After early this week American forces hastily abandoned their base in Manbij amid a general US draw down from the region, and a Damascus-Syrian Kurdish deal for reunion to fight the invading Turks, hawkish CNN pundit Michael Weiss lamented that “the Russian takeover of the U.S. base in Manbij is the first instance of Moscow claiming an abandoned U.S. military installation since World War II” (though Vietnam may have actually been the last instance).
Amid all the media and pundit outrage since Turkey’s President Erdogan launched his so-called ‘Operation Peace Spring’ into northeast Syria last week, vowing to wipe out Syrian Kurdish forces who’ve long held the border areas, what’s been largely missing is acknowledgement of the uncomfortable fact that NATO ally Turkey has long hosted a major portion of America’s nuclear Cold War-era arsenal stored across Europe.
Γιατί μπορεί όλοι να ασχολούνται με το προσφυγικό/μεταναστευτικό, λίγοι είναι αυτοί όμως που ενδιαφέρονται να μάθουν τι γίνεται σε μία από τις πιο σημαντικές εστίες του, την Συρία, εκτός κι αν πρόκειται για κατασκευασμένες ειδήσεις για το τέρας με τα 7 κεφάλια που λέγεται Άσσαντ.