Global SITREP A8-18: Regional Warfare

SpaceX Falcon rocket

Russia's new Su-57 in Syria

Update 23 February 2018:  Two items to make note of in this update, the first related to the SITREP title, the other is about the near future.

Russia has deployed into Hmeimim airbase two Su-57 "stealth" aircraft. (Image directly above). Why? To test the aircraft against the American F-22 Raptor and Israel's F-35I Adir as well as our ability to detect it. It is so new that it has not yet garnered a flashy F-series NATO Name, and just by looking at photographs and video it does not appear to be all that "stealthy." It looks like a dressed up Su-27 Flanker. We'll see.

The image at top is the Space-X Falcon rocket. Yesterday it was to quietly and without fanfare launch the first of what will soon be a 12,000-strong fleet of "Starlink" spacecraft which are to bring high-speed internet like a blanket over the entire surface of our blue marble. I'm sure you all recognize the prophetic implications of such a Starlink fleet of spacecraft. Just another indicator of the global systems being put into place. 

Screen-shot of the US video showing Russian T-72 just prior to its destruction by CJTF-OIR aircraft on Satuday, 10 February 2018.

17 February 2018: Disturbing news this morning from both US and Kurdish media sources: Turkish troops have used rockets with chemical warheads. These Turkish chemical weapon injured at least six civilians, two critically, in the ongoing fighting around Arenda village in the Shea district of Afrin, Syria. The rockets warhead chemical agent has been specified as chlorine gas. Seven individuals were named in the Kurdish report (updated @ 0900 17 FEB EST) and were taken to Afrin central hospital. ZeroHedge has a near identical report posted simultaneously with the Kurdistan24 report. 

The proliferation of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government, Jihadist rebels, and now Turkey in Syria is something which cannot be undone. it Their use is a gateway the size of Texas to even more powerful WMD and to increased foreign military intervention, such as France has promised. Additional foreign intervention is precisely what U.S. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster called for this morning at the ongoing security conference in Munich, Germany. Again, chemical weapons use, specifically in northwestern Syria, is something Eschatology Today has consistently made note of in conjunction with Isaiah 17 and Jeremiah 49:23-27.

Turkey also made the news this week (Thursday) in a report by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT). IPT reported that Israel's internal security agency, Shin Bet, has exposed the depth of Turkish support for HAMAS military wing in Gaza. Shin Bet made two arrests, a Turkish national and an Israeli-Arab, who are accused of working for HAMAS in Turkey. Shin Bet public these arrests on Monday 12 FEB. The Shin Bet surveillance discovered a Turkish company known as SADAT, whose designed purpose it is to financially support and provide war materiel to HAMAS. There is no way the Turkish government would be unware of this activity. Details at the embedded link. 

Israel has been battling HAMAS terror tunnels. Next they may be dealing with HAMAS drones acquired through Turkish arms merchants. 

16 February 2018: Eschatology Today assesses that the "Battle of al-Tabiyeh" near Dier-Ez-Zor on February 7, 2018 marks an entirely new phase of the war in Syria. The superpowers and major powers' military forces on both sides of this conflict are now in direct conflict with each other as these SITREPs have been forecasting for some time now based upon Bible prophecy. And other countries, such as France, are about to join in. 

The anonymously reported number of Russian ChVK Wagner merc casualties in the Battle of al-Tabiyeh has now risen to 300. It has been roughly stated as 200 KIA and 100 critically injured. Of the 100 wounded now medevaced back to central military hospital in Khimki, Russia, a full third of them may yet succumb to their wounds raising the overall KIA count resultant from that battle. Russia continues to hide and outright deny the fact that Russian combat troops, mercs or not, are more deeply involved in this war than they will publicly acknowledge. The Russian denials ring very hollow. 

Wounded troops themselves report that there were two 275-man battle formations of ChVK Wagner troops engaged in that battle. That is the upper-level number of OPFOR combatants reported officially by THE US-led CJTF-OIR. This leads to the stunning possibility that there may not have been any Syrian or Iranian Shi'a militias present in the battle, or put another way, the Battle of al-Tabiyeh may have been a direct Russia vs CJTF-OIR engagement.

A major effort in reinforcing on both sides in terms of the number of troops and their lethality is underway. It is a given that larger and more lethal engagements are a certainty. Isaiah 17, Jeremiah 49:23-27.