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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWE are building Forces today to go to War in Syria... Bet many of You had no Idea...
Not a PeeP from the Media or the Trump Administration...
WASHINGTON The U.S. military is sending an additional 2,500 ground combat troops to a staging base in Kuwait from which they could be called upon to back up coalition forces battling the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
The deployment will include elements of the 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, which is based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. About 1,700 soldiers from the same unit are overseas now, spread between Iraq and Kuwait. They're focused on the U.S.-led effort to train and assist the Iraqi troops doing much of the fighting against ISIS there.
https://www.armytimes.com/articles/82nd-airborne-syria-iraq-kuwait-islamic-state
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)start a war that can insulate them while they literally hand the country over to Putin.
I predicted war a very long time ago if these fascists took over, I just wasnt sure where they would start it.
Ilsa
(61,710 posts)"Accidentally" getting into a war with Russia there, or seeing US military treated as collateral damage, is the real threat, from what I can tell.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)Every f&(kg Republican has always used our Military to take the heat off of them.
I notice the Corporate media now have the scripts that read "What about the Democrats?" What if there is nothing there with the Russian issue?".."Wont Democrats be charged by their constituents as interfering with Trump?"
thats the new talking point.
bdamomma
(63,955 posts)Americans in the dark about everything. This is all for Putin. Putin needs a stronghold in the Middle East.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Shared interest trump/putin Syria...we back off arming Ukranian fighters against putin..but put our military in harms way - under the guise of fighting ISIS...only, we create more FOR ISIS than less..they have nothing to lose..and trump/putin have everything to gain...
I sure hope the UN is able to fend off Russia in the Baltics...
I know, I've lost...
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)When the bodybags filled with soldier's remains start coming home. Urban warfare against fanatics likely will leave a lot of dead.