While President Trump still talks about withdrawing troops from Syria “relatively soon,” the impression on the ground in Syria is very much that US troops are staying. The Pentagon is showing no signs of rolling back deployments, and is adding more reinforcements into the area.
Over 2,000 US troops are deployed at a dozen bases in Syria, mostly in the northeast. Reports out of the area are that the US continues to expand the bases, building perimeter walls, defensive ditches, and helicopter runways.
This all points to one conclusion: the US troops are staying. Despite President Trump’s repeated comments, everything the Pentagon is doing gives the impression they’re readying more permanent bases, and making no effort to ready for drawing down their troop levels.
Pentagon officials have also been talking up a new round of military offensives against ISIS in northeastern Syria. The Pentagon has always been suggesting an open-ended presence in Syria, and much of the cabinet is seen to be trying to talk Trump out of a withdrawal.
Last week, after talking pullout, President Trump and French President Macron talked about having a “strong and lasting footprint” in Syria. Though Trump never explicitly said this meant he was ditching the pullout, he has so far issued no orders preparing to leave Syria.
No U.S. interest is vindicated by our illegal and unconstitutional war on Syria . We train and support jihad filth and lie about our objectives . We are responsible for over 500,000 civilian deaths and terrible destruction but point our finger at Assad after our lackeys, the White Helmets , manufacture government “chemical weapons” attacks. We drink Israel’s bathwater on this.
No, i have not ever expected since early ’11 that US will be ever satisfied unless it breaks Syria in two or more pieces.
It is now up to defense-bloc [Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Russia, Hezbollah, and Palestinians to force Syrian Kurds to stay in Syria.
US will not dare [for obvious reasons] use nukes in order to stay in and/or to split up Syria. And even if N.E. Syria is inundated with US troops, it cannot succeed in wresting a piece of Syria from Syrian people.
Syria/Russia needs to destroy every single American flag it sees in Syria. It is only th ere to overthrow and ruin you nation and hand it over to Israel and Saudi as well as the IOC pipelines and all the natural resources that come with Syria. The US is there for no other reason.
Good to see the continued success of US régime policies. Afghanistan- largest forces and fighting since 2011; Syria- not only illegal FUKUS attacks destroying research facilities, but refusal even to listen to the witnesses from the non-existent gas attack, as their story may not fit the bought and paid-for White Helmets version. Iran- ignore all facts and believe Netanyahu.
The only hope is Korea- with luck the Koreas can arrange the situation without any further “help” from the US régime.