In 1962, the United States of America nearly blew up the world because the Soviet Union tried to build atomic missiles in Cuba. Today, the Russians see NATO going into Ukraine in exactly the same way.
Stupid headline from Telegraph: “allow Assad into their territory.”
Hours after the US said it was withdrawing all of its troops from northern Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said it had reached an agreement to allow Bashar al-Assad’s troops into their territory.
…France and Germany both announced they were halting arms sales to Turkey but the UK did not match their announcements.
On Friday, Turkey-backed Syrian rebel groups announced a broad merger and voiced their support for any offensive. It is expected that Turkey will heavily rely on its Syrian rebel allies in the assault.
US troops have already begun leaving northeastern Syria. However, a different senior Turkish official told MEE that Ankara would wait about a week for US forces to fully pull out from the area before launching its offensive.
Turkey’s proxy Jihadist forces seem to be preparing to attack the Kurds and free the thousands of captured ISIS fighters that the Kurds now hold at a prison camp.
The Department of Defense even boasts that its “locations” include 164 countries. Put another way, it has a military presence of some sort in approximately 84% of the nations on this planet — or at least the DoD briefly claimed this.
This October, when Iran launched missile strikes against ISIS, nearly killing the ISIS emir, Baghdadi, the Pentagon complained that the missiles had struck only three kilometers from U.S. positions. The protest raised uncomfortable questions about what the top honchos of the Islamic State were doing in such close proximity to the American military, and why the U.S. was unwilling to do what Iran just had done and attack them. No answers from the Pentagon have arrived so far.
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