I knew that handsome fellow was someone familiar ! <| sep |> As cool as they are you have to wonder about sustainability , reliability , and timely production . I ' m pretty sure we don ' t yet know if it will work as advertised . The potential firepower is awesome though . I thought I ' d read that the Excalibur won ' t work . Be nice if it does . <| sep |> Dis help . Trailers walk . <| sep |> I often think about that . Mine would be Since I ' ve Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin . I would gladly die listening to that . <| sep |> The US got directly involved against IS with airstrikes after the attack on the Yazidi ' s at Sinjar in 2014 , at when they were pretty much at their strongest . They assisted in breaking down the ongoing offensives against the kurds in both countries and the Iraqi gov , destroying most of the capacity for strategic offensive action in the process . Yes ISIS was able to continue expanding and fighting after the US got involved , but that would have been the case no matter who we were discussing . Airstrikes can only do so much on their own without ground forces to follow up . Now that such forces are available in the form of the SDF and Iraqi militaryPershmerga , ISIS has continually being losing ground on these fronts , since before the Russian intervention . The only major losses suffered by at the hands of the regimeRussians has been Palmyra , which though a worthy achievement in its own right , is only one city retaken . The Russians have for the most part focused on propping up the regime politically and reforming its military capacities for the fight against the rebels , which is more politically and strategically important for Assad . So yes , ISIS is the verge of collapse , but not thanks to the Russians , who have done far less than the actors allied to and supported by the US .