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Master Don Juan
Our president has changed, but obviously our Middle East policy is set by the oil companies, and not the president. Backing the "moderate opposition" was the policy that Obama took so much heat over, but we're still doing the same thing. We're not going to let the Russians claim all the good oil pipeline routes, so we need to prop up the Kurds and maintain at least a perpetual stalemate in what will be a never-ending war.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/syria-...s-backed-kurdish-border-force-terrorist-army/
Turkey, Russia blast U.S.-backed Syria force as "terrorist army"
BEIRUT -- Russia, Turkey and the Syrian government on Monday denounced the U.S.-led coalition plans to form a Kurdish-led border force to secure the areas along Syria's international border to the north with Turkey and to the east, with Iraq.
The coalition told The Associated Press Monday that 230 new cadets have already been recruited to the force, which is anticipated to reach 30,000 troops in the next several years.
According to the coalition, the core of the force is to be made up of fighters from the existing Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, the coalition's main ally in the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants. The SDF currently controls nearly 25 percent of Syrian territory in the north and east.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/syria-...s-backed-kurdish-border-force-terrorist-army/
Turkey, Russia blast U.S.-backed Syria force as "terrorist army"
BEIRUT -- Russia, Turkey and the Syrian government on Monday denounced the U.S.-led coalition plans to form a Kurdish-led border force to secure the areas along Syria's international border to the north with Turkey and to the east, with Iraq.
The coalition told The Associated Press Monday that 230 new cadets have already been recruited to the force, which is anticipated to reach 30,000 troops in the next several years.
According to the coalition, the core of the force is to be made up of fighters from the existing Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, the coalition's main ally in the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants. The SDF currently controls nearly 25 percent of Syrian territory in the north and east.