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Trump May Send Up To 50,000 Troops To Syria
Zero Hedge ^ | 4-13-2017 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 04/13/2017 3:41:05 PM PDT by blam

It appears that Mike Cernovich, who earlier this week wrote that Trump's national security advisor, Gen. H.R.McMaster, was planning on sending as many as 150,000 troops to Syria, may have been right again. According to Bloomberg commentator Eli Lake, who has now made a habit of confirming Cernovich "conspiracy theories" (he did so previously with the Susan Rice scoop), Trump may be on the verge of escalating the proxy war in Syria by sending anywhere between 10,000 and 50,000 troops on the ground, and - if Cernovich is indeed correct - as much as three times more.

Per Lake, after U-turning on attacking Syria last week and on a variety of economic policies yesterday, the Donald Trump's "biggest foreign policy surprise may be yet to come." Specifically, he says that McMaster, has been quietly pressing his colleagues to question the underlying assumptions of a draft war plan against the Islamic State that would maintain only a light U.S. ground troop presence in Syria." McMaster's critics inside the administration say he wants to send tens of thousands of ground troops to the Euphrates River Valley. His supporters insist he is only trying to facilitate a better interagency process to develop Trump's new strategy to defeat the self-described caliphate that controls territory in Iraq and Syria."

To be sure, there have been ground troops, typically special forces, in Syria since 2014, when Barack Obama famously flipflopped on his own promise of "no more boots on the ground", first in Iraq and then the broader region.

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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: blog; conspiracy; elilake; fake; fakenews; syria; syriawar; trash; troops; trump; trumpsyria; war
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To: VanDeKoik

I’d say that sums it up nicely.


21 posted on 04/13/2017 3:49:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great point. Our military is hard broke. 50k? LOL. The Army can’t even get a 5K BCT deployed without cannibalizing two other ones to get it done.


22 posted on 04/13/2017 3:50:10 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: blam

I think Trump came out just yesterday and said no troop to Syria.


23 posted on 04/13/2017 3:50:14 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: blam
Trump: ‘We’re Not Going Into Syria

Take your pick of the dueling headlines.

24 posted on 04/13/2017 3:50:21 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I sent 100s and 100s of care packages to troops in afghanistan. The stories I would hear..and the gratitude..they did without so often..even basics. I framed a letter I got from a high ranking officer.

I dont want to have to gear that up again. I hope this story is not true.


25 posted on 04/13/2017 3:50:41 PM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: blam

I heard it was 1 million.


26 posted on 04/13/2017 3:52:16 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Is this the old loft with the paint pealng off it?)
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To: blam

Trump said he wasn’t going to send troops.


27 posted on 04/13/2017 3:52:20 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Fantasywriter

“Somebody needs to start a cite called FreeGossip, to host all this bilge”

You aren’t kidding!

And the thing is that people here will react to it as if it is actual news and not just a bunch of heresy for clicks.


28 posted on 04/13/2017 3:52:21 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: blam

This is series! Set your beebers to stune!


29 posted on 04/13/2017 3:52:54 PM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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To: blam

I don’t think we have 50,000 troops to send!


30 posted on 04/13/2017 3:53:02 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: blam

This is how Eli gets his kicks...fake news.


31 posted on 04/13/2017 3:54:00 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: gaijin

I love this man so much, but behold the way he is being Swampified.

No... behold the way people who profess to “love” him are so ready to think the worst of him, based on an internet article (!) that uses words like “may send...” and “... it appears...”


32 posted on 04/13/2017 3:54:09 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: DoughtyOne

“If this doesn’t come true, I wish someone would turn the lights out at Zero Hedge.

I’m so sick of reading trash from that site on the forum.”

I’ve been complaining for years about ZH being posted here. It’s a BS gloom-and-doom website that either pilfers from others or just makes stuff up.


33 posted on 04/13/2017 3:54:10 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: blam

I don’t believe a word of it.


34 posted on 04/13/2017 3:54:25 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: blam

35 posted on 04/13/2017 3:55:12 PM PDT by SanchoP
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To: blam

NO! We do not need to be over there. What happened with, “America first”, huh?


36 posted on 04/13/2017 3:55:19 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: blam

Right now we couldn’t field the Regimental Combat Teams to do anything like that.


37 posted on 04/13/2017 3:55:24 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Eddie01

I have a buddy at the CIA that has insider sources at the FBI, that heard from the State department that Trump is sending 5 million troops next week actually.


38 posted on 04/13/2017 3:55:24 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Fantasywriter

I’ve been reading Cernovich’s predictions for ~2 years now. My informal impression is that he’s wrong significantly more often than he’s right, but that if the rumor is sensational enough, he finds it irresistible.
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Cernovich and Zero Hedge have yet to learn that a man’s got to know his limitations......


39 posted on 04/13/2017 3:55:41 PM PDT by EarlT357
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To: blam

Where will they come from? This best not be true.


40 posted on 04/13/2017 3:56:25 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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