Posted on 10/24/2019 8:30:34 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
The US is reportedly planning to deploy tanks and other heavy military hardware to protect oil fields in eastern Syria, in a reversal of Donald Trump’s earlier order to withdraw all troops from the country.
The most likely destination for US armoured units is a Conoco gas plant near the city of Deir Ezzor, the site of a February 2018 clash between US special forces and Syrian regime-backed militias fighting with Russian mercenaries.
Fox News reported such a deployment was “likely” and that the tanks would come from units already in the Middle East. CNN said it would happen relatively soon.
Trump has justified his decision to stand US troops down to allow a Turkish offensive in north-eastern Syria at the cost of abandoning Kurdish partners, by saying he was “bringing the troops home”.
However, it is quite likely it would take more troops to deploy, maintain, supply and protect armoured units in the middle of the eastern Syrian desert than the roughly 1,000 that were in the country before the Turkish invasion.
The contradiction has been apparent in Trump’s remarks in recent days, in which he claimed the US had “secured the oil” even while withdrawing its forces.
“It would mean walling off eastern Syria as a US zone,” Aaron Stein, director of the Middle East programme at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Washington, said of the plan to put tanks around the Conoco plant. “You would have to protect it from the air. You have to supply it and then you have got to protect the road, presumably from Iraq. You can easily see a scenario where we end up with more troops in Syria than we started off with.”
On Thursday, Trump added to the confusion on Thursday by tweeting: “Perhaps it is time for the
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[At least we can dispense with all the high minded talk. We are simply yet another aggressive expansionist nation.]
Yes, and this was conveniently overlooked by the media.
Gonna ask questions before cruticizing.
Is this a move to cover up the european pipelines pipelines? That is why we are in Syria.
Check out a map of Syria and ukraine. Bidens bidding?
I am sure there is a goid reason and it will be revealed.
I am joking of course, (as Trump would never do this), but to demarcate how bad it was under “O”, maybe we could get Abrams tanks from Egypt, as the obamanation gave the tooling and production of the Abrams (including the turbine engine) to Egypt, when he was trying to prop up the anti-American/anti-Israel Muslim Brotherhood.
The MB has since been thrown out of leadership, but Egypt still mass produces the Abrams tank.
Obama/Clinton policy truly pushed Egypt and Libya squarely into the Kremlins orbit.
Going even further down the treacherous “rabbit trail”, as Egypt was pushed much much closer into Putin’s camp, Egypt has allowed Russia to be build two significant coastal bases since the obamanations A-rab Spring.
These include anti-ship and S-300 and S-400 missile sites (to support new Russian Army, Navy, and Air Force bases and SA and anti ship sites along the coast of Libya, including Bengazi, and moving toward Tripoli), and also in support of the new Russian Navy Base on the southern west coast of the Red Sea. Euritria has once again allowed Russia multiple jamming and missile FOBs. Some of these Russian FOB operations, now support Russia’s new Red Sea naval Base operations (in support of Iranian backed Huthi rebels directly across the Red Sea in Yemen.
Geographically, Russia and China have our U.S. Naval Base in DJ hemmed in at the southern entrance to the Red Sea.
These things were in high gear before Trump was in office. This entire CENTCOM AOR is actually becoming crazy dangerous, really fast.
I am sure there is a goid reason and it will be revealed.Except when you're a Trump hater you look for every opportunity to make Trump look like an idiot by making yourself the idiot for jumping to conclusions.
A “report” by the Guardian - which blares a pop up when one accesses the story/tale, that says they will not be silent on the Climate crisis.....sure has got a lot of the shark-jumping concern trolls all het up....
He said at the time that he would have small strategic groups of troops in the country, as needed, to protect our interests.
It doesn't matter what Congress wants, his base doesn't want them there. How will this help with a major political problem with them?
So are we going to conquer the rest of Syria as well or just the oil part?
I'm assuming you are joking because the M-1 production began in Egypt in 1988.
So what happens if Erdogan calls up the President and tells him that he is going to begin an offensive in that region? Do we pull out again?
Saw that on Daily Mail.
Business as usual in ME.
It’s the Guardian, propagandist extrodinaire.
Here’s my partial decode
The most likely destination for US armoured units is somewhere near some city big or small. The site of a February 2018 clash between US special forces fighting Deep State-backed militias and CIA mercenaries.
I think this story is meant to paint the President with being indecisive, as if he pulled troops out but is now putting them back. However, there never was any US troop withdrawal from SE Syria. The tanks are meant to reinforce existing forces. The withdrawal only pertained to the Turkey/Syria border and was designed to protect US troops and avoid the USA from getting into the middle of a sectarian fight where we had no national interest. Turkey thought by conducting a surprise incursion into Kurdish territory they could force the USA to choose sides and get further involved in the situation. Trump refused to play along.
The most likely destination for US armoured units is somewhere near some city big or small. The site of a February 2018 clash between US special forces fighting Deep State-backed militias and CIA mercenaries.
PS, I have three anonymous sources with ties to the Whitehouse, Putin and Lebanon
The righteous prevails.
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