WSJ: U.S. Military Preparing for a Full Withdrawal of Its Forces From Northeastern Syria

[AuH20]

Rand Paul is the problem they say!!!

[timosman]

DESPERATE WHORES!

You would be upset too if somebody cut you off from your gravy train.

[AuH20]

[goldenequity]

twitter is blowing up over this... hahaha





hawks r in meltdown.

[Pauls' Revere]

Who could have predicted this would have happened within only 2 years of being in office?

For his next trick, a unified Korea.

[goldenequity]

Ali Özkök
US official: We will be repositioning troops and assets from Syria in orderly fashion, but Pentagon still works on timeline, no timeframe has been set.
(already backpedaling?)

[Swordsmyth]

Ali Özkök
US official: We will be repositioning troops and assets from Syria in orderly fashion, but Pentagon still works on timeline, no timeframe has been set.
(already backpedaling?)

We shall see but Trump may have caught them by surprise and now they have to create a withdrawal plan, they had thought that they would be staying until further notice. (forever)

[goldenequity]

We shall see but Trump may have caught them by surprise and now they have to create a withdrawal plan, they had thought that they would be staying until further notice. (forever)

that's what the proxy/stooge kurds thought too. nope.

Turkey takes advantage of US withdrawal to attack Kurdish forces in northern Syria
https://aml.ink/9ZmiZ

Guy Elster‏
BREAKING Turkey says Syrian Kurdish militants will be buried in ditches: Anadolu

[Swordsmyth]

that's what the proxy/stooge kurds thought too. nope.

Turkey takes advantage of US withdrawal to attack Kurdish forces in northern Syria
https://aml.ink/9ZmiZ

Guy Elster‏
BREAKING Turkey says Syrian Kurdish militants will be buried in ditches: Anadolu

The Kurds should have cut the best deal they could get with Assad when the US stood by and did nothing while Iraq crushed the Kurdish independence bid there.

[Origanalist]

Yesterday Iranian FM Javad Zarif flew to Turkey.... I'd imagine they talked long and hard about exactly that.
All players knew and agreed to immediate outcomes I'm sure...
whether Erdo gets jiggy with things is what you're alluding to.
If he trades away the Turkstream and future benefits with the Belt initiative and gains 3 powerful enemies at his doorstep...
for some Ottoman fantasy to gain some stinking desert filled with angry Kurds...
I repeat: he's an idiot.

Damn straight he is and the US should never have had anything to do with him.

[Origanalist]

[Madison320]

Yes, whatever Donald Trump does, will never be good enough.

Big thumbs up for Trump if he completes this withdrawal.

Here's the predictable response from CNN: "In Syria withdrawal, Trump discards advice from allies and officials"

If it was Obama CNN would be recommending him for another Nobel Peace Prize.

[Original_Intent]

I can't help but wonder if this move isn't somehow connected to border wall funding. Short of impeachment or assassination, there isn't much the deep state can do. As commander in chief, Trump can make this move unilaterally. Of course this is going to make the MIC, and therefore the deep state, pretty pissed.


I'm sure it would never come out publicly, but I can't shake the feeling that this could be "back room dealing" - give Trump a win with wall funding, or lose on a much bigger scale - this is just speculation on my part, but if I am right, the expected outcome is that Trump gets his wall funding, and we don't end up leaving Syria.

[Origanalist]

[dannno]

Big thumbs up for Trump if he completes this withdrawal.

Here's the predictable response from CNN: "In Syria withdrawal, Trump discards advice from allies and officials"

If it was Obama CNN would be recommending him for another Nobel Peace Prize.

"Betraying our allies and any sense of moral code" (from an actual CNN viewer)

[shakey1]

Now if he could just seal the deal with a big fat cut in military spending.

[kahless]

Has he walked it back yet like everything else? I am going to take a guess Friday night he reverses when people are not paying attention.

I hope I am wrong but considering his record of saying one thing and doing the opposite a few days later...

[Madison320]

Now if he could just seal the deal with a big fat cut in military spending.

Yeah, that's a good point. I'm not holding my breath.

[Swordsmyth]

https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/st...27452358828032

[AuH20]

This guy going after rand..... Damn neos.

[Origanalist]

https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/st...27452358828032

Thanks, using Brave and I can't see tweets when I post them and forgot to reduce the link to numbers.

[AuH20]

[Swordsmyth]

The US has reportedly decided to halt its airstrikes against the Islamic State (Isil) in Syria after it withdraws its troops, a move that would effectively bring an end to the entire Western air campaign against the jihadists.
US officials said that Donald Trump’s decision to pull US forces out of Syria would also mean an end to American airstrikes against Isil fighters in the country, according to Reuters.
The Pentagon did not deny the report and refused to say if US airstrikes would continue after American forces withdraw in March next year.
“As long as there are US troops on the ground we will conduct air and artillery strikes in support of our forces. We will not speculate on future operations,” a Pentagon spokeswoman told The Telegraph.
The US provides the overwhelming majority of the firepower for the Western air campaign against Isil and is responsible for around 95 per cent of the air strikes in Syria, according to Airwars, a monitoring group.
Britain and France have both signalled that they intend to continue striking Isil even after the US withdraws its ground troops but Airwars said that might not be possible if America withdraws from the air campaign.
“Even if the UK and France wished to continue strikes against Isil in Syria, their campaigns are so intertwined with key US assets - intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, refuelling, targeting - that it may not be possible,” the group said.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/america-apos-...130614040.html

[Swordsmyth]

A column of US military trucks reportedly leaving Syria is shown in a video that Turkey’s Anadolu news agency posted on Thursday, showed.
The agency specified that the vehicles in the video had previously been involved in delivering weapons to the Kurdish-led militia operating in the country.
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw its troops from Syria as the Daesh* terrorist group, which was the only reason for the American presence in the Arab country, had been defeated in Syria.

ABD tırları Suriye'den çıkmaya başladı#ABD'nin #Suriye'den çekilme kararının ardından terör örgütü YPG/PKK'ya #Irak üzerinden silah ve mühimmat taşıyan tırlar, gece saatlerinde Suriye'den çıkmaya başladı https://t.co/UAYsRg6msR pic.twitter.com/mjUIbNdlCX
— ANADOLU AJANSI (@anadoluajansi) December 20, 2018

https://twitter.com/anadoluajansi/st...68775318548480

More at: https://www.infowars.com/watch-video-shows-alleged-column-of-us-military-trucks-leaving-syria/

[Mach]

"They" are probably already planning some activities to prove him wrong and make him look bad.

[Anti Globalist]

Will the troops in Syria come home or will they just be sent off to another country that we are occupying illegally?

[Swordsmyth]

Will the troops in Syria come home or will they just be sent off to another country that we are occupying illegally?

They won't be going to Afghanistan:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-a...wn-11545341452

Trump Administration Is Considering Substantial Afghan Troop Drawdown

Drawdown could begin in several weeks, officials say






U.S. troops patrolling at an Afghan National Army base in Afghanistan’s Logar province in August. PHOTO: OMAR SOBHANI/REUTERS



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By Gordon Lubold and
Jessica Donati

Updated Dec. 20, 2018 4:48 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is actively considering plans for a significant drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan that could begin in as soon as several weeks, multiple officials said, in the start of the conclusion of the 17-year U.S. war effort.
Word of the plans came a day after President Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria, an unexpected announcement that surprised many at the Pentagon.

Under the plans being considered, troops could begin to return home from Afghanistan as early as January, officials said.


Officials at the Pentagon and U.S. Central Command declined to comment. There are currently more than 14,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Mr. Trump announced Wednesday that he would pull all of the more than 2,000 American troops from Syria, a decision that wasn’t supported by the Pentagon or the State Department.
“I think it shows how serious the president is about wanting to come out of conflicts,” a senior U.S. official said of how the Syria decision has affected his thinking on Afghanistan. “I think he wants to see viable options about how to bring conflicts to a close.”
—Nancy A. Youssef in Washington and Craig Nelson in Kabul contributed to this article.
Write to Gordon Lubold at Gordon.Lubold@wsj.com and Jessica Donati at jessica.donati@wsj.com

[Swordsmyth]

According to Israeli sources, Netanyahu unsuccessfully attempted to convince U.S. President Donald Trump to maintain a U.S. presence in Syria.

More at: https://worldview.stratfor.com/situa...thdrawal-syria

[Working Poor]

Anything Nancy Pelosi is against I am for.

[AuH20]

The ghey whore speaks:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...paul-blocking/