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CHECKMATE – Saudi Crown Prince MbS Sends Replacement Troops To Defend Kurds in Syria…
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | December 21, 2018 | Sundance

Posted on 12/21/2018 5:16:50 PM PST by bobsunshine

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To: bobsunshine

God bless him!


21 posted on 12/21/2018 5:31:10 PM PST by BlackAdderess (I remember when a person's thoughts were their own and not everyone else's responsibility)
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To: DesertRhino

Syrian Christians in north-eastern Syria (who claim persecution by our Kurdish “allies”) sure as heck do not want Saudi Barbarians occupying them. Nor would I.


22 posted on 12/21/2018 5:31:39 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: DesertRhino

One more thing. Turks would go through Saudis like crap through a goose (as General Patton once said).


24 posted on 12/21/2018 5:32:50 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: DoughtyOne

Good point! I am worried about the Kurds. They are worthwhile allies and decent people.


25 posted on 12/21/2018 5:32:57 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: bobsunshine

UAE = “Little Sparta”

they punch way above their weight, and don’t seek publicity


26 posted on 12/21/2018 5:34:20 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Sacajaweau
To my mind....Turkey is the bad guy and an instigator.

Don't forget NATO partner also...Article 5 and all that.

27 posted on 12/21/2018 5:34:57 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Ingtar

Saudi Arabia will add nothing of value there, hopefully the Syrian Army will be able to knock them down..

Anyway, the Saudis haven’t even been able to beat down Yemen.


28 posted on 12/21/2018 5:36:37 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: bobsunshine

The hand off! Smooth and force full.

So much winning!


29 posted on 12/21/2018 5:39:02 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: DoughtyOne

We have people in the republican party that want to cut all ties with Saudi Arabia they are sending troops to defend the Kurds since we will be pulling out. Maybe Graham Marco, Banks want us to stay there . How about this I will agree with that when i see these people put on a 60lb pack and pick up a M4 and lead the charge. It is easy to say lets keep them there when you ass in not on the line. Yet lets throw MbS under the bus for some Islamist radical so-called journalist.


30 posted on 12/21/2018 5:40:05 PM PST by klsparrow
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To: bobsunshine

Good deal!!


31 posted on 12/21/2018 5:43:31 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: All

Trust Trump's Plan.

32 posted on 12/21/2018 5:44:59 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: mac_truck

There is activity on two fronts. We have stated that we are pulling our troops from Syria, to wit, the Middle Euphrates River valley and the Deir Ez-Zor borderland with Iraq. Second, the Turks are threatening Kurdish occupation of the far northeasternmost province of Syria. This salient (it is like a finger sticking out on land west of the Tigris River) is home to a predominant Kurdish population. It is protected by the US whose presence in Iraqi Kurdistan has passed without notice. In this region, Turkish threats not only threaten Kurdish occupation (a fait accompli), but direct conflict with US forces.
Sooner or later Turkey and the US will come to blows. Count on it.


33 posted on 12/21/2018 5:45:16 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: bobsunshine
Most people are unaware of the situation of jockeying for power in the Middle East. There are several interests competing for overall power over the Persian Gulf, independent former Soviet states, control of the Muslim "holy sites" and for some, the destruction of Israel.

The main power brokers are Iran, Turkey, and the Saudis - who are tacitly allied with Israel. Turkey has been maneuvering with Iran for influence over Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kirghizstan, and Uzbekistan - and going along with Iran in suppressing the Kurds since the Kurds are located in both countries. Basically, whomever gains control, controls the Islamic world.

The reason the Turks exposed their espionage capabilities by skylining the Kashoggi murder was to diminish Saudi power and to elevate their own. We are closely tied to the Saudi-Jordanian-Israeli- Gulf State alliance and therefore aligned against both Iran and now, Turkey. Syria is only important to us because of its ties and assistance to Iran - and its links to Russia.

34 posted on 12/21/2018 5:45:28 PM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: DesertRhino

You do know they are fighting the Iranians in Yemen, don’t you


35 posted on 12/21/2018 5:46:44 PM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: DesertRhino

-——That Regional Ally is trying to establish a Sunni dictatorship———

Maybe you have not noticed, but a dictator is the only way the run these ME countries...

You didn’t expect a democracy, did you ?


36 posted on 12/21/2018 5:49:57 PM PST by Popman
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To: DoughtyOne
Saudi Arabia is no friend of Syria. Heck, they're no friend of anyone not a Salafist Wassabi barbarian.


37 posted on 12/21/2018 5:50:08 PM PST by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: bobsunshine

IS Mad Dog Mattis still leaving?


38 posted on 12/21/2018 5:51:32 PM PST by _Jim (democrats create mobs. Republicans create jobs.)
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To: bobsunshine

Also France...even more surprising.

THis would have never happened without Trump making the decision he did.


39 posted on 12/21/2018 5:53:30 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: sockmonkey

What do they punish corporals? I can understand an E-1 or E-2, but c’mon!


40 posted on 12/21/2018 5:54:17 PM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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