Ugh. It is so frustrating talking to you about anything because you constantly show your lack of knowledge on so many subjects. Jesus. Trump didn’t add Russian mercenaries to the last bombing. There were no Rusians bombed in the last strike in April. Youre obviously thinking of the strikes along the Euphrates in Deir e Zour in February which had absolutely nothing to do with it. That was Assad and mercrnary forces targeting SDF and our guys on the other side of the country. The chemical strike came after that. Trump didn’t add Russian mercenaries to the chemical attack retaliation. Why will you not learn about the things you spout off about? So frustrating.
No, I was talking about Mattis comments after the last gas attack. Sad, I can’t find them…
Good points. I’m honestly leaning toward a situation where HTS announces they are disbanding and being absorbed into more moderate groups. That buys some time while Russia and Assad say it’s not good enough. Turkey says it is good enough and theyre willing to move enough troops into Idlib to ensure no terrorist activities occur and Russians are welcome to have military police as observers in Idlib. Then Idlib becomes just like North Aleppo. That’s some arm chair generaling. Or Assad moves in and Turkey says ■■■■ it, go ahead cause we have Afrin and North Aleppo.
Basically a Sadr militia type move…
The only difference being there’s almost no way we could affect the outcome, nor is any outcome likely to favor us.
I don’t think that’s what you meant. Youre backtracking. You combined two totally different events because like Libya where you didn’t know there was a civil war going on before the NATO strikes or today with how monthly wage increases work you just don’t know anything about the topic.
We have absolutely zero influence or say in what happens in Northwest Syria. Trump saw to that. Which is kind of sad when you think about the constant strikes we were doing under Obama to save Mare and the Azaz pocket. Oh well. But I’m fine with Turkey administrating over Idlib and parts of Aleppo, Latakia and Hama. Better than Assad. Turkey still wants Manbij and I still think there will be a deal eventually where they get that and we get some real assurances of them not going into Kobani or Cizire. But YPG ostensibly moving out of Manbij seems to have calmed that down for now. We’ll see. Fascinating to watch in an incredibly dark way.
I like reading your threads, but don’t post in them very often, because I’m just here to learn. It’s ok to let posts like that drop off into the void. I don’t think many people even read them.
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So what. 
Do you actually want to know, or are you just going to whine about anti-trump frothing at the mouth libs? That entire list is actual statements that proves the president doesn’t understand even the rough points of foreign policy.
Proves nothing of the kind. You can’t possibly know what goes on behind closed doors.
Aside from the fact that yes we can because it’s confirmed by the people in the closed door meetings, these things are public statements. Unless you want to say that the President is intentionally making himself look stupid in public for some reason.
You are referring to anonymous leaks. The funny thing about anonymous leaks is that they are without context and are always one sided against Trump. Thus we don’t have a complete picture. So once again you can’t possibly know what goes on behind closed doors.
No, I’m referring to actual recordings, tapes like Turnbull making fun of him at a convention, german officials saying it took 11 attempts to explain to him how Germany can’t negotiate a trade deal by itself, and again, by confirmed statements on the record from him in public.
I don’t want to go off on a tangent, but I just want to be clear on your reasoning. Trumps public statements showing his lack of understanding of many many important issues cant be used as evidence of his lack of understanding because we don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors. And the anonymous reports that completely back up his interpretation of him not understanding issues(which exactly correspond with his public statements) cant be used as evidence of his lack of understanding because theyre anonymous. So you need someone to publicly state that private Trump is as clueless as public Trump to believe it? And I’m guessing former people in the admin wouldn’t count cause theyre disgruntled?
So with some cherry picked recordings taken out of context, you have decided that Trump is a doofus who knows nothing about nothing.
What can I say?
So then you too believe Trump is a doofus who knows nothing about nothing.
I guess you are certainly welcome to your opinion.
Therefore no “belief” is needed, he simplyIS a “complete doofus” since his words and actions words prove it on a regular basis.
So now it is factual because you have declared it to be so?
Wow!
It’s factual because he speaks in public often, and the things he says shows that he has absolutely no idea about even the basics of Syria, NATO, trade agreements, Brexit, refugees.
Do you think Trump could find Aleppo on a map? Do you think he could find Syria on a map? What was the last public statement he made about Syria?
Well obviously you’ve got it all figured out, being as you are so super smart and all.
