U.S. Troop Pullout from Syria is Not About Ending the War
The move to take troops out of Syria and Afghanistan has nothing to do with peace, stopping war or reducing U.S. militarism. It's more about cutting costs of war in Syria than it is about ending war in Syria. Trump is just being a business-man with the U.S. presidency. American domination of the middle East will continue.
This is all revealed with the words he spoke in a surprise visit to U.S. forces in Iraq earlier this week. He told them he has no intention of withdrawing troops from the 15-year occupation of Iraq. The news comes probably to the dismay of some, but to the jubilation of others who are as brainwashed as ever into the fantasy of America "fighting for democracy and freedom" throughout the world.
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How this ties into Syria, is that U.S. forces will launch future attacks from Iraq instead of being stationed in Syria itself. The same is likely to happen with Afghanistan.
Trump supporters thought he was "sticking it" to the deep state and military-industrial complex with the troop withdrawal, but it looks like they've been had again. And the opposition who thinks he's betraying American interests and the fight against terrorism and letting Russia and Iran "win", are also wrong.
The move to pull out of Syria is all a business cost-cutting analysis for Trump. Typical transactional business thinking. The price tag on fighting wars has gotten high, and he found a way to keep up the war machine and U.S. imperialism while cutting those costs back.
Trump also said Turkey could be hired to "finish off" terror groups. This is the new subcontracting model, which will likely be applied to Israel and Saudi Arabia as well. Trump just wants to do things on the cheap side, not cut back U.S. military power. He's just dealing his way through like he's done before he was president.
Trump tries to cover the move up in nobility though, as if America is the world's policeman. He just wants the world so start paying for the costs that America has been burdened with. How noble of him to just want to be paid for "protecting" the world:
"The United States cannot continue to be the policeman of the world. It’s not fair when the burden is all on us, the United States... We are spread out all over the world. We are in countries most people haven’t even heard about. Frankly, it’s ridiculous. We’re no longer the suckers, folks."
The mere fact that Trump admits the U.S. military is "Spread all over the world" shows how widespread and deranged the imperialism is. It's not seen as a vice, but a virtue by Trump. If nations want U.S. protection, they're going to have to pay for it it seems, as he outlined the new militarist-imperialist policy:
"America shouldn’t be doing the fighting for every nation on earth, not being reimbursed in many cases at all. If they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price."
Sounds like a protection racket. If you don't pay for protection, will you end up a target of "terrorism" (false flags) that demands your payment for protection? I wonder...
What's even more of a sad joke is if the countries the U.S. invades and occupies will be forced to pay for the bill of invasion.
But the U.S. isn't a guarantor of world peace. It's instigated many conflicts, either directly or indirectly through funding and arming. Like Israel for example, where the U.S. send over $3 billion in military aid each year, paid for by U.S. taxpayers. The American people have been funding the American empire's military dominance for decades. They've just paying to secure corporate capitalism and profits, not world peace or global security.
The new military model Trump is envisioning is a supply and demand one, where the supply of "protection" will be based on the demand of payments for it. Clients like Turkey, ISrael and Saudi Arabia will be buying weapons and propping up the military-industrial complex, as Washington uses occupied bases like those in Iraq to launch rapid reaction forces throughout the Middle East. This is the new future of the military there, as Trump says:
"A lot of people are going to come around to my way of thinking."
Cost cutting deployments for precision attacks and outsourcing/subcontracting operations to clients/allies. This is the new business-solutions warfare brought to you by the capitalist tycoon Donald Trump who will continue to sell the fantasy of "defending freedom and democracy" by perpetuating wars.
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More like the U.S. has been protecting the "freedom" of their global money masters to force their rigid structures on the world. There was a time when the U.S. was on friendly terms with the Muslim world. Once it was determined oil was of such importance, everything changed. Seems the likely conclusion is you might be a target for control and being neutralized if you ever have resources coveted by those who already got most of the worlds shit.
Good to have resources, but bad when someone else wants it :/ If you're an ally, then you're safe lol
That sure is not true. In the 80s, Iran was public enemy #1 to the USG, and Saddam Hussein actually was supported in a disastrous war against Iran by the spooks. Donald Rumsfeld personally arranged for the poison gas that was used against the Kurds to be delivered to Iraq, so they could use it against Iran.
Then, the NWO needed to destabilize the ME, and Iraq was set up using Kuwait. Iraq was one of our allies, and the US is still destroying it today.
Fair enough. I meant the Western allies though when I was writing it, like Canada, Britain, and the like. If your Arabic, then you can get stabbed in the back at anytime :/
I fear you yet underestimate the savagery of those that would be kings. WWII saw Russia as not only the ally of the USG, but that most responsible for victory over our former allies, Germany and the rest of the Axis.
It is treachery that provides the greatest advantage in war, and one can only betray trust.
In WWI it was Americans that plotted and schemed to bring about the war in Europe, to strengthen the English empire and cement it's hold on the resources of the world. Cecil Rhodes vision was in many ways brought to life today through those machinations. Wilson's mentor, 'Colonel' House, was integral to this plot, and various allies of both England and the USA were deliberately subjected to slaughter in the trenches.
tl;dr It is by stabbing allies in the back that the most profitable wars are begun.
I think new presidents have no idea what they're getting into when they win. POTUS is contractually obliged to honor pre-existing defense contracts, security agreements, and the like. I think when they get into office they realize there is far less autonomy than they imagined.
Even in non-government business structures, the CEO is just a figurehead for the most part, and the board holds all of the power. In the case of the United States Corporation, the board of directors is the Federal Reserve. It's clear with the federal exchange rates of Obama's eight years in comparison to Trump's two years that the fed is punitively acting in accordance with his style of governance.
Question is: did he go into this wanting to be the policeman of the world, or did he resign himself to the racket that already existed via previous POTUS contracts? What would it take for a new president to violate existing security contracts, or what would the cost to the country be if he did?
They always create pretexts for wars because most Americans would not buy into the idea that the United States is the world's most infamous mercenary organization. Yet, the secret security agreements are bound to have clauses of non-disclosure in order to protect it from public scrutiny.
why should Muslims be victims of war?
in any country, Muslims are always criminalized.
Next on the block, as there are always victims when war is waged :/
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No way is this about cutting costs, he's like any other politician.. Spend spend spend is all they know. What he is doing is trying to shift military personnel around so he can fulfill his ridiculous border promise to the mass indoctrinated Trump followers. He's not going to cut the military budget, he's going to expand it, and start stationing and deploying US troops on US soil. Lets not forget the US is STILL considered a "battleground", thus military service men are legally allowed to be deployed and Martial law could expand past border territory (if it comes to that). NDAA of 2012 provisions of battleground status has not changed since Donald Trump took office.
Ok, if that happens, it's cutting costs in the Middle East by not having troops in Syria, launching them from Iraq, and he can spend more in another location, like in the US as you suggest (but I don't think so).
I'm not a fan of Trump but I think you are twisting his words quite a bit. As far as pulling out of Syria being a cost cutting measure...if that is the goal then it is pretty ineffective. The U.S. budget is driven primarily by social welfare programs. While the military is also a fair sized chunk, Syria alone doesn't amount for a very large percent of the overall U.S. budget. Regardless of the motive, i see it as a positive thing and hopefully Iraq will eventually follow. The countries of the Middle East can continue to destroy each other without help from the U.S.
Yet, the conflict in Syria would have been internal if the US didn't go in to fund and supply the so-called "moderate rebels" turned terrorists.
It was never really only "internal". Regardless, my only point is that getting out is a good thing, whatever the reason. If you are parsing my "destroy each other" phrasing then I'll happily amend that to "destroy each other/themselves". The point remains the same. I'm not really convinced the U.S. has made things worse but they haven't made it better and it's a big waste of lives and money.
it doesn't mean much because the u.s. will be at war with iran or someone else soon, it's the same chessboard of death, just different pieces.
peace !
Yup, whenever there is war, their are victims. One target or another, seems war is desired.
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