The USA military needs to carry out the extraction of the USA troops being surrounded by Russian soldiers. The USA has a "No Fault" policy when it comes to military traffic incidents.
I don't care who's fault it is. Russia can have Syria and the USA military needs to extract it's soldiers from the area. I think a good place for the troops is Jordan and/or Saudi Arabia so they can find a ride home to see their families.
The Kurds can go back to northern Iraq. Someone needs to give them a ride home to Iraq.
The boys have roughed up each other enough. Time to break it up and go home.
August 27, 2020
The Russian and US governments (click here) have blamed each other for a collision between Russian and US armoured vehicles in north-eastern Syria in which several US troops were injured.
Video of the collision was broadcast by a Russian nationalist website, Rusvesna.su, then widely retweeted.
The video appears to show a Russian military vehicle in a desert convoy ramming a US armoured car, as a Russian helicopter flies low overhead.
Russia says the US obstructed a patrol.
A US defence official told BBC partner CBS News that Russian forces had entered a "security zone" that they had agreed to stay out of.
The White House said the vehicle's crew sustained minor injuries in the collision....
Russia has been Syria's ally for a long time. Russia is attempting to stabilize Syria and this is the result. Russia is interested in "stable states." They don't fuss about the leadership so long as Russia has control over STABILITY. Until Russia has that reassurance in the era of Daesh, it will be a continuous struggle for any force attempting to overrun Assad. The USA is not needed in Syria. If the USA wants to provide a homeland for the Kurds, they need to give them a safe ride back home to northern Iraq.
5 March 2020
By Jonathan Marcus
...He decided early on to deploy air power (click here) to prevent the collapse of the Syrian regime. And, once the position of President Bashar al-Assad was stabilised, Russia used its air power to help the regime to recover territory from the rebels. Idlib is now the last major battleground.
Unlike Western interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Russians had a clear vision of what they wanted to do in Syria and were willing to be single-minded enough (some might say brutal enough) to achieve it....
Trump is putting on a show for the sake of votes. Trump has already done all the damage he is going to cause. People are dead and the land was lost. Trump retreated; the retreat needs to be completed and now he is putting on a show for what might be votes. It is time the USA concludes its business and bring the Americans home. Russia has Syria when it comes to stabilizing it during a very long and deadly civil war.
November 14, 2019
By Uri Friedman
...The same official noted that Syrian Kurdish forces (click here) have been partners in the U.S.-led multinational military campaign against the Islamic State, and that “what happens [in Syria] is being called ‘other people’s business’ even though ‘other people’s business’ will affect in all likelihood America’s European allies.” Then the official posed the fundamental question raised by the U.S. position, one that will linger over the gathering of anti-ISIS coalition members in Washington, D.C., this week: “What does that mean for our confidence that in a time of crisis or challenge we will have the backing of our American allies?” (The official, like several others in this article, asked to speak about the situation in Syria on condition of anonymity.) “It’s too early to say how this will play out. It will depend on whether the risks can be curtailed. But it’s a question that is the writing on the wall right now.”...
