U.S. Sending More Troops to Syria to Counter the Russians

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/politics/us-troops-syria-russia.html

WASHINGTON — The military said on Friday that it was sending Bradley fighting vehicles, advanced radar and more fighter jet patrols to northeast Syria, three weeks after a Russian armored vehicle rammed an American ground patrol and injured seven American soldiers.

The reinforcements, which add about 100 troops to the more than 500 U.S. forces already there, represent a show of force in response to the clash last month that caught American commanders off guard. They are also likely to escalate tensions between the two rival powers in the country’s hotly contested northeast.

“These actions are a clear demonstration of U.S. resolve to defend coalition forces,” Capt. Bill Urban, a spokesman for the military’s Central Command, said in an email, “and to ensure that they are able to continue their defeat-ISIS mission without interference.”

The new deployment came on the same day that President Trump declared that American troops “are out of Syria,” except to guard the region’s oil fields. “Other than that, we are out of Syria,” Mr. Trump said at White House news conference, making no mention of what the Pentagon says is the main mission there: to help its Syrian Kurdish allies fight remnants of the Islamic State.

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[gembaby1]

1. Can anyone say "massive clusterfuck"?

[GemDigger]

4. This is a massive clustertrump.

A clustertrump is a clusterfuck x 10

[Sinistrous]

2. Oh Goody.

[Nevilledog]

3. So do they get the target to put on their back here, or pick it up in Syria?