I don't think people appreciate the fact that Erdogan was shocked that Trump was acceding to his demands of a Syrian withdrawal: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/152806/turkish-president-shocked-trump-went-along-demand-syrian-withdrawal …
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I'm not convinced anything Trump does makes sense. He doesn't seem too understand the implications of a hasty withdrawal.
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tl;dr?
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It gave him the chance to give Putin a Christmas gift while claiming it was because of the request from our ally Turkey.
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Separate reports today that Trump told Mattis 8 months ago that withdrawal was coming in 6 months. In this case, Trump agreed to what he’d already decided to do.
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Yep, Trump has made it clear on many occasions he wants a Syrian withdrawal. The Pentagon was slow-walking it, so he used Erdogan phone call as pretext to get what he wanted all along. From point of view of civilian-military relations, Trump should have his way.
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Russia wanted US out of Syria, and Trump delivered. Trump works for Putin. Why is this still such a difficult dot to connect?
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"Trump says US will withdraw from Syria very soon." - Headline from March 29, 2018, four days after he signed the Omnibus spending bill & didn't get his wall
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69 dimensional chess with a reach-around.
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