President Trump Announces Turkish
Unilateral Invasion of Northern Syria…
Conservative Treehouse,
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Sundance
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
10/7/2019 6:33:55 PM
Things are about to get very interesting and very uncomfortable for NATO. President Trump has announced that Turkey is about to launch a unilateral invasion into Northern Syria… There is going to be a scramble amid many geopolitical interests. First, the announcement: [White House] – Today, President Donald J. Trump spoke with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey by telephone. Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria. The United States Armed Forces will not support or be involved in the operation, and United States forces, having defeated the ISIS territorial “Caliphate,” will no longer be in the immediate area.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/7/2019 6:36:31 PM (No. 200549)
FTA:
With the European nations, NATO allies, refusing to take their ISIS fighters back as prisoners, President Trump has made a deal with Erdogan to take them.
In the announcement President Trump has made it clear that any action by Turkey into Syria is unilateral; there will be no assistance by the U.S. on any aspect; including if Turkey is counter-attacked by Russia/Syria or organized Kurdish forces.
Essentially, Trump is leaving Erdogan naked to a myriad of his enemies if Erdogan does cross the border. The U.S. part of the NATO shield is removed.
Think of any other president - past or future - who would be this astute, this forceful, and this four square for the United States of America...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
John C 10/7/2019 6:45:01 PM (No. 200561)
I feel he/we are abandoning the Kurds who have built a strong society. They have been great fighters and strong allies.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
belwhatter 10/7/2019 6:47:41 PM (No. 200566)
Listening to Our Prez speaking about this issue, he says only 50 or so US armed forces are still out there. He wants other nations to step up and help.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Muguy 10/7/2019 7:03:30 PM (No. 200586)
What happens next if or when Erdogan empties out the prisons holding those terrorists?
Why would ANYONE trust the U.S. anymore only to be sold out?
How many silent "regime changes" have failed when we backed out?
Nobama pulled out and the evil ones just went back in, exposing those who had helped us round them up in the first place, at GREAT loss of life
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
galbaccr 10/7/2019 7:20:33 PM (No. 200603)
Thus the message to NATO - "Fish, or cut bait!"
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 10/7/2019 7:31:33 PM (No. 200611)
I guess at the end of the day I'd rather see American boys not getting kilted in the Middle East than see American boys getting killed in the Middle East.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Californian 10/7/2019 7:44:59 PM (No. 200624)
America first means just that. Given a choice between dead Americans and the possibility of dead Kurds, why is this even a question? And what are the Europeans doing about the mess on their border?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
SueDotSue 10/7/2019 7:47:44 PM (No. 200626)
US illegally invaded and illegally occupies one third of Syrian land in the northeast which happens to be resource-rich. Would US allow another country to annex a third of US? For 9 years US has lavishly funded Islamic terrorists in Syria, 'the opposition.' It was billions of US tax dollars and US-provided elite weapons such as TOW anti-tank missiles that enabled Al Qaeda groups to take control of Syrian province Idlib in 2015. To this day, US protects Idlib as a terrorist emirate, Trump doesn't want Syria to rescue millions of its citizens trapped there. As to ISIS, it was backed by Saudi, Qatar, and US. It was another way for US to keep the 'war' going until Assad would step down and be replaced by an Islamic terrorist government--at best Wahhabists from Saudi--in any case, a US puppet. As to the Kurds, they've been good fighters, but unfortunately US only cared about removing Assad and making Syria a US puppet. Assad hasn't offered the Kurds a separate country, but did offer them some of the recognition they sought. The US doesn't own Syria, but acts like it does. The fact is US is a state sponsor of terrorism, has backed terrorists in Syria with many billions of US tax dollars, has given billions in humanitarian aid but only to Syrians in terrorist held areas. Congress loves terrorists, refuses to sign the Stop Arming Terrorists Act.
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Maybe the USA shouldn't be trusted anymore...which means maybe the USA won't be asked to engage in these neverending follies. After Vietnam the consensus was none of these excursions again. And here we are. To what end? After two decades of "nation building", "security training" and arms transfers to our "allies", we still can't leave.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Geoman 10/7/2019 7:48:55 PM (No. 200629)
Maybe because I lived through something similar in my youth, I feel that abandoning the Kurds sounds a lot like the U.S. abandoning the Laotian Hmong in the early '70s. Except for a few thousand who made it to Thailand and/or the States, an entire people, the Hmong, who had been extremely loyal and beneficial to the U.S. were left to face their own bloodbath at the very hands of an enemy they had fought against for a decade at our sides and alone, on our behalf, often with 17th century copies of French flintlocks.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
sw penn 10/7/2019 8:40:04 PM (No. 200657)
Wouldn't it be interesting if,
when the American forces were withdrawn,
they left in such haste
that they "forgot" to take all of their
Stinger missiles and anti-tank weapons?
Global geopolitics is such a fascinating game...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
dirtyjersey 10/7/2019 9:55:00 PM (No. 200672)
America gets involved, everyone complains.
America backs off, everyone complains.
I see no reason for Americans to fight everyone else’s wars. These conflicts never end, and they never result in a lasting peace.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 10/8/2019 12:18:38 AM (No. 200717)
Erdogan is an islamist. He may be planning on reconstituting ISIS.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Italiano 10/8/2019 12:25:42 AM (No. 200724)
I have no idea where I come out on this. On one hand, it's reminiscent of the Democrat Vietnam despicable bug-out. On the other, I just don't know.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 10/8/2019 8:12:03 AM (No. 200915)
Turkey may regret their invasion.
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