Posted on 12/27/2018 6:50:10 AM PST by C19fan
Russia has told Turkey to let the Syrian government take back areas vacated by US troops with Ankara preparing to clear Kurdish fighters from a town in the war-torn country.
The Kremlin's Foreign Ministry said it expects the territory to be handed to Assad's forces after US president Donald Trump announced a pullout from the country last week - a move that surprised allies and sparked the resignation of two of his top aides.
Turkey has said it is working with Washington to coordinate the withdrawal of US forces but remains 'determined' to clear US-allied Kurdish fighters from Manbij in northern Syria. Pictures have emerged today showing Turkish armoured military vehicles and troop carriers being dispatched to the border with Syria.
However, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's troops and Russian forces have also started deploying to the front lines around the town.
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The President made the decision to withdraw, so let’s withdraw and let the chips fall where they may.
Lord knows we have monumental problems right here at home that need our full attention right now.
Well, the real estate IS Syria...
Geography lesson for the weak minded: It’s Syria. Not the US, not a protectorate or a territory of the US.
In the words of Don Rumsfeld, that is probably the least-worst option.
Isaiah 17 New International Version (NIV)
A Prophecy Against Damascus
17 A prophecy against Damascus:
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.
2
The cities of Aroer will be deserted
and left to flocks, which will lie down,
with no one to make them afraid.
3
The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory of the Israelites,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
4
“In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;
the fat of his body will waste away.
5
It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
gathering the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
6
Yet some gleanings will remain,
as when an olive tree is beaten,
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7
In that day people will look to their Maker
and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8
They will not look to the altars,
the work of their hands,
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[a]
and the incense altars their fingers have made.
9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.
10
You have forgotten God your Savior;
you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,
11
though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest will be as nothing
in the day of disease and incurable pain.
12
Woe to the many nations that rage—
they rage like the raging sea!
Woe to the peoples who roar—
they roar like the roaring of great waters!
13
Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,
when he rebukes them they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.
14
In the evening, sudden terror!
Before the morning, they are gone!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.
Footnotes:
Isaiah 17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
Fun to see Russia starting to knock Turkey around a little.
Nations do not have friends. At best, they have shared goals, which may or may not make them allies for varying lengths of time, but in the end, national interests outrank everything else.
With this and bombers in Venezuela, its time for Vlad to lose a few assets....before his hypersonics come on line.
What did Assad do that irritated BHO/HRC/KERRY?
Was Assad exercising too much control in Syria?
What was the reasoning for the BHO/HRC/KERRY induced Arab Spring?
What drove GHWB & GWB to invade Iraq?
Was Kuwait guilty of horizontal drilling into Iraqi oil fields?
Did Gaddafi exercise too much control in Libya?
Did not Saddam Hussain keep Iran in check?
Was Afghanistan sheltering terrorists or were the terrorists exercusing too much control in Afghanistan?
Was all this invention aimed at collapsing the Israeli government?
With all our own oil reserves why should we intervene at all?
Did we invent colonialism on the Continent of Africa.
Are we perpetually at war for the sake of weapons and tactical development?
Why isn’t there a cabinet level historian?
Russia has been a ally of Syria for decades. The fighting is going on inside Syrian territory. Why is anyone surprised Russia is standing up for one of its allies?
My only concern in Syria is the Kurds who have proven over and over to be our best ally in the Middle East when rubber hits the road. They are always at the tip of the spear whether it was attacking Saddam or and having been the most instrumental force along with the US in destroying ISIS. If only our NATO allies had the cajones of the Kurds.
We were doing just fine with Syria controlling Syria and not being involved at all. I don’t see where the desperate need to overthrow their government came from.
“Well, the real estate IS Syria...”
Location, location location . . .
Turkey should be ‘excused’ from NATO, and allowed to go to war with Russian all by itself.
Fascinating. Three-way, or four-way, chess.
It’s easy to see who the most powerful player is, and we should have guessed this would be what would happen next. Not that Putin cares about the Kurds and their desire for an independent nation of their own. The Bear is stepping in to avoid the world outrage that would occur if Turkey were allowed to slaughter the Kurds, which they are probably itching to do. And more important, doesn’t want to complicate his main goal, which is to secure the oil and gas wealth for Russia and protect his essential European market from competitors.
As a comforting side result, a confused people who don’t really know who their true friends are are getting their hide saved.
Russia wanted Iran out, now they want Turkey out. But of course deals are being made about the eventual spoils. There’s always more behind the scenes.
Let them fight it out, then move in and take over the ‘winner’, eh?
Syria is none of our business and it is certainly none of Turkey’s business to go invading Syria and then annexing territory.
Sounds like a plan to me. NOBODY has authorized the dismemberment of Syria, and if Russia is trying to prevent it, so much the better.
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