Courtney Kube NBC: "Americans are being closed in from all sides" in Syria

[Dennis Donovan]

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Andrea Mitchell ✔ @mitchellreports

.@ckubeNBC: "Americans are being closed in from all sides at these several bases that they have in the northern part of Syria. That's the real concern here-At a certain point many of those locations will be surrounded and Americans will be stuck in the middle." #AMRstaff

12:15 PM - Oct 14, 2019

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Andrea Mitchell ✔ @mitchellreports

.@ckubeNBC: "The Trump admin made it clear the US will not fight Turkey in this conflict. You would have Americans who are sitting there, while they have the right of self-defense, they haven't been given authority to fight back if they're caught in middle of conflict." #AMRstaff

12:16 PM - Oct 14, 2019

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Andrea Mitchell ✔ @mitchellreports

Moving nukes in Turkey, @ckubeNBC, "The Turks are very careful about watching U.S. as they move on/off that base. They wouldn't be able to do it in secret. They would have to notify Turkey & Turkey wouldn't want that to happen. That's a strategic deterrence for them." #AMRstaff

12:19 PM - Oct 14, 2019

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Andrea Mitchell ✔ @mitchellreports

.@ckubeNBC: "If in fact the U.S. were to decide to take those nukes out, you should look at that as a full withdrawal of U.S. military from Turkey." #AMRstaff

12:20 PM - Oct 14, 2019

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Call in the Blackhawks, it is the Fall of Saigon Redux.

[flying_wahini]

2. This chaps my ass every way but Sunday.

Where are the military leaders when we need them?? Why isn’t Mattis
or ANYone speaking up??

I think they are waiting for US forces to get killed before they do anything.

[gratuitous]

3. That can happen when you cut and run

Remember how that was just the worst thing Republicans could conjure up about Bush's war on terror? Well, here it is, except even worse because this is Donald Trump free-lancing on a situation he knows less than nothing about, and on which he refuses to consult with anyone who has knowledge.

Look for Trump to deride those KIA as losers who should have done a better job looking out for themselves.

[global1]

4. Trump Just Better Hope That No Americans Get Killed In This Conflict.....

I sit back here and just can't understand why any military man or woman - former or current - can support Trump in any way.

[CrispyQ]

6. Because for 40+ years we've let the republicans get away with claiming they are the party of:

small government
God
family values
fiscal conservatives
personal responsibility
free market capitalism

These false claims have gone largely unchallenged by the dems/left.

The thing that really galls me is that if you look at the evidence, the economy does better under dems than republicans. Why is corporate America blind to this? You know why? Because they would rather support a party that might take the whole system down, than a party that will make them share the wealth.

[NCjack]

11. Trump will blame Obama. nt

[Iliyah]

5. Didn't I read that our troops about 1,000 or so

left Syria?

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. trump SAID they had left, I remember that.

THEN he gave Ergodan intelligence info. about the Kurds and their weapons.

trump has lost IC support, looks like he's gonna get "my military" on his bad side too.
that only leaves the bikers, who he calls friends. Pretty sure he will figure out how to fuck them over also.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Are we seeing the major prize for Putin.

US pulls out of the two bases in Turkey? How many of our Military People have to be sacrificed for King Moscow Don?

So,Mrs,Greenspan is being pipped info from the Pentagon.

[bdamomma]

14. Turkey was part of NATO

and Putin hates NATO. Watch out Putin he is spreading his tentacles out into the Middle East due to oil pipeline.

[roamer65]

8. I don't give a flying fuck about the Turks.

Start shipping the nukes out stat.

If ANY Turk gets in the way, shoot them dead.

[Duppers]

10. K & R

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Prediction: Russia offers "safe harbor" for American troops' exit, in exchange for....

...certain measures of "thanks" from Trump.

And Trump happily obliges.

[blaze]

13. Damn. That could happen. nt

[bdamomma]

15. Putin has

his fingers in the pie. What a bastard he is.

[Sugar Smack]

16. omg.

all of this, all of this. horrible.