Isn't announcing that the USA is going to try to get out of Syria telegraphing to our enemies?

[applegrove]

Unless they already knew.

[Adrahil]

1. How elese is going to publicly surrender?

Putin is headed North and Trump is shitting his pants. He needs Putin to know he is allowing Russia to have Syria and to be the dominant power in the Middle East.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. The filthy traitors who support the filthy traitor will justify anything the chief traitor does

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Appears this was a Trump

arrangement made with Putin some time ago. The Pentagon has been signaling about this a couple of weeks back.

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. You are right...

Along with Russia, Iran and the Syrian regime could also benefit from the economic advantages of seizing oilfields currently controlled by US-backed allies.

The regime lost roughly 90% of its oil production when the civil war began

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/31/politics/us-withdraw-syria-trump/

[Wellstone ruled]

7. And there is a Major Pipeline which Putin has interest in.

Again,it is all about the Oil. Nothing changes only the Body Counts.

[asiliveandbreathe]

4. A good article regarding Syria from CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/31/politics/us-withdraw-syria-trump/

Angela Stent, director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University, told CNN on Friday that "if the US were to withdraw, it seems to me the Russians would have a free hand" in Syria and the forces "fighting Assad would be weakened."
"I do wonder if that is something the President thought about when he made that announcement," Stent said, noting that any departure would elevate Russia's status to make it "the main power broker in that area."

I am a fan of "Just Security" as well, where familiar writers post their essays and analysis..on many subject...

[NCTraveler]

5. Russia is no longer an adversary.

We are in debt to them by way of our President.

[applegrove]

8. I was thinking of ISIS and Syria. You know, war crimes and all. You would

think that might stick in Trump's mind.

[NCTraveler]

10. Im not sure what it is with Putin and Trump.

I wish I had more certainty. I’m still holding the belief that Trump was forced to reach outside of the conventional loan system and found himself dealing with Russian oligarchs. I don’t think he is leveraged in any way and payment structures are loose. Oligarchs get access to use a number of Trumps assets as part of payment. I simply think Trump is owned and the Presidency is just a bonus for Putin.

[applegrove]

11. I don't know how he is owned by Putin, or if. But he certainly shows feilty

to Putin.

[pwb]

9. Sure they are. Republicans can show their hand to the enemy?

They can lead from behind too. It's just not allowed for democratic administrations.