A Kurd is a Kurd is a Kurd, right? I’m sure Trump thinks this is close enough. I mean, how many categories of foreigners is he supposed to keep straight in his steamy Jiffy Pop head? x Doesn’t get more humiliating than this. Trump is in a meeting with the president of Iraqi Kurdistan Nechirvan…
Category: Syria
Baghdadi Bob's re-election rant
Donald J. Trump is his own al-Baghdadi Bob. General Gaslight’s bone spur bloodlust for oil kills the head of ISIS, but helps recruiting for Al-Q in the Global War on Terror… “as though you were watching a movie”. Trump was actually still playing golf during the raid. Here's the moment: Trump downplays the operation to kill Osama bin…
More windbaggery as Trump announces ceasefire for Syria crisis he caused: “Wow what a great outcome”
Individual-1 declares “victory for America”. Ethnic cleansing gets a pass as Russia and Turkey get what they want. Trump revels in mentioning blood and casualties. Then jabbers about securing the US border by deterring refugees. Trump: "Let someone else fight over this long, bloodstained sand." (This is a fertile, non-sandy region.) — Daniel Dale (@ddale8)…
Trump hotel nixes Christian prayer event supporting Kurds
So, what, the Kurds are our bitter enemies now? How dare they let us betray them like this? The Hill: A prayer event for the Kurdish people that was scheduled for this week at President Trump's hotel in D.C. was abruptly canceled, The Washington Post reported. The event, dubbed “A Night of Prayer for the Kurds,” was planned…
Putin and Erdogan Meet in Sochi, Russia to Discuss “Piece”.
Biloxi Sun Herald “Russian President Vladimir Putin has sat down in Sochi with visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks on Syria. Putin welcomed the Turkish leader in the Black Sea resort on Tuesday, saying their meeting is very important in the current tense situation in Syria. He noted that a high level of…
Kurds throw tomatoes and rocks at departing U.S. soldiers
Jenan Moussa is a roving reporter for Al Aan TV, and she has a dispatch from the heart of Donald Trump’s latest colossal failure: When American troops first arrived in North Syria, kurds received them as heroes with flowers and ululation. Now terrified Kurds in Syria are throwing tomatoes and stones at departing American forces.@akhbar pic.twitter.com/mRWJeZINBK…
Julia Davis Clues Us In on what Russian Media is Saying About Trump Abandoning the Kurds.
Julia Davis is an expert on Russian disinformation techniques and Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic Council’s Disinformation Portal. In one of her regular columns for The Daily Beast, published yesterday, she highlights the gleeful responses of Russians to drumpf’s backstabbing of the Syrian Kurds. “President Trump has boasted he’s “getting a lot of praise” for his…
Northern Syria: “the biggest ethnic cleansing operation of the 21st Century”
The primary combatants are the SNA, mercenaries supported by Turkey, and the SDF, although it now seems clear how much the absence of US forces has allowed the continuing rather than paused carnage. 300,000 people have been displaced. And then there’s all that Trumpian disinformation, often repeating Turkish talking points. Fact check: Cutting through the…
MCCONNELL Calls Out Trump Over Syria!
The Washington Post just published an op-ed by Mitch McConnell himself: Mitch McConnell: Withdrawing from Syria is a grave mistake Withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria is a grave strategic mistake. It will leave the American people and homeland less safe, embolden our enemies, and weaken important alliances. Sadly, the recently announced pullout risks repeating the…
Erdogan threatens Trump over the 'lack of respect' shown in his crazy, splenetic letter
Jon Sopel, the BBC’s North America editor, is reporting that Donald Trump’s second-grade playground letter to Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan isn’t having the effect Trump had hoped. Which is hard to understand because usually Trump fully comprehends and anticipates every possible contingency. Weird. x Wow. #Erdogan tells news conference the letter sent by @realDonaldTrump telling him…
Hostilities and human displacement continue in Syria despite the Turkish “pause”
Trump’s complete and clueless capitulation to Turkey and the associated betrayal of the Kurds continues as a “pause” in combat operations is to last 120 hours prior to the meeting in Sochi between Erdogan and Putin. 300,000 people are now said to be displaced. Erdogan expected a confrontational meeting, but the mood softened when it became…
James Mattis on Trump's 'overrated' dis: 'I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals'
So Donald Trump hires only the best people, and yet he regularly and viciously insults nearly all of them on the way out the door. According to several accounts of Trump’s Velveeta meltdown in the White House yesterday — during which he called Nancy Pelosi a “third-rate politician” — Trump also disparaged his former secretary…
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 143)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. The EU ambassador agreed to testify against Trump in impeachment proceedings against the administration's…
Check out the kookaburra letter Trump sent to Erdogan after giving him green light to invade Syria
This comes courtesy of Trish Regan at — oh, here it is — Fox Business. Other reporters have followed up on this and confirmed it’s real. Yes, 100 percent real. Though I’m still holding out hope that my brain has been floating placidly in a vat of dive-bar egg brine since, I don’t know, November…
Lara Trump: Most Americans have never even heard of the Kurds, so whatevs
The moral depth of these people is breathtaking. On Monday, Lara Trump — who’s married to Donald Trump’s fourth-favorite tragic mistake — appeared on Fox News at Night. The show’s host, Shannon Bream, asked her what she thought of a New York Times story (“Trump Followed His Gut on Syria, Calamity Came Fast”) that excoriated the…
Liz Cheney blames slaughter of Kurds on … Democrats
Well, she didn’t specifically call out Obama or Hillary Clinton, but give it a few days. On Fox News this morning, Liz Cheney, a Republican congresswoman from Wyoming and the daughter of the massing heap of discarded organs and tissue that used to be Dick Cheney, blamed Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria on — you guessed…
Trump talks Turkey: sternly-worded threats, tweeted loudly
Trump has now made threats against Turkey, having tried to bluff Erdogan and failed, again, as Axios reports. Unfortunately, Trump cannot erase a crisis of his own making with initiatives that will take weeks to implement while people die. This raises more questions about conversations between Trump and Erdogan especially since Russia completed a new…
Trump still vaguely threatening sanctions on Turkey, how empty are they?
Is sanctioning Turkey a kind of virtue signaling or is the Trump administration prepping the ground to lift Russian sanctions? In case you forgot that there was a monstrous steel imports tariff on Turkey that Trump promptly rescinded, because it’s virtuous to double a tariff then reduce it by 50% to appear like something happened. …
Russian state TV uses Trump's betrayal of Kurds for anti-American propaganda
Now that our nation’s promises are worth less than a degree from Trump University, our enemies see openings wider than the Wiffleball holes in Donald Trump’s brain. Julia Davis, a Russian media analyst who’s written for The Washington Post and The Daily Beast, recently unearthed the following gem from Russian state TV. And it’s hard…
Trumpian treachery in Syria – “Russia role on the rise as Trump packs and leaves”
This debacle continues as Trump claims he’s in favor of world peace, likely because he “lost” the Nobel prize to someone who brokered actual peace. Even more likely is that Trump’s holdings in Turkey were threatened and he was given a signal that this withdrawal would be favorable to Putin. This is shaping up as most chaotic US…
