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up the next line of defensive positions, with ATGM strikes and artillery fire all throughout the following days, and pictures rolling in of destroyed regime armor, and defensive strongpoints. At the end of the day, this was a single battle, and to be blunt: it was insignificant.
The ghanima won from fleeing regime troops will feed the next round of violence, and the morale boost from grasping *some* victory from the string of defeats is vital to a group of fighters who find themselves in a slowly tightening noose. But it doesn't change the overall force
structure, nor eventual outcome of a serious Idlib offensive. What it *does* show is that over 8 years of war, the opposition has continued to mature and coalesce into a light infantry combined arms force that's capable of punching way above their weight when it has time to
organize, while the regime has made almost no improvement at retention of territory it recaptures, remains an abysmally incompetent force on defense, and only manages to drag itself forward through incomprehensible levels of firepower and a complete disregard for any civilian
loss of life, absolute destruction of infrastructure, contented to plant the flag in a pile of ash, rubble, bones, and the hopes of dreams of school children & old women, look utter misery and destruction in the face, and call that victory It's a hollow "victory" the regime wins
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