and you litterally sucked up the talking point that that is what happened! amazing
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So now we care about the Kurds again? I canât keep track.
The rhetoric from Washington presents US policy in moralistic terms. The US and its allies are defending freedom, democracy, rule of law, self-defense, etc. Our enemies are using terrorism and aggression to impose tyranny, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.
The reality is far from the rhetoric. The real goal appears to be to create a festering war-forever to maximize benefits to the military-security complex. That has been true in Afghanistan as well as in Iraq and Syria.
With the billions going conflict in Ukraine, the wars in Iraq and Syria are no longer needed to support the NATO military industry. That may explain a lot about the apparent change of policy in Syria.
The Kurds have been an American proxy. Now it looks like the US State Department is supporting Turkey over the Kurds. In recent years, Syrian Kurds have become closer to the Assad government, but recently Russia has mediated better relations between Syria and Turkey. It is not clear what will happen now.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/14/middleeast/syria-turkey-kurds-civilians-isis-intl-hnk/index.html
Meanwhile the US Department of Defense seems to have a much different policy in Syria:
The Department of Defense is deeply concerned by escalating actions in northern Syria, Iraq, and Turkiye. This escalation threatens the Global Coalition to Defeat ISISâs years-long progress to degrade and defeat ISIS. Recent air strikes in Syria directly threatened the safety of U.S. personnel who are working in Syria . . .
DOD Statement on Escalating Actions in Iraq, Syria, and Turkey > U.S. Department of Defense > Release
Do we have different parts of the US government supporting opposing groups in Syria like we had in 2016?
Is the withdrawal of US military in Syria now on the horizon?
Nearly every president in American history? For over 225 years of our history we have been at war.
The great reset! 
Until WW1, US wars were mainly about bullying neighboring nations (Mexico/Canada/Native Americans) and fighting against other democratically elected governments (Britain/Spain/CSA). The US maintained only a small standing army and relied on calling up state militia to fight wars.
Since WW2, the US has kept a large standing army and has fought many wars overseas in the name of defending freedom and democracy. Eisenhower warned about the dangers of the military-industrial complex necessary to fight the Cold War.
Ironically the video came from the Bernie Sanders campaign, but he has supported the massive expenditures for the proxy war in Ukraine. What does that say about the influence of the military-industrial complex long after the Cold War has ended?
UPDATE:
Turkish President ErdoÄan has proposed a meeting with Syrian President Assad with the support of Moscow.
The Kurds and their American allies are looking increasingly isolated. Curiously the US media seem to be silent on the new development.
Julian Assange doctored a multi-hour tape by excluding footage of attacks on Americans, and by adding the title âcollateral murderâ and released it claiming it was an unedited original and tht he had no opinion on the matter.
(Puuuleeeaze the very fact that he added the title)
As so he lost all credibility. He not only has a strong opinion/bias when he claims to have none, he claims that edited video is unedited. I donât think he can ever get his credibility back. If he says the sky is blue check for clouds,
Please provide a link for the alleged Assange lie.
Assange has plenty of enemies who would be willing to do just about anything to get rid of him.
The video he called collateral murder.
Itâs easy enough to find.
Assange added the title.
The title was not on the original.
The US Army does not randomly add anti-american titles in the middle of chopper video. (They really really donât.)
Assange has the same credibility of SBF or Bernie Madoff, get used to it.
Here is a 39-minute video by that name. It includes a title at the beginning and credits at the end. By âuneditedâ I assume it means that the remaining ~38 minutes in the middle is one continuous video feed.
Is this the video you are talking about?
At the time I learned quite about the video (unit numbers location etc.)
They had been involved in running battles all day.
The helicopter had footage from the moment it took off.
(the helicopter crew did not turn the camera on just in time to out themselves killing a journalist.)
I have seen several photos from Gulf War 1 & Gulf War 2 showing such things as cameramen with shoulder mounted cameras that could easily be mistaken for shoulder mounted weapons.
Assange decided to edit OUT the context, (the entire dayâs actions) which most or likely would have shown what other engarments look like, providing the all important context that âgee these guys in a hot fire zone,hours into a fire fight look just like gunmen.â
Assange decided to edit out that context and edit in his own biased opinionated title
what look like weapons. That is 100% fair for someone who says âI am an anti-american propagandist,â (which he obviously is.) since he wonât even do that he has zero credibility. Zero! Less than Baghdad Bob.
