They withdrew the 28 military personnel from the Turkish-Syria 30 mile border zone.
If troops are sent anywhere it's because of issues of national security. America has an issue with Iran, not Turkey.
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If you can't see that those are two disconnected issues glued together - status of original decision to deploy and consequences of deal with Erdogan that involved withdrawal - then that is another reason to dismiss all your self-proclaimed bollux about your intellect and ability to look behind the headlines. As always you just choose the headlines than pander to your boy Trump.
(Yes, 'glued' was deliberate, Gluey! :biggrin:)
I take it all back. They had oil all along and Donny's secured it....who knew?
https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-soldiers-home
He changed his mind after engaging his brain. You should try it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZOUntMtlfo
Is this the same Senator Linsey Graham who is (or was) a close friend of Donald Trump, yet described him over the weekend as 'an equal opportunities abuser'?
https://www.axios.com/graham-lindsey...51b250f92.html
His brain was clearly engaged fully when he said that. You should try it!
Troops move from north to east is perhaps tactical
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-G...n-Oil-Gas.html.
The United States will keep hold of oil and gas fields in eastern Syria and the Al Tanf base in the south under the plan to withdraw troops from the country, the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Monday.
According to the Pentagon’s current withdrawal plans, the U.S. will maintain control over the Al Tanf military base near the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border, including by keeping a special forces unit to help the Syrian opposition with intelligence support, Asharq Al-Awsat says.
Another point of the plans for withdrawal includes retaining contractors from private military firms near oil wells and gas plants in the region east of the Euphrates river, which holds 90 percent of Syria’s oil. Under the plan, the U.S. would also move military bases closer to oil wells near the Iraqi border to prevent them from falling into Assad’s hands before any agreements are reached.
The current game plan of the U.S. is to relocate the 1,000 troops from Syria to western Iraq, U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said on Saturday, confirming that some forces will remain at the Al Tanf garrison in the south.
“Things could change between now and whenever we complete the withdrawal. But that’s the game plan right now,” Esper said.Related: The Oil Rig Count Collapse Continues
The Kurdish SDF forces control most of Syria’s oil. Pre-war, Syria was producing 387,000 barrels of oil per day, 140,000 barrels per day which were exported.
On Friday, President Donald Trump claimed that the U.S. had taken control of the oil in the Middle East, tweeting that “The U.S. has secured the Oil, & the ISIS Fighters are double secured by Kurds & Turkey.”
The President did not elaborate on what he meant by “securing the oil,” but speculations about the President’s statement assume he is referring to US special forces that have been—and will continue to be—in control of oil and gas fields in Deir Ezzor.
By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com
But as W-B has told us 'US forces were never authorised by Congress to be in Syria' so surely none of that can be true?
Several posters (The Squad and guests) have spent weeks telling us that Donald Trump is a peace-loving champion of non-intervention. He's pulling US troops out of Syria to honour his election pledge. But no - like a died-in-the-wool globalist - he is shuffling his military assets around, playing low politics with lives and security (and selling out the Kurds) and using US special forces to ensure he is controlling the oil!
I'm shocked!
I have to be fair it makes sense to me. If the oil fields are attacked the cost impact is huge to everyone, the price impact of oil in particular hits the vulnerable .
If only this region could live to love each other in harmony, it wouldn't need Russian, British or USA babysitters.
Neocon Don is taking care of his terrorist friends again.
Trump approves $4.5 million in aid to ‘White Helmets’ in Syria: https://www.rt.com/news/471560-trump...white-helmets/
Is it starting to unravel? The people involved are now beginning to talk.
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/20...y-trump-054259
The 50-year veteran of government service systematically dismantled Trump’s repeated denials that he sought to leverage American military and diplomatic might to coerce an ally into a coordinated campaign to damage his potential 2020 rival. Trump himself and his congressional allies did not attempt on Tuesday to dispute the substance of Taylor’s claims, which were based on copious notes. Instead, the White House attacked Taylor personally, saying he was part of a band of “radical unelected bureaucrats waging war on the Constitution.”
You mean just like it all unraveled with all the Steele & Mueller talk???
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Bill Taylor statement was predictably & selectively leaked by Democrats from their secret impeachment bunker.<br><br>It underscores the illegitimacy of their whole process, all done behind closed doors.<br><br>This is double and triple hearsay.<br><br>Once again, there was no quid pro quo.</p>— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimMurtaugh/status/1186773396786429952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Keep your eye of the ball Bob, we've already had three years of endless diversions that lead absolutely nowhere. Surely you've worked out the end game by now? :sherlock:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joh...idence-sources
President Trump has found a solution to the Syrian crisis, so I suppose we should congratulate him on succeeding where many others have failed during the past 11 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEp3dxfOJyY
President Donald Trump has falsely claimed to have found a 'solution' to the Syrian crisis that he recently created/exacerbated, so I suppose we should condemn him once again for another desperate failure that matches the failures of others during the past 11 years.
Trump is going to build a wall.... between Colorado and New Mexico! The wrong Mexico.
Brilliant!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...a-border-state
:hehe:
Panic in DC as Durham pivots to a criminal investigation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Liaj48z1Lak
Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn is on the move..
Motion to dismiss case filed.
It looks like General Flynn may have been framed?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...922145792.html
:hehe:
A good number of them were entitled to go in anyway, the evidence is initially being taken behind closed doors because the Republicans changed it for the Benghazi investigation, and the evidence will eventually be heard in public anyway.
Quite why the Republicans want it to be is beyond me.
Hold on, Yank troops are in Syria illegally. I'm sure you know that. What I don't get is why you're defending blatant criminality.
“A purpose of those [US] forces, working with the SDF, is to deny access to those oil fields by ISIS and others who may benefit from revenues that could be earned,” said Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
'Others' means the Syrian government of course. Don and his handlers don't want the Syrians to have access to so much as a cupful of oil from their own oil fields or anywhere else.
That's a separate issue to the Turks wiping out the Kurds, who incidentally have access to the oil. The middle-east is mind boggling in its complexity, so if you are capable of solving all the problems then I have to say you are wasting your talents on here :wink:
Russian defence ministry described Yank action as 'state-sponsored banditry.' That's just an inch away from 'state-sponsored terrorism.'
'Banditry': Russia slams US as troops move back into Syria: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...syria-oil-isis
al-Baghdadi bagged by the bandits..
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Summery of what is going on west the town of Barisha in northern Idlib, this thread will be updated:</p>— Within Syria (@WithinSyriaBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/WithinSyriaBlog/status/1188213313722834944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Stop congratulating Trump for killing Baghdadi. Special Forces killed Baghdadi.
Audio Reveals What John Kerry Told Syrians Behind Closed Doors
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...ria-audio.html
Fox news is to Trump what the BBC is to Johnson.