This is a jaw-dropping exhibition of the scope of President Trump’s strategic leverage. Remember how Secretary of State Rex Tillerson refused to take the bait from Senator Marco Rubio regarding Saudi Arabia? Put this outcome in the dividend column.
Those who have not followed the back-story of non-extremist politics in the middle-east will miss the obvious play identified more readily by those who have followed closely.
One of the major influences and advisers for King Salman of Saudi Arabia is Egyptian President Fattah Abdel el-Sisi. El-Sisi has already established a productive relationship with President Trump both before and after the election. No doubt King Salman and President Sisi debriefed the prior conversations between Trump and el-Sisi.
Today King Salman agrees to a primary expressed policy position of President Trump. Saudi Arabia will support and finance “safe zones” within Syria and Yemen. This is a big, big deal.
(Via Reuters) Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, in a phone call on Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump, agreed to support safe zones in Syria and Yemen, a White House statement said.
Trump, during his presidential campaign last year, had called for Gulf states to pay for establishing safe zones to protect Syrian refugees.
A statement after the phone call said the two leaders agreed on the importance of strengthening joint efforts to fight the spread of Islamic State militants.
“The president requested and the King agreed to support safe zones in Syria and Yemen, as well as supporting other ideas to help the many refugees who are displaced by the ongoing conflicts,” the statement said.
[…] A senior Saudi source told Reuters the two leaders spoke for over an hour by telephone and agreed to step up counter-terrorism and military cooperation and enhance economic cooperation. But the source had no word on whether the two leaders discussed Trump’s order to put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily ban travelers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries.
The source said Saudi Arabia would enhance its participation in the U.S.-led coalition fighting to oust Islamic State from its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
The White House statement said the two leaders also agreed on the need to address “Iran’s destabilizing regional activities.” SPA also mentioned Trump and the King had similar visions on “confronting whomever seeks to destabilise security and stability in the region and interfere in the affairs of other countries,” an apparent reference to Riyadh’s arch-foe Iran.
Both countries share views about Iranian policies in the region, the Saudi source said, suggesting Trump agreed with Riyadh’s suspicion of what it sees as Tehran’s growing influence in the Arab world. Iran denies it meddles in Arab countries. (read more)
In addition to el-Sisi there are modern entities within the Gulf States, specifically the UAE, who will understand and support a more strategic White House relationship.
Predictably, Qatar, the worst of the bunch, will be excluded if they don’t fall in line. The Gulf States have grown more open in their admonishment of the actions under the table of those holding extremist views. When Qatar expelled the five leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, this was an early indication that Sisi’s moderate ideological influence was empowering push back. The Gulf States rallied around Sisi’s call for expulsion.
A move by King Salman (Saudi Arabia) to support the safe zones in Syria and Yemen is evidence of Sisi’s growing alliance holding more influence. King Abdullah (Jordan) is already on team Sisi.
This is good news for everyone who wants to see Islamic extremist elements confronted and removed.
The MSM, democrats and republicans will never recognize the IQ of this president. He has thought out every tack and knows exactly what the response will be. I can imagine him sitting in a staff meeting and saying “hey, y’all, watch this”!
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Exactly! I’ve been saying this for some time now, “Trump is 20 steps ahead of everybody at any one time”
I’m no genius, but I’m a pretty sharp cookie. If one removes hubris & ego from the equation, an intelligent person can immediately recognize brilliance & intelligence in others. There have been moments the last 2 years where I’ve been absolutely STUNNED that people cannot recognize the brilliant mind of Trump. Truly, I don’t get it. How can people miss it? Oh wait, I already answered that….hubris & ego.
How blessed are we that this man is on our side? Can you imagine his mind & power of position being wielded against us? YIKES!!!
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God’s side, Bluto…God’s side!
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The MSM, democrats and republicans apparently will never recognize this story! It’s not headlining anywhere else.
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‘Hold my root beer’.
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WE FINALLY HAVE AN AMAZING NEW PRESIDENT WHO LOVES AMERICA!!!!!
PRAISE GOD!!!
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He is a lion, who thinks like a fox and can be as vulgar as a sailor or charming as an English diplomat. The beauty is he loves America, wants to win and works 20 hours a day.
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Yep and Americans get a twofer. We get the work of two Presidents in one! If not 3or 4!
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AMEN.. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS AMAZING!!!!
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Worth listening to the message this young Australian preacher delivers. “5 ways the World has changed” since Trump’s inauguration!
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TY Rick for posting this.
He sees it exactly as it is & glad that someone from another country is preaching the truth about this election.
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Thank you for posting this video. I have listening to it and am passing it around.
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THANK GOD FOR OUR NEW WONDERFUL PRESIDENT TRUMP !
RADICAL HATERS WILL NOT STOP HIM!!! GO BACK TO YOUR CAVES!!
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THANK YOU ,SPEAKING TRUTH,PRAISE OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!
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For those advocating for the Iraqis who “helped” our troops in Iraq? Read this and think again!
“As we noted in our report on the trial of “Steve-O,” an Iraqi man who “helped” American soldiers in Iraq and who in turn was granted asylum in the US because a soldier befriended him, horrific cases like this one rarely make national news in large part, I believe, because it goes against the melting pot mythology surrounding Islam and our immigration policy that has opened America’s doors to an alien culture.”
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/trip-down-memory-lane-iraqi-who-helped-american-troops-convicted-of-brutal-rape/
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Here is the original story – from 2014: From US Helpers in Iraq to Sex Criminals in Colorado – http://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2014/01/24/from-us-helpers-in-iraq-to-sex-criminals-in-colorado-n1783901
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Sorry – this link is actually an editorial about the issue.
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Sad, but there you have it. How many of our servicemen have been ambushed by native Iraqis & Afghanis working for and training with the US military?!
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Ha, ha, ha.
Love it!
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Did the President discuss this on the phone with the Syrian leader yesterday?
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Without these “Protest To Change” in many different forms we would not be here today. President Trump has awakened America and proven that good trumps evil through self deportation. NO FEAR! There is no doubt in my mind this journey is in God’s hands and I am at peace with my decision to stand with Trump. I pray for Trump and his family every night and with everything that has transpired, I know something amazing going on here. He must have incredible inner peace to endure everything he’s been through. Love the man!
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Pray for his Cabinet. There is an interview with President Trump and David Brody on The 700 Club tomorrow. Trump says he calls on God more than ever for the Office of the President is that powerful and awe inspiring.
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I will pray for everyone around him.
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🙂 I will pray too.
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Here are your contact pages:
U.S. Senators. http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
U.S. Representatives. http://www.house.gov/representatives/
The White House. https://www.whitehouse.gov/transitionsplash/
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Here is a link to the video and an article about it:
http://www1.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2017/01/27/brody-file-exclusive-president-trump-says-persecuted-christians-will-be-given-priority-as-refugees
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This one sentence was interesting “confronting whomever seeks to destabilize security and stability in the region and interfere in the affairs of other countries” sounds exactly like George Soros & Crew. I think his days are numbered!
Now we know why Saudi Arabia and some of the other Mid-East nations were not on the list! More WINNING, please.
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It also sounds like Evan McMullin, John McCain, and others.
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We don’t know how smart this President is. God bless him. God bless these United States of America.
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According to one witness. We shall see.
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Let’s see if the Canadian Prime Minister will still advocate for more refugees when Canadians start to “howl.”
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Can you say “vote of no confidence”?
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If all the permanently outraged leftists were actually interested in a solution to the “refugee” problem instead of simply finding an excuse for venting their hatred of President Trump, they should be hailing this development. Chances are our new President will finish the 15 year War on Terror and solve the “refugee” crisis without endangering US citizens. God Bless President Trump.
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I assume this has been asked already, but since the “safe zones” will be largely for Sunnis, how can we be sure they won’t just be “fall back” areas for ISIS to retreat & regroup? The Gulf Arabs have been funding ISIS. Now they’re creating “safe zones” to save people from ISIS? It sounds like a way that the Syrian civil war might be continued indefinitely. I was rather preferring just letting Assad regain complete control of Syria – the status quo ante – when Syria was relatively peaceful (especially for Christians) and before Hillary/Obama/McCain got a wild hair up their ass to go toppling another government.
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A gathering place where we can monitor them – seems better than having them loose. But those “safe” zones will have to be very closely monitored, and those who leave tracked 100 percent.
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Assad’s military presence in Syria is not the most powerful. Another alpha is running that
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Yup the name is Putin and our president Trump had a constructive phone call with him yesterday.
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I sent this link and headline over to Drudge. I don’t know how many people have to send something for it to be linked on Drudge, but – hint, hint, hint.
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This is great news but I wouldn’t trust any Arab for Saudi Arabia has been pouring money into the USA to build mosques and madrasas to teach Islam and convert The West…NAUGHT!
I read on Infowars about Jihadi training camps in rural areas throughout the US and it makes you wonder when will they be called upon by Law Enforcement and The Feds/SWAT!
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Soon I think.
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Trump is cutting the Left off at the knees. Just when I think I can’t get more amazed, it happens. Apparently the Lefties in this country have never, ever conceived of the notion of problem solving, and having no proper response to this, they can only whine and complain.
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The RINOs are also not great Problem Solvers, dalethorn. If they were, we wouldn’t have been in this mess for the longest time now.
Also: witness McCain and Graham, etc. just today.
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RINOs have never had any intention of solving a problem. It’s like asking a Dodo to fly. Doesn’t exist, even if it existed.
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RINOS and the Left are two sides of the same Uniparty coin! Stop acting as if they are somehow “opponents” of each other!
They are both in opposition to the US!
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Look at the Repubs who sat on their fat azzes for 8 years and collected a six-figure salary while doing nothing. Now Trump wants a repeal/replace on Obamacare and they are NOT READY…they did nothing all this time and Boehner/Ryan are to blame for DELAYING!
I think most of these countries are glad Obama is gone and Hillary the thief is OUT for good. It is a shame what they did to this country and President Trump needs to call them out on it…disgraceful.
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make the world a great place, Sir with peace and love,by the grace of God,
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This is so cool, I’m having so much fun! Can’t wait to get up Monday morning and see what’s next. Coffee and Treehouse, see ya then. I’m tired, g’nite.
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Presser with King of Jordan?? Set your alarm!!!
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What a man! A Lion! And what a loving God to have brought us this amazing Blessing. So happy.
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I think Trumps phone call with Putin discussed safe zones.
Trump is putting the deal together.
Syria, Turkey, Saudi, Russia, Europe, U.S. don’t want these rebels. Get all together and wipe them out if needed.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/kremlin-us-plan-safe-zones-syria-careful-45058518
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One: Trump is solving problems faster that Soros can round up mobs to protest his solutions. I note that even CNN stopped its 24/7 travel ban coverage to give 10 minutes to new safe area agreement. Tomorrow the King of Jordan visit will bump yesterday’s safe area story!!
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-jordan-usa-visit-idUSKBN15B06P
Two: ObamaCare replacement — Trump should give Ryan/McConnell 90 days to come up with a replacement, and if they can’t do it, Trump should hand them his plan and give them 90 days to pass it.
Three: My head is spinning from how fast POTUS is accomplishing major achievements. Never enjoyed a headache before.
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Personally, I think I’d rather wait the 90 days for President Trump’s real plan. I don’t think the frauds in D.C. have an any idea what to do.
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Trump, Putin, plus the leaders of the region will make short work of cleaning up the mess that the Uniparty (D)ummycrats and (R)epublicrats and spineless EUrocrats have created. Plain and simple. Their only real obstacle is from the institutional momentum at home of years of unchecked leftist liberalism with no accountability.
Moving millions of Syrian “refugees” out of the area and into Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, etc and the USA ( 7,000 miles away! ) made no sense, ever. It was a gift to ISIS. The westerners who hatched this scheme were gifting ISIS by removing their potential adversaries and resistance off the battlefield. They were literally working for ISIS conquering the region.
It was also a gift to Islam itself in its 1400 year Jihad to conquer the world. Rather than having to hack or shoot their way in to enemy territory, the westerners decided to invite the barbarians through their gates, and even are trying to remove the gates altogether! Goths, Moors, Muslims, no lesson of history is too important to remember in the minds of idiotic liberals.
It was a direct attack on USA citizens and taxpayers. They bring in people who can never be truly vetted, and then have a perfect excuse for jacking up the domestic police state to Orwellian levels to “keep us safe”. That’s a two’fer for the enemy right there and kills us twice in the process. When there is a natural disaster in the USA, does New Zealand or Kuwait or India fly us 7,000 miles and gift us cash money from their “taxpayers”? Obviously not, but perhaps we can talk all of these benevolent countries into taking our homegrown liberal sheep off our hands permanently.
The President’s action is an obvious product of cost-benefit analysis, tons of upside with nothing down. He kills multiple birds with one stone here. He establishes a working relationship with Saudi, potentially useful when USA and Russia start sorting out these Neocon/Neoliberal conflicts. He has established a place to send the already evacuated refugees and the future ones, especially our own. Having them camped there in theater is a huge psychological blow to ISIS and its partners because it rolls back their gains and can only be seen as a demoralizing defeat which is one of the few things that bothers them. When Syria gets rebuilt, the new improved and much better behaved Assad will have plenty of native hands to do the work for free, it is their own homeland after all. Terminating the gravy train, Trump saves the taxpayers even more money that was about to be blown. And he did it all with a phone call!
These refugees never should have left the area in the first place. As someone pointed out, Saudi is a big empty sandbox which already has facilities for millions, but they likely compromised and went with financing Syrian zones instead. Art of the deal in action yet again.
There is typical Liberal false analogies going around. Vietnam is hardly comparable. We had tens of thousands of Amerasian babies who once they reached adolescence, were being abused, enslaved and worse. Bringing them in with their mothers was humanitarian and specific laws were passed for this. We also had a real obligation to many South Vietnamese who the Communist Congress literally left for dead ( IMHO they wanted the Viet Cong and NVA to wipe them out after the last chopper flew off ). And anyone who knew Vietnamese refugees in the 1980’s knows that they would rat out any of their own if they were Anti-American at all. Moreover, they had named sponsors who they reported to and were responsible for their actions. Green cards used to be revoked for the most minor infraction, just ask John Lennon.
A really great idea would be to get a retroactive Alien Sponsorship bill passed into law. Each alien here must find a named sponsor who is liable for them until they become citizens. Taxpayers must be paid back for everything spent thus far, and any criminal action they engage in revokes their status and they get deported and the sponsor is billed for all costs. Aliens need to provide the name of their sponsor on demand and that person had better know the location and contact information for the Alien when queried. Weekly or monthly check-ins required, just like all citizens must do if they have parole officers.
Then, the leftist celebutards can really put their money where their mouth is. Sponsor an Alien today, and take responsibility for their actions. If we get back to law and order, then the concept of accountability must be front and center. With the Soros riots at the inauguration for example, just pursue the names of the groups on the permits for the demonstrations and charge them financially for damages, and criminally for the violence and injuries. Things will get sorted out quickly when their wallets are on the line and a prison cell lies waiting.
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That kind of Accountability, including the requirement for being faithful to this country, could save me so much grief. Save my life. No-one cares if your war-bride proves insane and destroys your life.
AMERICA FIRST!
Lose the losers.
When are we going to arrest George Soros for promotion of Un-American behavior, renting mobs of anarchists at every turn and for any reason, he is America’s #1 Seditionist. He must be arrested, convicted in a Terrorism court, sentenced for life plus two hundred years of solitary confinement; then we’ll decide which extradition requests to entertain. I know his former killing grounds wants him, and if death is on the table, I’ll help pay for the trip.
Heck, just snag him and give him to whomever will end his evil existence quickest. Send his children/monsters in training too. Confiscate all his holdings, use that to build good walls around the World, and to extinguish the Islamic threat.
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Many, if not most of the EU ‘refugees’ are either fake Syrians from Yemen, etc. or from Africa.
Moving Muslims into one’s country is a recipe for trouble.
Moving masses of young FAM (fighting age male) Muslims into one’s country is a recipe for chaos, crime, terrorism and death.
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Modify that to FARAM (fighting and raping age males)
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And Indians and Pakistanis. Very few are Syrian.
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I also came across this article, it mentions that Saudi Arabia might have hit peak oil. I don’t know how this bodes for their wanting that pipeline they wanted through Syria.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/01/29/saudi-arabia-will-continue-to-cut-oil-output-for-months-and-years-to-come/#52e6c72b178a
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I do not like/trust/want Saudis or Islamists or Islam in any way shape form or fashion in our country or in any way to influence our government or society.
Their system is evil and so are their values and motivations.
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#Grinning
#MAGA
#iLOVEu
#AmericaFirst
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Did I miss it or what – haven’t seen this reported anywhere yet…….???
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Why isn’t this being reported anywhere else?
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The headline on this (no real details yet) makes this the biggest State Dept / Foreign relations coup for a POTUS since Reagan crushed the old Soviet Empire.
Trump is just crushing, every at bat.
Yet NO MSM coverage at all.
Stunning.
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My new favorite hashtag #MASA make America Safe again
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Thank god trump is 15% smarter than the democrats he has to work with
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