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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Ah yes, another Cheese, Moose, Sister thread...Zero Hedge is in high gear with ‘em.
Wow! OMG! Trump is totally going back on his campaign promises! /clutch
I’d be shocked if it were true and it damned well better not be true.
Bol! Best use of a quote I’ve seen in ages.
+1
Back when I first stared reading The_Donald in ‘15, I didn’t know Cernovich from Adam. I early on read one of his sensationalistic predictions, and I wondered if it had any validity. I clicked on the thread. One of the first comments was gently worded, to the effect that Cernovich means well but he’s gullible.
I latched onto that observation, and it has served me well.
Why wouldn’t you believe a blogger who names himself after a Brad Pitt character from a totally insane fiction movie? Shirley his words carry more weight than what Donald Trump himself has said.
“Someone” told me he will send 5 trillion troops in an attempt to become King of the World...which will be renamed Trump. Oh No!!?
Isn’t that the number of “advisors” that Kennedy sent to Vietnam?
Bush 3.0
What could possibly go wrong
Iraq Afghanistan and Syria all unstable regimes with radicals trying to kill us for being there
Well it looks like we dont have the troops. So it would have to be a coalition.
I can see mcmaster pushing for some version of this. Also mccain. Doesnt mean trump will do it
Thank you for doing that for our troops!
This is Fake News and crapola
Trump has said we will not go into Syria.
Quit posting conspiracy nonsense
He also turned over his war fighting strategy to the generals and this is exactly what they would tell Trump they need to do the job
So is he going to say “ no” to those uniforms full of medals - or not
“... they’ll believe it...like they always believe their worst fears.”
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I explain this sort of things to the folks closest to me and get called ‘Pollyanna.”
Well, I’m not the one on BP meds and I smoke.
Not a single breathless prediction of Trump’s destruction of America has yet to happen. But, of course: “It COULD.”
It’s not just ZH. Take a quick look at YT. Everyone has an insider who’ll tell you what’s really gonna happen in exchange for a monetized click.
And said so in two interviews
This is crap
No. No. No. A thousand times no. NO MORE FIGHTING MUSLIM WARS
ridiculous!
just bomb all the Islamic terrorists straight to Allah in Hell
it will keep our fine USAF busy for awhile, but they can do a fine job of it...please please no big ground troop commitment to a hell hole like Syria!
just bomb the Sh*t our of Hezbellah PLO-PA-Fatah-Abbas Hamas ISIS and AlQuaida and Moslem Brotherhood. Destroy them and all their bombs rockets! Up up and Away with our super fine Air Force! They’re wonderful.
Do you even pay any attention to Trumps own words?
I just heard that Trump is going to reinstate the DRAFT!
Nooooo!
That would be a YUGE mistake.
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