According to the White House, 50 special forces operators attacked the leadership compound of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the ISIS replacement head for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who was killed in 2019. According to the White House occupant, after a lengthy engagement with U.S. forces, al-Qurayshi killed himself the same way al-Baghdadi did, by exploding a bomb. There were no U.S. casualties.
(Via ABC) First responders reported that 13 people had been killed, including six children and four women. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said U.S. officials believe al-Qurayshi’s explosive killed himself, his wife, and three children. She added that U.S. officials were conducting an assessment to determine whether American action resulted in any civilian deaths. (more)
The White House background briefing on the strike IS HERE. The remarks by Joe Biden ARE HERE.
Sending 50 special operators for one building engagement is a little heavy; however, obviously the White House was petrified that something would go wrong, and the last thing Ron Klain wants would be another boondoggle to add to the pile of disasters this administration has created.
That said, rather than debate the mission, I would draw attention to the location and bigger picture. Northern Syria is part of the Muslim Brotherhood territory under the influence of Turkish President Recep Erdogan. ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, and all extremist Islamic factions therein are all just various shades of authentic Islam as promoted by The Muslim Brotherhood.
Turkey is a member of NATO. Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi and all of the various offshoots of ISIS could not operate in Northern Syria without the assistance of Turkey. But we are not allowed to talk about that. Notice how none of the media ask the White House or Pentagon if we discussed the attack with Turkey in advance?
Background – Circa 2018
The announcement of The United States drawing down troop deployment from Northern Syria, with the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia sending in replacements to bolster the region, highlights a much larger backstory.
President Obama’s February ’09 Cairo speech began a sequence of events that led to what was called the “Arab Spring” – factually an extremist uprising. Bolstered by the resulting chaos, the Muslim Brotherhood rose to power in Egypt behind Mohammed Morsi.
However, a majority of the Egyptian people rejected President Morsi’s Sharia governance, and asked a well respected General Fattah al-Sisi to step in.
Accepting the request of a desperate people, Sisi removed Morsi, disbanded the Muslim Brotherhood and went on to win a landslide election in 2014.
The leadership of the Brotherhood fled to Qatar.
President Obama and his policy team were not happy with this outcome. Obama supported Morsi, not al-Sisi. Another person who was not happy was Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who also supported Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Undeterred, and understanding the need for urgency, Egyptian President al-Sisi then began a long process of confronting extremism. Sisi destroyed the Hamas terror tunnels on the border between Egypt and Israel; and, despite the anxiety expressed by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Sisi brokered an interim peace agreement between the Palestinian Authority and Israelis.
Destroying the Hamas tunnels removed the physical terror influence of Iran. President al-Sisi then returned his focus back to Qatar and their support for the exiled leadership of the Brotherhood.
President al-Sisi formed a coalition against Qatar. This coalition included the UAE and Saudi Arabia who withdrew their ambassadors and isolated Qatar in the region. This was the beginning of what we now call, more broadly, the Arab coalition. The coalition initiated sanctions against Qatar until they stopped financing and harboring terror. Remember, this is late in 2014 and a lot is happening really fast.
Against growing pressure from Arab states, including the Gulf Cooperation Council, Qatar agreed to expel seven leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Again, reflecting his alignment with the Brotherhood, and with much more grand ambitions of a new Ottoman empire as his unspoken motive, Recep Erdogan provided the terror leaders a home in Turkey.
It is important to note timing (’13, ’14, ’15,) and the political alignments:
- President Obama, Turkey (Erdogan), Qatar, the Palestinian Authority, and Iran, were aligned with favorable outlook toward the Muslim Brotherhood.
- Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE and the Gulf Arab states were not favorable toward the Muslim Brotherhood.
In the background of this ideological conflict, Syria was in a state of civil war as a result of U.S. Obama policy carried out by Secretary Clinton/Leon Panetta and Secretary Kerry/John Brennan. Obama was aligned with Turkey, again Erdogan, who wants greater influence and has a vision of his new Ottoman empire.
As gatekeeper between Europe and the Middle East, Erdogan knows the value of his geography and the influence it provides him.
Erdogan also wants to absorb Northern Syria and is willing to enlist his Muslim Brotherhood allies toward his goals. However, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE (team anti-Brotherhood) are against the expansion of Turkish influence.
Despite President Obama’s ongoing opposition, Egyptian President al-Sisi faced down Turkey over a U.N. Security Council seat and quietly defeated them. [In a secret ballot, Erdogan lost.] At the same time this was happening, expansive energy reserves via natural gas, were discovered to be much larger than initially thought off the coast of Israel.
♦Fast forward to the 2016 presidential election and outcome of a Donald Trump victory. With President Trump, the power dynamic shifts.
Hillary Clinton, recognizing the value of the financial benefit from Qatar, would have supported the Muslim Brotherhood; Donald Trump did not.
The Anti-Brotherhood, anti-extremism team now have an ally. The key voices are Egyptian President Fattah al-Sisi, Saudi Arabia King Salman, and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
President Trump supported the disposition and view of the Arab coalition (Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, GCC and ultimately Israel); President Trump was not supportive of the Pro-Brotherhood more extremist team (Turkey, Qatar, Palestinian Authority), and that becomes brutally obvious during the historic U.S-Gulf Arab Summit, when President Trump tells the audience to “drive out” the extremist voices.
Back to Syria. The Brotherhood is the political branch of multiple extremist groups. The bottom line is the Brotherhood supports radical Sunni extremism regardless of faction or fighting force. President Recep Erdogan of Turkey also favors the Brotherhood; and unfortunately, he leverages his position inside NATO with that favorability in mind.
Recep Erdogan wanted Northern Syria, and he wanted to eliminate any resistance toward his gaining Northern Syria – specifically, the Kurdish resistance.
Concerns over this key point was what drove a wedge between government policy advisers. Differences of opinion over this key point are what was driving opposition to Trump’s withdrawal position from Syria.
The Arab coalition, and Israel, oppose Erdogan. President Trump was undergoing a transition period for quite some time. Trump’s plan was essentially to draw down U.S. troops in Syria, and replace them with regional Arab coalition allies to bolster the Kurds. Many U.S. voices were concerned that Turkey (Erdogan) would attack this coalition and the Kurds, without the presence of U.S. troops.
Ultimately, this is where President Trump’s unique strategy became important.
President Trump was aware of the duplicitous and untrustworthy nature of President Erdogan; simultaneously Erdogan is in the NATO alliance. President Trump would obviously not allow fear of a NATO ally to drive U.S. policy, and he was right.
If you think about it, either: (A) Turkey needs to comply with group regional security and stability measures; or (B) Turkey needs to be kicked out of NATO, confronted and crushed.
Which option do you think President Trump was working on?
December 23, 2018:
December 24, 2018:
Knowing the economic approach that President Trump brought to solving these challenges, it was obvious Trump was positioning for option “A”, but in the background hoping for the opportunity to use option “B”, which would really get to the root of the problem.
This geopolitical dynamic also provided a clearer understanding of what motives Erdogan held when he was so aggressively antagonizing over the Kashoggi matter and trying to create a fracture in the relationship between President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MbS).
[…] We know that Jamal Khashoggi was never a journalist—at least, not in the usual sense of the word; he was a highly-partisan operative who worked with a handler to publish propaganda at the behest of the Emirate of Qatar. He was, in other words, an agent of influence. (read more)
Yes, that’s correct. Even the New York Times admitted Jamal Khashoggi was actually receiving his articles from the Qatar government explicitly to push an agenda favorable to their pro-Muslim Brotherhood views.
Now think about this. In the U.S. we know The Washington Post is essentially the print propaganda for the U.S. intelligence apparatus, and more specifically the CIA. Khashoggi was working at the Washington Post to write stories, approved by Qatar, favorable to the Muslim Brotherhood. The CIA Director was John Brennan – the former head of U.S. CIA Saudi office.
Notice how the pro-Brotherhood ideological gang is all connected around Khashoggi? Turkey, Qatar, CIA (Obama, Brennan) etc.
Oh, and one last thing. Remember that 2014/2015 massive natural gas reserve discovery off the coast of Israel?
Remember that?
Well, there was a 2018 development:
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said that Israel, Greece and Cyprus will sign an agreement early next year to build a pipeline to carry natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean to Europe, while the United States pledged its support for the ambitious project.
The $7 billion project, expected to take six or seven years to complete, promises to reshape the region as an energy provider and dent Russia’s dominance over the European energy market. It also could curtail Iranian ambitions to use Syria as a gateway to the eastern Mediterranean.
Speaking at a summit with the Greek and Cypriot leaders in southern Israel, Netanyahu said the three nations reaffirmed their commitment to the pipeline and discussed “important aspects” of the project. Italy is also a partner in the pipeline’s planning. Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades said the project is waiting for a green light from the European Union to move forward.
“We’re going to sign formally, officially, this agreement in a few months,” he said.
In another boost for the project, U.S. Ambassador David Friedman hailed the pipeline as integral to the “stability and prosperity of the Middle East and Europe,” and urged all countries in the region to ensure its success.
Washington is eyeing the east Mediterranean with renewed interest. In a meeting with the Greek foreign minister earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the region “an important strategic frontier” for Washington, which is working to strengthen its relations with “democratic allies there like Greece and Cyprus and Israel.” (read more)
Do you know who was the original energy policy consultant; the person who constructed the obscure -at the time- policy paper plan to avoid an EU pipeline through Turkey; and who put all of these regional heads together that ultimately ended with this announced deal?
That would be the little known, generally invisible young energy adviser, who would eventually become the central figure in the “spygate” targeting, George Papadopoulos.
Yes, for those following the granules as they expose… that energy extraction strategy alone would have put Papadopoulos in opposition to the interests of President Obama, candidate Clinton, Turkey, Qatar and ultimately Iran and Russia.
Huh… Funny that.
It’s almost as if….. I digress.
FAST FORWARD TO 2019
December 16, 2019, the White House released a letter sent by President Trump to President Erdogan, of Turkey, dated October 9th.
The letter was sent two days after President Trump made the decision to pull 28 members of the U.S. military out of harm’s way; two days before President Trump outlined the sanctions against Turkey; and five days before President Trump initiated those sanctions through Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
The warning was clear. President Trump was clear-eyed about the motives and intentions of the Turkish president, and Erdogan’s ideological alignment with political Islam via The Muslim Brotherhood.
One of the reasons this strategy is better than any military action, is simply because Turkey is a unique NATO ally, and the NATO alliance within Europe is insufferably incapable and unwilling to take action to defend their interests.
European NATO members wanted the benefits of a perpetual U.S. military presence. That EU outlook was simply beyond the limits of what President Trump was willing to do.
President Trump wanted to bring our troops home.
President Trump made it clear that any action by Turkey into Syria was unilateral. There will be no assistance by the U.S. on any aspect – including if Turkey was counter-attacked by Russia/Syria or organized Kurdish forces.
Essentially, Trump left Erdogan naked to a myriad of his enemies.
The U.S. part of the NATO shield is removed. The Europeans will not evoke the NATO defense treaty without the U.S. Heck, the EU is essentially spineless without the power of the U.S. military. Additionally, President Trump is calling out the duplicity of the entire situation by calling all of their bluffs. President Trump is calling out: NATO, weak EU ‘allies’ and Turkey.
In essence, the Trump White House approach was a major Gordian knot being cut. It is unlikely President Erdogan expected to have this framework made so public.
With Europe refusing to stand up to defend their own interests, President Trump removed U.S. forces from the untenable position of guarding all the big cat cages, ad infinitum, to keep the zoo status intact.
Instead, President Trump supported the Arab coalition and the GCC that has been assembling a military coalition to protect itself from the Muslim Brotherhood.
That, along with the strategic need to keep global oil prices low to offset any influence by Iran and Russia, is why President Trump was willing to support Saudi Arabia with more troops – while simultaneously withdrawing from Syria where the U.S. was having to stand alone to protect the interests of Europeans who will not protect themselves.
In one regional area, the U.S. would support and defend Israel, Egypt and Jordan. In the Southern region the U.S. will support the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, Bahrain and Qatar).
Will political Islam likely have a resurgence in the region, and will Recep Erdogan rise as the head of the Ottoman Empire once again? The former is likely, the latter is unknown.
President Trump was correctly withdrawing U.S. troops from a position of adversarialism against a NATO member. Why should the U.S. protect the interests of allies who will not be standing up to protect themselves?
President Trump was correct.
President Trump used economic weapons against Turkey. And, in keeping with the economic doctrine, Europe was also in the crosshairs.
President Trump would use economic weapons, a new U.S-EU trade deal, against the EU for creating this mess and refusing to defend themselves.
President Trump would only use military weapons to protect allies that were: (A) willing to protect themselves, and (B) willing to pay for the support of the U.S. military protection.
It really was a commonsense doctrine. Help those who help themselves.
This was one of those weird “be careful what you wish for” scenarios for Turkish President Erdogan, because in his lust to recreate the Ottoman Empire ,he just might get removed. By isolating Erdogan on these issues, President Trump effectively left him naked to an alliance of his enemies
After President Trump talked to Kurdish General Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, President Trump then discussed the options available to President Erdogan. As a result of that conversation, Erdogan requested the U.S. mediate negotiations.
Erdogan’s request and acceptance happened immediately after President Trump signed an executive order [See Here] triggering the sanction authority of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as leverage against Turkey.
That’s how President Donald Trump was able to finally remove U.S. troops from Syria and get us out of the quagmire created by Washington DC foreign policy.
Very effective, America is sooo much safer now
Word has it Joe Biden is wandering around the White House wearing his Bomber Jacket & Flight Sunglasses carrying his pudding cup. He also has a phone call in to Corn Pop.
Don’t forget the Cheerios stuck to his bathrobe…
Biden’s using his Fisher Price cell phone too.
Biden authorizing a military action against a Muslim terrorist goes against his own history.
He was opposed to the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.
Just more evidence Biden is simply a sock puppet. Those pulling the strings are most likely trying to deflect attention from domestic politics.
You know that sleepy creepy had absolutely nothing to do with this , right ?
Or maybe Biden just needs cover for his failure to be able to start a war in Ukraine.
My thought exactly. Why would the Muzzslum Bro’hood, Maoist Obama and his installed “advisors” of Baked Potato Joe have him authorize this action.? With each passing day, the Uniparty warmongers are realizing that their attempt to start a war in the Ukraine is fizzling out with no popular support. So it’s back to the old Middle East “terrorist” Hilldawg playbook ???? Stay tuned, we shall see. ………FJB
Three thousand US troops are headed to eastern Ukraine, plenty of opportunity to generate a “crisis.”
Serious false flag potential amidst the idiotic provocations.
Brilliant President, We need him back in office ASAP!!
“ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, and all extremist Islamic factions therein are all just various shades of authentic Islam as promoted by The Muslim Brotherhood.”
FOBs; Friends of Barrak.
Sometimes they are called ISIS, sometimes al-Qaeda, sometimes Taliban, sometimes Muslim Brotherhood, sometimes Hamas, sometimes Hezb’allah, sometimes Boko Haram, sometimes al-Shabaab and sometimes The Squad.
What is their real name?
Today they all bake, tomorrow they all brew
Then all humanity in shariah and death they plan to stew
For still far too few understand their devious game
And fewer still will say it aloud, that simply Islam is the evil’s name
President Trump is an impressive, long-term, strategic thinker.
Except when it comes to winning elections and fighting back, building walls, and WARP Speed.
Who gets how much.
So a lot of children were killed, just like from that drone strike at the end of the disaster in Afghanistan. Turned out there were no terrorists hit then. How do we know this was any different? Take the Pentagon’s word for it? Been there, done that, no more.
The NY Post has a number of photos of the interior of the home. They are several rooms filled with blood. The splatter appears to be from gun fire, not explosives. The rooms are intact with pools of blood from where a person was standing.
Here’s the link for anyone who wants to see the photos. You can make your own assessment.
https://nypost.com/2022/02/03/inside-the-blown-out-home-of-dead-isis-leader/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=org.mozilla.ios
Our troops were ordered to kill everyone in the facility to leave no witnesses. That’s how our government rolls. Mobster tactics.
Biden likes kids. Lindsey likes Biden.
I agree, utterly irresponsible to risk 50 Spec Ops lives on this. All it took was ISIS to arrive in numbers and US casualties were inevitable.
A 2000 lb laser guided through the window was the only responsible way. Thereby disposing of his family, associates, body guards, dogs, cats and pet parrot without endangering US lives.
Or even better, mind our own business and bring all our troops home. Nothing in the Middle East is any business of the US government or responsibility of the American tax payer.
The only way the US isolates itself from muslim terrorist’s murdering its citizens in the US is to cease muslim immigration and visitor visas forever, right now.
Boots were sent in to confiscate information materials.
Or else, yeah, a bomb would’ve been better.
Is it just my faulty memory, or did the narrative change when news and photos of dead children came out? Don’t know much about operations like this, but if the damage was done by the terrorist blowing himself and family up, then why are there so many big holes in that wall of what look like garage doors (1:14)? What makes holes like that? We’re to believe those munitions weren’t responsible for the deaths of any of the women and children?
Wagging the dog furiously, but what a leader Old Joe is turning out to be. (sarcasm)
And the leader of Qatar was just “in” talking to Joe Bite Me
CNN 2 days ago?
“How Qatar wrnt from regional outcast to key Biden ally”?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/middleeast/mideast-summary-2-1-2022-intl/index.html
General Fattah al-Sisi was one of the earliest visitors to the White House (April 2017) after President Trump’s inauguration.
Wag the Biden
ISIS would be so much safer coming into the USA, through the southern border, and hiding out here.
Never mind all the post-game commentary. JoeBama needed a headline.
FJB
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Taliban throws victory parade with US military equipment
You do realize that the equipment was sent to Afghanistan over 20 years with the vast majority being sent by Bush the Lesser and Obama the Pretender?
People of good will
around the world
want President Trump back for four more years.
Forty.
“First responders reported that 13 people had been killed, including six children and four women.”
I tell you, whenever you refused to help one of these least important ones, you refused to help me.
(Matthew 25:45 TEV)
Who would order such an operation knowing that women and children surrounded the target? It’s not like ISIS doesn’t have a replacement for him readily available.
Who?? We know who.
… Smoke’em if you got them…
“Given the nature of how corrupt the U.S. administration is on a globalist scale; and considering that Biden Inc, which is really the Hillary Clinton foreign policy”………
With all the rhetoric of Russia soon to invade Ukraine, did the Biden admin give Russia a heads up on this raid?
Or am I misunderstanding Russia’s prominence in Syria to date?
Grow up.
The perp blew himself and his family to bits.
That’s what we’re being told. If you believe this admin and their mouthpieces, methinks you need to do some growing yourself 😉
Who gives a rat’s how many of his close circle were killed or how.
Certainly not me. The more the better.
So, Erdogan gets the blaim for probably doing what Obama asked him to do. Remember the missiles that were shipped from Libya (Benghazi) to Syria? After all, Neoconservative intervention-loving globalists of the Uniparty need ISIS to stay involved in the Middle East, specifically Syria…
There is always more to the story when Marxists are in control……and lie, cheat, steal, obfuscate
That’s Joe Biden, alright! A clusterf**k operation, ending in massive civilian casualties, and lots of American military equipment left behind.
The Corn Pop slayer rides again!
Thank you for your invaluable analysis here. Its the only source of news I trust.
6 children and 4 women. Must have been the JV team.
How old was the child who will never hold that rag doll ever again?
Biden will still get a Nobel Peace Prize
You misspelled piece.
UGH
I appreciate the background provided by Sundance but I believe Team Sock Puppet JoeBama has an even more simple minded purpose behind the attack, which as information emerges turns out to be another disastrous black-eye for the US. This attack did very little to advance Pipeline Agenda or even support Turkey.
The most dangerous side to the recent sinking polls for the Sock Puppet is that the “friends” of Sock Puppet JoeBama’s Regime (ISIS, HAMAS, Citizens living in Vicinity of their locations, et al) need to take cover because the regime needs video footage and headlines to distract everybody. Sometimes, real terrorists are actually hit, maybe this is one of those times. Yet, tragically innocents have always been casualties of JoeBama’s Operations lately.
Notice since Comrade Obama is the one handling the “call of duty” controller, the raid was NOT in AFRICA where the media says the real terrorist revival is occurring or Afghanistan where US Money is being spent to be kicked back to US Congressional Campaigns.
Also, there is one unreported fact lost on folks…The “raid” was in the territory of a Russian ally and this does have the markings of an attempted provocation by the US Government.
“Also, there is one unreported fact lost on folks…The “raid” was in the territory of a Russian ally and this does have the markings of an attempted provocation by the US Government.”
I cannot imagine the Russians were not told 50 special forces with helicopters would be near Tartus navel base and the Hmeimim air base? If not, smokes what a problem!
Depends when the Russians were told and not to saying the Russians were happy about it. It is also just as likely the Russians were not told until the force was detected by the Russians, in bound.
I also have not a single doubt the current US Regime would have sacrificed the whole 50 man team and aircraft to precipitate an active conflict.
At this point I give the Russians more credit for acting rationally than the US, by not forcing the issue nor making any rash moves vs the force. There are allot of nasty things the Russians could have done besides fire on them. Imagine the reaction in the US had the Russians fired on them or put the Force in danger.
Considering words for this reply leads me to believe this was an attempt to create an incident. Just one more notch increase on the “Ukraine Crisis”.
” Imagine the reaction in the US had the Russians fire on them or put the Force in danger.”
Perhaps so, and the Russians did not fall for it.
Then get a load of this headline:
Russia war fears explode: Truss condemns Putin false flag ‘plot’ against Ukraine | World | News | Express.co.uk
That article is all over the place with wild claims.
Not just wild but they are using a Rueter’s news claim, the Russians “could” make a film as “hard evidence”.
It is ludicrous that the UK, who has essentially demobilized and mothballed their heavy mechanized forces to save money, is joining the march to war by JoeBama’s regime.
“and who put all of these regional heads together; that ultimately ended with this announced deal?
That would be the little known, generally invisible young energy adviser, who would eventually become the central figure in the “spygate” targeting, George Papadopoulos.
George is a very, very minor player, putting heads together is way above his paygrade.
If the eastern Med has large gas reserves ion friendly hands …it’s obvious where they could best be sold. Didn’t need George’s insight.
Papadopoulos was targeted because he was one of the names, along with Dr. Carter Page, PhD, on the hastily assembled list of “foreign policy advisors” the Trump campaign put together to show the Washington Post editorial board. It was a ruse, name dropping people to rebut criticism that so many GOP old hands indicated they would never work with that horrible man Donald J. Trump, who was his “team.”
This turned out to be a very lucky thing for President Trump, because the Deep State pounced on these hapless individuals who never really did much of anything for then-candidate Trump. The FBI and CIA thought they were penetrating the inner circles of the Trump campaign, but it was a wild goose chase. I don’t think this panel ever even met IRL.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35867356
One other nice feature of President Trump’s policy of assigning responsibility for solving regional problems to regional actors: They are not dependent upon the US. The unfortunate change of leadership in Washington DC didn’t mean the end of the Arab Coalition or the GCC. They’re still there, still defending their own interests.
I would prefer our soouthern border be closed as opposed to killing an ISIS leader in northern Syria. Don’t mind US killing foreign terrorists but southern border is a higher priority. In regard to that, how does Biden get away with ignoring a court order to reinstate the stay in Mexico policy?
Interestingly, when President Trump was interviewed by Newsmax, the reporter asked him about “the most important issue, the economy.” PDJT answered that actually, he believed the southern border was the most pressing issue. And you are correct….the Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of the Remain in Mexico policy and the current regime is ignoring that! Unreal.
“European NATO members wanted the benefits of a perpetual U.S. military presence. That EU outlook was simply beyond the limits of what President Trump was willing to do.”
Yes they sure do. With the exception of Germany.
And the reason is, that NATO in fact serves not to protect Europe from Russia, but rather from Germany.
If we use this as the base assumption, the problems that President Trump had with NATO will start to make sense.
In other words, it’s Germany that is Barzini…
… and Russia is Tataglia.
🙂
“My sweet pet.”
proud father
Excuse my ignorance, but who the hell is that?
Besides someone that King Obama is in an inappropriate relationship with?
That’s nauseating. As is all of it.
President Recep Erdogan of Turkey, seeking to resurrect the sick man of Europe.
Oh yeah, right, thanks.
Someone King Obama is in an inappropriate relationship with.
Gross.
Has anyone else noticed that Jill behaves more like a hospice nurse than a wife?
Job Security
Just another case of the tail wagging the dog. A waste of US tax money on an issue that is none of America’s business or responsibility.
Nice article pretty much sums it all up. Another example of the world we live in principalities and Powers. Thank you Lord, may we not forget all your blessings.
Isis etc have been very quiet since 2019 , I believe..Was there any real actionable cause besides distraction ? After complete Afgan fiasco and Marine deaths and botched drone strike ? Joe’s team still managed to get a bunch of kids killed , that was why they pushed him and his teleprompter out so fast to tell what happened . Some dramatic action room photos to follow .. ? .
And today, Turkey’s economy is headed down the toilet. I guess the European’s are no longer paying him to stop the immigrant waves heading through Turkey from the south and into Germany.
What if the guy they targeted wasn’t really an ISIS leader, but rather a Kurdish opposition leader?
Then things start to make sense given the current administration’s priorities.
An “oops” with a smile?
Possible.
These mutts in the WH and their friends want a war to shift attention. It looks like they are trying to get us hit back in order to pick a war.
We are on to you using our American Soldiers for your own political security. Kindly GFYS
They must have not made a payment to hunter
“Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool.”
That’s the plain speak that grabbed the attention of 100 mil real people and attracted them to Trump and away from the circular, forked tongue gobbledygook speak of graduates of the Marie Antoinette School of Government.
If I remember correctly, the press claimed that Trump abandoned the Kurds to certain death. Then there were a few small skirmishes, and then all got quiet.
Next there was an effort to take oil fields in Syria, we responded with helicopters, and then all went quiet a second time.
My bet if they conducted a poll more than 55% wouldn’t believe the guy was actually killed.
First response when I read about this news was to wonder if DC actually blew up some aid worker and his family, like they did in Afghanistan
Can’t trust these people to represent the interests of what used to be the USA
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Thank you, Sundance, for this excellent summary.
Many don t understand that President Donald J.Trump has the Almighty Gods anointing on him.Nothing Biden can do will change the confusion and chaos that is taking place.More people are having their eyes opened on a daily basis as a result of this ongoing mess.The people on this site have more wisdom than Biden and his crew by light years as seen by the comments.We must stay strong and do what we need to do until the leaders with Gods anointing returns to office.God Almighty is not done with us yet,so we must pray and believe that His hand will move mightily.Psalm 68 1-3 Let God arise,
Let His enemies be scattered;
Let those also who hate Him flee before Him.
2
As smoke is driven away,
So drive them away;
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
3
But let the righteous be glad;
Let them rejoice before God;
Yes, let them rejoice exceedingly.
So where is all of the press nonstop screeching on the killing of women & children? Again.
Diversion
“That’s how President Donald Trump was able to finally remove U.S. troops from Syria and get us out of the quagmire created by Washington DC foreign policy.”
And that’s why he was overthrown. He ran America for Americans–and it drove them wild.
I simply assume whoever was killed was either a competing smuggler of the Deep State or killed on the Ayatoollah’s orders.
There is no reason to believe this was done in America’s National Security interests.
Every policy of this Government of Occupation is designed to harm America and this would be no exception.
And no one must dare question anything about this report!!!
https://therightscoop.com/leftist-reporters-and-pundits-not-happy-with-jen-psaki-or-ned-price-right-now-and-heres-why/
Bound and determined to start a war somewhere, anywhere.
And the target was determined by who?
The Joint Chumps of Staff?
Like most here, I’m quite happy to have another bad guy become a blood stain. But it’s gotten to the point where I don’t believe anything coming out of the Biden regime.