This is often how the USA military identifies itself in the post Cold War. "The power among the people." Not a bad place to be.

Let me be clear. I don't approve of war and in the year 2019, most major wars have been fought.


That said, Donald Trump put our troops in the line of fire with Turkey. No warning. No notification. No orders to evacuate. The troops were left to discover the danger and make decisions based in self-defense. That is not the way to run a USA military. If there was to be a TRANSFER of power with Turkey as peacekeepers in the region, it happens in orderly and measured methods.

This was a decision by Putin to remove the USA from the region and it happened as if it came from Moscow.

October 13, 2019
By Shawn Snow

Syrian Kurds gather around a U.S. armored vehicle during a demonstration against Turkish threats next to a U.S.-led international coalition base on the outskirts of Ras al-Ain town in Syria's Hasakeh province near the Turkish border on Oct. 6, 2019.

American troops (click here) and former U.S. officials believe a Turkish artillery strike on Friday that landed about 300 meters from a U.S. commando outpost near the Syrian city of Kobani was done deliberately.

No U.S. troops were injured in the strike, but U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said American commandos temporarily withdrew from their observation post on Mishtanur hill near Kobani and returned on Saturday.

A senior U.S. military official told Military Times on Friday that the incident was not an attack by Turkish forces, but some U.S. troops, former senior U.S. officials and artillery veterans say that the attack appears to be intentional.

CNN’s Barbara Starr reported, citing a U.S. official, that the U.S. has not come to a final determination on whether the Turkish artillery strike was deliberate....