turkey is facilitating the trade in ISIS oil. I am sure there were quite a few Turkish owned and registered trucks in there. According to laws of war, that’s trading with the enemy. Those tankers have been fair game since this thing started.
I know that when you have goods come to you in South Iraq from Turkey they either travel around the ISIS territory into Iran or they brave the barbarians and pay their tribute/protection money. ISIS even gives receipts for these so the drivers can show them at ISIS checkpoints.
I wish Russia had a foreign legion. Sign up, fight the barbarians for a year or two, and get a Russian passport and a plot of land out east. That’s the way to do it. You’d have ex-mil Brits and Yanks by the tens of thousands signing up.
And a not empowered feminist wife willing yo have children and a familly. I would sign up too.
You are quite the handsome man.
It's been said imitation is the greatest form of flattery, therefore I'm honored.
Now, go find another Avatar and try something original this time.
I think Turkey is up to its neck in facilitating ISIS oil shipments and powerful Turks in high places are taking their slice.
And it's not just oil shipments going thru Turkey. RT.com ran a video a while back showing that supplies to ISIS are going the other way from Turkey, food, weapons/ammo and all the other stuff an army needs to sustain itself. Some stuff here:
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/britain-s-secret-ties-to-governm...
Has there been an actual declaration of war? I must have missed that...
I just attended a Russian/Crimean birthday party. There was booze there. I might actually be close to drunk. I was the only Merican there. I gave away a couple of silver coins as presents. No one hates silver coins for gifts. Many cheers had to be made and it goes on for hours. It was determined that we do not wish to fight each other. Lots of food too. Russian cuisine is not anything to get excited about. I ate but how about that liquor?
You have to be careful not to insult. But you can bust out a silver 1921 Soviet ruble. I paid a lot of money for that coin and Russians just drop their jaws when they see it. I promise you that I am probably the only ZHer who has that coin in AU. Want to buy it? Four figures. Well, I almost think that should give it back. That is a musuem level coin. I didn't see one in Russia. I have more expensive coins from Russia than the 1921. I will save your monetary history Russia.
I think what I learned was that revenge is coming for the Moscow theatre and Beslan.
Might actually be drunk? Judging by that post - you passed that point 3 shots of Vodka ago. Well done. Now get off the computer, go back to the party, grab another drink and get that coin back.
LMAO. ZH is so blatantly pro-Russia sometimes it's hard not to laugh. Every reference to the US is paraphrased with an "allegedly," the Russian quotes are reprinted without commentary.
Hahahaha..... oh brother.
Yes it is pro-Russia and sometimes it pisses me off too. But, Russia is doing, in short time what we have spent a year trying to do. The French bombed an ISIS command center the day after the Paris attacks, and the U.S. didn't know about it or didn't bother with it?
I am NOT a conspiracy/False-flag person as my down votes show, but something is rotten in D.C. !!!
"The French bombed an ISIS command center the day after the Paris attacks, and the U.S. didn't know about it or didn't bother with it?"
From the reports I've seen, co-ordinates to assist French bombing were supplied to them by the Pantygon (!) Go figure.
Dr Bonzo. Please explain how will you refer to the statements from a well known lier?
Me, I would not even say Allegedly. I would "as usual another potential lie from the Great USA".
US has lost all credibility. The world is laughing and you are complaining about ZH.
Want to know why? Because
1. they are getting the job done.
2. They're a damned sight more honest about their interests, intentions and goals than western leaders.
Haven't you noticed how nothing that comes out of the mouths of the various western leaders makes any sense? All the humanitarian bollocks? No, we and the Russians are in Syria because it suits our strategic interests (energy, oil, gas etc) the Russians are quite forthright about this. Campbell and Obama will moan on about how we have to save the Syrian people from the evils of Assad, meanwhile funding and arming the most depraved murderers to go in and do our dirty work and then bombing the fuck out of their infrastructure.
The fucking irony is that you can trust your "enemy" far more than you can your own leaders.
LMAO. Dr. Bonzo you so blantantly have your head up your ass... ROTFLMAO...
I did NOT bother to read all the posts so pls be kind, but couldn't one A-10 have taken care of those trucks without missing them. See the crater 0:37 ?
What? That was one of our craters?
After the first Iraq "police action" (~1991), the global community imposed oil and trade sanctions on Saddam Hussein, who managed to "somehow" make millions smuggling oil. Often the oil was smuggled as part of the UN's oil for food program -- which only provided food to Saddam and his henchmen.
Years into the failed UN program (late 90s), it was "discovered" (wait for it...) that corrupt UN officials, including UN Secretary General Kofi Annann's son, were making millions of dollars in kickbacks from the UN's smuggled oil to feed Saddam program.
Now somebody ask how the Clinton Foundation managed to amass $3 billion in bribes and kickbacks - I mean "contributions" - much of it from the middle east...
"Additionally, Bloomberg suggests the Pentagon routinely declined to take out tanker trucks for fear of collateral damage. “None of these guys are ISIS. We don’t feel right vaporizing them, so we have been watching ISIS oil flowing around for a year,” Michael Knights, an Iraq expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told Bloomberg."
Really? Does that mean bombing all those weddings with drones or bombing MSF Hospitals was because they are all ISIS?
What kind of drugs do you have to take before uttering such Bullshit without any shame?
Must be because Russian planes are more accurate than US. The US planes just keep missing and hitting the desert, such bad luck.
Pro Russian?
The US created funded trained and armed ISIS, who have since be killing all and sundry, and the US refuses to stop them or harm them, but rather trys to protect them.
Russia comes in and Really bombs ISIS. It aint pro Russia to support their killing of terrorists.
The Russians must have a fearsome new weapon that is capable of destroying ISIS' fuel tankers that were previously invulnerable to the US Air Force's weapons.
It's called The Truth.
Wondering why the U.S. didn't just put out propaganda warnings to the drivers: "Stop driving these trucks or we'll vaporize you." They could've done it "old school" if necessary (dropping leaflets).
How dare Russia attack our Isis allies!
So they bring in the strategic bombers to flatten a facility in one go.
Wonder why the USAF didn't do that long ago. Scratchin' ma haid....
Russia has been giving the US a courtesy notice on when they are bombing ISIS sites for a reason...
On behalf of Israel and their US vassel state I would like to thank the Russians for detecting and destroying those carefully camouflaged oil transportation vehicles. A difficult challenge, well exexcuted, making the world a safer place for democracy.
"Additionally, Bloomberg suggests the Pentagon routinely declined to take out tanker trucks for fear of collateral damage. “None of these guys are ISIS. We don’t feel right vaporizing them, so we have been watching ISIS oil flowing around for a year,” Michael Knights, an Iraq expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told Bloomberg."
That's like saying: "These drivers that are carrying fentanyl and heroin around the US aren't really the dealer's so let's just ignore them all and let them be about their business."
Stupid is as stupid does.
looks as if it may take years to destroy them all with bombs, honestly------
one bomb seems to destroy 0-5
and when they are parked with 100m space around it is totally useless
a10 warthogs could me more efficient
and it is funny that it took so long to find that amount of trucks
Yeah, i would be parking them further apart. I'm also guessing that the US has destroyed only the ones that didn't belong to Halliburton.
It seems like an ineffcient use of airpower for sure. A few strafing runs would have done better. Or napalm.
"and when they are parked with 100m space around it is totally useless"
Why don't Russians use napalm for this kind of targets? It's cheaper and has a wider range.
"and when they are parked with 100m space around it is totally useless"
That was my first thought. I watched it twice looking for all the innocent civilians the US and Nato were protecting.
do we know for certain that it was isis tankers or wasa it assads tankers?or is this a vain attempt to reduce oil supply so the price goes up? because Iran will soon be putting millions of barrels of oil on the market soon making the oversupply worse, and there is already a flleet of oil tankers full at sea with nowhere for it to go see RTs report
I$I$ like its slut mother Al CIAduh before it, the last pathetic whelps of the filthy blood-spattered Saudi Mercan petroscrip IOU dollah.
Remember it was the Russians who won WW2 despite the fact that the Anglozionazi Empire of Chao$ brainwashed its sheeple into "believing" otherwise.
Onward ever faster to jaded helm and the inevitable collapse of out empire of hubri$!
A little history, Mother Russia was supplied extensively by the USA during WWII and most likely would have fallen to the Nazi's without US supply and support.
That is fact and even Russia acknowledges this.
PS - the USA won WWII - that is also fact.
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The US and especially the Jewish bankers supported the communists from the beginning, long before WW2. The US helped Russia build their industrial economy, including military industries. The US assisted Russia with nuclear weapons, including their capability to MIRV their warheads. Google Anthony C. Sutton who is an expert on this.
So we can see a long history of bankers building up both sides in any conflict, profiting from this, then profiting from the resultant clashes through increased arms sales.
You know when the US says they are concerned about collateral damage something's fishy. Follow the money by following the tanker trucks and the flow of the oil. The purchasers who end up with this discounted oil at their refineries are not going to be happy losing their windfall profits.
Mr. Boompi
Follow the money
Exactly
Does that mean they wont be able to buy more guns and bombs from the MIC and hitlery clit fuck will lose her commissions.
Doesn't sound good for the US economy
These ISIS dudes flunked warfare 101,why don't they just put signs on the top saying FILLED WITH CRUDE BOMB HERE!.
Look like ducks in a row.
Fabulous tactics.
Suppose you are ISIS why would you park all your supply trucks together for easy bombing?
Something is very fishy with the US Russia suddenly both bombing massed parked trucks.
Why would ISIS mass transport trucks?
I think both Russia and the US are being played by Israelis.
Looks like a fraud to me, BS meter pegged.
Agit-prop war narrative?
Yeah, whoopity fuck... Note the ordnance isn't even hitting where the crosshairs are. Why?:
Russia Is Using Old, Dumb Bombs
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/02/russia-is-using-old-dum...
A-10 Warthog Destroys 116 Fuel Trucks In Syria Near Abu Kamal, Syria, on Nov. 15, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ37y0yeSgc
Additionally, Bloomberg suggests the Pentagon routinely declined to take out tanker trucks for fear of collateral damage. “None of these guys are ISIS. We don’t feel right vaporizing them, so we have been watching ISIS oil flowing around for a year,” Michael Knights, an Iraq expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told Bloomberg.
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Pity they didn't have that guy with them in Kunduz.....