Syria Civil War resumes; Assad Regime Falls

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Calheel said:
Your use of the singular verb "is" suggests that Trump has some unified, coherent foreign policy. Perhaps you think he is a noninterventionist. He is not. He is a wholly transactional person who makes decisions based on whatever will personally help him. If he thinks invading will help him, he will. If he thinks staying out will help him, he will. It is not as though there is some bedrock principle guiding his decision-making. Simply put, he has no foreign policy. There will never be a Trump Doctrine.
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I really disagree. He is in general a non-interventionist. He tends to take bombastic positions but in the end, everyone calms down and nothing really changes. He also tends to feel that radical islamists are a bigger threat to America than traditional enemies like China or Russia.
 
BlueSmoke said:
This Syria collapse may encourage Trump not to be too hasty in ending the Ukraine War. But why does Trump even care about ending the Ukraine War? I suppose what he really wants is to help his buddy with a positive outcome. Or in a weird way, Trump thinks he will be seen as a hero? Just don't get it.
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I do think Trump wants to end the war. I think he wants a Nobel Peace prize which wouldn't happen even if he got Superman to leave the Fortress of Solitude and pitch every nuclear weapon into the sun, but a man can dream.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
I really disagree. He is in general a non-interventionist. He tends to take bombastic positions but in the end, everyone calms down and nothing really changes. He also tends to feel that radical islamists are a bigger threat to America than traditional enemies like China or Russia.
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Seems like since we've quit messing around over there, they mostly have more important things to do. They need most of their manpower for the power struggles in the ME.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
I really disagree. He is in general a non-interventionist. He tends to take bombastic positions but in the end, everyone calms down and nothing really changes. He also tends to feel that radical islamists are a bigger threat to America than traditional enemies like China or Russia.
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The invasion of Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza are both direct results of Trump's foreign policy. It is not the case that everyone calms down.
 
finesse said:
I don't remember. Did Neville Chamberlain get it?
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No. Neither did Nicholas II, Kaiser Wilhelm, Franz Josef, Clemenceau or even David Lloyd George. Everyone seems to remember the lessons from the beginning of world war II but conveniently forget the lessons from the beginning of world war I.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
I really disagree. He is in general a non-interventionist. He tends to take bombastic positions but in the end, everyone calms down and nothing really changes. He also tends to feel that radical islamists are a bigger threat to America than traditional enemies like China or Russia.
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He has you fooled. Trump is not about policy. On anything. He sees what X and Fox and Breitbart are saying that day and he amplifies it. The day when Trump makes a decision based on principles will be never.
 
superrific said:
The invasion of Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza are both direct results of Trump's foreign policy. It is not the case that everyone calms down.
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Uh, wtf? Both these conflicts predated Trump by decades, and it was under the current administration they flared…
 
Batt Boy said:
Israel has seized the Syrian part of Mt Hermon. This is a strategic location that allowed Syria to monitor Israel's own monitoring activities, and look into Israel. The takeover is reportedly done in cooperation with UNDOF.GeSRnZMXcAAsrCw?format=jpg&name=large.jpg

Israel this morning also conducted airstrikes in Syria. Main targets are reportedly former SAA assets that Israel wouldn't want to fall into rebel hands, including anything related to SSMs, chemical weapons, and other strategic weapons that could be used to attack Israel.
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Morgan Freeman Applause GIF by The Academy Awards
 
I don't understand the point of places like that. Why not just kill people when you capture them? Why squirrel them away underground for years and then kill them?

That description reminds me of grisly Khmer Rouge shit. It also reminds me of the hole where Bane was born. It's so ghoulish.
 
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