Posted on 05/13/2025 1:50:47 PM PDT by ETCM
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will ease sanctions on Syria and move to normalize relations with its new government to give the country “a chance at peace.”
Trump made the announcement shortly before he was set to meet Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the onetime insurgent who last year led the overthrow of longtime leader Bashar Assad. Trump said the effort at rapprochement came at the urging of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi de facto ruler, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“There is a new government that will hopefully succeed,” Trump said of Syria, adding, “I say, good luck, Syria. Show us something special.”
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https://apnews.com/article/trump-mideast-saudi-arabia-mbs-qatar-uae-b782fe922d09afced2e1074b65016e80
Next stops, QATAR and UAE.
Sounded like it was a request from the Crown Prince he was honoring.
Why are we helping the new caliphate?
Does Trump consult with the current Ambassador at-large for international religious freedom regarding Christian treatment in Syria?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashad_Hussain
Aw, get with the program. The Head Chopper in Chief has changed outfits and switched monikers — and has been magically transformed into Mr. Democracy In Action.
His days in Al Qaeda and ISIS are behind him now, and State has removed the $10 million bounty they had on his head. We’re not supposed to notice that heads are still being chopped.
Better to make more friends than more enemies?
Now that the CIA/State/Israeli goal of overthrowing Assad is complete, we drop sanctions against the new ISIS government of Syria.
Sanctioned Assad hard, ISIS takes over and it’s all good now.
Disgusting.
Don’t forget Sultan Erdogan. He had a big fat finger in that pie. Still does, actually.
What has Assad been up to in Moscow lately? Seems kind of quiet there. Maybe his evac flight out of Syria DID get shot down like some said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_al-Sharaa
Of course that filthy Crown Prince requested that.
Al-Sharaa is a Saudi Wahabbist ISIS man.
He was also literally a member of Al Qeida. (You remember Al Qeida... they did this thing in New York, it was in all the papers).
So now the head camel jockey, wants his brotherly head chopper in Syria to get a little respect. Disgusting to see DC, no matter WHO is in charge, constantly fellating Saudi leaders.
The Repubs have impeded Trump on the DOGE, the Tariffs, Pharma, and deportations. They haven’t lifted a finger to pimp slap the judicial insurrection lawfare. And seems like most of our efforts are fiddle farting around with the middle east and Ukraine.
Sometimes I wonder why we even had an election.
ISIS guy
We and Israel supported him in beginning of that war
So no surprise in that now
One note
Young Saudi chief is not doubt liberalizing his country
He may rue that one day is my guess
PDJT was handed a schiff sandwich. I see there are 3 options:
1. Ignore the reality and let the head choppers go on with head chopping.
2. Engage in a never ending war with the head choppers.
3. Use different diplomatic approaches and economic leverages to restrain the head choppers from more chopping.
All anyone needs to know, is that you can think anything you want about 9/11. But you cannot read the secret 28 page report of Saudi government sponsorship of the attack.
It’s a slap in the face to every person who jumped to their death to escape a blast furnace inferno to cultivate friendship with the Saudis. We should still nuke Mecca and seize their assets here and any of their oilfield regions.
It’s a filthy easily defeated country and it’s America’s shame that we kowtow to them.
Astute observations. Wise words.
Bullcrap. So you can use diplomacy and economic incentives to restrain an ISIS/Al Qeida man and his movement.... but that wouldn’t work on Assad a secular leader who was the most liberal (in the classic sense) of any leader in the Arab world?
Baloney.
I used to despair of our trying to make pets out of terrorists, over and over. I said that if I were SecState, I’d plaster Foggy Bottom with posters of The Frog And The Scorpion fable.
But maybe it really is on purpose. Look at how our War on Terror only served to proliferate terrorists. Col. Larry Wilkerson can get way out in whacko left field these days, but maybe his Crescent of Chaos theory isn’t really so whacky.
Interesting that "ISIS guy" has made several references to formally recognizing and establishing relations with Israel. Meanwhile, Israel has continues to conduct airstrikes on Syrian military facilities and equipment. Now Trump comes out and drops sanctions and begins the process of normalizing relations with Syria. It seems this is one piece of Trump's vision for peace in the middle east that Bibi doesn't agree with.
Bibi was all in on the head choppers’ takeover of Syria. The Turks and the American carved their hunks out of the carcass of Syria, and Bibi figures he’s entitled to his chunk. And he’s taking it.
Qatar is expecting its ROI by other means.
“We and Israel supported him in beginning of that war”
I call BS on this - we have been trying to kill this guy from the beginning. Please cite a source showing the US supported him.
$10 million bounty on him back in 2017:
If you look back at May 2013, you can see the official declaration of terrorist status:
https://www.state.gov/executive-order-13224/
Before that he worked for Zarqawi in Iraq, so we were definitely trying to kill him in the mid-2000s as well.
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