MOAR WAR for USA in Syria. Large military convoy rolls into Syria on Biden's* first day. Thanks Joe*

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There’s a news story about a US military convoy entering Syria being shared around social media with captions claiming that President Biden is already “invading” Syria which is getting tons of shares in both right-wing and left anti-imperialist circles. The virality of these shares has inspired clickbait titles like “Joe Biden Invades Syria with Convoy of US Troops and Choppers on First Full Day as President“, which are being shared with equal virality.

But if you read the original report everyone jumped on, accurately titled “US military convoy enters northeast Syria: report”, you don’t have to read too far to get to this line: “Other local media report that such maneuvers are not unusual as the US often moves transfers equipment between Iraq and Syria.”

So while this is a movement of troops between illegitimate military occupations which have no business existing in either country, it is nothing new and would have been happening regardless of which candidate had won the last US presidential election.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/01/24/what-bidens-warmongering-will-
actually-look-like/

Seems like our Russian trolls have given up on this particular lie.

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How the Arab spring unfolded – a visualisation

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2021/jan/25/how-the-a
rab-spring-unfolded-a-visualisation

Biden executive order repeals Trump travel ban
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-executive-order-repeals-t
rump-travel-ban/ar-BB1cWe3p

While
Washington ComPost and JewYork Times the sewer media now moans and cries how Trump’s jihadi travel bans cause heartaches?


Islamic Mohammedans exult in Biden's order voiding travel ban
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/jan/24/muslims-exult-in-biden
s-order-voiding-travel-ban/

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Robert Ford argues the US needs to withdraw troops from Syria because the US has no national benefit from its presence, because it's a unneeded significant drain on US dollars, and because the alternative is MOAR WAR.


Robert Stephen Ford (born 1958) is a retired American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Algeria from 2006 to 2008 (under GW Bush) and the United States Ambassador to Syria from 2010 to 2014 (under Obama). (WIKI)

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U.S. Strategy in Syria Has Failed
Washington Must Acknowledge That It Can’t Build a State

By Robert S. Ford
January 25, 2021

During his four years in office, U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly promised to get the United States out of the nation-building business. Long-term U.S. efforts to reconstruct and stabilize postconflict societies, (Trump) argued, were misguided and doomed to fail. And for the most part, Trump delivered: he cut troop numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he scaled back democracy-promotion funding by nearly $1 billion during his time in office.

But the Trump administration departed from its no-nation-building policy to pursue one long-shot effort—in Syria. The United States tried to use military force and financial pressure to compel Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to accept major constitutional reforms and a Kurdish autonomous zone in the country’s northeast. Under U.S. supervision, that region developed into a semistate with its own army, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and an entrenched bureaucracy—dominated by the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and its political arm, the Democratic Union Party (PYD).

After six years and roughly $2.6 billion, this statelet is America’s baby, raised under U.S. military protection and shielded from hostile neighbors. Unable to support itself, the autonomous zone will remain dependent on U.S. resources for the foreseeable future.

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To highlight the particular issue, Syrian Kurds will be especially dependent on US forces corralling Syrian oil.

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An open-ended commitment of this kind is not what the United States needs, however. Syria has never been a major U.S. national security issue, and American interests there have always been limited to preventing the conflict from threatening Washington’s more important concerns elsewhere.

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ie: What is in AMERICA'S interests?

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Current U.S. policy does little to accomplish that central goal. It has also not secured political reform in Damascus, restored stability to the country, and dealt with the remnants of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. President Joe Biden would do well to change tack — withdrawing the hundreds of U.S. soldiers currently deployed to Syria and relying on Russia and Turkey to contain ISIS.

STUCK AT AN IMPASSE

Ostensibly, U.S. strategy in northeastern Syria is designed to mop up the last vestiges of ISIS, denying the group a safe haven from which to launch attacks. Although a years-long international military campaign largely destroyed the terrorist group, its remaining members still carry out sporadic low-level attacks in Syria and Iraq. American support for the SDF, and its Kurdish YPG core, is supposed to help these groups contain ISIS with minimal outside help and without the need for a full-scale U.S. deployment.

Although politically appealing, this strategy is deeply flawed. The United States’ Syrian Kurdish allies have exacerbated long-standing regional tensions between Arabs and Kurds. Among Arab communities in particular, there is widespread frustration over Kurdish political dominance — enabled by the United States — and Kurdish control of local oil fields. Arab residents have also protested the SDF’s alleged administrative corruption, heavy-handed counterte

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