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RFK Jr. to Tucker Carlson: Trump Ordered ‘His Generals’ to Withdraw Troops from Middle East After Reviewing Troop Map
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 11/8/2024 | paul drabik

Posted on 11/08/2024 6:29:57 AM PST by bitt

Listening to the leftist propaganda of the Biden era, one might think that President Trump has conveyed no substantive policy prescriptions. How about peace? Bringing home troops from foreign combat zones seems like a good policy.

It is important to note that Vice President Harris, in her debate with President Trump, made the following claim:

“And as of today, there is not one member of the United States Military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world for the first time this century.”

Subsequently, many posts on X debunked this statement in real time as troops serving in combat zones, watching the debate, posted their reactions in disbelief.

Watch here: American Troops in a combat zone watch Kamala Harris tell the world that there are no American troops in a combat zone pic.twitter.com/88G3WHlpz4

— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) September 13, 2024

Despite the Vice President’s assertion before a national audience, the claim is verifiably false. As reported by Axios in October 2023, the United States had over 40,000 troops in the Middle East, many in combat zones.

Given the heightened conflict between Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah, it’s possible that the number has increased.

President Trump has always spoken of disengaging from foreign entanglements. Trump set the wheels in motion for a future Afghanistan withdrawal and threatened to withhold funding from NATO if the allies did not meet their financial obligations.

A focus on rebuilding the country and its industrial core would mean cutting spending in foreign countries. To do so would require de-escalating a years-long territorial conflict between Russia and Ukraine. More concerning, however, is the potential for the igniting of a powder keg in the Middle East.

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1 posted on 11/08/2024 6:29:57 AM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

SNIP:

....”In the clip below, RFK speaks about being on a plane and discussing the Middle East with President Trump. According to RFK, President Trump drew a map of the Middle East with all the countries indicating the troop strength in each. Tucker Carlson questions this in disbelief.

The interesting part, however, was where RFK describes President Trump consulting “his generals” about the dangers of those troops in the region. Upon hearing of the dangers, RFK says, Trump orders the generals to get the troops out.

Watch the clip here:

RFK JR: “When I was on the plane the other day with President Trump he took a piece of paper and drew a map of the Middle East with all the nations on it. Then he wrote in each country the troop strength. He was looking at the border between Syria and Turkey and asking… pic.twitter.com/pqCmIU9VxB

— Autism Capital (@AutismCapital) November 6, 2024


2 posted on 11/08/2024 6:32:18 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Should it be public information?


3 posted on 11/08/2024 6:34:52 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: bitt

Remember how heals up said Ukraine was a country.. in Europe.. as if reading to kindergarten kids. I doubt she could draw a map of the middle east from memory.


4 posted on 11/08/2024 6:43:55 AM PST by Track9
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To: SMARTY

This is why Freerepublic should BAN any postings from GP. Trump was on a plane with “his” generals AND RFK jr. the election was 3 days ago. They are not his generals yet. Trump doesn’t draw his own maps. RFK is not part of defense discussions. Can go on and on. GP can muster so much sensational crap in such a few words. GP makes FR website look so juvenile.


5 posted on 11/08/2024 6:45:25 AM PST by pghbjugop
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To: bitt

Well, our guy has won. Yay!

Now, we have to watch what this administration does.

RFK Jr. shouldn’t have made that information public, unless Trump asked him to.


6 posted on 11/08/2024 6:51:31 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: All

It is important to note that Vice President Harris, in her debate with President Trump, made the following claim: “And as of today, there is not one member of the United States Military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world for the first time this century.”


In 2019, candidate Joe Biden promised his White House would end “forever wars” like Iraq and would “reassert American leadership” to combat authoritarianism and global instability, which he said are proliferating under President Donald Trump.

Gun grabbing Biden hands tens of billions in aid and arms to Ukraine:
<><> air defense capabilities,
<><>air-to-ground weapons,
<><>munitions for rocket systems
<><>artillery,
<><>armored vehicles,
<><>anti-tank weapons,
<><>and more.


The very same Biden tramples on Americans’ 2A rights, grabbing guns families need to protect themselves, while blanketing the Ukrainian shysters with weaponry.


7 posted on 11/08/2024 6:58:01 AM PST by Liz
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To: bitt

WOW, good news!


8 posted on 11/08/2024 7:04:11 AM PST by norsky (<P><h3> <P><img src=" "width=500"></img> <P> <a href= > </a> )
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To: pghbjugop

Agreed: this is juvenile clickbait nonsense.


9 posted on 11/08/2024 7:12:39 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Track9

I doubt she could draw the outline of Michigan from memory using her left hand as a template


10 posted on 11/08/2024 7:24:33 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: bitt

NATO should be eliminated.

It is a vast, bloated, ineffective bureaucracy that guaranteed the USA would be meddling in politics of 30+ nations

Replace it with a security alliance among the USA, Germany, France, and maybe the UK and Italy. That’s it


11 posted on 11/08/2024 7:38:37 AM PST by PGR88
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To: bitt

What to disarm the ME of relevance on the world state and hundred of billions of US dollars?

Drill baby drill. Here there everywhere OUTSIDE the ME


12 posted on 11/08/2024 7:39:57 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: pghbjugop

GP’s usual flair for the hyperbolic aside, RFK is literally saying on Tucker Carlson’s interview that Trump hand drew the map. So in this instance if there is any sensationalism it would be on the part of RFK, Jr. Are you implying RFK, Jr. is being sensationalist here?


13 posted on 11/08/2024 8:56:18 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Frank Drebin

Then I stand corrected on RFK actually saying that, but if all the other impossible details are true, then yes RFK is the sensationalist here. Still doesn’t absolve GP of posting idiotic and untrue crap everday.


14 posted on 11/08/2024 9:20:36 AM PST by pghbjugop
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