U.S. withdrawal from Syria absolutely prevented rift between Trump and his base.
Sure made gas prices go up by 40 cents in Georgia.
We were paying $2.19 per gallon a couple of days ago and now we are paying $2.50.
Aren’t troops stationed in the Syria oil fields and not going anywhere?
a quite complex (and it appears, highly imaginary) attempt to explain a decision which didn’t require much explanation
and this explanation would only be a discredit to the administration if it were true (which i doubt!)
i could be wrong but this article doesn’t ring the bell for me
Well, I have noticed most of the top brass in the Pentagon are part of the Deep State, thriving well on the Endless Wars. They lust after another war to sell stuff. trump is killing their retirement plans.
That’s the way I see it, that Trump may have saved us from a deadly and meaningless war. If not, there was nothing lost by withdrawing because there was nothing to gain.
T don’t know about all that.
But Russia and Iran’s common interests are no more.
Now they’re competitors in Syria.
I like that situation.
I find the premise as nonsense.
Why? It presumes more from the Turks than was likely or logical. The Turks were not going to war with the U.S. in Syria over the Kurds. Trump saying no to Erodgan would have meant continuation of the status quo in Northern Syria, not war with Turkey.
That is not an argument pro or con about Trump’s change in policy. It is an argument against the author’s premise about that policy change. We have assets in the region that could simultaneously blunt an Iranian and a Turkish attack. Iran knows it and Erdogan knows it.