The Vanderpump Rules stars announced their break up in December 2021 as a result of having different goals in life. It spent $500 million on a program to train and equip a new army of pro-America, anti-Assad fighters. The results were disastrous. Syria is a close ally of Russia and Iran and helped support the insurgents during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Top Gun. Think of it as a basic-cable version of shows like "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan," "Reacher" or "The Terminal List.". SDF fighters found themselves at the gates of Raqqa, the Islamic State's de facto capital, by October 2016. Supported by: Israel (limited involvement; against Hezbollah and government forces only). It was almost all lies, but you didn't know that at the time because you were busy being yelled at. Still, let's follow the money Public opinion, both parties and the Pentagon are together on this. It would be more inspiring if it was real. The Biden administration just inserted itself with force into the middle of a hot war between two foreign powers. There's been so much political corruption in that area. We still don't know the answer to that question, but it is obvious that permanent Washington has been fixated on war with Russia for a very long time. But alas, there's a pernicious visitor back from the 1970s and early '80s: high inflation. President Donald Trump inherited this awkwardly stitched-together policy and added in an element of chaos. Their efforts ended not with a Kurdish-led rebellion against Assad but with the Kurds looking to Assad and his allies to shield them from their archrival Turkey. The war reignited on December 13, 1974 with offensive operations by North Vietnam, leading to victory over South Vietnam in under two months. "Or the forces that we wanted to work with were so riddled with extremists that our military repeatedly said, 'There's no way we can work with these people.'". Via ABC News: President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Honor to a Black Army Special Forces hero from the Vietnam War who has waited close to 60 years to receive the nation's top award for valor after the Army said the paperwork couldn't be found. If this country is invaded and everybody's saying, "Well, we got to evacuate, we got to leave. Watauga AssociationCatawba Lenape Choctaw, Martin Van Buren (March 4, 1837 March 4, 1841), William Henry Harrison (March 4, 1841 April 4, 1841), John Tyler (April 4, 1841 March 4, 1845), James K. Polk (March 4, 1845 March 4, 1849), Zachary Taylor (March 4, 1849 July 9, 1850), Millard Fillmore (July 9, 1850 March 4, 1853), Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853 March 4, 1857), James Buchanan (March 4, 1857 March 4, 1861), Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861 April 15, 1865), Andrew Johnson (April 15, 1865 March 4, 1869), Ulysses S. Grant (March 4, 1869 March 4, 1877), Rutherford B. Hayes (March 4, 1877 March 4, 1881), James A. 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Trump repeatedly claimed that their mission was to "take the oil" or guard the "oil region.". Jill Dougherty, a Russia expert and former CNN Moscow bureau chief, concurred. It could be wise to believe him. An unnamed Ukrainian official claimed that radiation levels in the area had risen. The rebels had been offered $1,500 per month each to fight for Azerbaijan against Armenia in the two countries' border war over that disputed territory, several different news outlets reported.. Now that country is Russia, so most of us aren't even thinking about the precedent it sets. CJTF-OIR Members:AustraliaNew ZealandCanadaBelgiumDenmarkFranceGermanyItalyNetherlandsRomaniaUnited KingdomLebanonMoroccoJordanSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesQatarBahrain So what would those countries be? They want a replay of the end of the Cold War , she said Tuesday on New President Zelenskyy of Ukraine had said it repeatedly, but it was not true. So, with those facts in mind, the Biden administration's behavior in the days before the Ukraine invasion tells you a lot about what motivated them. U.S. officials "looked at Bashar al-Assad as a hapless dictator who was not going to survive any of this," says Frederic Hof, who served as an envoy for Syrian-Israeli peace negotiations at the time. Kazianis is a foreign policy analyst in Washington. Good for us, but once we stop celebrating our win, the destruction of the Russian economy, they deserve it, you got to wonder, is there a downside to this? I thought thats where we were going here, Jean-Pierre joked. In fact, many of them are more for war with Russia than Joe Biden seems to be. I don't know what's going on to be honest, brother. Now we're supposed to think this is a victory over Putin or something, but a victory for what? Gasoline is now higher than it's ever been in the history of gasoline. Syrian nationalist rebels vetted and backed by the United States fought alongside sectarian Islamist groups. "Donald Trump wanted to end the war in Syria as fast as possible," says Stein. Starting in 2022, Starbucks is expanding its Veterans Day freebie to include an additional product: iced coffee. Now that's true, whether you're allowed to say it in public right now or not, it has been true for a long time. Trump's pullout of Americans from Syria following his deal with Erdoan was short-lived. Iran soon began sending military advisers, volunteers, and mercenaries to back Assad. Who is benefiting? And yet his prescription was more of the same. Bryce Mitchell may not have good grammar, but he understands exactly what's going on here, even if the people who claim to represent him and our country have no idea. Islamic State in Somalia The SDF signed a "memorandum of understanding" with the Assad regime soon after, allowing Assad's troops to join the fight against the Turkish invasion. A group of Black soldiers come across a CIA plane loaded with gold earmarked to fight the Viet Cong. Antony Blinken, the president-elect's nominee for secretary of state, gave a speech to the Meridian Group in May 2020 outlining his approach toward Syria. According to a September 2020 report by Eva Kahan at the Institute for the Study of War, Russia, Iran, and Turkey have also been secretly backing Arab insurgents against the SDF in Deir al-Zor. That's not good for anyone, except those benefiting from it. We got.." I will not. The IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) serves as a premier international. Most of these men put themselves in harm's way in an attempt to give a true picture of the struggles that American military personnel faced both in the Pacific and the European theater of war. Tell us how he's immoral. Punish Russia. Russian and U.S. troops in Syria had seen tense encounters with each other before, but this was the first violent clash between the two armies. Jeffrey and Rayburn then met with politicians in neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan to discuss opening a route for Delta Crescent Energy to export the oil,The New Republiclater reported. The United States is ratcheting up national security concerns about TikTok, mandating that all federal employees delete the Chinese-owned Stew Smith and Jeff Nichols discuss mental toughness. The failed U.S. effort to take out Assad helped open the space for the Islamic State, which was only defeated when the U.S. pivoted to supporting Kurdish forces. The economic consequences of the Nord Stream sabotage were Now the Biden people seem to have no idea this is going on, or maybe they want it to happen. The majority of the world's countries, as well as organizations including NATO, the European Union, and the Council of Europe, have strongly condemned Russia's actions. Market data provided by Factset. He shouldn't be giving our tax dollars to that country anyway. In this photo, Feb. 27, 2022, taken from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine. So you got [Joe] Biden and his son using our tax dollars. There's a new winner of America's Got Talent: All-Stars in town! That turned out to be untrue as well. Subscribe to Reason Roundup, a wrap up of the last 24 hours of news, delivered fresh each morning. Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic was notoriously one of the most difficult location shoots of all time, and there were stories at the time that the director had no real fix on the exact story he was trying to tell. National security officials kept pushing grandiose goals even as U.S. leverage crumbled away. They don't want a hostile government next door. "Top Gun" is still one of the most rewatchable Hollywood movies ever made, a film that has aged far better than almost all of its counterparts from the Reagan era. "You will not protect us and you won't let anyone else protect us. They're the opposite of what you want. ", The SDF knew that announcing an oil deal with Americaand no one elsewould be provocative. "Medal of Honor" should've been a long-running series for Netflix, but the streaming service only made one season with eight episodes released in 2018. Now it's obvious. The economic consequences of the Nord Stream sabotage were Fortunately, this hero got his medal -- just 58 years late. The pattern never changes. We should have paid more attention. If you expressed concern about vaccine mandates, of course, they called you an anti-vaxxer. Message: Up yours, Vladimir Putin, go ahead and invade Ukraine. We talked to someone in the energy business this morning, energy traders, to get a little perspective on this. This article is adapted from Tucker Carlson's opening commentary on the March 7, 2022 edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight.". When the limited series "Treason" premiered on Netflix just after Christmas 2022, it proved an immediate success around the world. The YPG began to clash with Al Qaeda, whose Syrian branch broke off to form the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in early 2014. SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: Your fight is our fight. President Barack Obama declared in August 2011 that "the time has come for President Assad to step aside," although he also made it clear that "the United States cannot and will not impose this transition upon Syria.". "Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan" is a documentary series that includes extensive reenactments of the wars that took place in feudal Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries. American officials described the Kurds' mini-war with Turkey as a "distraction," but the conflict would later become a major headache for the United States. Could that happen? The week after, a Russian armored truck rammed into a U.S. humvee, injuring at least four Americans. Supported by: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Khorasan Province. Abed Hamed al-Mehbash, the Arab co-chairman of the SDF's civilian administration, told local media only that he planned to "study requests by many Russian and American companies. In 2018 and 2019, Trump ordered U.S. forces out of Syria, only to walk back the order both times. I hate to be so blunt, but, you know, the most vulnerable thing that the Putin's vulnerable to is dead Russian soldiers. Sympathize with one side over the other. It's the U.S. economy in 2022. January 22, 2021. That's the American position. We missed it. MLB.TV is a great option for anyone who doesn't live in their favorite team's broadcast area. We do know that hundreds of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the war in Yemen. Here are five places to watch in 2022: India-Pakistan Americas goal of maintaining relations with both South Asian nuclear powers has suffered during the war in (DEA) "Its time to designate Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, given that they were responsible for the fentanyl-poisoning deaths That's the highest price ever recorded for wheat. | Consumers see this most at the gas pump. His administration survived a disastrous loss on the battlefields of France in 1939 and won over the people with the evacuation of troops from the beaches at Dunkirk. Putin may be evil. Trump then began to talk about withdrawing from Syriawhile at the same time escalating against Iran. Germany and Austria, as well as their capitals, Berlin and Vienna, respectively, divided into 4 occupation zones each, one for each of USSR, USA, UK, and France. There's so much stuff and I don't think nobody knows what's going on fully. Is there anything more inspiring than that? That's what we call it. Why Won't Maryland Sell Me a Goddamn Beer? Saudi-led coalition: Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. The economic consequences of this war are already profound. Intervention in the Somali Civil War, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, A Company, 101st Airborne Division Special Troop Battalion, Escalation of sectarian insurgency after U.S. withdrawal, American intervention in the War in North-West Pakistan, Second U.S. SAVING UKRAINE: LOOKING FOR A WORLD LEADER TO STAND UP, In this photo, Feb. 27, 2022, taken from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine. | For the record, this is the third moral panic we have had in the United States of America in less than two years. Instead, the U.S. intervention fed into a bloody, yearslong international conflict. "And if we aren't careful, what happened in a simulation could happen if a NATO-Russia war erupts over Ukraine.". He later praised "the stalemate we've put together" as "a step forward" in the region. Wheat is up nearly 60% over last year. Moral panics diminish the people engaged in them and hurt the people who don't. Photo: Trae Patton/NBC. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File). At a public press event at the Munich Security Conference, Kamala Harris encouraged Ukraine to become a member of NATO. But he hired a collection of hawkish advisers who thought of Syria as a battlefield on which to make Iran and Russia bleed. Supported by: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Yemen Province, Revolutionary Committee/Supreme Political Council. So the Syrian Kurdish oil ministry has been forced to rely on smugglers, whose leaky storage tanks and backyard refineries have become a serious threat to public health. You've just seen a handful of woke corporations crash a country and impoverished its citizens indiscriminately. That seemed to be true. Saudi Arabia, seeking to hurt Assad's ally Iran, sent arms to the rebels. An attendee yawns, amongst a sea of empty chairs, following a speech by Donald Trump Jr., at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference. Aidan Bryant. Cookie Duration Description; cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics: 11 months: This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Experts say that fight wouldn't look like the last one. That changed America completely. He joined the network in 2009 as a contributor. and other hawks had used the promise of oil profits to sell Trump on their plans to keep U.S. forces in the region, according to Mouaz Moustafa, executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, which lobbies for the Syrian opposition in Washington. Now, maybe you support a war against Russia anyway, but you should at least know that you're being lied to and manipulated, which you are. A U.S. diplomat tried to convince SDF leader Mazloum Abdi to hold off on asking Russia to step in. Here's the president of the August Council on Foreign Relations on the day of the invasion. January 25, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EST War Room, a show hosted by Stephen K. Bannon, is distributed by a fledgling news network called Real America's Voice. Almost five years ago, way back in 2017, Rep. Eric Swalwell of California came on this show for another Russiagate debate, one of many. Market data provided by Factset. The greatest legacy of "Forrest Gump" may be that the experience of making it introduced Sinise to veterans issues, and he's gone on to become one of the greatest advocates the military community has ever seen. And at that point, in fact, we're already there, we'd be forced to make up the difference by getting more oil from other countries because we need the energy. Now, Republicans in Washington, to their eternal shame, have no problem with any of this. Published on February 27, 2023 10:00 PM. Hey, maybe war with Russia is not a good idea for the United States. There's an endless web of betrayals and some excellent battle sequences. Last modified on Mon 10 Jan 2022 10.25 EST J oe Biden had spent a year in the hope that America could go back to normal. Say that out loud some time. During a January 3rd briefing, Jean-Pierre made a playful suggestion that the baby should be named Karine, and Doocy responded by saying that he would consider it. Putin is dedicated to the defense and rise of Russia. Emma Camp Read this from Good Morning America the other day: ABC CORRESPONDENT: Ukraine's mothers, daughters, teachers, politicians, beauty queens, now on the front lines defending their country under siege and there is Anastasiia Lenna, a former Miss Grand Ukraine. Your presence has turned everyone else in Syria against us," Abdi responded, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable leaked to CNN. All human life is equal. Henry Cavill ("Superman") is the big name in the cast, but he's joined by a group of younger actors who were about to become famous. How can we help to make sure that they get something to backfill the planes that they're handing over tothe Ukrainians? Likewise, conservatives were right to call attention to the bad optics of Biden visiting Kyiv while the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, were dealing with the toxic aftermath of a railroad disaster. American forces would stay in the short term to help implement the plan. With Russian troops amassed by the thousands on the Ukrainian border, Joe Biden sent Kamala Harris, the least capable diplomat in Washington, to explain America's policy to European heads of state. So for nearly two years, the shouting has not ended. Ever heard of it? Fortunately, this hero got his medal -- just 58 years late. As part of that effort, U.S. military leaders and Bolton pushed to count U.S. forces at Al-Tanf, a remote desert base far from the SDF-controlled zone, separately from the rest of the U.S. deployment to Syria. Netflix has a massive catalog of movies and shows, and sometimes it's hard to find exactly what you want to watch. Lost in the relentless focus on war in Ukraine, by the way, is any perspective about the world or war, which is always lacking in D.C., but never more so than now. The US is heading for a civil war Today, the US is much closer to the conditions that led to its Civil War in 1861 than most Americans would dare admit. Both saw Iran rather than the Islamic State as America's greatest enemy in the Middle East. In one tense September 2019 meeting, according to a report fromThe National Interest, Rayburn screamed and broke a writing utensil in frustration after Syrian Kurdish officials refused to join forces with the Islamic hardliners. And of course, Vladimir Putin did that just days later. "Five Came Back" is a WWII documentary series based on the book by movie historian Mark Harris. As many as 200,000 civilians died in the process, in addition to the tens of thousands who perished in Assad's prisons during this period, according to the pro-opposition Syrian Network for Human Rights and the British-funded Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Turns out he engaged in censorship and tries to control his people can read. Please feel free to, Talk Title:"Microengineered tissues for regenerative medicine and organs-on-a-chip applications", IEEE CAS Charles Desoer Life Science Systems Student Attendance Grant, Assistive, Rehabilitation, and Quality of Life Technologies, Bio-inspired and Neuromorphic Circuits and Systems, Biofeedback, Electrical Stimulation, and Closed-Loop Systems, Biomedical Imaging Technologies & Image Processing, Innovative Circuits for Medical Applications, Medical Information Systems and Bioinformatics, Wireless and Energy Harvesting/Scavenging Technology. Its so great to Ford has recently taken a liking to the writing of Robert McNamara, the U.S. secretary of defense during the Vietnam War who later became a critic of the war effort. McGurk supported brokering a peace deal between the Syrian Kurds and the Russians, but he met opposition from the new faction of Iran hawks in the administration. At the same time, the U.S. military was trying to work with other Syrian rebel groups. Why? So are we going to see a boycott of Chinese goods in the United States? In the aftermath of former President Donald Trumps election, Thomas E. Ricks All rights reserved. The Trump administration was willing to allow Turkey to invade northern Syria. Turkish forces were only going to move 30 kilometers into Syria and the invasion would stop after that, he claimed. He added that he had hoped an "orderly transfer of power" from U.S. forces to Turkish troops would prevent Assad, Iran, and Russia from retaking northeastern Syria. It's a remarkable exchange. 3.3.2023 5:45 PM, Jacob Sullum "If you want to feed the baby medicine, you put the medicine in candy or something. The Kurds have been left in a deadly limbo, unable to count on U.S. protection from Turkey but also blocked from looking to outside powers for help. Legal Statement. "We made a terrible, terrible analytical mistake," says Ford. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); NEXT: FDA Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary of a Food Safety Law That Hasnt Made Our Food Safer. But in fact, it's not typical. Why would the Ukrainian government's fight in 2016 possibly be our fight? He got his wish and more during an October 6, 2019, call with Trump, when the U.S. president gave him a green light to invade Syria outright. (A banking crisis in nearby Lebanon is partially to blame for their woes.) Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Via ABC News: President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Honor to a Black Army Special Forces Assad is also sensitive about the oil, as his regime has had trouble meeting its people's fuel needs. For a list of wars that have been fought on the United Kingdom On one hand, unemployment is at near historic lows, job growth is strong, and consumer spending robust. The United States began backing Syrian rebels because many in the Obama administration believed that they could help quickly bring down an oppressive tyrant. During a January 3rd briefing, Jean-Pierre made a playful suggestion that the baby should be named Karine, and Doocy responded by saying that he would consider it. James Kennedy. What could we do? As far back as 2016, Lindsey Graham of South Carolinahysterical little Lindsey Grahamwas jumping around, acting out his war fantasies in front of foreign soldiers in Ukraine. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. It's why the tech companies have censored so many news sites recently, including from Russia, but not exclusively from Russia. The combat scenes are impeccable, and Nanisca is an unforgettable character who has earned her place as one of the great movie military leaders. Nord Stream 2 was in the process of coming on stream and would have doubled the supply to Europe. Russia is one of the largest fertilizer producers in the world. Saudi Arabia Why is no one in Washington saying anything about this? Well, simple, because getting Ukraine to join NATO was the key to inciting war with Russia. All rights reserved. President-elect Joe Biden will have to find a way to extract the United States from Syria without reigniting the civil waror getting sucked back in. It had just happened. "The deal took a little longer, senator, than we had hoped, and now we're in implementation. Russia and Turkey then agreed to a safe zone of their ownalong the same lines as the U.S. proposaland the Syrian Kurds watched as Russian troops moved into their region as protection against the Turkish Army. U.S. diplomats were flying blind when it came to the region, according to Ford, now a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. As in other Arab countries at the time, Syrian activists rose up in protest against corruption and political repression. NATO members also recently agreed to a new cost-sharing formula that will result in Germany and the U.S. paying an equal shareapproximately 16%of NATOs And yet now it is demonstrably true. Hey, if ..Ukrainian government, if you don't do this, we're taking your tax dollars. 2 tweet. There's mud and blood and great sword-fighting battle scenes, so many that some might find the movie a bit light on plot and character motivation. The hawkish faction also saw the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces as a "terrorist group," as Bolton put it. Whether or not that war has been officially declared, whether or not Congress has authorized that war, all of that is irrelevant. So, a lot could go wrong. According to statistics from the New America Foundation, 2021 saw zero deaths in the United States from right-wing terrorist attacks. Vladimir Putin just invaded Ukraine because he didn't want Ukraine to join NATO. the outcome for the U.S. was not a good one, a new report revealed this week. Several local leaders have already died in mysterious shootings. Sayf Bulad, commander of the Hamza Division, has an interesting past. This list can help you cut through the war movie noise and get to the good stuff. So if you make under $100,000 a year and most people in this country do, that qualifies as a crisis for you, but for the people in charge, it's not high enough. 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