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US planning to withdraw from Syria as it 'reconsiders its priorities' - Foreign Policy magazine

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Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:45 UTC

FILE: US bases in Iraq and Syria have come under near-daily attacks by Iraqi resistance factions since mid-October 2023.

The American magazine Foreign Policy revealed on Wednesday that the United States is planning to withdraw from Syria, as the American administration is reconsidering its military priorities in the region.

The newspaper said: Since the Hamas attack on October 7, "tensions and hostilities throughout the Middle East have reached their peak."

It added: "With the emergence of such a complex regional crisis, it should not be surprising for the Biden administration to reconsider its military priorities in the region," noting that "however, there should be great concern that this may involve a complete withdrawal of US forces from Syria.

While a final decision to leave has not been made, four sources within the US Departments of Defense and State said that the White House is no longer interested in continuing the mission, which it considers "unnecessary," according to Foreign Policy.

It continued: Active internal discussions are now taking place to determine how and when the withdrawal can take place.

Comment: Like the Afghanistan debacle?

The newspaper pointed out that "some within the American government are currently proposing a cooperative arrangement between the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Syrian regime to confront ISIS, as a clear path towards American withdrawal."

Comment: Without the US, their terrorists in the SDF are unlikely to stand much of a chance, except chaos creation.

This comes after the American forces in Iraq and Syria were subjected to more than 130 missile and drone attacks by Iraqi resistance factions during the past months, in support of the resistance in Gaza, including a missile attack against the American embassy on the eighth of last December.

The resistance strikes led to the withdrawal of American forces from the "Hemos" military base in the Syrian city of Qamishli, which is considered one of the vital bases for American forces, which opens the door to successive withdrawals if the Iraqi resistance field work continues.

Comment: Evidently what the US is scheming is much more important than its plundering of Syria's oil reserves, which, as the West continues to suffer from the energy crisis, is ominous indeed.

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WYVERN · 2024-01-25T02:07:08Z

this is official government policy now that the council on foreign relations has used it's mouthpiece to telegraph it's message to the other players in the region.

my thoughts are that russia finally laid down the law to d.c.. curious what israel has to say about this......

whitecoast · 2024-01-25T02:49:19Z

Likely this will just be a transfer of arms and resources to a surprise resurgence of Daesh with full license to commit further atrocities and sow chaos.

codis · 2024-01-25T06:18:57Z

The American magazine Foreign Policy revealed on Wednesday that the United States is planning to withdraw from Syria, as the American administration is reconsidering its military priorities in the region.

Syria has strong Russian support, so it was easy to see it will be the first domino to fall.

I would think, because of their "strategical" location between Syria and Iran, the bases in Iraq will be next.

Artex · 2024-01-25T14:56:58Z

Comment: Like the Afghanistan debacle?

No, not like Afghanistan. Afghanistan had a puppet government, unlike Syria which has a functional government and an uninvited military force working in the interests of a third country who currently is involved in a 7 front war and trying its best to start WWIII. If the US leaves Syria, Syria will be fine and can deal with removing the rebel elements Russia has been helping them deal with.

The US leaving Syria would be wise since Israel is going to expand it's efforts beyond Golan Heights, and the US would become a primary target of the Syrian army. If the US is trying to stay out of it directly (lol), then retreating and regrouping would be wise, especially considering lack of recruitment.

WYVERN · 2024-01-26T02:35:42Z

Artex agree. remember that syria was putin's first foray into stoppping the u.s./u.k. globohomo. he stopped it dead in it's tracks. hence the maidan in ukraine as a retaliation. syria has had ties to russia since the times of the soviet union. kind of ironic that it is the first domino to fall in the middle east chess game of which the u.s. is losing.

Artex · 2024-01-26T15:42:24Z

WYVERN I had the benefit of an international relations class requirement in high school . There are very few schools in the US that have such a requirement. And I doubt my alma mater still requires it as the teacher is surely retired by now. I took it in 1996 and we went hard on Russia and the former Soviet Union. If a question was missed by more than 50% of the class on a test, it was repeated on the next test. If you had a dumb cohort, the tests by the end of the year were very long. Everyone took it first semester because it was so hard chances were high you'd have to repeat it second semester to graduate. One question we had on every test the year I took it was "List 15 of the former Soviet Socialist Republics" and you had to spell them correctly. "Correct" spelling was either what was in the text, or if you could show a newspaper article with a different spelling to defend your spelling.

Anyway, the point is most people in the US don't even know there's a nation called Tadzhikistan, let alone how to spell it. People are ignorant of the fact that Afghanistan bordered the USSR, or that the USSR was so big it bordered China, Japan, the Middle East and Europe. And people are too dumb to understand that what the US does in those places effected (and effects) the former USSR and Russia more than the US. Anyway, proximity to the Black and Mediterranean seas made/make Turkey, Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria necessary allies if Russia is to have reasonable ocean trade. Without access to those waters, they have the Arctic and North Pacific. Europe and the US have long tried to isolate Russia to weaken her.

Only until HS was I afraid of Russia, and that was largely due to Cold War propaganda in television and movies. Since then I haven't seen any factual claims by the US government of any existential threat in the modern era from the nation that saved our asses from Germany and Japan in WWII. The threat is to the Western economic order, aka, rich fuckers won't have a lock on the world economy if we let Russia BRICS play on a level field.

I'm a multipolarist. It's just unfortunate that most people have come to tie their identities to their politics (and sexuality) and call anyone who does not see things their way a nazi. You want diversity? You should 100% be on board with a multilateral world competing with one another. The stagnation we see throughout over the last 70 years is due to national security secrecy around technologies that could change the world for the better and lack of competition due in large part to malingering patents that never expire, and the MIC and energy sector buying and burying patents for new promising technogies. Artificial scarcity and emergencies across the board to keep the oligarchy in power.

codis · 2024-01-26T17:16:41Z

Artex

Anyway, the point is most people in the US don't even know there's a nation called Tadzhikistan, let alone how to spell it. People are ignorant of the fact that Afghanistan bordered the USSR, or that the USSR was so big it bordered China, Japan, the Middle East and Europe.

I knew since childhood.

Our (Eastern Bloc) curriculum covered geography of the Soviet Union in 6th grade, for months. And somewhat later the US as well. With no continent uncovered. History too, but through a quite red-tinted glasses ...

I'm a multipolarist. It's just unfortunate that most people have come to tie their identities to their politics (and sexuality) and call anyone who does not see things their way a nazi.

As a side note, we had nothing of that back then.

Artex · 2024-01-26T18:42:25Z

codis I don't even think we were taught anything about China in HS. It was the US Civil War, Revolutionary War, Spanish American War, founding history, state history... they barely taught us anything about WWII (but we did watch Schindler's List in class), though History Channel existed when I was in HS and everything was about WWII. We learned civics in grade school, but beyond that, not much. Very little European history. No French Revolution, no Napoleonic War, nothing about Egypt or the middle east. In grade school we were learning about Greek mythology, but one parent complained and they stopped teaching it from there on out. But kids today learn even less about history unless it's revisionary calling into question the legitimacy of the American government altogether based on postmodernist grievances.

codis · 2024-01-27T11:01:00Z

Artex As a side note, all of that has changed in the last 40 years.

I saw a report from Europe some while ago, were "average" young Europeans were asked to place cultural icons like the Eiffel tower, Brandenburg Gate, Akropolis or Tower Bridge on a general European map ( - approximately, the symbols were sized to cover about a 100 miles space in proportion). All of them failed miserably, let alone naming <one> location

Something is seriously rotten in West ...

Artex · 2024-01-28T12:23:14Z

codis In elementary school I could name all 50 US states and their capitals. I probably still could, but it would take longer. Now, my geography of the rest of the world isn't stellar, but it isn't so bad that I couldn't name the country and place the icons you mentioned. It's amazing how the world has amnesia of its own history when we have stopped teaching modern history. Something rotten indeed.

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