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Aleppo (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Oct 2016 OP
Not much we can do at this point Warpy Oct 2016 #1
Is there a way to drop supplies? JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2016 #2
To whom? Igel Oct 2016 #3
Same questions for truck convoys. JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2016 #4

Warpy

(111,332 posts)
1. Not much we can do at this point
Sat Oct 1, 2016, 09:08 AM
Oct 2016

except try to take advantage of any cease fire to get humanitarian supplies to the people who are still trapped there, most of them women and children. Everything else plays into Putin's hands.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,362 posts)
2. Is there a way to drop supplies?
Sat Oct 1, 2016, 09:35 AM
Oct 2016

The Berlin airlift required planes to land. Can modern planes (and parachutes) accomplish the same?

Igel

(35,350 posts)
3. To whom?
Sat Oct 1, 2016, 10:20 AM
Oct 2016

To the Islamist fighters that are there?

Or to the families that decided to stay?

Can you stop the first from getting the food and supplies?

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,362 posts)
4. Same questions for truck convoys.
Sat Oct 1, 2016, 05:23 PM
Oct 2016

I guess, send enough for families and fighters. We don't exactly know which fighters are on "our side" (whatever that is), so feed them all.

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