The speaker of the Republican majority in senate Mitch McConnell attacks grrreat Lil' Boy's policy as a "strategic nightmare" and a "grave strategic mistake" He called the uS retreat by its name, . He said sticks and carotts should be used to bring Turkey back in line.
I wonder: what stick? Lil' Boy threw it away. The US has no sticks against Turkey in Syria anymore. Sanctions will not intimidate Erdoghan, since he is as much at a loss of reality, as Lil' Boy himself is. The plebs is in overwhelming, hysterically patriotic support of the war and Erdoghan. Or as a commentator in a German opinion piece wrote two days ago: The US can just simulate to be a superpower anymore. And Russian soldiers posed recently with standing in US bases in Syria, with Syrian troops on their heels. Anyone expecting they move out again if the Americans say they want them back...?
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Mr McConnell is the latest Republican to criticise the president over Syria. Senator Lindsey Graham - normally a staunch ally of Mr Trump's - has vociferously opposed the administration's troop withdrawal.
"A buffer zone is acceptable to the Kurds but a military occupation that displaces hundreds of thousands is not a safe zone," Mr Graham said on Thursday after speaking to Kurdish forces. "It is ethnic cleansing."
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50103605
And Lil' Boy blew the whistle to start it.