Posted on 01/24/2024 10:08:27 AM PST by JonPreston
Since Hamas’s brutal attack against Israel on Oct. 7 and the resulting Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip, tensions and hostilities across the Middle East have reached fever pitch. And with such a complex regional crisis playing out, it should not come as a surprise that the Biden administration is reconsidering its military priorities in the region.
It should be cause for significant concern, however, that this could involve a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria. While no definitive decision has been made to leave, four sources within the Defense and State departments said the White House is no longer invested in sustaining a mission that it perceives as unnecessary. Active internal discussions are now underway to determine how and when a withdrawal may take place.
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Right you are. Saddam Hussain was a terrible person, obviously. But when Bush II toppled Saddam, he upset the apple cart in the whole region. There is now no counterbalance to Iran. And the Syria/Iraq border region is a dangerous hot spot.
Obama and Biden are fools. But Bush II has them both beat.
Lots of people have suffered and died so the war mongers could line their pockets. When it’s necessary to fight a war, it should be done with a massive overwhelming force so it is over quickly and there is no doubt as to who won. That is somehow not how things are done these days.
Arabs can’t drink their oil. It does not matter who controls the oil, a dictator or sheikh or a democratic government. They will all sell oil at market price.
Don’t leave out Bush.
This is happening because Iraq is about to formerly ask all US troops to leave. The US-Syria bases are supplied from Iraq. Iraq is fed up with us staying there and have refused to allow US personnel to leave Iraq bases, and are threatening to cut off all supply flights even into Iraq. So we are losing the ability to resupply the US bases in Syria and Iraq. Sitting ducks all around. Way past time to get completely out of both countries.
“agree, I think things are a lot worse there than we know.”
ABSOLUTELY.
No, it's a cause for rejoicing.
And just imagine if they were deployed along the Rio Grande!
Foreign Policy Magazine is the Penthouse and Hustler magazine for globalists and neocons. Lord only knows what they are thinking when they open its cover.
Are we taking bets on how much equipment will get left behind?
The Vegas over/under is at $70 billion.....
Good. Bring all our troops home, beef up our defenses and screw these foreign entanglements.
We have our own oil
The ironic thing is that 4 years ago, Trump wanted to leave Syria, having exactly anticipated the scenario we are seeing now - and he was talked out of it by the homo Graham and cuck Pence, and sabotaged by the deep-state and its media allies.
Retiring diplomat says defense officials misled Trump on troop count in Syria
ied = lied.
If the US had assisted Assad Senior in eliminating the Muslim Brotherhood (and similar organizations) in Syria and surrounding nations, we could have a neutral relationship with Syria now, saved Lebanon and easily influenced Assad to make peace with Israel and ended the Golan Heights standoff.
Well Recep Tayyip Erdogan the President of Turkey is important to Biden in relation to Russia-Ukraine and the whole Middle East situation.
Erdogan hosting the Iranian President today.
Erdogan is upset with the US alliance with the Kurdish groups in Syria and Iraq he considers to be terrorists for wanting a Kurdish nation including Iraqi-Syrian-Iranian-Turkish territory.
If Biden wants Erdogan on line our troops will certainly have to pull out.
MAGA (Make America Great Again) ... not MMEISSA (Make Middle Eastern Islamic Sh!tholes Sh!t Again)
If it means "bases there" in friendly countries that want us there, then maybe.
If it means "bases there" in sovereign countries that do not want us there, then hell no.
More like taking over oil/gas:
—Syria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war
—Iraq: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq
—Libya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya
—Venezuela: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gideon_(2020)
These are ALL Russian aligned or formal allies as with Syria (since 1970 Russia has had a naval and air base there).
We got involved in these places based on lies, like Iraq with WMD, or false pretenses like Syria and the BS about a red line and chem weapons. It’s always been about oil. It’s what we worry about when we go into these places: https://apnews.com/article/334caccc941b40c99f0a6b9c40cd66cc
Russia is weak. They are an empire in decline and we smell blood in the water. Post Cold War, as time progressed, we have become more and more assertive and belligerent. Our overwhelming economic, political and military hegemony has caused our policy makers to begin acting with impunity. But what we have also caused is for much of the world to begin uniting against us.
This isn’t about our “defense” or “national security.” It’s about us ensuring we are the single source provider of oil and gas on this planet, that essentially anything which fly’s, goes across the ocean, hauls heavy loads on the roads, or pulls things or rail tracks keeps running using energy we control.
There are only 2 nations in this world which control the worlds energy (have ownership or control over the real estate where it comes from), the US and Russia. We control about 2/3rds (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Nigeria...), and the Russians control about 1/3 (Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya...). That does not include what we’re actively trying to tear away from them today.
Even if you have a French (Fina, Total), Dutch (Shell) or British (BP) oil company operating somewhere, the truth is it’s still the US which controls that nation where they are operating from, i.e. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Nigeria... In fact, that was a very sticky point when the French opposed the Iraq war in 2003 and then we went in. The French were worried that we would give them the boot. The point is, in the background we control the area, even if you have other countries operating there.
If you notice, you do not see the US concerned much about the Republic of Armenia, what was done with them historically or the threat they face today from the Turks. All these democracy, sovereignty, human rights nonsense arguments are cheesy rationalizations for what is really economically motivated, expeditionary and offensive in nature.
We use these false pretenses to garner support by the masses but they are selectively applied since we do not care much about the human rights abuses by our own allies Saudi Arabia and Jordan and our number one trade partner is a single party communist regime (no democracy) with a human rights record about as bad as they come, PRC. In fact, so ironic is all this false rationalizing that in Syria where we wanted to topple the government and install ours, we ended up supporting folks that were Islamist, as in chop at the neck types after the forces of the groups we were backing began to run out of people. It was actually the government of Assad which was more secular and us arming whack jobs there, just like we armed some whack jobs in Ukraine (Azov) when that benefited us.
We need to calm down and the enemy of our enemy is not always our friend.
Yeah, leave and turn the oil assets to ISIS so they can renew their Jihad against civilians. Great strategy but so typical of anti-civilization trolls.
LAFF if you think Syria or Russia can control those fields. They tried for 4 years -and failed again and again and again.
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