Why is no one considering the “rebuilding” costs that are going to be needed for Syria? This would be a big plus for us if Russia and Turkey are stuck with the bill.
No one is considering because we already pulled out.
Not our circus, not our monkey.
Because Russia and Turkey won’t be paying them. Neither will we.
We got stuck with rebuilding costs because in the wake of WW2, it was a really good idea to rebuild Germany (and to a far less degree Japan) - considering that the reason WW2 kicked off was because a beaten Germany (which was a Great Power of the time) was literally raped for ‘reparations’ and not rebuilt, fostering resentment and giving the housepainter with a funny mustache and a penchant for long rambling speeches a readymade audience who wanted to get even.
WW2 was therefore a direct sequel to WW1. Nobody in the US wanted to repeat the European powers’ stupidity and have to send our boys over to die yet again in another useless war 20 years later - they’d already seen the ending to this movie and did not want to see it again. Unfortunately, many in this country decided that this policy should be extended to most every country that we ended up invading/bombing/whatever.
We are one of the only countries on this planet that has this policy.