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White House reviews plan to deploy 120,000 troops to Middle East
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brush
(53,776 posts)underpants
(182,791 posts)???
Initech
(100,068 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,144 posts)At the moment Turkey has good relations with Iran. Turkey also has a big problem with Kurdish terrorists and Syrian refugees so it doesn't need more trouble with it's neighbors.
Erdogan isn't beholden to Putin in any respect.
Initech
(100,068 posts)Bolsonaro would definitely do whatever Trump does, that I am pretty sure of.
comradebillyboy
(10,144 posts)pretty closely over the years. He's an authoritarian bastard but he's very independent.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)We are watering down the terrorist word to essentially meaningless.
IronLionZion
(45,434 posts)Trump is a bomber type and his people probably told him it would help his reelection chances. And he has support from Saudi Arabia and Israel on this.
brush
(53,776 posts)IronLionZion
(45,434 posts)At last weeks meeting, Mr. Shanahan gave an overview of the Pentagons planning, then turned to General Dunford to detail various force options, officials said. The uppermost option called for deploying 120,000 troops, which would take weeks or months to complete.
The idea was to use cyberweapons to paralyze Iran in the opening hours of any conflict, in hopes that it would obviate the need to drop any bombs or conduct a traditional attack. That plan required extensive presence inside Irans networks called implants or beacons that would pave the way for injecting destabilizing malware into Iranian systems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/world/middleeast/us-military-plans-iran.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&linked=facebook
brush
(53,776 posts)sent by these warmongers?
IronLionZion
(45,434 posts)but most likely the most will go to Iraq and Afghanistan, with the rest split around Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the ocean, similar to the previous Iraq wars. Last time they even had troops in the Kurdish area drawing attention away from the main invasion.
I doubt they would actually go through with it, since it was the worst case scenario.
oldlibdem
(330 posts)Temporary holding areas? Iraq. Afghanistan. Seventh U.S. fleet et al.
brush
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underpants
(182,791 posts)and his TV news contributor National Security advisor is a moron. He sort of nominated a embarrassingly stupid TV news commentator to the Fed - that fizzled not because of his idiocy but because of his writings. Aaand what happened to that TV news personality going to be the UN Ambassador?
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)Then he picks Bolton to be his NSA?
I think Trump might not have told the truth.
DENVERPOPS
(8,818 posts)#1) They never served in the Military. Daddy got them out of it somehow.
#2) They all have massive underlying inferiority complexes and tiny dicks........
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)#1 & #2 do not apply.
IronLionZion
(45,434 posts)cp
(6,626 posts)And don't send any of our military along.
OnlinePoker
(5,719 posts)He knew his base wouldn't stomach two major wars at the same time, especially after his campaign promise to get American troops out of the middle east.
Crowman2009
(2,495 posts)Wonder if he'll say the same for Iran since that country is a major purchaser of Russian weaponry.
Five Ten Nineteen
(22 posts)You have to be a Class A+1 Nerd to get that!
homegirl
(1,428 posts)to bring back compulsory military service?
jalan48
(13,864 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)for profit and he will go after their oil. About as corrupt as you can get. Hope people remember this when the next election gets here, and votes all these crooks , trump and all the gop , out of office. Watch how quickly oil prices skyrocket upward. With the tariffs and another war we'll be in another bad recession so , no matter what trump tries to claim, and again like W Bush did claiming everything was ok, it will be really , really bad this time, especially because of trump. While the gop look on and do nothing.