No surprise in this reversal of Donald Trump’s effort to make a ‘deal’ with the Turkish President that the US military and members of BOTH parties of Congress and just about everybody else thought was wrong….
This move will require MORE American troops to move BACK into Syria to secure the oil field’s America, NATO and Kurdish troops fought to keep from ISIS , which ISIS tried to destroy back during the fighting …
It is unknown if the Kurds could move into the protected area….
But the US Defense Sec has let on that America’s military IS staying in touch with the Kurds in Syria despite the introduction of Russian troops into the region…
Congress is supposed to approve this…
The US defence secretary has confirmed “mechanised forces” will be redeployed alongside soldiers to protect oilfields in eastern Syria, in a reversal of Donald Trump’s earlier order to withdraw all troops from the country.
Mark Esper told a press conference at Nato headquarters in Brussels that “we are reinforcing our position” in Syria that “will include some mechanised forces”, although he tried to insist the US mission in the country was unchanged.
The goal, he added, was to deny Isis access to the oilfields in north-east Syria, but he would not say how many US troops would remain other than to indicate the number would be fewer than 1,000.
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