"We are executing emergency "break glass" evac procedure reserved for an extreme worstcase scenario"

[Dennis Donovan]

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Brett McGurk ✔ @brett_mcgurk

Trump has no idea what’s happening. US personnel have been scrambling to evacuate positions surrounded by hostile Turkish-backed opposition forces. They are evacuating under duress and then bombing positions so nobody can seize them.

Dave Brown ✔ @dave_brown24

"I view the situation on the Turkish border with Syria to be, for the United States, strategically brilliant. Our soldiers are out of there. Our soldiers are totally safe"

Brett McGurk ✔ @brett_mcgurk

Recall earlier last week, US officials were downplaying Trump’s disastrous order as only involving <50 people on the border for a limited Turkish incursion. Ten days later we are executing emergency “break glass” evacuation procedure reserved for an extreme worst-case scenario.

1:43 PM - Oct 16, 2019

Beyond words...

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Kick - this is happening in real time.

Basically confirmed by Richard Engel earlier on live TV.

[pangaia]

2. BROKEN ARROW !!

[Nevermypresident]

3. K & R

[mahina]

4. Oh my God.

Please end this nightmare. We have a lunatic at the helm.

[tblue37]

5. Deja vu:

[Dennis Donovan]

6. Exactly. That, too, was a "break glass" evacuation...