Forget it - he’s rolling.
Give it seven weeks and he’ll pardon them.
Of course Trump is allied with Germany - presumably because they were at Normandy. :mad: :eek::smack:
P.S. If you really want to know how dumb the President is:
Trump said he learned that the Kurds didn’t help in Normandy from a “very, very powerful article”…
Who knew that a persecuted minority in the Middle East didn’t join in the D-day landings? 
If anyone is interested, here’s the “very powerful article”.
TL/dr TRUMP GOOD, EVERYONE ELSE BAD.
It seems that the Turkish leader is using humans as *weapons *now. I probably didn’t phrase that accurately, so his own words:
Heard it on my morning news; found something online here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk…
The sad but simple truth is, this is the fate of people like the Kurds - people with a distinct identity but no nation-state advocating for them. The Turkish have done this before, destroying the Armenian people within their borders to make the land easier to rule. And now they’ll try to do it to the Kurds.
After the Germans tried to wipe out the Jews, we all said, never again. Yet since then we’ve seen genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, and many other countries. Usually, the world’s response is tepid, comes too late, and does little of consequence. I fear that this will be the case here, too. It’s unfortunate - the Kurds share many of our values, they’ve greatly aided us in the war against ISIS, and they could be our staunch allies. They are exactly the kinds of people we should ally ourselves with if we want to bring peace, democracy, and human rights to the region. Instead, we kowtow to dictators and monarchs and debase ourselves before them. It’s disgusting.
I want to be hopeful, but I’m afraid that the Kurds – like the people of Hong Kong – are well and truly screwed.
This is not the first time he’s done something like that.
A stupid, short-sighted, ally-betraying, immoral, pro-Russia foreign policy decision. In other words, just another day in Trumpworld.
How is that any different from making a formal legal finding that Canada is a threat to the national security of the United States?
You know, the country that is a key part of NORAD and early warning in the far north? A NATO member?
The US no longer has allies. You have countries with whom you have treaty relations, but you no longer have the trust that the world “ally” carries.
We can’t trust the US. Haven’t since the day your leader refused to affirm that an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all.
You actually believe that most Americans care about brown people being killed in the Middle East? We’ve been drone bombing people for almost 2 decades.
You know, for years, liberals have been asking what it would take for Trumpers to ditch Trump. And the answer is: Probably foreign policy. Pat Robertson is now speaking out against Trump.And if Trump ever abandoned not just the Kurds, but started criticizing and abandoning Israel as well, his entire evangelical coalition may be at risk.
That was actually my message to Cruz and Cornyn, how Donald Trump and the GOP are complicit in the genocide of “fellow Christians” and the GOP, in order to save “God’s people”, need to focus on who caused this massacre - Donald Trump.
The Kurds brought it on themselves when they decided not to support George Washington in 1776.
LOL, they’ll be back in Trump’s hand soon enough. They aren’t going to ditch him when it time to vote.
The lesson for the Kurds, for the Afghans, for any “partner” in American imperialism is, just wait: we’ll stab you in the back eventually.
Leader of the free world. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Graham doesn’t care about the Kurds:
He was pranked twice by Russian pranksters, who recorded and released the call to the media.
Other points:
Fun Fact: The US gave Turkey intelligence that it may have used in planning the attack on the Kurds:
And there’s this gem:
You mean it shared intelligence with a NATO partner about a foreign threat…:rolleyes:
Yep, and were doing it just about up until the invasion. Life’s tough when you’re working with both sides like that.
Trump’s ‘win’ here is actually gonna wind up extending the US’s presence in the region. The irony it burns.
American disengagement not only allows ISIS a rebirth (a ‘renaisisance’), but strengthens both Iran’s and Putin’s hand while also creating more opportunities for them to exploit. As a bonus, Saudi will not take kindly to an extending Turkish influence and that should create another dynamic of instability.
So, unless the US is going to abandon its commitment to annihilating ISIS, and to safe passage in the Persian Gulf, and “standing firm” with Saudi Arabia, US troops will be back. In larger numbers, with greater chance of escalation, and for the longer-term.