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I DO know what it is. I know what actions I would support.
In your opinion, what do we do?
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Aleppo (Original Post)
Stinky The Clown
Oct 2016
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Warpy
(111,332 posts)1. Not much we can do at this point
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?
The Berlin airlift required planes to land. Can modern planes (and parachutes) accomplish the same?
Igel
(35,350 posts)3. To whom?
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.
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.