Why do we have soldiers in that area?
Are these the troops we pulled out a few months ago?
US shot 14 year old as the locals were yelling, “what are you doing in our country?”, and throwing stones. Villagers return fire. Russia steps in to deescalate things. US troops withdraw.
Lots of vid on Twitter under #Qamishli.
The country with the cheapest oil wins. The country with oil that is too expensive risks being invaded and occupied. Oil in enormous quantities is of the utmost importance in a military pursuit (see Patton, fuel). Cheap oil is necessary for a strong economy. Do you want to pay much more at the pumps? Military leaders and academics have long warned that nations would be fighting increasingly more in time over oil resources. You’re seeing part of that fight with propaganda in social media now.
So our Army, operating in Syria without the slightest legal authority besides the 9/11 AUMF resolution, there to protect rebels from the Syrian government after we switched sides in the war on terror and started supporting AQ in Syria, tried to run a Syrian Army roadblock, in Syria, and when shot at, they shot back... and it’s “self defense”.
You just gotta laugh. The occupation government in DC doesn’t even pretend anymore. Trump order the troops out, the Generals just basically flipped him the finger and reclassified everyone as some kind of trainer and marched on.
POTUS needs to ask the useless United States Senate for a declaration of war on Syria. Put the beltway swamp scum on record. This is ridiculous.