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The US is reportedly planning to deploy tanks and other heavy military hardware to protect oil fields in eastern Syria, in a reversal of Donald Trumps earlier order to withdraw all troops from the country.
The most likely destination for US armoured units is a Conoco gas plant near the city of Deir Ezzor, the site of a February 2018 clash between US special forces and Syrian regime-backed militias fighting with Russian mercenaries.
It is quite likely it would take more troops to deploy, maintain, supply and protect armoured units in the middle of the eastern Syrian desert than the roughly 1,000 that were in the country before the Turkish invasion. The contradiction has been apparent in Trumps remarks in recent days, in which he claimed the US had secured the oil even while withdrawing its forces.
It would mean walling off eastern Syria as a US zone, Aaron Stein, director of the Middle East programme at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Washington, said of the plan to put tanks around the Conoco plant. You would have to protect it from the air. You have to supply it and then you have got to protect the road, presumably from Iraq. You can easily see a scenario where we end up with more troops in Syria than we started off with.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/24/us-military-syria-tanks-oil-fields
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)withdrawing, as if there was no buffer between his fever dream and reality
WTF WTF
And now men and materiel will APPARENTLY be dispatched to Syrias eastern oil fields, just like that
we died and went to hell, looks like
WTF
RainCaster
(10,912 posts)would also take religious, lifestyle and dating suggestions from an outhouse wall.
dweller
(23,651 posts)military?
confusing article...
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sinkingfeeling
(51,470 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,883 posts)Bring them home.
We are not the world's policeman.
Get us out of the Mid East.
Let them fight their own battles for their own lands.
Other presidents started unnecessary wars.
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But we can rent out our soldiers to Saudi Arabia as mercenaries.
First president to hand over an American base to Russia.
Cut n run
Betray our allies.