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Russian Troops Block U.S. Military Convoy in Syria

Rogue Valley

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Russian Troops Block U.S. Military Convoy in Syria - The Moscow Times

Russian troops have blocked and turned around a U.S. military convoy in northeast Syria, the Russian military said Thursday, accusing it of violating deconfliction arrangements in the country.
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5/14/21
Russian troops have blocked and turned around a U.S. military convoy in northeast Syria, the Russian military said Thursday, accusing it of violating deconfliction arrangements in the country. The Russian Defense Ministry’s Syria reconciliation center said six American MRAP-type armored vehicles drove “along an uncoordinated route and without prior notice” in the Kurdish-held Syrian province of Hasakah. “A Russian military police patrol stopped the convoy and turned it in the opposite direction,” counter admiral Alexander Karpov, the reconciliation center’s deputy head, said in a statement. The U.S. Defense Department declined to comment on the confrontation, with spokeswoman Jessica McNulty telling Russian state-run media it “has nothing to give you on the request.” The Russian military, which has been providing support to Damascus since 2015 in its decade-long civil war, has also announced the expansion of its naval and military bases in Syria. The U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition was deployed in Syria that same year, which has led to multiple tense standoffs with Russian troops in recent years.
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The US military presence in northern Syria is fighting elements of ISIS and acting as a brake against Syrian/Russian/Turkish massacres of the Kurds. The Pentagon recently issued a report accusing Russia of violating "deconfliction processes" in northern Syria. The report said that Russia "seeks to harass and constrain U.S. forces with the ultimate goal of compelling U.S. forces to withdraw from northeastern Syria."

www.newsweek.com

Russia Tells U.S. Only Their Troops Are Welcome in Syria

Russia's embassy in Washington tweeted that the U.S. presence in Syria was "primarily illegal."
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Makes perfect sense. Trump pulls troops out of N. Syria after a brief telecon with Turkey's Erdogan so that Turkey can slaughter the Kurds, then we provide military protection to prevent Syrian/Russian/Turkish massacres of the Kurds.
 
bluesmoke said:
Makes perfect sense. Trump pulls troops out of N. Syria after a brief telecon with Turkey's Erdogan so that Turkey can slaughter the Kurds, then we provide military protection to prevent Syrian/Russian/Turkish massacres of the Kurds.
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Giving Russia an air base that they still use today...

Tell me again how trump was not a Putin puppet....
 
Rogue Valley said:
www.themoscowtimes.com

Russian Troops Block U.S. Military Convoy in Syria - The Moscow Times

Russian troops have blocked and turned around a U.S. military convoy in northeast Syria, the Russian military said Thursday, accusing it of violating deconfliction arrangements in the country.
www.themoscowtimes.com www.themoscowtimes.com


Good, our troops shouldn’t be in Syria. We have a stated policy of putting ISIS in power in Syria by removing Russia’s ally. Why should the Russians treat us as friends?

The US military presence in northern Syria is fighting elements of ISIS and acting as a brake against Syrian/Russian/Turkish massacres of the Kurds. The Pentagon recently issued a report accusing Russia of violating "deconfliction processes" in northern Syria. The report said that Russia "seeks to harass and constrain U.S. forces with the ultimate goal of compelling U.S. forces to withdraw from northeastern Syria."

www.newsweek.com

Russia Tells U.S. Only Their Troops Are Welcome in Syria

Russia's embassy in Washington tweeted that the U.S. presence in Syria was "primarily illegal."
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com
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bluesmoke said:
Makes perfect sense. Trump pulls troops out of N. Syria after a brief telecon with Turkey's Erdogan so that Turkey can slaughter the Kurds, then we provide military protection to prevent Syrian/Russian/Turkish massacres of the Kurds.
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Remember, the Kurds with glee murdered Christians in the Armenian genocide. They are not our friends. At most they’re allies of convenience
 
GDViking said:
Giving Russia an air base that they still use today...

Tell me again how trump was not a Putin puppet....
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Because it is not being a puppet to recognize other countries have greater interests in The area then we do and there’s no reason risk Americans for some obscure cause that we don’t really fit into.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Remember, the Kurds with glee murdered Christians in the Armenian genocide. They are not our friends. At most they’re allies of convenience
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Yeah? How many Kurds?
 
GDViking said:
Time for a drone visit...
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A visit from a B-2 might be nice.

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The shit show, aka Middle East, continues... :rolleyes:
 
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EMNofSeattle said:
We have a stated policy of putting ISIS in power in Syria by removing Russia’s ally.
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I'll need a citation for this whopper of a lie.
 
GDViking said:
Giving Russia an air base that they still use today...

Tell me again how trump was not a Putin puppet....
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Hilarious. Trump made a big deal about an airstrike against a Syrian airbase that he deemed highly destructive and successful adding “Previous attempts at changing Assad’s behaviour have failed and failed very badly." The base was operational within hrs and fully operation in two days. Hilarious.
 
bluesmoke said:
Hilarious. Trump made a big deal about an airstrike against a Syrian airbase that he deemed highly destructive and successful adding “Previous attempts at changing Assad’s behaviour have failed and failed very badly." The base was operational within hrs and fully operation in two days. Hilarious.
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abcnews.go.com

Trump defends decision not to hit runway on Syrian air base

They're "easy and inexpensive to quickly fix," he said.
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:LOL:
 
Rogue Valley said:
www.themoscowtimes.com

Russian Troops Block U.S. Military Convoy in Syria - The Moscow Times

Russian troops have blocked and turned around a U.S. military convoy in northeast Syria, the Russian military said Thursday, accusing it of violating deconfliction arrangements in the country.
www.themoscowtimes.com www.themoscowtimes.com




The US military presence in northern Syria is fighting elements of ISIS and acting as a brake against Syrian/Russian/Turkish massacres of the Kurds. The Pentagon recently issued a report accusing Russia of violating "deconfliction processes" in northern Syria. The report said that Russia "seeks to harass and constrain U.S. forces with the ultimate goal of compelling U.S. forces to withdraw from northeastern Syria."

www.newsweek.com

Russia Tells U.S. Only Their Troops Are Welcome in Syria

Russia's embassy in Washington tweeted that the U.S. presence in Syria was "primarily illegal."
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com
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I don't recall seeing stories like this when Trump was in office.

Did I miss them? Not hardly.
 
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