background: > iran provided motivated skilled militias (hezbollah),russia provided air support and armor > the assadists had local support as result of isis and many rebels being crazy beheaders (fight to save your people and all that) > infigthing and divisions made the rebels unable to capitalize on their strenghts > the rebels were cornered up north > in the south the more moderate rebels and druuze tribals made deals with assad to allow gov forces to administer the towns,but they got to keep their small arms,as result while not having territory,the south rebels were constantly waging guerilla,supressed but not surrendered changes in the low intensity period: > isis collapsed taking away a big motivator for the assadists > the rebels in north finally got their shit together and organized in clear commands and groups,wich agreed to not shoot each other for a while,hts (islamic more self restrained beheaders),sna (turk puppet used to hold kurds back),sdf (kurds) > al-jolani realizes he needs to get his shit together so he reforms the al-nusra (alqaeda offshot) into a actual functional state and forces to not engage into mass conversions or mass killings (because thats wasting bullets and manpower) > economy went to shit,as result assad had to demobilized 90% of its soldiers > the hts along the sna begin to prepare for a offensive to take the country side around aleppo happening: > al-jolani attacks,and the unmotivated ndf (national defense forces,aka assad militias) just didnt give a fuck about assad,and just let them pass,supressed rebels joined jolani forces as they passed,making a snowball effect,hours later aleppo fell > this process of ndf not giving a fuck,and saa (proper syria army) being demoralized and outnumbered repeats for several towns > the other rebel groups realized assad forces just dont care anymore and rise up at the same time everywhere > in the south the supressed rebels go full ''red dawn'' and in take over in a day
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