Among the wars inherited by the Biden Administration, Syria has much in common with Afghanistan, as barely any US troops are left there, and they don’t seem to be doing much of anything. What are Biden’s plans in Syria?
That’s still not clear, as military officials and advisers say that they are expecting a review and awaiting guidance. This will impact some 900 troops at a base near an oil and natural gas facility.
President Trump had envisioned these troops just staying forever, stealing oil from Syria as reparations for the US invasion that Syria never sought nor welcomed. The US military never welcomed that plan either, but now say they’re making no plans to leave.
That’s not to say that everyone is embracing the status quo. Robert Ford, the US Ambassador to Syria when all of this began, is calling on Biden to finish the pullout, saying ISIS is “largely contained” and no threat to the US, and that he doesn’t believe it’s worth leaving US troops there.
Convincing the US not to be militarily involved somewhere is a tall order, and reflecting that, the State Department says that the US has no plans to normalize relations with Syria. This could be a long-term problem for getting those troops out, because the US leadership sees normalization and hostilities as the two possible states. If the US is to remain hostile to Syria, the troops will likely stay, even if they aren’t doing anything, just to underscore how hostile they are.
I agree with the need for the US to keep its hands off Syria 100%. But got distracted with the mention of this nice guy, Robert Ford. The Syrian people paid a huge price for his activities in terms of loss of life and property. He basically supported the total destruction of Syria by way of regime change until the last Syrian!
Robert Ford’s bio: https://jackson.yale.edu/person/robert-ford/
Excerpts: “Kissinger Senior Fellow, U.S. Ambassador to Syria 2011-2014, receiving wide recognition for his work defending Syrians’ human rights in the face of the Bashar Asad regime’s repression.”
I guess if the Syrian people are starving and dead, they don’t miss their human rights. I feel sick.
Regime change in Syria is a continuing objective in Washington. It was Job-One for Hillary, she spent a lot of time on it, and her ilk will continue to drive the Dems now that they are back in office in our “democracy.” Syria is a key part of the Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon axis, as seen in Zionist Washington, so we can take the “China threat” with a grain of salt pending a remedy for Israeli discomforts in the Middle East. What will Washington try next? is the question now that Iran rules. The Kurds are still available to help Washington, along with some al Qaeda and ISIS remnants. Blinken and Sullivan are working on it, for sure. Russia has to be taken out, for one thing.
What will wash try next-decent question but evidently the zionist addiction to failure forces them to double down and continue to search for the next failure, as costly as that might be. Psychopaths are mentally incapable of admitting or even recognizing failure.
GO HOME!