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| ‘No longer in the area’: US troops will neither help nor hamper Turkey’s cross-border operation in Syria | ‘No longer in the area’: US troops will neither help nor hamper Turkey’s cross-border operation in Syria |
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| The US will neither support or otherwise be involved in the looming Turkish military operation in northern Syria, nor will it interfere, as American troops will no longer be in the “immediate area,” the White House has announced. | The US will neither support or otherwise be involved in the looming Turkish military operation in northern Syria, nor will it interfere, as American troops will no longer be in the “immediate area,” the White House has announced. |
| The US has apparently achieved its immediate goal in the region – nothing less than singlehandedly defeating Islamic State terrorist group and capturing hundreds of their fighters, obviously – and will now generously allow Turkey to take over, Donald Trump’s spokesperson has announced following the US leader’s Sunday call with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. | The US has apparently achieved its immediate goal in the region – nothing less than singlehandedly defeating Islamic State terrorist group and capturing hundreds of their fighters, obviously – and will now generously allow Turkey to take over, Donald Trump’s spokesperson has announced following the US leader’s Sunday call with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. |
| The apparent withdrawal of US troops from the strategic region that Washington has been clinging to for so long, was framed as a huge victory for American taxpayer. | |
| “Turkey will now be responsible for all ISIS fighters in the area captured over the past two years… The US will not hold them for what could be many years and great cost to the United States taxpayer,” the two paragraph short statement said, for the second time reminding Americans that it was the US and only the US that defeated the spooky ‘caliphate.’ | |
| Nothing was said about the fate of Syrian Kurds, who are considered to be US closest allies on the ground, ever since the so-called ‘moderate rebels’ turned out a PR disaster. Turkey sees these Kurdish militias as a national security threat that needs to be ‘tackled.’ | |
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