In comments to reporters this weekend, President Trump focused on the thousands of ISIS prisoners currently being held in Syria, complaining that France and Germany are refusing to take any of their own citizens back among them.
Trump declared “I defeated the Caliphate,” and complaining that “now we
have thousands of prisoners of war,” though the US involvement in
holding them appears minimal, and the Kurdish YPG are the ones actually
managing this major detention camp.
Neither France nor Germany has expressed a lot of interest in
repatriating hundreds or thousands of citizens, though Trump’s anger in
that is difficult to justify, since the US is also trying to weasel its
way out of taking back detainees by stripping them of citizenship.
Trump says ultimately he won’t spend billions and billions of dollars
holding all the prisoners of war, and instead “we’re going to probably
put them at the border and then they’ll have to capture them again.”
French nationals were always believed to be one of the largest sources
of ISIS fighters. Large numbers of ISIS-linked citizens has been a fear
for France for when the war was over, and they seem to prefer to pretend
those fighters don’t exist, instead of them all being herded into a
single camp in the Syrian desert.
“I defeated the caliphate”…did he write that with a sharpie ?
Now that Shiite militias have defeated ISIS, Trump evidently believes that it is his place to set the policies of Syria and Iraq without the approval of their governments and to impose those policies upon our allies against their will. There really is no limit to his delusional fantasies.
Not really just his delusion, but US militancys’ lies that such a “caliphate” ever existed, except in their PR department.
Never mind ISIS. The US, Saudis, and Turkey were all running al Qaeda out of Turkish camps administered by the CIA, armed by the CIA, using Saudi money and Turkish land. That is, they were running the exact same people who did 9/11 and whom we were fighting over in Afghanistan. This ought not to surprise, because we ran them in Afghanistan too, against the Soviets, until they “went off the reservation.”
If Turkey is pushed too far out of the European orbit, it will let those camps empty into Europe. The hate filled Israeli and neocon types who want to hurt all Muslims including Turkey are going to end up doing to Europe exactly what they want Europe to fear others will do to it. They’ll be happy with the outcome, since that would “prove them right.”
You’re absolutely right, Mark. The US, Saudis and Turkey were all running al Qaeda out of Turkish camps administered by the CIA, using Saudi money and Turkish land ,, Which means, they were running the exact same people who did 9/11 and whom we were fighting over in Afghanistan, This ought not surprise, because we ran them in Afghanistan, too, against the Soviets, until they “went off the reservation”.
I also agree that if Turkey’s pushed too far out of the European orbit, it will let those camps empty into Europe. The hate filled Israeli and Trotskyist aka neocon types who want to hurt all Muslims – including Turkey – are going to end up doing to Europe exactly what they want Europe to fear others will do it. They’ll then be happy with the outcome, since that’ll “prove them right”.
I hope Trump is just lying and not really so out-of-touch that he believes this. Just to remind everyone, no one from US or US vassals tried to defeat “the caliphate” which was a proxy terrorist army. Think of them as another branch like; US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and CIA Terrorists. It was RUSSIA who wiped them out, making fools of the western goons.