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ShinerBock
Dec 10, 2019Explorer
Yosemite Sam1 wrote:ShinerBock wrote:NJRVer wrote:
Obama didn't put troops in Syria to protect oil. Trump flat out said he was protecting the oil.
Obama put them there to protect people.
He wasn't protecting the oil, he was keeping it from the enemies hands that was using to fund their war. It is called strategy. We did not need oil from Syria at that time just like we do not need it now due to our own domestic production.
If Obama would not have pulled the troops out of Iraq too soon when he did(which allowed ISIS to expand) then he would not have had to send them to Syria to protect them. All those innocent people killed all because he wanted to fulfill a campaign promise even though everyone said it was not the best thing to do.
Another of your delusions?
"Keeping the oil out of enemies?" Who are they tell me?
Syria and Putin are friends to each other. And withdrawal of our troops made possible Russians getting and occupying our former bases and defensive lines? Unless you are saying now Syria and Putin are our friend too (or Trump's friend, which is more accurate).
It also weakened Kurds and made possible their slaughter. Do you know that Kurds are our friends and they were the only ones who pushed back ISIS?
Even your geo-political views sucks.
Asad. Before the civil war started, it accounted for 25% of Asad's funds in which he used to kill his own people. Asad is friends with Russia and Iran, not the Syrian fighters who are still against him. The oil in Syria is very poor quality and there is not enough of it to make even the slightest of impact. Syria accounts for less than .05% of the worlds production so it has no significance to the US. The only person or group it was important to was Asad.
Trump did not want Turkey to attack the Kurds which is why imposed sanctions on them when they did. However, I believe he made a mistake when he pulled the troops out of that region before shoring up peace with Turkey and the Kurds. Similar to how I believe Obama pulled the troops out of Iraq too soon which lead to the ISIS uprising that killed hundreds of thousands if not millions.
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