The Pentagon said Thursday that three US troops are being examined for traumatic brain injuries after an attack on a US base in Syria that came as the US was backing a Kurdish-led offensive against government-controlled villages.
US Central Command said it launched airstrikes on Tuesday in eastern Syria in response to an attack on a US base and said it destroyed multiple trucks with rocket launcher systems and a T-64 battle tank.
CENTCOM framed the strikes as “self-defense,” leaving out the context that the US base came under attack while the US was backing an SDF offensive with artillery fire.
According to Al-Monitor, the offensive was led by the Deir Ezzor Military Council, a militia that falls under the SDF, and the US was supporting them as they “attempted to seize control of a series of villages occupied by pro-Assad forces just a few kilometers from the US base.”
The Al-Monitor report noted that the US-backed forces were taking advantage of the offensive launched by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an al-Qaeda offshoot, against the Syrian government in the northwest.
The report said the HTS offensive offered the US a “narrow opportunity to beef up control of Syria’s oil-rich region before more Iranian-aligned reinforcements flow into the country to bolster the Assad regime — and before US President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.”
Don't cry when you are in a country illegally…!
There is no time like the present for pressing forward with formal charges!…
YOU DO MEAN NEW LIES, RIGHT?
They made the claim before, this is not the first time, they are building on an official narrative justifying their presence where they should not be in the first place. A new NARRATIVE for DUMMIES will be the title.
… or, PROPAGANDA for DUMMIES…!
That is even more to the point.
"Don't cry when you are in a country illegally…!"
Apply that to yourself with your Russian comrades dying after illegally invading and taking land from Ukraine.
Good…! I got your reaction…!
Yes, you did.
Yes, because like Ukraine was for the Soviet Union, Syria was part of the USA until 1991, with millions of ethnic Americans living in its eastern provinces.
CENTCOM framed the strikes as “self-defense,” leaving out the context that the US base came under attack while the US was backing an SDF offensive with artillery fire.
Or "leaving out of context" that they are an unwelcomed guest in a sovereign country that they have no right to be in.
Would you say that about Russia in Ukraine?
You are not that vocal in that department, are you?
I've said it many times. Just like I've said many times that putting a hostile military alliance on Russia's underbelly will mean war. I know reality is out of your grasp, so you have to go with the "pro Russia" or "pro Putin" accusations as your go to response to anyone who doesn't want Ukraine to be used as fodder to weaken Russia or to feed our MIC.
You are not vocal when it comes to genocide, maybe you don't know what genocide is? It is a massacre of unarmed civilians, 70% women and children, do You know that? I forgot, you do know Putin did it. That is all you need to know.
I made a mistake years ago. I thought we were the good guys.
Yes, you made a big mistake, dictators Assad and Putin are the good guys.
And you're ok with the US designated terrorist organization (HTS) ruling the people of Syria. That's minus the hundreds of thousands that are about to die during the upcoming battles. Quite the "upgrade". And your fixation with Putin is telling.
The Salafists and Al Qaeda are the terrorist HTS now plus some others working hand in hand with Americans and the Israelis.
Maybe they need to also examine the White House senior staff for brain injury.
I'm amused that every time US troops get injured or killed during these incidents, they're "being examined for traumatic brain injuries." What the hell does that mean? Does it mean they just lost an arm and/or a leg and thus are "traumatized?" Or they're dead – which is like the ultimate "trauma"?
Well, they're not the first and they won't be the last. Before this war is over, thousands – maybe tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands – of US troops will have "traumatic brain injuries."
The only people who won't have "traumatic brain injuries" are the scum in Washington who started the war. Which is a reversal of how it should be.
Sicknesses and injuries seem to go through cycles where they’re theorized, then found/identified, then all of a sudden diagnosis becomes rampant.
Not just in a war context. Remember when it seemed like every school kid had ADHD and needed Ritalin? Or every mid-teen to mid-twenties girl/woman had depression and needed Prozac?
The last 10-15 years have been really big vis a vis “traumatic brain injury.” On the hard data end, the study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in football players — on the soft “something’s wrong, what could it be” end, the move toward catch-all diagnoses of military personnel coming back from the field with various symptoms, including the previously over-used PTSD, and before that “shell shock.”
It’s not all completely poppycock. Put people in environment where they’re getting their bells rung frequently by nearby explosions small and large for months or years on and, and it would be surprising if there WEREN’T negative effects. But as always, it’s easier to throw all conceivable effects into one convenient diagnosis than to get to the bottom of each effect … or stop doing the things causing the effects.
This is different, the Syrians did it like last time when they used chemical Weapons after they had been destroyed with Putin working together with Obama.
Wrong. It is common knowledge that the "rebels" initiated the chemical attacks to put blame on Syrian leaders. Assad.
The "rebels", hired by Israel and the U.S., are ISIS by another name.
All to secure the annexation of the Golan Heights, which the incoming President, Trump, approved of.
Nary a mention of the Palestinians now.
You are right, I do recall the accusations, the UN Rapporteurs did report it was not the Syrians it was ISIS, but the political arm at the UN denied it and the experts refused to sign the edited report and resigned.
My poor grammar, sorry, they had already been destroyed on a special American ship with Putin’s co-operation.
The attack occurred while the US was backing an offensive against villages in eastern Syria that are controlled by the Syrian government
Why are American troops there. Must be the cannon fodder we do not need.