Many months after the Iraqi parliament voted unanimously to expel US forces, the question of future troop levels is finally up for discussion at this weeks talks.
Iraq is driven by trying to avoid hosting a US-Iran proxy war, and sees not hosting US troops as the path of least resistance. US officials took permanent basing in Iraq as a given and are willing to do anything to Iraq to protect that.
This was why Trump threatened sanctions worse than Iran for the very suggestion the US should pullout. Even then, there was no consideration of leaving.
This is also why these talks cover the full US-Iraq relationship and not just troop levels. This allows the US to threaten cuts everywhere else if they don’t get what they want.
Pentagon officials say they expect Iraq will at least let them stay through the “final final victory” over ISIS. But again, there is no suggestion the US might actually leave after that.
US diplomacy at it`s finest……. gangster tactics, dictate, threats, demands, sticks, sanctions.
The US does not care how it is seen in the world, it knows there is a evermore growing anger, hate and resentment against it, even by it`s allies.
Even more hated by it’s own citizens when they see We are now the leader of the New World Order ,Our last President promised to stop starting all these foreign wars and bring the troops home . If Trump is doing this ? He is doing it slowly . So slow we can’t tell we are moving There was a story Putin asked Bush if Russia could join the NWO ? Bush replied yes . Putin said when are we going to sit down and discuss what the new world orders should be . Bush replied never the new world orders have already been decided . I believe that is when Putin decided to stay out .
Putin even suggested NATO to develop and build a joint defense missile system. The warmonger in the US and NATO have never been interested in integrating Russia into Europe.
The warmongers are still dreaming and planning to invade Russia.
They would love to integrate Russia into Europe Just like they integrated Yugoslavia into Europe . Russia would be gone like Yugoslavia is gone .
Our “leaders” forget that we are only 5% of the world’s population .. we are pissing off the other 95% and there’s going to be repercussions.
“A few months after part of the Iraqi parliament voted unanimously to expel US forces”
Fixed, no charge.
The vote..170-0 to expel US forces. 150 members did not attend.
Yep.
Which is just another way of saying exactly what I said.
Still, if it was 170 to 150, they want us gone.
US–get OUT now!
“This was why Trump threatened sanctions worse than Iran for the very suggestion the US should pullout.”
Wasn’t he the one claiming to have been the only candidate who was against the Iraq war during his 2016 campaign? And instead of using the opportunity to make his campaign rhetoric legit, he threatens them with killer sanctions. Of course he did tell Howard Stern “I guess so” when asked if we should invade. He also said we should have done it right the first time. So as usual, there are two variations to choose from. Maybe Trump is just being loyal to his pro war base.
Sure you wanna go down the “what trump said” road ? If so , I recommend smoking yer entire stash first. Might make some kinda sense then.
That’d take some doin’. 🙂
We do what we accuse others of doing. Iran has allies, we have subjects.
Thank goodness we brought democracy to Iraq. Thus way they can decide for themselves if they want the US Military to stay or leave.. Hahaha!
Yup, same chance as we got here in the US
“Up for talks” … They want us to get the hell out ! Why don’t we respect other countries sovereignty ? There is nothing to talk about… We invaded them based on lies, killed around a million of them , time to get our thugs and get the hell out of THEIR country.
Powerful explosion rocks Baghdad’s Green Zone after a Katyusha missile lands near US embassy today, while the talks start.
Damn, they missed.