Of the ~2500 troops stationed in Syria, Trump says 400 will remain, and most of the rest will be "going to different parts of the world", such as Iraq.
(Maybe Venezuela lol? -Ed.)
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Of the ~2500 troops stationed in Syria, Trump says 400 will remain, and most of the rest will be "going to different parts of the world", such as Iraq.
(Maybe Venezuela lol? -Ed.)
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Abandoning the Kurds will go down as a great shame. If we are not going to help them there, we should at least help them get here. That won't happen because Trump, but it should.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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A report was published by the Rojava Information Center on the system of government being implemented in the Kurdish controlled areas of Syria and their system seems to be pretty interesting and unique compared to other types of government around the word.
Despite the Turkish invasion and the deal with Russia and Assad which allowed regime troops to move into SDF areas this system is still being implemented and Assad has not taken full control of North and East Syria yet. The Kurds still hope to reach some sort of agreement with the Syrian regime that would allow the Autonomous Administration and the SDF to continue to govern the areas they control, but negotiations are at a standstill because neither side refuses to budge.
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Over the past 10 days, the SAA has undergone an Afghan-style collapse worse than anything else in the civil war. With well over 300 pieces of heavy armor documented lost, almost all captured, so far - following on a few thousand lost in the 2010s, largely irreplaceable - the SAA has arguably suffered the worst military defeat of the century. At no time have even the Russians in Ukraine suffered such catastrophes, either relatively or absolutely. Assad's family has reportedly evacuated. The Wagner Group was long ago politely evicted from Syria, and Russia's military presence is basically just a security element for its naval base. Things could get really awful again. Best case would be for the people of Latakia, Tartus, and Damascus spontaneously round up and execute or exile all the Assadists once and for all, while offering stiff enough resistance to the Islamists to bottle them back up in the north, and conclude an agreement on governance with the AANES.
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I hope this discourages Russia's allies from starting invasions of their own in the other regions.
Wooooo!!!
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At least the signs seem to point at the HTS trying to be somewhat moderate in how they will govern. Islamic, yes, but not ISIS or Taliban either and at least for now the minorities apart from the Kurds look fairly safe to stay in Syria.
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Stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
Stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.
Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.
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