We know the pull of the Israeli lobby is strong in D.C. We also know that Donald Trump’s foreign policy has centered around Israel’s security.
But what we didn’t know for certain was just how far Trump is led around by the whatever AIPAC wants. Until Sunday morning…
However Trump’s invoking Iranian influence as a rationale for staying further contradicts his prior December statement that the defeat of ISIS was “the only reason” he was in Syria in the first place.
MARGARET BRENNAN:How many troops are still in Syria? When are they coming home?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: 2,000 troops.
MARGARET BRENNAN: When are they coming home?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They’re starting to, as we gain the remainder, the final remainder of the caliphate of the area, they’ll be going to our base in Iraq, and ultimately some will be coming home. But we’re going to be there and we’re going to be staying—
MARGARET BRENNAN: So that’s a matter of months?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We have to protect Israel. We have to protect other things that we have. But we’re- yeah, they’ll be coming back in a matter of time. Look, we’re protecting the world. We’re spending more money than anybody’s ever spent in history, by a lot. We spent, over the last five years, close to 50 billion dollars a year in Afghanistan. That’s more than most countries spend for everything including education, medical, and everything else, other than a few countries.
It seems that the panic in D.C. over Trump’s desire to pull out of Syria got everyone activated. Nothing unites the Beltway cocktail circuit and lobbying myrmidons like the threat of peace in the Middle East.
With $4 billion in aid every year and a few hundred nukes the idea that we have to occupy a border crossing between Iraq, Jordan and Syria to protect Israel against Iranian weapons is frankly, ludicrous.
Iran is a bigger threat to Israel now because after seven years of war in Syria, begun by a blatantly aggressive move by a U.S. coalition to oust President Assad, is simply blowback by another name.
Clinton and Obama put together the dream team coalition to destroy Syria — U.K., France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Turkey — by backing various head-chopping animals to wreak havoc and overthrow the government.
It failed when it caused the counter-move by Russia, China, Iran and Hezbollah. After the British parliament heroically stopped David Cameron from joining Obama’s coalition to invade in 2013 the plan was doomed to fail.
Putin stepped in, brokered a ceasefire and the removal of Assad’s chemical weapons. But we didn’t stop. To believe the U.S. media ISIS is one of the few known examples of parthenogenesis, springing up out of nowhere to take over vast stretches of the Levant.
But that was the Achilles’ heel of the entire operation. Because Putin’s military intervention made it easy to expose the whole rotten mess, including Israel’s giving aid and comfort in the Golan Heights to ISIS, while we dropped bombs in the desert because we couldn’t find them.
We can read license plates from space but we can’t find the Toyota Hilux its mounted on?
Trump inherited this mess but he’s done nothing substantial to improve it. All he’s done is empower Israel to be even more brazen in attacking Syria, killing and displacing Syrian civilians while claiming attacks on Iranian weapons depots.
It’s all nonsense and Trump looked like he’d had enough of it.
Trump’s Chaotic Mess
On the other hand, it is refreshing to see some honesty in our public officials. We’re overthrowing Maduro in Venezuela for oil and we’re staying in Syria for Israel.
Full Stop.
Maybe this is what Trump meant when he talked briefly about not lying to the American people. Or maybe that was just another ‘big ask’ from someone that has become little more than Barack Obama in bronzer.
Trump went for broke in December on two major planks of his campaign — The Wall and the Middle East. I voted for him on the basis of criticizing our foreign policy and wanted the troops out of central Asia.
The Swamp is filled by the runoff from the overseas Empire.
He shutdown the government for more than a month while simultaneously going to the mat with his cabinet over Syria. And since then he’s done nothing but backtrack and step down expectations.
In doing this he was always vulnerable to a counter-attack on both fronts. He made Syria vulnerable because he has to get a deal done on the wall in the next two weeks or he’s back to square one.
It seems Thursday’s Senate rebuke of Trump’s plans in Syria was followed up by some weekend arm-twisting of the president. Trump made another one of his ‘big asks’ Art-of-the-deal style, only to be ground down to an ineffectual reorganizing of deck chairs on the foreign policy Titanic.
Don’t think that Senate rebuke wasn’t part of the Wall negotiations, because it was.
McConnell and Rubio were saying loud and clear, “If you want our support on the Wall you have to give up pulling out of Syria.”
This is why I wasn’t convinced by Trump’s tweets (here and here) after that vote on Friday, saying “Certain people must get smart!” It looks like Trump is the one who has to smarten up and realize that he cannot attack on every front all the time and think the chaos is his friend.
Israeli Overreach
I never thought for a second that Trump was pulling the troops out of Iraq or that most of the force we have in Syria wouldn’t be repositioned there. I knew that Trump was looking for a way to keep a campaign promise with his Syria announcement while not truly changing anything.
He’s been AIPAC’s best friend since he entered office. But, I also thought that the dangerous game played by Israel, France and the U.K. which led to the shooting down of the Russian IL-20 reconnaissance plane woke him up to the reality that Bibi Netanyahu will do just about anything to provoke a wider war.
I know that Putin has had enough. That’s why he sent S-300’s to Syria and won’t take Bibi’s phone calls.
What happened was obvious. France that shot down the plane, the U.K. were the coordinators and Israel the air cover needed to sell a lie about Syria antiquated air defense shooting down the Russian plane.
Putin smartly went along with this narrative because it stopped a wider conflict and led to the current relative peace we have now.
Russia, and Putin, did the one thing that makes this whole thing look like a frame job, it accepted the narrative of Israeli malfeasance in the interest of stopping a wider conflict by accusing and/or attacking a NATO member, France.
Flores (at Fort-Russ.com) makes the salient point that the S-200 friendly fire scenario is highly unlikely. That, in fact, France shot down the plane, was prepared to accept blame (which it did by preemptively denying it was involved) and destroy what was left of Russian/French relations.
Now Russia can use the excuse of Israeli betrayal as justification for upgrading Syria’s air defenses. Citing the very thing that caused the tragic death of their soldiers, antiquated air defense systems which didn’t properly identify friend from foe.
This is why I think Trump fired Nikki Haley from her post as U.N. Ambassador. She was involved in some way.
And it’s also why he pushed so hard to pull our troops out of Syria three months later, after the Russians had delivered and were spinning up S-300’s stabilizing the situation near Israel.
The board state is pretty clear near Damascus. Israel has lost its safe zone of flying F-16’s over Lebanon to attack Damascus.
This gave Trump room to end the balkanization efforts of Bolton et.al. east of the Euphrates river. The Kurds will make a deal with Damascus. While Trump tacitly admits President Erdogan in Turkey isn’t going to lift one finger to help the U.S. provoke regime change in Iran.
Security After Withdrawal
Trump’s analysis of this is correct. It is his spirit that is weak. The realities in D.C. are that it can’t happen since Israel is now calling in all of its markers to prevent this from occurring.
Netanyahu needs this from Trump to assist his re-election in a few weeks. But this is incredibly short-sighted for all involved. Israel is not made safer in the long run by constantly running behind the U.S.’s skirts and crying “Get ‘im Don!”
One of the undercurrents of Trump’s election was Israel First fatigue that is more pervasive in the American electorate than anyone wants to admit. We’re tired of fighting all across central Asia for undefined goals. Israel is part of that fatigue. And no amount of screaming “Anti-Semite!” will quell it.
Without the threat of ISIS, transitioning then to “Iran, Iran the Bogeyman for Israel” isn’t going to play well in 2020.
It’s the best Alt-Right recruiting tool there is, sadly. And it does no one any good to keep the conflict locked along these lines when there is the real threat of a wider conflict occurring.
Iran will leave Syria when the U.S. does. Since Trump has made it clear that we aren’t leaving because Israel doesn’t want us to, nothing will change. But, every day our position grows weaker while opposition to it grows stronger.
Trump is right to talk about the money. $50 billion in Afghanistan a year. For what? Neocon dreams of overthrowing Putin. Playing outdated games of Risk with opponents who are rapidly changing the rules of the game and raising the costs even higher.
The war of attrition playing out in Syria continues and weakens everyone who keeps playing it out to the bitter end. Whether Trump is the architect of this or not is irrelevant. It’s obvious he’s powerless to stop it.
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Is there any thinking person left out there that doesn’t see that the u.s. government is so infected with external monied interests twisting the levers of government to their own parochial benefit thus turning the military into a muscle bound bitch? Israel, england, google, soros-it reminds me of that wildlife piece I saw of some bug that invades a bird’s brain to get it to perform in a suicidal manner that aids the parasite at the expense of the host. The “civilian control of the military” went the way of “consent of the governed” and “innocent until proven guilty”. “It’s all bullshit and it’s bad for ya”.
Vote, my ass.
Here’s what they don’t want you to hear:
Here’s something else they definitely don’t want you to hear: FL is going to be the fucking wild wild West until the 2020 election, so if you live there or have family, tell them to exercise EXTREME caution! FL will be where most if not all of the mass-shootings that are in the pipeline will take place and the shooter will always be a white male (non-Jew), unless they run low on white males who readily take to the kind of “behavior modification” and RX program that is used to weaponize these people. Make no mistake, FL is an important piece of the puzzle that Dems want desperately to turn Red in order to help ensure their liberal policy and total power forever.
Trump pussies out again.
How many times before even you throw in the towel Iska?? Shift your undying allegiance to those of us still loyal to America. Use your words to lift this country back up and to condemn our foes.
How many times must the Iska go down
Before they build him a wall?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the john
The answer is blowin’ in the john
“One of the undercurrents of Trump’s election was Israel First fatigue that is more pervasive in the American electorate than anyone wants to admit. We’re tired of fighting all across central Asia for undefined goals. Israel is part of that fatigue. And no amount of screaming “Anti-Semite!” will quell it.”
Does anyone believe this is true?
I think we have foreign war fatigue, I don’t think people in general believe that we have been at war this long because of Israel but I am asking what others think.
No amount of protest will make a difference, as “they” control the narrative. Most people are pitifully uniformed and the rest are woefully misinformed. What’s left is a few voices crying in the wilderness. The sheeple will believe what they are told regardless of the facts. Most have no clue that those who control the U.S. and the rogue, pariah state of Israel, are not semites, but are Turko-Mongol East European round skull jews that originated in the ancient land of Khazaria. They have no relationship to the Israelites of the Bible, but are direct descendants of Esau/Edom. The Edomites and Mt. Seir have always been sworn enemies of the true Israelites and continue their assault on white Christian countries to this day with a vengeance. In other words, those who say they are Jews, but are of the synagogue of Satan are precisely those who are running Israhell and working diligently to destroy the white race. Anyone who is white and still believes that those devils are God’s chosen is beyond delusional and in fact are promoting their own demise. Few will heed these words, but I’ll leave with this: WAKE UP, AMERICA!!!! THE HOUR IS LATE AND YOUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE HANGS IN THE BALANCE. STOP BELIEVING THE MYTH AND START EXPOSING THE RATS THAT ARE EATING UP YOUR SUSTENANCE AND DESTROYING YOUR NATION. GOT IT? I PRAY TO GOD THAT YOU DO.
Panzerlied is absolutely correct!!! The whole “chosen people” bullshit is just a wet dream. The 12 tribes? HA! All you need to know about the Jews is what they themselves will eagerly tell everyone all the time – they have been persecuted in nearly every land they’ve inhabited across recorded history. Whaaa! STOP THEM RIGHT THERE AND ASK THEM WHY!!!! They usually respond with the only thing their overblown ego will allow them to comprehend and that is the jealousy all others simply MUST have of Jews. I mean, it couldn’t possibly be anything else under the sun, right? Of course we all get a little jealous when we look at how clannish & tribal they are – always looking out for one another no matter where they are or what year it is. A great example of this is CNN. Simply look at who is Jewish and then note that out of the 3 that aren’t Jews, 2 are the night janitors. A great case can be made that they actually engage in discriminatory hiring practices based on religion. They have always maintained a cold war against “Goy” (“Goy” is how Jews refer to all non-Jews and it’s the same level of disrespect as calling an African American a “nigger” – this probably didn’t win over the natives in any of those places the Jews ended up getting kicked out of). Hell, just imagine if a group like the Germans all decided they were superior to everyone else and because of this, the only sensible thing was for them to rule over all the filthy pigs who didn’t have their “chosen” genetics! I mean what do you think people would do say about something like that? What if those Germans knew they were so outnumbered against the entire world that they took the time to develop an insidious long-term strategy/scheme to win this one-sided war that they totally fabricated and fought against an enemy that wasn’t even aware they were enemies? I’m sure they would start by taking over all ways in which their treachery might be exposed. This would begin with traditional media sources being purchased and operated by their own kind. Oh hell, I have other comments to write and you see how I can go on, so let’s just cut to the chase and you go take a look at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion if you want to know how to take over the world before anyone realizes it! Then, if you aren’t totally disgusted, look up the $15-$25 BILLION B-B-B-BILLION dollar per year Jewish charity scam they use to avoid taxes, launder money, and send back to Israel. Meanwhile, whenever they are scared of getting the shit rightfully kicked out of them, they manipulate the young men in the US to go fight the wars for them. 9/11 and the Jew connection? Is that still too outlandish? If so, how about you go read about the USS Liberty during the Six Day War! That’s 100% fact of Jew treachery and murder of innocent US sailors in a failed attempt to suck us into that war to fight it for them! Need more proof? Go watch Bibi explain on camera in an interview what Israel’s defense policy really is and how it has been so successful at keeping them out of wars!!! (Hint: He chuckles and says the policy is to let the US fight the wars for them!!) Before you feel compelled to accuse me of anything, let me beat you to the punch by bestowing the highest compliment I can upon myself. As I clearly have grown this past year to fucking HATE Israel, Jews, what they have and continue to do to this country and the way they actually use the innate kindness within mankind as a weapon turned against him, as they smile to his face and plot his death and the destruction of his country behind his back, you might think some name-calling or labeling is in order. Let me assist – feel free to call me an anti-Semite all you want, I would just prefer to be “Dr. Anti-Semite” if you don’t mind. God knows, I earned it!
One last thing that I see constantly all over the place is how Trump is such an ally to Israel. If this IS the case, why does EVERY SINGLE JEW from every media source, despise him? When he surprised them all with his Syria drawdown plan, I went through everys single channel and watched all through the niight and morning as the main critics on any channel were Jews!!! I didn’t realize Chris Wallace (Fox News Sunday) was even a crypto-Jew until his response so alarmed me that I was compelled to look him up on CIA funded Wikipedia! So either he’s not as pro-Israel as you all believe, or the Jews are really pissed because he in some way is a roadblock to whatever it is they really are trying to achieve with open borders, anytime abortion, women’s liberation, free everything for everyone not from America as long as you can storm the border while Trump is still President to make him look bad, etc. Yeah, you keep believing what THEY tell you to believe each day. I’ll be cleaning the cobwebs out of the gas chambers…just in case.
C mite.
If you’re anti Semite your wasting your time hating Israeli Or American Jews. They aren’t semites. For someone going on such a long rant you are one badly uninformed dude.
They adore Trump. Do you know he doesn’t even have Goy friends. Do you know his kids married Jews. Do you know who his son in law is. Do you know Bibi is Jared’s boyfriend. Do you know Kissinger is his mentor.
You’re lucky I’m such a sweet lovable guy. There are misinformation Nazis on here who will have their way with you for putting out that kind of mis info.
doc- yeah, what flea said . There is going to be pain if you try that shit again!
Trump is the ultimate Zionist Trojan horse.
Too drole: Judaism and Juche – The “Chosun” People. Hahahahahahahah.
droll
Hahaha, that would be hilarious.
This is news??
Beam Me up Scotty.
For non trekkies the saying is Beat me up, Scotty.
Please!
No encore needed!
NOV 2018 Trump takes a shot to the cajones at the polls.
DEC 2018 Trump stabbed in the back by Coulter.
JAN 2019 Trump caves.
FEB 2019 Trump takes a knee.
This is no way to run a campaign for reelection.
The biggest problem with AIPAC:
I never imagined you were so hot, nkit. Which one is you?
What does it matter? Neither one of these ladies would have anything to do with your sawed-off beaner butt.
Trump is a Trojan horse and talks out his ass. When you listen to what he says he makes as much sense Professor Irwin Corey.