Trump stabs the Kurds in the back

[T'Chenka]

Trump seriously just used the term "ultimate solution" while discussing the Turkish ethnic cleansing campaign.

LOL

but also

CRINGE

[Omega21]

Trump seriously just used the term "ultimate solution" while discussing the Turkish ethnic cleansing campaign.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Trump seriously just used the term "ultimate solution" while discussing the Turkish ethnic cleansing campaign.

Wow... definitely can see how that is offensive.

[Mr. Morden]

https://twitter.com/brett_mcgurk/status/1185270307205967872

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Trump blurts out a startling statement: ‘We’ve taken control of the oil in the Middle East’

“We’ve taken control of the oil in the Middle East, the oil that we’re talking about, the oil that everybody was worried about. We have the U.S. control of that,” Trump said, minutes after concluding a talk with the first two women astronauts to participate in an all-women spacewalk.

Trump went on to claim “there are no shots being fired, and a lot of people are doing a lot of things,” despite the supposed “ceasefire” that lasted less than 24 hours.

“This is a deal that should been made 15 years, 10 ago, over the last number of years under the Obama administration. The real numbers is over one million people were killed,” Trump said, doubling his claim from earlier this week. “We have lost no, not a drop of blood since we’ve started, what I’ve started, and it was, so far it’s working out.”

[T'Chenka]

Trump blurts out a startling statement: ‘We’ve taken control of the oil in the Middle East’

“We’ve taken control of the oil in the Middle East, the oil that we’re talking about, the oil that everybody was worried about. We have the U.S. control of that,” Trump said, minutes after concluding a talk with the first two women astronauts to participate in an all-women spacewalk.

Trump went on to claim “there are no shots being fired, and a lot of people are doing a lot of things,” despite the supposed “ceasefire” that lasted less than 24 hours.

“This is a deal that should been made 15 years, 10 ago, over the last number of years under the Obama administration. The real numbers is over one million people were killed,” Trump said, doubling his claim from earlier this week. “We have lost no, not a drop of blood since we’ve started, what I’ve started, and it was, so far it’s working out.”

He said the quiet part loud. OOPS! He just can't not f__k up. He isn't capable of competance.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Turkish Proxies Appear to Be Using White Phosphorus in Syria

with Turkey on Oct. 16. DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images

Turkish-backed forces appear to be using munitions loaded with white phosphorus—a chemical that can maim and kill when it comes in contact with human flesh—in their violent campaign against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, Foreign Policy has learned.

If Turkish proxies are intentionally using white phosphorus-loaded munitions to target civilians, that could constitute a war crime. After publication of this article, U.N.-backed investigators said they were looking into the accusations.

Meanwhile, reports emerged overnight that Turkey has continued to attack Kurdish fighters and civilian settlements in the border town of Ras al-Ain, despite a cease-fire agreement announced by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. Turkish-backed forces targeted a Kurdish medical convoy and an American aid organization trying to get into the town to evacuate wounded civilians, according to a Syrian conflict monitor and an official with the Kurdish Red Crescent.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I'll give Trump the benefit of the doubt on the "ultimate solution" statement. He is too slow-witted to make the historical connection to use the term as intended. He probably just thought it sounded cool. You know how he is with his adjectives.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I'll give Trump the benefit of the doubt on the "ultimate solution" statement. He is too slow-witted to make the historical connection to use the term as intended. He probably just thought it sounded cool. You know how he is with his adjectives.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1185907415499378690

Holocaust Encyclopedia  Deceiving the Public - The Propaganda of Deception

The perpetrators also hid their murderous intentions from many of the victims. Before and after the fact, the Germans used deceptive euphemisms to explain and justify deportations of Jews from their homes to ghettos or transit camps, and from the ghettos and camps to the gas chambers at Auschwitz and other killing centers. German officials stamped “evacuated,” a word with neutral connotations, on the passports of Jews deported from the Germany and Austria to the “model” ghetto at Theresienstadt, near Prague, or to ghettos in the East. German bureaucrats characterized deportations from the ghettos as “resettlements,” though such “resettlement” usually ended in death.

[Crumpets]

"At least our troops will finally be coming home."

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1185888682445807617

[The Dowager Mod]

#MAGA!
https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/1186205363802136577

[Lord Halifax]

Turkey is hardly "a relatively small country". Its population equals that of Germany and Iran.

Neither of which are in good positions to force us to withdraw troops.

There is no way we could keep troops in Germany against the will of the German government, and Iran is a country the US would not be able to occupy.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Some U.S. Troops May Remain In Northeast Syria To Protect Oil Fields
The U.S. may now keep some troops in northeast Syria, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday. It is the latest in a series of consequential pivots the Trump administration has made in its Syria policy.

Esper said the troops are needed to secure oil fields from falling into the hands of ISIS and profiting from them, The Associated Press reports. But most recently it was Russian mercenaries, not ISIS fighters, who tried to seize the oil fields and who were repulsed by U.S. airstrikes, NPR's Tom Bowman reports.

As a reminder:
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1183822488192671745
 

[Progressive Pessimist]

#MAGA!
https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/1186205363802136577

I recall a 'Full Frontal with Samantha Bee' segment that was based on going to Kurdistan and examining why they were so relatively favorable to Trump...so much that for that, I guess! You think their esteem for Trump would have been enough of an ego stroke for him to want to continue protecting the Kurds. Like always though, whenever someone provides something for Trump, he betrays them for petty reasons and then makes them an opponent. Just look at nearly all of the people who used to work for him.

[McNukes™ #NYCMMWasAHero]

The fact that there are still troops explains why the unification agreement hasn't gone into effect in the areas where troops are still present. On the other hand, that could be productive for the US strategy.

[HillGoose]

The US should offer all Kurds, Hong Kongers, Taiwanese, and Israelis immediate US citizenship!

[Kingpoleon]

#MAGA!
https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/1186205363802136577

This is truly saddening. Speaking as someone who has talked to many of our troops, this move, while saddening, was not unexpected by them.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Looks like the soldiers Donald orders to abandon our Kurdish allies are coming home after all:

Iraq says U.S. forces withdrawing from Syria have no approval to stay

U.S. forces that crossed into Iraq as part of a pull-out from Syria do not have permission to stay and can only be there in transit, the Iraqi military said on Tuesday.

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said, however, that Washington aimed eventually to bring the troops withdrawing from Syria back to the United States.

The Iraqi military statement contradicted the Pentagon’s announcement that all of the nearly 1,000 troops withdrawing from northern Syria are expected to move to western Iraq to continue the campaign against Islamic State militants and to help defend Iraq.

[GP270watch]

Looks like the soldiers Donald orders to abandon our Kurdish allies are coming home after all:

Iraq says U.S. forces withdrawing from Syria have no approval to stay

U.S. forces that crossed into Iraq as part of a pull-out from Syria do not have permission to stay and can only be there in transit, the Iraqi military said on Tuesday.

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said, however, that Washington aimed eventually to bring the troops withdrawing from Syria back to the United States.

The Iraqi military statement contradicted the Pentagon’s announcement that all of the nearly 1,000 troops withdrawing from northern Syria are expected to move to western Iraq to continue the campaign against Islamic State militants and to help defend Iraq.

  I thought Trump promised people would respect America again.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

McConnell introduces resolution opposing US withdrawal from Syria

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republican senators introduced a resolution Tuesday in opposition to President Donald Trump's withdrawal from Syria, warning that his decision has benefited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, ISIS, Russia and Iran.

"If not arrested, withdrawing from Syria will invite more of the chaos that breeds terrorism and creates a vacuum our adversaries will certainly fill," McConnell said on the Senate floor.

McConnell said if the President doesn't halt the withdrawal, Russia "will gain more leverage" in the Middle East, Iran-backed forces could gain greater access to a "strategic corridor that runs all the way from Tehran to the very doorstep of Israel" and the Assad regime will be invited to "reassert its oppressive control" over northeastern Syria.

[ProudModerate2]

#MAGA!
https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/1186205363802136577

This is truly saddening. Speaking as someone who has talked to many of our troops, this move, while saddening, was not unexpected by them.

Sad.
I'm sure some of our troops bonded with the Kurds (their fighters and normal populace). And now they have to explain that their a**hole president (not them) have been ordered to abandon their positions and leave the Kurds without protection.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Trump declares 'big success' in Syria as Russia, Turkey take control of key region

President Donald Trump declared a "big success" in Syria on Wednesday, even as Russia gained a foothold in that country and members of Congress expressed growing concerns about Trump's policy.

Critics quickly ridiculed Trump's claim of a victory. The president has come under withering criticism for withdrawing U.S. forces from northeastern Syria, paving the way for a deadly Turkish attack on U.S.-allied Kurdish forces.

"The only 'big success' is that Russia is now the dominant power in Syria and Vladimir Putin is the major-domo of Middle East power politics," said Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a hawkish Washington-based foreign policy research institute.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

https://cnn.it/33SQiou

Trump lifts all sanctions against Turkey

[Dr. Arch]

https://cnn.it/33SQiou

Trump lifts all sanctions against Turkey

Good Lord...

[Kingpoleon]

https://cnn.it/33SQiou

Trump lifts all sanctions against Turkey

Gee, and I really, really thought that meant something. (Not!)

On the bright side, now there isn’t a Kurdish Question distancing us from our Turkish allies in NATO.