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originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
"Secret Service 'Special Operations Counter Sniper Team' w/ long duffle bags heading into Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation + Institute building a block north of WH."
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Much smaller crowd in D.C. than anticipated. National Guard, Secret Service, and D.C. Police have been doing a fantastic job. Thank you!
.@CNN & MSDNC are doing everything possible to “inflame” the crowd. Fortunately they have a very small audience!
Dozens Of Westerners Join Kurds To Fight ISIS In Syria
How Obama’s team set up Trump’s Syrian dilemma
Over the last few days, a host of former Obama officials have been repeating this story, which is highly misleading, to say the least. Rice and her colleagues would have us believe that Team Obama created a highly effective plan for stabilizing the Middle East by working through groups like the YPG, and Trump, mercurial and impulsive, is throwing it all away by seeking a rapprochement with Ankara. That’s nonsense.
In fact, the close relationship with the YPG was a quick fix that bequeathed to Trump profound strategic dilemmas. Trump inherited from Obama a dysfunctional strategy for countering ISIS, one that ensured ever-greater turmoil in the region and placed American forces in an impossible position.
To be sure, the YPG are good fighters, and the American soldiers who have fought alongside them hold them in very high esteem. But the decision to make them the primary ally for defeating ISIS came at a hidden cost: the alienation of one of America’s closest allies. The YPG is the Syrian wing of the PKK, the Kurdish separatist group in Turkey.
Designated as a terrorist group by the State Department, the PKK has prosecuted a long war against the Turkish Republic, resulting in the death of some 40,000 people.
The Turks beseeched the Obama administration not to align with their sworn enemy, but the Obamaians told them, in effect, to sit down and shut up. Why? The American relationship with the YPG was a direct outgrowth of the greatest blunder of the Obama administration: the effort to reach a strategic accommodation with Iran.
The YPG knew from the beginning that its relationship with Washington was temporary and transactional. It didn’t fight as a favor to the United States. America armed, trained, equipped and funded the YPG.
On December 19, 2018, Trump announced immediate US withdrawal from Syria, over the objections of his national security advisers.[124] Mattis had recently said that the US would remain in Syria following the defeat of ISIL to ensure they did not regroup. The next day, he submitted his resignation after failing to persuade Trump to reconsider.
originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
a reply to: crankyoldman
the implication is that Floyd's death was pre-planned and I've been of the opinion for a couple days now that it was, in fact, pre-planned. I think that those dudes had a much closer relationship than we know. I think that George Floyd was an informant for Derek Chauvin. I think that Derek Chauvin likely met with him earlier in the day, got him high, passed him a counterfeit bill deliberately knowing he would use it to go buy smokes, waited for the call and then under orders from someone at the CIA (most likely) killed him publicly. The goal was to start the riots and this theory seems to best explain all of the "facts" as I have come across them.
I'll make a prediction with my theory as well. The attorney general there, Keith Ellison, is on the same team as Derek Chauvin. He recently even announced that he will be leading this investigation. If my hunch is correct, their plan will be to overcharge Chauvin, allowing him to walk free. Which will only set of more rioting. This is why Chauvin had to give the guy drugs. They wanted him to "kill him" publicly, but also make sure that he had a bunch of drugs in his system at the time. That way, when it goes to trial, they can let him skate. If he was high on fentanyl at the time, you CANNOT convict Chauvin of murder.