So after talking with Erdogan, Trump decides to pull all ground forces out of Syria ASAP. I have a few questions. Maybe you have answers.
1) What does Erdogan have on Trump? The MBS/Khashoggi intel? Or was Erdogan just delivering a message from Putin? Seriously, WTF here? Or maybe we should look at this another way…
2) What does Putin have to gain by getting the US out of Syria.
3) I haven’t heard either of these questions even approached by journalists. It’s past the time we can pretend that this administration isn’t compromised, actively working to confound and destroy the foundations of both our civic life and our international prominence, all in the best interests of our president’s mob bosses, but the stories I’ve, read, seen, and heard unanimously went out of their way to play it straight, like this was any other decision announced by any other president. By tweet. Against the seemingly unanimous advice of his cabinet. Without consulting or notifying allies. At night, in eel-infested waters. So my third question is, have you heard any journalists framing this Syria withdrawl in terms of either 1 or 2 above?