#troop withdrawal

[juicetrump2]

US withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany after Merz says US ‘humiliated’ by Iran

US president says European countries are ‘absolutely horrible’ to refuse to support operations in strait of Hormuz

Why does the US have military bases in Germany?

Trump is withdrawing 5,000 of the 36,400 US personnel based in Germany. But why are they there in the first place?

[elysefz]

Thursday 03 December 2020 | Berlin, Germany

The French invasion of Belgium took on a new urgency this week after the capture of the city of Namur on the 1st of December. While many European allies offered their support to Belgium, Duchess Elyse Zollern of Prussia took a step back. In the third defection of German nobility, the Duchess announced a press conference in Brandenburg, that she was withdrawing all Prussian troops from Belgium.

“I stand in solidarity with the Belgium people in their struggle against French imperialism.” The Duchess said in a televised press conference at New Palace in Potsdam. “However, Prussian men and women won’t die for Hohenzollern wars. We are are own people and my focus must be on what is best for Prussia. Berlin does not know what we need nor do they have the Prussian people’s best interests at heart.”

At the time of the press conference, 75% of Prussian troops had already pulled out of Belgium and the other 25% are expected to follow by the weekend. We contacted the King’s press team for a comment but did not hear about at the time of initial publication. What we can say is that Duchess Elyse’s comments are the biggest break from the royal family we have seen yet. For the past 4 years, Duchess Elyse has been seen as a loyal supporter of the Hohenzollern’s and has kept a low profile since the 2016 Kaliningrad Affair. It seems times have changed.

[dragoni]

Trump Is Said to Be Preparing to Withdraw Troops From Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia

Facing the end of his time in power, the president is pushing to accelerate withdrawals from counterterrorism conflicts. He campaigned on ending the longstanding wars.

Trump’s final gift to Putin / Russia?

Under a draft order circulating at the Pentagon on Monday, the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan would be halved from the current deployment of 4,500 troops, officials said.

In Iraq, the Pentagon would trim force levels slightly below the 3,000 troops that commanders had previously announced. And in Somalia, virtually all of the more than 700 troops conducting training and counterterrorism missions would leave.

Shortly before Mr. Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper last week and installed Christopher C. Miller as the acting Pentagon chief, Mr. Esper had sent a classified memo to the White House expressing concerns about accelerating the troop drawdown in Afghanistan, a senior administration official said.

Trump: “Promises Made, Promises Kept” to Putin

✔️ Crimea  ❌ Ukraine

✔️ Syria and Betraying Kurds

✔️ Trade War with China

❌ Pull the U.S. out of NATO

❌ Getting Russia back into the G7 (G8)

✔️ Trump is the reason why Turkey, NATO ally, purchased Russian missile systems

✔️ Russia put on a bounty on American soldiers and Trump said nothing — did nothing

✔️ Destroying Democracy — delegitimizing elections

✔️ Iraq — abandoned NATIO allies

✔️ Afghanistan — abandoned NATIO allies

✔️ Dismantle U.S. institutions

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[ml-pnp]

Shocker: The Taliban reportedly doesn't plan to honor their deal

Narrator: This is not at all shocking

[unclesamsmisguidedclub]

Perspective on Syria: Let's Fight for Our Veterans Here FIRST

Perspective on Syria: Let’s Fight for Our Veterans Here FIRST

The perspective on Syria from some veterans sheds light on the history and some of the Kurdish groups that the media is harping about. Rick took to a video to explain it all with the help of a post by John Tobin. (See below). Can’t we fight for our own veterans here at home before spending trillions overseas on “useless wars?”

Tobin wrote a poston Facebook that explains a few things. It reads, in…

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[progressivemillennial]

Trump says he agrees '100%' with keeping U.S. troops in Syria

Two months after saying all U.S. troops are leaving Syria, the president wrote members of Congress that he agrees with keeping a U.S. presen

I do wonder if the whole point of Trump making loud proclamations about leaving Syria were nothing more than an attempt to embed in the minds of his followers and, to a lesser extent, the American public that we have left Syria, even though we haven't.

One could say the same about Afghanistan, where the Pentagon recently proposed a plan to keep troops there for five years, which is far from actually leaving. Five years also gives plenty of time for a new president or Trump to change direction and keep troops there longer.

Long story short: be skeptical of Trump's claims that he's anti-war.

[the-funtime-autocrat]

The same newscasters, politicians and writers who danced with glee when George W. Bush proclaimed "Mission Accomplished" after the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, are screaming about Trump withdrawing from another illegal occupation in a conflict that has been exacerbated and prolonged by American intervention. The politicians and media types screaming about "weakness" need to get on a flight to Damasacus and enlist there if they want to fight. Rather than sending more lives to die in fruitless wars for a collection of states in that region that dictate our policy.

[unclesamsmisguidedclub]

Turkish Invasion of Syria, What's At Stake Without the US

Turkish Invasion of Syria, What’s At Stake Without the US

There is a fight going on over Trump’s decision to remove troops from Syria. According to the Pentagon, only 50-100 special ops troops are affected by the order, and they will be relocated out of harm’s way to a “more secure area.” Those who are angry with the decision are seeing the Kurds and Christians, who have been solid allies, being left to fight the Turkish invasion – which as begun- …

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