Moving the 50 soldiers resulted in teh murder of our allies.
that’s why.
Syria is a ■■■■■■ up situation. Moving our soldiers so Turkey could drag a Kurdish human rights activist from her car, rape and stone her to death, makes it MORE ■■■■■■ up, not less.
Like all of Trump’s claims, this one is also ridiculous. We agreed to give Turkey everything they want. The problem being, we’re not involved in the situation anymore. We have no influence over SDF anymore. Abandoning them and letting them get killed saw to that. We have no sway over Assad, Russia or Iran. They’re the brokers for SDF now. There’s a “ceasefire” for five days that SDF and Turkey may or may not keep to. But then what? SDF isn’t leaving that area. Turkey’s not leaving what they’ve already taken. And in five days they go at it again. Or sooner. It does give Assad time to move his forces into all of northeast Syria. Hurray?
And side note, the Russians are bragging that everywhere they send patrols(where the US used to do patrols) all the fighting stops between SDF and TFSA/Turkish forces. Bragging about it. It’s odd that Russians there stops fighting but American forces(according to Trump) couldn’t possibly stop the fighting. Even though they had stopped the fighting for years. Food for thought.
We promised to protect them from the Turks in return for them doing the heavy lifting regarding killing and capturing and imprisioning ISIS fighters in Syria.