The neocon problem.

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Its ALL FAKE NEWS until a Jew Neocon appears on the FAKE news.

Then it becomes sage wisdom which must be converted into state policy.

Incidentally we recently read his book, Ship of Fools, in which he argues that American elites are grievously harming the American people, worse than at any time in US history. It is excellent, and gets the coveted RI seal of approval!

He wrote a piece in the American Conservative recently “Why Are These Professional War Peddlers Still Around?” where he attacked war-lovin’ neocons like Bill Kristol and Max Boot.

Carlson has been great on Syria for a couple years now.

One of the Tuck’s favorite themes - Chicago’s middle class has disappeared(!) over the last 10 years, because of destructive economic policies of US elites, particularly open immigration.

ANCIENT FEUDAL SOCIETY

A place of the very rich and the very poor- neo-liberal Turkey, India and Russia.

Human national development into the post industrial modern society has been underpinned by a very large Middle-Class 40-60% of the population.

Colonel Robert David Steele (Retired Marines Officer and ex-CIA)

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Colonel Robert David Steele---President wants to parle and join the Billionaires elite club.

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GRAND SLAM PROJECTION

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Political projection is a defence mechanism in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.^[1] For example, a person who is habitually rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude. It incorporates blame shifting......Projection of general guilt.

The Duran about the REAL coup attempt against President Trump from 2016

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President Trump completely exonerated--MSM feigns fake Silence

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Russiagate Is Finished

By Moon of Alabama.

For more than two years U.S. politicians, the media and some bloggers hyped a conspiracy theory. They claimed that Russia had somehow colluded with the Trump campaign to get him elected.

An obviously fake 'Dirty Dossier' about Trump, commissioned by the Clinton campaign, was presented as evidence. Regular business contacts between Trump flunkies and people in Ukraine or Russia were claimed to be proof for nefarious deals. A Russian click-bait company was accused of manipulating the U.S. electorate by posting puppy pictures and crazy memes on social media. Huge investigations were launched. Every rumor or irrelevant detail coming from them was declared to be - finally - the evidence that would put Trump into the slammer. Every month the walls were closing in on Trump.

At the same time the very real Trump actions that hurt Russia were ignored.

Finally the conspiracy theory has run out of steam. Russiagate is finished:

After two years and 200 interviews, the Senate Intelligence Committee is approaching the end of its investigation into the 2016 election, having uncovered no direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to both Democrats and Republicans on the committee.
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Democrats and other Trump opponents have long believed that special counsel Robert Mueller and Congressional investigators would unearth new and more explosive evidence of Trump campaign coordination with Russians. Mueller may yet do so, although Justice Department and Congressional sources say they believe that he, too, is close to wrapping up his investigation.

Nothing, zero, nada was found to support the conspiracy theory. The Trump campaign did not collude with Russia. A few flunkies were indicted for unrelated tax issues and for lying to the investigators about some minor details. But nothing at all supports the dramatic claims of collusion made since the beginning of the affair.

In a recent statement House leader Nancy Pelosi was reduced to accuse Trump campaign officials of doing their job:

“The indictment of Roger Stone makes clear that there was a deliberate, coordinated attempt by top Trump campaign officials to influence the 2016 election and subvert the will of the American people. ...duh???

No one called her out for spouting such nonsense.

Russiagate created a lot of damage.

The alleged Russian influence campaign that never happened was used to install censorship on social media. 

It was used to undermine the election of progressive Democrats. 

The weapon salesmen used it to push for more NATO aggression against Russia. 

Maria Butina, an innocent Russian woman interested in good relation with the United States, was held in solitary confinement (recommended) until she signed a paper which claims that she was involved in a conspiracy.

In a just world the people who for more then two years hyped the conspiracy theory and caused so much damage would be pushed out of their public positions. Unfortunately that is not going to happen. They will jump onto the next conspiracy train and continue from there.

Build the Wall

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American taxpayers have in effect paid for the erection of the now almost completed 150 mile-long “security” wall along Israel’s border with Egypt—designed to stop Africans from entering the Zionist state—a new article in the Examiner has revealed.

The article, written by Dave Gibson, a former legislative aide to a state senator and a widely published journalist, is titled “We can pay for Israel’s border fence but not our own” and says that the Israeli fence had cost $430 million.

The border includes electronic surveillance equipment such as cameras and radar.

“The Israeli government began construction on the fence in 2010, in an effort to stop Africans from entering the country illegally,” Mr Gibson wrote.

“Considering that the U.S. government gave Israel $3.4 billion in 2011, alone and a total of $123 billion between 1949 and 2011, it is safe to say that we paid for their fence. See the history of U.S. aid to Israel…”

In 2011 at the behest of Israel (Jew sacred numerology I guess-7, 11, 24, 27) The whores in the State Department and CIA initiated 'The Arab Spring'....an old dusted off plan from Rothschild London from the 1970's which called for the Balkanisation of Middle  Eastern states, thus weakening them for Israel via the use of Salafi Wahabi Islamic Fundamentalists paid for by the GCC and Saudi Arabia. Arabs paying for the destruction of fellow Arab states---how clever, through the organisational services and power of the State Department and CIA.

Soon the flood gates opened and millions of Sub-Saharan African's and other Africans massed in the recently created FAILED STATES of Libya, Tunisia and Egypt on their way to EUROPE.

How perfect for the Jew to manage the new slaves of the 21st century from which to profit from.....after all was it not the JEW who were intrinsically involved in the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade from Africa to the New World...circa 1500--1900.

Everything was perfect with the Arab Spring....4 Arab states destabilized Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and Syria.....and more to follow Jordan, Sudan, and the GCC member countries including Saudi Arabia. How wonderful and clever.

BUT, a small problem arose with Egypt. Some of the African migrants headed towards ISRAEL via FAILED STATE Egypt.....and Aparthied, Jew only Israel......the most RACIST nation on earth didn't want a flood of Niggers/Schwarzers flooding in and fondling the beautiful Jewish maidens. So Israel contacted the old whores of the State Department and CIA(GLOBALIST organisations) and ordered them to replace the Muslim Brotherhood puppet regime of the USA/Obummer with a puppet Military Junta in Egypt, and thus block the 'nigger 'influx.

Walls paid for by the USA are OK for Israel, but not the USA so says Chuck Schumer the MOSSAD agent.

President Trump must fight his inner JEW, and build the WALL to save AMERICA.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg

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Where is she?

Time to step down probably. 

A Supreme Court Judge should retire at age 65.

An age range for the court between 50-65.

One law for ordinary salt of the earth honest Americans and another for the GLOBALISTS

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So whats the solution?

A Donald Trump win in 2020.

Focusing on the HR section of the Administration, and teasing OUT the Globalists from within.

The GLOBALISTS in the administration who BLOCK and sabotage the true Trump agenda.

LOGIC and argument does not work with these types.

Colonel Robert David Steele (Retired marines officer and CIA)

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So whats next?

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Border Wall and immigration 

The economy

Forever meaningless wars

The Federal Reserve

But how does one fix the fake election system?

The American election is so fake, that President Trump ALWAYS needs massive landslides to get elected.

Ordinary Americans vote for one candidate, whilst the machines controlled by GLOBALISTS registers another preference.

78% of adults can vote in the USA, but of that only 50% ever bother to vote....due to cynicism and disillusionment by ordinary Americans.

Worse still there is further vast election fraud implemented through the DNC and the 22-25 million illegal aliens in the country.

Back to pencil paper ballots, where votes are counted where they cast--- with FINAL RESULTS DECLARED 48 hours after the polling stations close. No need to hurry for a 12 month Presidential election circus, right? 

But such much needed election reform can only materialize in the second Trump Presidency, and not before the 2020 elections.

HOWEVER, President Trump can take certain executive measures that does not require DNC cooperation to at least NEUTRALIZE IF NOT RECTIFY THE WORST EXCESSES of the fake American elections system.

The Halford Mackinder theory of EMPIRE was written by the British Empire for the British Empire.

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Listen carefully children. I shall only mention it once or twice, and not drone on about this forever. You at the back stop talking and pay attention! Make sure you do your homework.

I mentioned it in our previous class in 2015????

The USA does not need to consciously or subconsciously copy the evil British Empire, and import GLOBALISTS from within and without to give effect to that policy in her administrations.

Copying of homework children is not allowed, and you will be given a fail!

President Trump's FINAL pronouncement: USA on the ground security personnel will leave sovereign Afghanistan territory

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American involvement in Afghanistan started from July 1979, under the GLOBALIST ROTHSCHILDS OF LONDON Jimmy Carter administration.

Zbig Brzezinski.....The Polish Aristocratic emigre to the USA articulated it and gave it effect through Pakistan.

After 40 years of vicious involvement in the country allying with the lowest common denominator (Warlords, Mafia figures, traitors to Afghanistan and extreme Wahabi Islamists--Gulbuddin Hekmatyar)....we pray that the USA finally leaves Afghanistan for good.

Hopefully this year, without any Byzantine/Sisyphean conditionalities.

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Trump Vows to Stop Endless Wars, Emphasizes Afghan Negotiations

'The hour has come to try at least for peace'

By Jason Ditz at antiwar.com

In some of his most direct comments with regard to the Afghan peace talks, President Trump has confirmed accelerating peace talks in Afghanistan, saying that, 

"great nations do not fight endless wars.” 

(Agreed---and or run themselves down in the process.

I don't recall the Roman Empire artificially manufacturing wars so that their 30 plus legions could be kept busy....to the point where the Dinarius was devalued to its worthlessness.

The Romans only fought wars they really had to...

• Their empire collapsed due to currency devaluation and the issuance of fiat currency (printing money from thin air)
• Normal ancient capitalist FREE TRADE--luxury items from India and the East, and massive Roman gold poured into those regions, thus further devaluing the Roman sesterces/Dinarius....'Patrician Romans had a love of beautiful Indian luxuries such as our arts, spices, jewels and beautiful woven cloth. Pliny the Elder, a Roman author and natural philosopher, wrote accounts of the Roman addiction to Indian luxury products. His books from the 1st century AD refer to the heavy drain of gold from Rome into India.' The British Empire facing the same problems 1800 years later simply invaded those rich productive parts of India, destroying the local industry and co-opting the production with British industry during the Industrial Revolution, with India acting as captured/captive market. The first Industrial revolution of Britain coincides with the British conquest of India. Predatory capitalism.
• Too big to manage with too many internal external problems.
• The German tribes.
• Behind the German tribes the pressure cooker of the 'the great migrations' of the steppes.circa 400 AD (Creating a stampede of caravans of people who flooded into the Roman empire---many of them hostile and armed)
• Massive Pentagon scale corruption./misappropriation/mismanagement.

The ONLY REAL HOSTILE INVASION is in the Southern Borderlands of the USA ---22--25 million illegal aliens (68 million aliens from 1965), and not all of them unskilled fruit pickers)

Trump confirmed that 17 years into this war, it is now possible to “pursue a possible political solution.” Though he admitted there was no guarantee of success, he did say that “the hour has come to at least try for peace.”

This has been opposed by the US Senate, where the McConnell Amendment expressed opposition to any US withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. The resolution also wants troops to stay in Syria, though in both cases it is ultimately non-binding.

Negotiations with the Taliban have been ongoing for months, and reports are that a basic framework is all but in place. This would involve the US leaving Afghanistan, and the Taliban keeping al-Qaeda and ISIS out.

Finalizing the deal is going to require some specific details to be worked out, but it really does seem that such a deal is more attainable now that at any time in years. President Trump’s commitment to “at least try” is much deeper than what most officials have offered during this war.

President Trump's FINAL pronouncement: USA on the ground security personnel will leave sovereign Syrian territory

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It would be great if everybody on the administration and the Deep State stated as much. And if they can't bring themselves to do so because Hilary in 2020 will countermand everything President Trump has done.....then they should just be quiet and hope and pray for that eventuality.

The Deep State Hilary/Obummer..... shit stirrers in the ADMINISTRATION should just be quiet for now, until their guy gets into power.

The alternative media will be monitoring the REAL FACTS on the ground..and reporting it.

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Trump: ISIS Defeated, Time for US Troops to Return From Syria

Jason Ditz at antiwar.com

In comments made to the anti-ISIS coalition, President Trump once again talked up the idea of leaving Syria. He said the troops have defeated ISIS, and says the US military couldn’t have done anything more than they already have.

Trump said he spoke with commanders a week ago on the final defeat of ISIS within Syria, and asked them how long it would take. He said they told him a week once they got going, and he said for them to do so. He suggested a formal announcement of this is imminent.

Yet Trump also presented this as an enduring fight, saying the coalition would continue for many years to come, and that there might always be some ISIS around somewhere. He also tied the fight to his anti-immigration position, saying the US is very tough on anyone they think might be coming here to aid “radical Islamic terror.”

With the ISIS fight continuing, however, he predicted that the number of troops involved globally would get smaller and smaller as the ISIS movement is diminished further. This suggests a broad drawdown trend beyond just leaving Syria, and one which is sure to anger hawks. 

ISIS/'al-CIA-duh' WILL FINALLY BE CLEARED FROM Syria ONCE AMERICAN DOUBLE SPEAK STOPS.....and Pentagon actions on the ground.

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Syria Sitrep - Trump Says U.S. Will Leave But Pentagon Keeps Adding Forces

By Moon of Alabama

The U.S. withdrawal from northeast Syria is still not happening. 

In yesterdays interview with CBS President Trump again said the troops would leave, but the the Pentagon is doing the opposite of leaving.

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The Islamic State forces north of the Euphrates are left to holding some 4 square kilometer of ground near the border to Iraq. The few hundred ISIS fighters still alive could be killed in a day or two which would then be the right time for the U.S. to leave as President Trump announced two month ago.

But the U.S. military keeps increasing its troop numbers and supplies to ISIS in the area. During the last two month the number of U.S. soldiers in northeast Syria rose by nearly 50%. Instead of the officially acknowledged 2,000 there are now at least 3,000 U.S. soldiers in northeast Syria. New weapons and equipment arrive every day. Additionally, the Syrian Observatory reports, the U.S. is bringing in a significant number of TOW anti-tank missiles and heavy machine guns even though there is no longer an apparent use for these:

made in the USA by Raytheon

[T]he International Coalition Forces brought quantities of anti-armor thermal missiles during the recent period, to their bases east of Euphrates area, in conjunction with bringing quantities of machineguns known as “DShK”, and the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the range of the missiles reaches about 6 km, but the reasons for bringing these weapons was not known, especially as the “Islamic State” Organization in its last pocket at the east bank of Euphrates River is almost ended, ..
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[T]he Syrian Observatory has documented since the US president’s decision to withdraw until the 3rd of February 2018, the entry of 1130 trucks at least, carrying equipment, ammunition, weapons, military, and logistic equipment to bases of the International Coalition east of Euphrates, ..
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The process of entering the trucks also comes in conjunction with the arrival of hundreds of soldiers of the US Special Forces to the Syrian territory in a specific and special operation, the goal of which is to arrest the remaining leaders and members of the “Islamic State” Organization who are trapped in the remaining 4 kilometers for it east of Euphrates, ..

Today the New York Times finally confirms the increased troop numbers the Observatory reported weeks ago:

The American military has started withdrawing some equipment, but not yet troops, officials said on Sunday. The number of American troops in Syria has actually increased in recent weeks to more than 3,000 — a standard practice to bring in additional security and logistics troops temporarily to help protect and carry out the process of pulling out — three Defense Department officials said.

The explanation makes little sense. One does not need 1,000 additional troops to secure and remove the stocks of a 2,000 strong force deployment in mostly friendly territory.

The NYT also reveals that the U.S. wants to led the Kurdish PKK keep the arms it received:

A meeting in late January of the National Security Council’s “deputies committee” — the No. 2 leaders of national security departments and agencies — recommended allowing the Syrian Democratic Forces, a coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters, to keep the equipment the Pentagon has provided them and for an American-led air campaign to continue airstrikes to defend them against the Islamic State, according to two senior American officials.

This breaks a promise the U.S. repeatedly made to Turkey and gives Ankara more reasons to threaten the Kurds.

On Saturday a U.S. air attack targeted a Syrian army position south of the Euphrates near the border town al-Bukamal:

A military source told SANA that the U.S.-led coalition warplanes carried out an air strike overnight Saturday on Syrian artillery position in Sokkariyeh village, west of al-Bukamal city.The source added that the attack resulted in destroying the artillery and injuring two soldiers.
SANA reporter said that, in parallel with the coalition’s aggression, Daesh terrorists attacked military points in the area, but the army units repelled the attack and killed and wounded most of the attacking terrorists.

This is one of several incidents that lets one assume that the U.S. intentionally lets some ISIS fighters escape to bother the Syrian government.

The U.S. military says it fears the ISIS would regrow should U.S. troops retreat. But that argument only holds when no other troops would replace them. The only viable solution to handle northeast Syria after the territorial defeat of the Islamic State is obviously to ask the Syrian government to retake control of its land. It could defeat remaining Islamic State sleeper cells, handle the prisoners the Kurds have taken,  and keep the YPK/PKK and Turkey apart. But the U.S. foreign policy borg is still unwilling to concede that.

James Jeffrey, the neoconservative U.S. special envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition, thought up an elaborate scheme to 'protect the Kurds' and to secure the borders to Turkey with the help of allied troops.

Aaron Stein @aaronstein1 - 17:33 utc - 24 Jan 2019The Jeffrey plan being carried to Ankara/Rojava is very complex, requires open-ended commitments from UK-France, Turkish patrols in rural areas, SDF acquiescence, 3rd party forces, and US top cover, perhaps including a US enforced NFZ (unclear if POTUS is on board with this bit)

A week after that tweet the Wall Street Journal reported that the crazy scheme failed to win support from any of the relevant parties. The Kurds rejected it and Britain and France declined to send troops on a never ending mission between the waring Turkish and Kurdish sides.

No news has been released of any different scheme. The YPK/PKK Kurds the U.S. used as proxy force against the Islamic State recently lobbied in Washington to keep some U.S. troops in the area:

The group’s message to Washington policymakers has centered around slowing the US withdrawal, and stopping Turkish plans to police a safe zone on the border of northern Syria, which the SDC sees as a potentially deadly repeat of the 2018 incursion into the Kurdish-held city of Afrin.

The lobbying effort is likely to fail.

The Kurds still demand a substantial autonomy in exchange for letting the Syrian army retake the control of the northeast. Damascus rejects any local autonomy that goes beyond cultural rights. The teaching of a Kurdish language in local schools will be allowed, but there will be no separate Kurdish administration. As the alternatives fail to evolve the Kurds will soon have to choose between agreeing to Damascus' conditions or getting slaughtered by a Turkish invasion force.

Meanwhile Russia is working to reestablish the Adana Memorandum of 1998 between Turkey and Syria. In it Syria promised to hinder all Kurdish attacks from Syria on Turkey, while Turkey promised to refrained from anti-Kurdish engagements on Syrian grounds. The reviving of the agreement would require that Turkey gives up on the parts of Syria its forces and currently occupy and continue to turkify. There are already low level contacts between Turkey and Syria on the ground, but the Turkish President Erdogan is not yet willing to go further. A new meeting in the Astana format between Turkey, Russia and Iran is supposed to take place on February 14. It might come up with a new solution.

In his Sunday interview with CBS President Trump again explained his position on the retreat. Asked about concern that the defeated ISIS might rise again should the U.S. move out he responded:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And you know what we'll do? We'll come back if we have to. We have very fast airplanes. We have very good cargo planes. We can come back very quickly, and I'm not leaving. We have a base in Iraq and the base is a fantastic edifice. I mean, I was there recently. And I couldn't believe the money that was spent on these massive runways. And these-- I've-- I've rarely seen anything like it. And it's there. And we'll be there. And, frankly, we're hitting the caliphate from Iraq and as we slowly withdraw from Syria. Now the other thing after this--MARGARET BRENNAN: How many troops are still in Syria? When are they coming home?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Two thousand troops.
MARGARET BRENNAN: When are they coming home?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They are starting to, as we gain the remainder, the final remainder of the caliphate of the area, they'll be going to our base in Iraq. And, ultimately, some will be coming home. But we're going to be there and we're going to be staying--
MARGARET BRENNAN: So that's a matter of months?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We have to protect Israel. We have to protect other things that we have. But we're-- yeah, they will be coming back in a matter of time. ...

Trump's claim that there are only 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria shows that he apparently does not know what Pentagon is doing behind his back. He also has no idea of any real timeline for the retreat even as he continues to promote it.

Trump believes that he can keep troops in Iraq and use that country as a base against Iran:

MARGARET BRENNAN: But you want to keep troops [in Iraq] now?PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: --but when it was chosen-- well, we-- we spent a fortune on building this incredible base. We might as well keep it. And one of the reasons I want to keep it is because I want to be looking a little bit at Iran because Iran is a real problem.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Whoa, that's news. You're keeping troops in Iraq because you want to be able to strike in Iran?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, because I want to be able to watch Iran. All I want to do is be able to watch. We have an unbelievable and expensive military base built in Iraq. It's perfectly situated for looking at all over different parts of the troubled Middle East-- 
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: --rather than pulling up. And this is what a lot of people don't understand. We're going to keep watching and we're going to keep seeing and if there's trouble, if somebody is looking to do nuclear weapons or other things, we're going to know it before they do.

That the U.S. plans to stay in Iraq to "watch Iran" was news to the president of that country:

Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Monday that President Donald Trump did not ask Iraq’s permission for U.S. troops stationed there to “watch Iran.”
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“Don’t overburden Iraq with your own issues,” Salih said. “The U.S. is a major power ... but do not pursue your own policy priorities, we live here.”
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“It is of fundamental interest for Iraq to have good relations with Iran” and other neighboring countries, Salih said.

There are already moves underway in the Iraqi parliament to (again) kick the U.S. out of the country. The Sadr faction, the biggest one in parliament, is preparing legislation to achieve that. Other groups have threatened to use force to push the U.S. out. Back in December Elijah Magnier predicted that the U.S. would have either leave voluntarily or will be pushed out by force:

The Iraqi parliament can exert pressure over the government of Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi to ask President Trump to pull out US troops before the end of his mandate in 2020. The US establishment and the “Axis of the Resistance” can both connive and plan, but the last word will belong to the people of Iraq and to those who reject US hegemony in the Middle East, ..

Back to Syria. Idelb governorate continues to be the largest problem left in the receding war on Syria. It is ruled by the al-Qaeda aligned Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

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The Syrian military is waiting for orders to attack the enclave and is using artillery to 'soften up' the al-Qaeda positions near its lines. 

A new Bloomberg piece notes the contradiction in the argument of those who want the U.S. to stay in Syria because of ISIS. They never say a word about the much larger al-Qaeda force:

Islamic extremism in that war-torn country, runs their argument, is nowhere near as extinct as the President claims.There’s plenty of evidence that the critics are right about that. But it doesn’t necessarily translate into a case for staying in Syria. Because US troops aren’t even marginally involved in the fight against the biggest remaining jihadi force there — which is al-Qaeda, not ISIS.
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After eight years of civil war, the biggest chunk of jihadi-held territory in Syria now belongs to al-Qaeda, America’s original enemy in the global war on terror. Almost two decades after the September 11 attacks, the group’s Syrian affiliate has been on the march, seizing Idlib province in a dramatic advance last month. Its military strength is estimated to be in the tens of thousands, perhaps the largest concentration of armed jihadists ever assembled in one place.
But the US military isn’t fighting it — and isn't likely to, even if Trump were to abandon his plan to withdraw.

It will be Syrian, Russian and maybe some Iran supported forces that will have to clean up the mess the U.S. created by arming al-Qaeda. 

But they can only do so when they are not threatened by some new nefarious U.S. scheme. That the U.S. continues to supply dubious forces in the northeast, including with anti-tank weapons, increases the concern that Trump's repeated announcements of a withdrawal are not the last words spoken on that issue.

Mattis is Emperor Palpatine

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Abby Martin

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Tom Luongo's view

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President Trump must be CLEAR with his base, and the international forces upon whom he wishes to build his reputation and cooperation.

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No more Obummer like switch and bait.... withdrawing the troops which you put in there in the first place with a mini-surge at the behest of Mattis in Afghanistan, in 2017. This is a clear no no fudge, that will not be accepted by the Taliban and the Afghan people.

No more Obummer like switch and bait.... withdrawing the troops which you put in there in the first place with a mini-surge at the behest of Mattis in Syria, in 2017. This is a clear no no fudge, that will not be accepted by the sovereign legitimate Syrian government, and their backers Russia.

President Trump must strive to be fundamentally different to Obummer, Bush II and the Clintons. He is struggling to do so with the Wall, and with immigration......his base is content with this. This will help him with the 2020 RE-ELECTION.

He has delivered on the ECONOMY, and Jobs front......his base will be happy with this.

HOWEVER, Foreign Policy is intrinsically connected to the success and failure of Presidents FUTURE, as Bill Clinton so tauntingly reminded Bush I...'Its the economy stupid"......he focused on home issues first before going GLOBALIST on Foreign policy towards the end of his second term.

That is why ALL Democrat Presidential candidates .....'Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Amy Klobuchar were all on the side of withdrawal. How many ambitious Democrats will vote to give a Republican president a blank check for war as an election year approaches?'......They know instinctively what is a vote getter populist position.....as surely as President Trump.

The only Democratic crowd rooting to stay in Syria and Afghanistan is HILARY SUPPORTERS. Heaven forbid that the President finds himself on the same side as Hilary. 

The American Deep State is rooting to stay in Syria and Afghanistan, groping around looking for mischief and trouble with Russia and WWIII. WAR AND CONFLICT ENERGIZES THE DEEP STATE....its their natural forte, and conversely reduces the power of the populist Democratic President.(Unless he becomes a dictator who can control and manage the mastiff)

' Trump’s call to bring the troops home has left him isolated in Washington (BUT) If he makes withdrawal a priority in the State of the Union, he may find that he has more company throughout the country than he thinks.'





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Trump Backtracks on Syria, Afghan Withdrawals, Facing Growing Senate Pressure

Trump now wants to keep 'smaller number' of troops in Afghanistan

Jason Ditz Posted onat antiwar.com

Having drifted back and forth a few times on the US withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan, President Trump seemed solid on leaving last week, but facing growing opposition from the Senate now shows signs of backtracking once again.

Previously talking up how the wars in Afghanistan and Syria can’t last forever, Trump is now saying he wants a “smaller number” of troops to stay in Afghanistan, despite the Taliban already making it clear that was a non-starter for the peace deal. 

In Syria, Trump is now focused on the idea that the pullout can only happen after assuring that “Israel is protected,” which is as close to a recipe for permanent warfare as one can get. Israeli officials have made clear they want the war to be about Iran, not ISIS. 

And that seems to be he case in Iraq, as well, where President Trump is now saying US troops will remain, seemingly forever, to “watch Iran,” and make sure they don’t “do nuclear weapons or other things.”

Even with the slow, indefinitely half-departures, Trump was very hesitant, emphasizing that the US troops can “come back if we have to.” It’s going to be very hard for the US to “come back,” however, if they never get around to leaving. 

All of this never leaving is neatly in line with the stated positions of the Pentagon for years, but breaks wildly from President Trump’s recent talk of actually leaving some countries. The split seems to have coincided neatly with the Senate’s non-binding resolution expressing opposition to leaving either Syria or Afghanistan.

Though originally it seemed President Trump was going to stick to his guns on the matter, having already shrugged off opposition from within his administration, the pressure seems to be getting to him, and policy is slowly defaulting back to permanent wars with nebulous goals.

Why that is suddenly happening isn’t entirely clear, as the Pentagon’s outspoken opposition to ending wars seemed to do little but alienate Trump from former Defense Secretary James Mattis, and the other hawks in the administration failing in their own efforts to “walk back” the policy.

In the end, the weakness in Trump’s commitment to the pullout may reflect both Trump’s generally back of commitment to support the policy, and more importantly, his reluctance to clarify what the pullout policy actually is, or was, beyond the most broad strokes, allowing it to be revised on the fly.