impoverished, backwards, extremely dysfunctional country with almost no manufacturing, a giant aging military that's nevertheless a fraction of the size and capability of ours, and a smaller economy than California's?

I swear, this kind of stuff almost makes those silly, clueless militia buffoons look good in comparison. Almost. But I mean, caving and declaring defeat from the comfort of one's easy chair for no particular reason?

sentence.

closely in league with the Russian mafia. Any comparison of the United States with that tragic mess would be bizarre and offensive.

God, save us from this douchenozzle!

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government.

Merriam-Webster definition of vassal:

vassal: a person in the past who received protection and land from a lord in return for loyalty and service.

If Trump was put into office by the Putin's interference in our election of 2016, Trump is likely a vassal to Putin and can be used by him to carry out Putin's foreign policy and military objectives.

I don't see any evidence yet that Putin is directly running our military. However the military does report to Trump as the civilian Commander-in-Chief.

Something's wrong here.

God help us.

Repubs whined about US troops under UN control. Now we take marching orders from Russia?

Things are different under CinC Trump.

so they could fight another day.

I hope our military notices.

that this was happening with a Democratic President, and a Democratically controlled Congress. The White House would be surrounded by armed Republicans, which means racists, fascists, misogynists etc. armed to the teeth and ready for an armed coup d'etat.

Rush Limbaugh would have returned to his studio, in the middle of a Cat 4 Hurricane, to alert all of his deranged listeners about the Democrats' treasonous activities.



All hell would be breaking out. Now, what do we hear out of Republicans at the moment? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?

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understand why they would request surveillance stop.

Either they plan on helping ISIS (seems unlikely) or perhaps they are just going to let loose on the sitting ducks.

Honestly if the Syrians were planning on letting loose, why would it matter if the US was watching?

This wouldn't be the first time an Arab government in the Middle East helped out Jihadists...

that Syria, Russia, or even Trump benefits from having ISIS escape. I suppose some short-sighted "strategy" to move the problem elsewhere could be in play, but that seems like something everyone should know will come back to bite them in the ass eventually.

As for the letting loose on ISIS, I was thinking they may be worried about the optics of Syrian soldiers killing fleeing ISIL members in mass. I may be wrong, but wasn't it mentioned that in those fleeing convoys there were family members of ISIL members? At least that's something I would be concerned about if I were them. Then again, they might be past the point of even caring about international opinion.

I dunno.

Which was not attended by any U.S. press?
Could it get any more peculiar? Oh wait silly question--yes, it can and it will!

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-diplomacy/new-russian-envoy-describes-warm-meeting-with-trump-agencies-idUSKCN1BJ259

"Trump said he would hand power over to the generals, he just never specified which generals he was handing the power over to."

That the Russians and Syrians believe the US supports ISIS. The last major experience of US bombing in the area resulted in the US killing 80+ Syrian soldiers fighting ISIS and allowing ISIS to advance on the area. Now that the Syrians have done the heavy work of breaking ISIS siege, we now have this announcement of the Syrian "so called" Democratic forces planning their advance on Deir Ezzor.

I bet the Syrians see the American's help not helping at all. The US "bombed" ISIS for almost 2 year while their territory expanded and this only reversed only when the Russians came into the picture. Sadly for all of us, they see the U.S for what it truly is, an imperialist trouble making country trying cause chaos, steal their land and implement regime change with their new Kurdish merc army.

Btw, a few months a go, the US backed kurds gave a large group of ISIS fighters amnesty and allowed them to escape Raqqa. The US is there illegally so this is a non issue anyway. The sooner the US, their weapons and their many proxy group are defeated and kicked out of Syria, the sooner that country would see peace again.

Viva Syria and their brave soldiers fighting all sorts of enemy foreign backed forces.

If this happened under Obama's watch