During a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Trump downplayed Turkey’s invasion of Syria that began last Wednesday, saying that “it’s not our border” and that it “has nothing to do with us.”
“The Kurds are much safer right now. But the Kurds know how to fight, and as I said, they’re not angels,” he added.
“They’ve got a lot of sand over there,” Trump continued. “So there’s a lot of sand that they can play with.”
Trump also said his Syria retreat, which has catalyzed a humanitarian crisis and sparked bipartisan criticism in Washington, was “strategically brilliant.”
“I view the situation on the Turkish border with Syria to be, for the United States, strategically brilliant,” Trump said, less than a week after US forces in Syria came under fire by Turkish artillery.
Turkey invaded Syria three days after the Trump administration abruptly announced a withdrawal of US troops from northeastern Syria. The Syria retreat has been widely characterized as giving Turkey a green light to invade and go after the Kurds.
Trump was warned that the move could create a security vacuum that would open the door for the resurgence of ISIS while benefiting Russia and Syrian President Bashar Assad.
In the week since Turkey invaded, the Kurds have turned to Damascus and Moscow for protection, and ISIS has claimed responsibility for at least two attacks.
Meanwhile, there were reports over the weekend that hundreds of ISIS-linked detainees had escaped a camp in northern Syria. The Kurds have been detaining roughly 11,000 ISIS militants, but they’re now focused on thwarting the Turkish assault.
In short, Trump’s Syria retreat has been a big geopolitical victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin while offering ISIS an opening for a comeback.
Pence negotiated an evacuation for our allies who don’t want to leave. A move that totally gives Putin everything he would want in Syria, and let’s Erdogan continue to commit war crimes and ethnic cleansing in Turkey.
Pence was picked by Manafort. The ties to Russia and Putin are obvious. All roads from Trump lead to Putin.
Trump is getting dunked on by every low-watt thug, and all our old allies know Trump is a mental reject.
Erdogan tossed Trump’s letter in the garbage.
North Korea is 178th economy in the world. Russia is 11th largest.
Trump bows to these smaller countries. Gets nothing as he ‘gives away the farm’.
Republicans can’t process their own criminal behavior and hypocrisy.
All they would say when facing the mountains evidence proving their entire party was systematically corrupt is that ‘Hillary would have been worse’. All they have is misogyny.
HUD officials knowingly failed ‘to comply with the law,’ stalled Puerto Rico hurricane relief funds
Lawmakers questioned why HUD kicked off a funding process for 17 states affected by disasters — but left out Puerto Rico.
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If you do not watch this or you do not react, then you are dismissing our democracy and letting it die. This is what the whole tRump presidency is about. Gods help us but we are about to slide into 1940’s Germany territory, and we do not have friends to stop us as tRump has attacked each one of them. Hail Putin. Hugs
Now here is the real song this was made off.
I have to let everyone know I love this song and it is in my play list, but Ron hates it. Oh well we do not play it around him. Hugs
Hello TG. Thank you. I had a feeling there had to be more to these trade wars than just his most stupid tRump getting his feelings hurt. While he may really think he is winning on these clearly hurting the US trade wars, there had to be someone(s) propping him up and feeding him talking points. That there is behind the scenes massive profit to be made is a good explanation for all this. The question I have is this: Is tRump aware of the profit and gets a cut, or is he clueless and others are getting all the profit while making him out to be the fall guy total fool? Hugs
Follow the Ameros!
A lot of us have speculated that somehow, someone(s), somewhere is making money off of Prznint Stupid’s incoherent Trade Wars and other shitshows. This piece in Vanity Fair puts the pieces of the puzzle together, though (Spoiler Alert!) no one knows who is making the money because…
There is no way for another trader, let alone an outsider such as me, to know who is making these trades. But regulators know or can find out. One longtime CME trader who has been watching with disgust says he’s never seen anything quite like these trades, not at least since al-Qaida cashed in before initiating the September 11 attacks. “There is definite hanky-panky going on, to the world’s financial markets’ detriment,” he says. “This is abysmal.”
Anyway, William Cohen lays it out very neatly and literally some of these suspicious trades have resulted in $1B+ Amero profits:
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