shmogie
Well-Known Member
President Trump has announced the withdrawal of all US troops from Northern Syria and in consultation with the President of Turkey has green lighted a Turkish invasion of Syria.
This is a massive error in a number of ways.
The Kurds have been a staunch ally of the US in fighting ISIS and al qa eda, for their loyalty and help they will now be abandoned to the Turks, who will slaughter them. Once again showing the US abandons itś allies in regional wars.
Turkey, once a valued secular ally, has fallen under the dictatorship of a muslim idealogue, and is more and more becoming a radical Islamic state. Trump has now empowered them more fully, and their is no doubt that after their invasion, they will annex part of Syria. This will only further encourage the ideas of a pan Islamic caliphate and the return of the Ottoman empire.
This decision strengthens Russian ambitions in the area, Syria will cling to Russia as a counterbalance to Turkey, and will agree to whatever Russia demands. As Russia fills the vacuum left by the departure of the US. others in the area will be forced to make deals with them, to our disadvantage.
As I looked at Trump in 2016 I supported most of his domestic ideas, but was put off by his isolationist foreign
policy thoughts. I hoped that advisers would keep him on the rails in this area, and applauded John Bolton as one who would. In my view, contrary to his detractors, Bolton knows the world thoroughly, understands diplomacy from a position of strength, and doesn´t just throw his hands up and quit.
Throughout his Presidency, I have waited for the real clanger in Trumps foreign policy.
Boltons resignation was the first shoe to drop, I knew something really bad was very likely to come.
The second shoe has dropped, and as I feared, it is the harbinger of disaster.
This is a massive error in a number of ways.
The Kurds have been a staunch ally of the US in fighting ISIS and al qa eda, for their loyalty and help they will now be abandoned to the Turks, who will slaughter them. Once again showing the US abandons itś allies in regional wars.
Turkey, once a valued secular ally, has fallen under the dictatorship of a muslim idealogue, and is more and more becoming a radical Islamic state. Trump has now empowered them more fully, and their is no doubt that after their invasion, they will annex part of Syria. This will only further encourage the ideas of a pan Islamic caliphate and the return of the Ottoman empire.
This decision strengthens Russian ambitions in the area, Syria will cling to Russia as a counterbalance to Turkey, and will agree to whatever Russia demands. As Russia fills the vacuum left by the departure of the US. others in the area will be forced to make deals with them, to our disadvantage.
As I looked at Trump in 2016 I supported most of his domestic ideas, but was put off by his isolationist foreign
policy thoughts. I hoped that advisers would keep him on the rails in this area, and applauded John Bolton as one who would. In my view, contrary to his detractors, Bolton knows the world thoroughly, understands diplomacy from a position of strength, and doesn´t just throw his hands up and quit.
Throughout his Presidency, I have waited for the real clanger in Trumps foreign policy.
Boltons resignation was the first shoe to drop, I knew something really bad was very likely to come.
The second shoe has dropped, and as I feared, it is the harbinger of disaster.