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[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 54 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Same plan he made in Syria and Afghanistan. Abandon US allies in the region, hand over all local assets to hostile forces and leak intel like damn spaghetti strainer.

I wouldn't be surprised if he ordered the DoD to hanf over all the intel we have about Ukraine to Russia and withdraw all other support and recon in the area.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The USA, Iran and Russia are responsible for syrian civil war. None should have got involved in it

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Be as that may be, Trump absolutely selling out the Kurdish Militia that was a long time US ally in the region was not acceptable.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Trump absolutely selling out the Kurdish Militia

Shhh, the MSM isn't saying anything negative about the orange felon.

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 7 points 4 months ago

34 time felon.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee -1 points 4 months ago

Holy shit I forgot about that.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't change the fact that imperial powers ruined syria

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Imperial powers created Syria. Modern Syria anyway. The entire Middle East has been an Imperial project since colonialism. Pretty much only the Saudis and Israel (and Iran, if you want to count it as Middle Eastern) aren't on board.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

I mean, not for lack of trying, they did stage a coup and plant the Shah of Iran as the leader for a while

[–] Apollo42@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of course it had nothing to do with the repressive authoritarian regime killing its own people because they had the temerity to protest.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Of course the usa support rebels because they care about syrians and human life and not because they only cares about their own interest. The usa representing democracy is the number one supported of coups over the world, the country who represent human rights ignores the crimes commited by israel and is allying with saudi arabia. The countries who had revolutions without imperialist powers didn't fell into a civil war inlike all other revolutions with russia or usa interference.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Liberals will criticize ending a pointless 20 year war and somehow still not realize that they're jingos.

[–] FatCrab@lemmy.one 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The criticisms are universally about how he "ended" it. I have seen no one that was in favor of staying. Likewise, Trump gets criticism on betraying our allies because he knowingly and intentionally ratfucked the kurds, or have you totally forgotten about that?

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Trump didn’t end the war in Afghanistan. Biden did. The President who determined how that happened was Joe Biden.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And that criticism was always bullshit. There's no "right" way to retreat, it was always going to play out the way it did. Journalists criticized it in bad faith, because it generated clicks and because they never actually opposed the war, because again, war is great for clicks. In reality, what happened when the US pulled out was the culmination of 20 years spent doing nothing to stabilize the country and only making the Taliban stronger.

But go ahead then, armchair strategist, and describe to me what specifically could've been done differently about the withdrawal that would not have resulted in things playing out the way they did.

Opposing the withdrawal is the same as supporting the war. The withdrawal was one of the only good things Biden did in his whole career and liberals will never forgive him for it. Worse yet, you want to allow Trump to claim credit for it when Biden's the one who actually saw it through and had to deal with the flak from it.