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Trump’s pull-out from Syria: Why now? WHAT NOW?

10/15/2019

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The internet is abuzz with opinion on Trump’s pull-out from Syria, particularly at this crucial moment when Turkey is threatening the lives of thousands of Kurds, who fought with the US to defeat ISIS. Even some of Trump’s staunchest supporters, for example, some Breitbart forum visitors, are calling Trump a traitor.
 
The question in most people’s minds around the world is: why did Tump do it and why now? Yes, of course, he had sort of promised to get the US out of Syria and other quagmires, notably Afghanistan, but he stayed in for more than half his first term. Many had given up, believing he would never leave. But now that the Kurds, US former allies, need the US the most, poof!, they are gone and the dreaded Turks are rushing in to fill the vacuum. Meanwhile, Trump and Congress are playing the sanctions game, trying to do with financial measures what normally done with guns. And Erdoğan is thumbing his nose at the US, which he sees as a bevy of weaklings.
 
Stephen Lendman writes:
 
“On Monday, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said government troops are preparing ‘to confront Turkish aggression on Syrian territory,’ adding:
 
‘Turkish forces committed massacres against locals, occupied some areas, and destroyed infrastructure.’
 
“ ‘The Turkish regime forces (and ‘mercenary terrorists’) intensified aerial and artillery bombardment on villages and towns in Hasaka and Raqqa provinces in framework of their aggression on Syrian territory…occupying several towns and villages.’ ”
 
“On Sunday, SANA cited local sources, saying Turkish terror-bombing killed ‘dozens of people, including foreign journalists,’ adding:
 
“ ‘A video surfaced showing tens of bodies and injured people, most of them having been mutilated and burned.’ ”
 
One possible motive for a crafty politician like Trump, as well as his advisers and cronies on the Hill, might be to deliberately pull out at this crucial juncture to conjure up a Turkish-made crisis intended to make the world, especially the Middle East, long for the “good old days” of US occupation. A possible manipulated scenario might find, for example, the Kurds crying for the US to come back and save them.
 
If that was the motivation behind the untimely pull-out, then it was an egregious error. In fact, the upshot of the American treachery toward the Kurds was that, under the influence of Russian mediation, the Kurds are now finally doing what they should have done from the get go, namely, ally with Assad and Russia and help them apply pressure to force out the US and then Turkey, both of whom were in Syria as illegal trespassers.
 
But late is better than never, and that is indeed what the Kurds now see themselves obliged to do – or die.
 
And the irony of it is that now, for the first time, the Kurds are seeing Russia and Syria doing what for years they had hoped in vain that the US would do to protect them.
 
Indeed, the Russian site avia.pro reports [our translation]:
 
“An attempt by the Turkish Air Force to strike the headquarters of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Manbij ended in complete failure for the crews of Turkish F-16 fighters. The reason for this was the appearance in the sky of Russian Su-35 fighters, which intercepted Turkish combat aircraft, preventing the latter from completing their missions.
 
“At the moment, it remains unknown whether the Turkish Air Force fighters were in Syrian airspace, or were flying inside Turkish airspace; however, this indicates that Russian combat aircraft are ready to confront Turkey, which intends not only to invade the territory of the Arab republic, but is also capable of occupying it.”
 
This was happening even as the same site was reporting elsewhere that Erdogan had claimed that the Turkish incursion into northern Syria was done with Russia’s blessing – an obvious lie. This statement was apparently made to create the impression that Russia had betrayed Assad. But the fact of Russia’s interception of a Turkish fighter jet speaks louder than Erdoğan’s sleazy words.
 
For those who were worried about the fate of the Kurds, there is now hope, from people who would have been willing to help them from the very outset. Yet, despite this overwhelming proof of Russia’s wisdom and power, we cannot expect the political class in the US to ever stop slandering and sanctioning the Russians, no matter what they do.
 
And yet, the Russians have gotten used to this abuse. It will run off them like water off a duck’s back and they will just keep trucking along as before, fully confident, aware of what they are doing and where they are headed. Even as the US keeps stumbling along with no clear plan for the future and no moral anchor, like a goofy cat chasing its tail.
3 Comments
Edward Louis Welch link
10/15/2019 07:11:17 pm

And that's the Truth. Should I move to Mexico, Vince?

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John McClain
10/16/2019 04:55:08 am

From this Marine's perspective, I've been of the opinion, Mr. Trump walked into the oval office to find it "occupied territory" doubtlessly, bugged, certainly a place he was read his rights, his authority, and who he had to listen to, to stay alive.
I've been watching our side's acts, and we've lost control of the actual territory we held, as we never actually "controlled" our "foreign fighters", they were ISIS, or Al Quaida, or just jihadists.
Having drawn down, been surrounded by a "Syria, regrouping, coming back together with strong bonds, it was clear we couldn't stay, not merely to defend those we used.
I am of the opinion, Mr. Trump took this opportunity, while enormous egg all over the face of his enemies, the idiocy of the Dems, in Our House of Representatives, clearly he spoke to Mr. Putin, because the exchange in power went seamlessly, at least as I saw it, and I don't believe Mr. Erdogan believed the U.S. was going to actually do what we said.
As soon as a war is declared "accomplished" by those who actually control the strategic turf, it immediately changes the paradigm, either the loss is accepted, a massacre forced on the winning side, or the losing must completely change the circumstances in his favor.
With players such as U.S. state, statements, unaccompanied by exact, truthful action, mean nothing, or the intent to mislead. Our forces actually walked the line with the incoming Russian forces, providing information of soft spots, and the like, I'm sure as a retired Marine can be, our forces, our Soldiers and Marines, were happy to be done with an ugly assignment, no one had any moral investment in.
I would conclude, we've seen "the first face card, played by the President", since he was overridden regarding his intended "pull-out, almost three years ago.
He is a business professional trader, he know how to "strike while the iron's hot", and despite the press, government led information deluge of lies, all the vyers for Dems, are lunatics, and the right side of the government party, can't run against "their" quote unquote President, so they too, are trying to discredit Mr, Trump, with ever less success. I expect to see our President move swiftly, carefully, and nail down one promise after another, as the U.S. attorney General, indicts the primaries in the conspiracy of State, to install HRC.
One can only run with lies while the "lay of the land, appears to support one's narrative". Only fools, and those still intent on the failed game, can try to continue the idiocy, and they sound ever more strident, insane, as they lose ever more control, the narrative following the actual events that occur on the ground.
Granted, I have always believed America could be honorable, worthy, an good neighbor, but never without our, "We, The People" getting ourselves back in charge of our education, our laws, and taking ownership of our Constitution, as only that gives "We, The People" the power of law over our government.
The key is, the majority, even slim, must believe in it, and their rightful power. WE must not allow ourselves be bought off.
Semper Fidelis,
John McClain
GySgt, USMC, ret.
Vanceboro, NC, USA

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John M. Stassi
10/16/2019 12:20:18 pm

Nothing in this world is certain except death, taxes, and America betraying the Kurds. The U.S. has now betrayed the Kurds a minimum of eight times over the past 100 years.

The reasons for this are straightforward. The Kurds are a perfect tool for U.S. foreign policy.

We can arm the Kurds in whichever of the several countries that they live in that is currently our enemy, whether to make trouble for that country’s government or to accomplish various other objectives.

On the other hand, we don’t want the Kurds we’re utilizing to ever get too powerful. If that happened, the other Kurds — i.e., the ones living just across the border in whichever of these countries that are currently our allies — might get ideas about freedom and independence.

SOURCE:
The U.S. is now betraying the Kurds for the eighth time
by Jon Schwarz, The Intercept, October 7 2019,
https://interc.pt/2ANnh0W

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