Unfuckingbelievable!….
Manu Raju
@mkraju
Trump added: “If they do ask us to leave, if we don’t do it in a very friendly basis. We will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame.”
Manu Raju
@mkraju
Trump also tells pool he will slap Iraq with “very big sanctions” if they force US troops to leave. “We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time. We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for it.
I should point out that Trump’s threat is aimed at Iran….
Not Iraq….
Iraq would fall apart in ten seconds if the US/NATO left…
The vote by their law makers which was non binding was for Iran’s ears…
In the end?
This is a holy war between Muslim sects.
Trump and Pompeo doubling down on tripp’s in Iraq is a 180 degree turn for him against his efforts to take troops OUT. of the Middle East….
Folks the west and other middle east countries maybe worried…
But they HAVE to be happy that Donald Trump is sending the troops BACK to the region…
Again?
Despite the media bull shit?
This IS a chess game trying to move Trump’s hands back to the norm for the region…
And the bellicose tweets from Trump is his SOP…
He does MOT. want a shooting war anymore then the Iranians do…
Again?
I expect Trump to get a bounce in the polls from this …Just when the Dem’s go to the polls and a possible impeachment trial could start…
3 dimensional chess going on with a guy who doesn’t really think two minutes in to future…
¿¿ If the Iraqis ask Trump to do what he promised in 2016, then he should punish their impudence with crippling sanctions ??
DSD ,you’re making the same mistake I often do,attempting to make sense of one of James’s rambling uh “analysis.”
In the above he essentially declares that it is a good idea for the United States to involve itself in a “holy war between Muslim sects.”
Yes I’m sure that’s exactly what we all want.
However, you see,unlike him?I just don’t see the “greys.”Presumably quoting what he writes is not seeing such.
And once again ,maybe you can educate me (since I can’t see the “greys) ,you claim that this is a “chess game to move Trump .. make to the norm for the region.”
What exactly is the “norm for the region?”
In a week the US could have 10,000 troops in or offshore of Iraq….
Politico…
The Pentagon disputed that U.S. troops are preparing to withdraw from Iraq after a leaked letter from a U.S. general suggested plans are underway to prepare troops to leave following the Iraqi Parliament’s vote calling for their removal