Trump thought Turkey was bluffing and would never actually invade Syria, report says

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  1. PARTIZAN1

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    This is not a lefty righty issue. This an issue of right from wrong. What Trump did was wrong and no amount of false c,aims about blaming others will make it right. Just another big FUBAR that a guy who falsely claims that he is a Republican.
     
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    Yes, Turkey is a US ally but you're the one that want's Europeans to handle the problem. Where is the problem? Do you want THEM to fight Turkey? Turkey isn't fighting Syria, they're fighting the Kurds so who are they supposed to fight? The question is actually, what are YOU claiming?
     
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    Sorry, not to me.
     
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    The troops are not coming home they’re being reassigned but are currently trapped: they had no exit strategy for the troops or nukes housed in Turkey.

    I suppose in his infinite wisdom Trump thought we could do this on the fly or more on point he didn’t give it a thought.

    He’s so incompetent he’s dangerous.
     
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  5. MrTLegal

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    Oh, @MolonLabe2009 keeps repeating the 2016 Politifact Lie of the Year ("fake news"), so I decided I would start responding with other Politifact Lies of the Year each time he does it.
     
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    trump wants that hotel in Moscow that Putin has promised him.
     
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    You mean the one that does not believe in endless wars. This has been going on since the 10th century. The left used to be against that. What changed?
     
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    Sanctions do not put our boys in harms way.
     
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    Trump is a gasbag who often threatens and bluffs.. He probably thinks other men are the same.
     
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    Trump is not a polished snake oil salesman like the people he deals with in Washington. He has no interest in the swamp -- the disloyal, seditiously self-interested communist bureacracy that government has become. He is disinterested and patriotic, and that is something wonderful and strange in American leadership.
     
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    Russia has taken over Syrian oilfields such as they are, but the real prize is Syria's offshore reserves in gas and oil.. Russia will dictate whether or not Syria is a transit state.
     
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    Trump is poorly educated.. He thought Erdogan was bluffing. Do you know the definition of "Communism"? I'd say you don't if you make such silly accusations.
     
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    The problem is that she will not accept his straight answers. He is being unfairly picked on by a pretentious little bitch, which is not to suggest that CNN is ever unfair despite their reputation since Zucker came in. Rather CNN is merely a communist propaganda tool that is not on the side of the US. It is not a news organization and it does not practice journalism CNN hasn't been journalism since Obama's occupancy.
     
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    Incirlik Air Base in Incirlik, Turkey. Incirlik Air Base is one of the major strategically located US military bases. The base is in Turkey, which means that it is operated by both the US and the Turkish governments, unlike other co-bases.
     
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    Good grief.. Do you even know the definition of "Communism"?

    We have nuclear weapons in Turkey, genius.
     
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    Exactly. This is one of those cases in which American military presence on the ground indeed stabilized a region.
    Erdogan would never have invaded that area knowing there still was a significant number of US combat troops present.
    Trump's idiotic decision gave Turkey the green light. Consequences are ethnic cleansing (appr. 100,000 are on the run, mostly civilians), imprisioned IS fighters escaping by the hundreds (has already happened) and reforming, further destabilization in an already extremely instable region.
     
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    The US has a base in Turkey with nuclear weapons.
     
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    You don't get it, do you? You act as if the USA is in charge. It's not. Erdogan holds all the aces and he dictates the rules in that particularr part of the world. The second biggest NATO army. One of the most important U.S military bases is in Turkey. Almost 4 million refugees Erdogan was/is prepared to send towards Europe if the USA/Europe do not play the ball. Get a grip.
     
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    Yes, but I'm afraid you don't and would you recognize it if you saw it. What do nuclear weapons have to do with the fact that she was unwatchable for longer than 2 minutes. In other words, she is poison to journalism because she is basically a political operative with attitude. That's my point.

    Kinda cute, but that obviously no longer counts for ****.
     
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    Prove she's a communist.
     
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    Complete false interpretation on your part, probably deliberately. And nothing you say here is news to me, so keep it to yourself.
    Withdrawin US troops has given Erdogan the green light. Simple fact.
     
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    He is not a politician, no. He delivers on promises and occasionally mis-speaks. Biden, by contrast, is a lying, cheating, stinking criminal who belongs in prison, as do most of the democrat party leadership.
     
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    She works for CNN. What do you mean, "prove she's a communist"?

    You mean she's a Maoist? A Maoist is a communist.
     
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    Lutsenko said the Bidens did NOTHING wrong..
     
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    I understand why you voted for Trump.
     

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