WTF are our servicemen doing in Syria???!?
Screw that affirmative action clown Austin.
Agree....zero reason to be in Syria (or Iraq) for that matter.
They have maintained control of the oil field in N.E. Syria.
President Trump said pull out, the State Department and the spooks never left.
Now, bear in mind, the N.Syrian Kurds were out good ally in eliminating ISIS.
President Trump takes credit for taking ISIS down. And it is True that we helped. But, we could not have accomplished that without the N. Syrian Kurds. Yes, I know their history, but they are good fighters and they love being able to live their own lives without a dictator.
Never should have been there in the first place.
Austin is a racist scumbag liberal who was promoted through the ranks by EO standards. The only one worse is his lacky in charge of the military.
He wouldn’t make a good short order cook at corner greasy choke and puke snack bar..
He is one of the main reason young white and black conservative men won’t enlist.
Todays military wouldn’t even stand a chance against Greenland fighting a war...
Its not our troops fault its the liberal SB running it....
They're being surrounded. Iran and Saudi Arabia just agreed to re-open embassies, and exchange military reps, brokered by China. Assad's Syria is re-opening embassies in the Gulf. Turkey and Syria are talking again. Russia and Iran have assisted Syria in suppressing the Obama-supported "rebels" who attempted to overthrow his regime.
They're sitting ducks.
Syria is an oil producing nation.
So is Lybia, where we also have guys and also try to keep it out of the press and public eye as much as possible.
Bottom line: Russia is no longer a world power, except for their nuclear arsenal which is on par with ours.
As much as we want to inflate them into a threat when convenient (make them into a Cold War boogieman that wants to conquer the world), the reality is they have 55% our ground forces, 47% our air forces, 43% our naval forces, 40% as many men reaching military age every year, a GDP less than Texas and California combined, less industry, less high tech, less allies (few), and weak allies (Belarus is their most powerful ally and they have the military capabilities of the Netherlands - and that’s about it).
We have been encroaching into their sphere of influence, trying to topple the governments aligned with them, and make these places ours.
We are also working hard on Venezuela, another oil producing nation and also aligned with Russia.
Our battle cry is of course “democracy, freedom, human rights and sovereignty,” all while we support Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and our biggest trade partner is a communist single party regime in China which oppresses religion, makes dissidents disappear and rolls over pro-democracy students with tanks on Tienanmen square. For some reason places like Ethiopia, Somalia, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Chad... don’t get the same attention as places that have oil/gas.