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In reply to the discussion: Who Besides Me Thinks Putin Ordered Trump To Leave Northern Syria? [View all]FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)58. Pootie probably has a secret deal with Syria in the works
Never forget that one of his main objectives is to get a warm port city where he can launch his ships and submarines. That was his interest in the Crimean region, however Crimea is on the Black Sea. How much more convenient that Syria is right on the Mediterranean.
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Who Besides Me Thinks Putin Ordered Trump To Leave Northern Syria? [View all]
SeaTownBlue
Oct 2019
OP
Knowing that he might be impeached, drumpf has to step up his orders from Putin so that when he
mfcorey1
Oct 2019
#2
Now that I think about it, you're probably right. What I don't get is trump's/Putin's...
brush
Oct 2019
#6
Or, it could be back scratching for the opening of Trump Towers in Turkey.
Baitball Blogger
Oct 2019
#7
A certain someone might then be able to build natural gas pipelines through that area, wouldn't he?
pecosbob
Oct 2019
#13
This is not the first time we've gotten part of the Kurdish disapora murdered.
AtheistCrusader
Oct 2019
#23
I just read an article from December 2018 reporting on a call btwn T and Erdogan.
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2019
#26
Thanks for these specifics. They add up to Trump selling out America and our allies to Putin,
emmaverybo
Oct 2019
#52
This comprehensive list lays it all out - deserves its own post for exposure. n/t
crickets
Oct 2019
#64
The only thing we can be sure of is that it was a self-serving "transaction"
William Seger
Oct 2019
#39
Bet, Trump also negotiated some fake documents involving Biden, Warren or Sanders
UCmeNdc
Oct 2019
#45
Vlad: "Donnie you effed up lifting both the U.S sanctions, so we're gonna try this other thing"
MadLinguist
Oct 2019
#65