Posted on 03/07/2017 1:51:10 AM PST by elhombrelibre
Those big armored fighting vehicles are not inconspicuous—and that appears to have been the point.
Last weekend, US Stryker armored fighting vehicles appeared seemingly out of nowhere in Syria and descended onto the Kurdish-held town of Manbij. Their arrival was anything but inconspicuous, as the convoy of multiple Strykers, in various configurations, along with tricked-out Humvees rolled across the Euphrates river in broad daylight, with giant American flags whipping in the air above them. After we reported on the story, the vehicles appeared to have made it to Manbij, and proceeded to move all around the vicinity of the city and its outlying villages, making their presence known. For US special operations teams, who have kept an incredibly low profile in the war-torn country for a couple years now, the show of force was something totally new, and it was clearly a signal to America's enemies and friends alike.
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Congratulations President Trump
You have now invaded your first Middle Eastern country
“For US special operations teams, who have kept an incredibly low profile in the war-torn country for a couple years now...”
Well - Trump did send in bigger trucks anyway. With flags.
And you thought he’d defeat ISIS with hot rhetoric, I suppose.
Big trucks with big flags to support tribes with flags
Long live Rojava
He is protecting the Kurds from the Turks without having to do any shooting. Both are allies of ours, Turkey by treaty-NATO and the Kurds because they appear to be the only sane Moslems in the ME and are fighting the ISIS people and the Iranians, too. They are also pretty good at it.
He is therewith telling Erdogan to leave the Kurds alone. He can’t threaten Erdogan because Turkiye is a formal ally but it would not do to let Erdogan overrun our real ally in the area. This seems a quintessential Trump move.
Why would you waste your energy. Many here think that kurds are animals to die fighting ISIS while we smoke cigars and then #### them over by letting Turkey kill them all when ISIS is defeated.
What the hell, Bush I did it.
Sickens me.
They can’t fly Trump flags on the vehicles, but maybe someone can raise it above a defeated ISIS site. (secretly of course)
It's an odd twist of events when American conservatives end up worrying more about Assad, who facilitated al Qaeda and its murderous terrorist attacks on US forces in Iraq, than about the Kurds and our allies who are fighting ISIS.
Or like we did with the South Vietnamese when Congress turned their backs on them. It IS very complicated over there. There was another interesting link on the Special Forces guys with their ATV’s and missile systems - from May 2016. It is hard for me to follow all of it, but it comes down to “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. For now - but that can/will bite us in the butt.
Lest we forget, obama had a lot to do with this current strife with his “Arab Spring” promotions.
Wouldn’t that be cool.
Hussein and Mrs Bill were partners in that nation wrecking party.
Coat trailing.
The article states these are from the 75th Ranger Regiment, which is part of Special Operations Command. I would not call it an escalation, in that the same command owns the advisors and air assets that have so far been used.
Essentially, they just brought in different equipment controlled by that already present command.
Personally, I’d like to see the Kurt’s given their own country.
The article states these are from the 75th Ranger Regiment, which is part of Special Operations Command. I would not call it an escalation, in that the same command owns the advisors and air assets that have so far been used.
Essentially, they just brought in different equipment controlled by that already present command.
Personally, I’d like to see the Kurds given their own country.
As of this month, 673 Stryker DVHs have been produced, of which over 450 have been fielded for Afghanistan. With more than a year and a half of combat experience there is enough data to declare the Stryker DVH a resounding success.
"While deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom, the Stryker DVH has seen enemy fire and come through with outstanding survivability results. The majority of Soldiers involved in those instances have walked away from the vehicles, or returned to duty within a short period of time. Not only has the number of injuries and casualties dropped dramatically, but the severity of those instances has substantially decreased," said Lt. Col. Eric Frutchey, the Product Manager for the Stryker Fleet.
Good stuff.
Two great posts guys. Thanks.
And you are right about the odd conservative viewpoint hombre. I know he is better than ISIS being in charge, but he killed a bunch of Americans in Iraq. dont much recall Russia holding them back.
And though I REALLY hate Bush, obama pulling the troops and his “arab spring” bullsh%% was a disaster.
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