After years of shipping weapons into Syria, the US promised Turkey in 2017 that all of the weapons provided to Kurdish groups
were merely temporary, and that the US would take everything back at
the end of the ISIS fight. This was important to Turkey, who feared the
arms being used against them in a future war.
That time is fast approaching, with President Trump declaring the war
won, and Turkey about to start a major war with the Kurdish YPG. The US
may never reclaim those arms, however, if commanders have their way.
US officials are now reporting that commanders are recommending that the Kurds just be allowed to keep all of the weapons provided by the US. No decisions are made, but the proposal has been submitted to President Trump.
The commanders are basing this suggestion on the idea that the ISIS war
“isn’t over,” but that is in direct contradiction to the White House
position that the war is over. And either way, the Turkish war is about
to start, which is sure to make them unhappy that the Kurds still have
all those US arms.
As was predicted when they first suggested the US would take the weapons
back, Pentagon officials are also saying that while they have records
of what weapons they gave the YPG, it “would be nearly impossible” to
locate them all now.
This is beyond stupid. Let the Kurds keep the US supplied weapons? Yeah sure, try and get them back.
We lied to the Turks, but they knew we were lying, and we knew they knew.
So we armed terrorists operating inside Turkey. It isn’t the first time, nor second.
Can’t be done, because he won’t, sounds like. It’s the other kind of firing time than he’s used to.
What’s a flat-out broken promise to a close ally really matter these days anyway?
I’m shocked! When did we start handing out all these guns in Syria? And here I’ve always thought Hillary believed in gun control. {sigh}
oh Turkey is not going to like that one bit….
….but frankly, as long as the Kurds ally with the Syrian central government and the SAA absorbs the kurdish fighters, so much the better for Syria and their allies as far as I am concerned!
the Syrian army has gained many hundreds if not thousands of tons of weapons (including even tanks and huge equipment) from the jihadists
America’s ironic contribution to anti-imperialism. Ain’t blowback just the best kind of bitch?
A U.S. official has already declared the notion that the weapons can be taken back as ‘assinine’.
That wasn’t Trump’s policy, btw. He’s just the President that wants out.
Sure, lets just take back ALL the weapons we saturated the area with. Should be easy, right?
“would be nearly impossible” to locate them all now.
No worries.. The Syrians will have no problem collecting them – along with the Kurds who will settle for the lesser of two dictators.