@Ayei_Eloheichem's Threads
1. Trump's most recent "secure the oil" flip-flop in Syria is in line with his long-standing view that nothing matters except oil. This is the lens through which he views and has always viewed all conflicts. 
2. He was against fighting ISIS because we weren't getting oil, and he raved for years about taking Iraq's and Libya's oil after the wars. He also only cared about Iran taking over Iraq because they'd control their oil. A sample:
3. According to Andrew McGabe [and as we know from other reports], Trump was obsessed with invading Venezuela to take their oil.
Russia said it implicitly supports a Turkish operation to destroy the PKK statelet in NE Syria in December 2018.
Putin supported a Turkish operation to crush #Rojava during a meeting in August, as well
Russia [and Iran] also explicitly condemned and vowed to work against the PKK statelet during an Astana meeting with Turkey in August
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God I missed these State Department briefings.
God I missed these State Department briefings.
No stop please *wheezes*
State Department seems to confirm that David #Friedman was expressing official US policy when he said "Under certain circumstances... Israel has the right to retain some, but unlikely all, of the West Bank."
The PKK, Turkey, Russia, and Assad are all on the same page regarding the endpoint and always have been. Namely, that the PKK will be folded back into the regime. The only question, which is now entirely irrelevant given the US withdrawal, were the terms for the YPG.
Right now, Russia and Turkey are playing a "Good cop, Bad cop" routine with the PKK and the US. It's a strange dance, but nothing has changed: it's a two-pronged pressure campaign, aimed partially at the US but mostly directly at the PKK.
The Turks hope that by talking loudly and manoeuvring forces, they can compel the US, which is getting out anyway, to pressure the YPG out of the #Manbij, as @KyleWOrton and I wrote in March: capx.co/americas-syria…
According to the CIA, the Soviet Union had an extensive program to provide its third-world proxies with an array of chemical weapons and train them in offensive chemical warfare, often conducting the attacks themselves.
In Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, thousands (a very conservative estimate) were massacred in hundreds of chemical weapons attacks carried out by the North Vietnamese, the Soviets, and their proxies.
In Afghanistan, the USSR gave chemical weapons to the communist regime and its advisers oversaw their employment against unruly areas at least seven months before the Soviet invasion. After the invasion, the Soviets conducted hundreds of chemical weapons attacks in Afghanistan.
"It's a grotesque country...Faggotry flourishes there...As soon as we arrived...one of my fighters runs up to me, his lips heavily trembling: A Syrian had approached him with an offer to fuck him for a carton of cigarettes and a bottle of whisky."
-Wagner commander on Latakia
-Wagner commander on Latakia
"It's dirty, everything is disgusting... go around areas where there's been no war, Latakia, for instance... the city center, every street, every roadside, garbage is squeezed in everywhere, nobody collects it, it only accumulates...they live worse than gypsies...."
"The Syrians can't fight... they basically abandon positions and flee 'Go, go, Russia, go!' they yell. Where are you going, assholes?! We need to defend the position! But no...we'll take the high ground, hand it to the Syrians in the evening. Come morning, no Syrians."
