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Down this area that president trump was happeny to go along wh the plan to call it a safe zone. the four safe zones they agreed to last year, three two of them are completely gone, one is on the way being dismantled, overrun by assad s forces backed by russia s military. when you look back at that and compare it to the situation now, president trump seems to have been played by an old russian military ploy, safe zones are safe today, they re not safe tomorrow. president trump fell for it back then. president trump said last week he doesn t consider russia an enemy but a competitor. he did in this recent interview yesterday called the european union a foe, which is a pretty extraordinary statement. he also then went on to say, china and russia are also foes, which wasn t necessarily a bad thing but just in terms of trade ....
Putin, sergei lavrov and at that time it was the secretary of state rex tillerson. rex tillerson gave us a brief. he said out of this came an agreement. it was an agreement on a cease-fire, a freeze on in the area of southwest syria. then we found out more on there was the four safe zones that were agreed around syria. this became what is essentially an old play from the russian sort of playbook, if you will, which is you declare a safe zone and you freeze the fighting there. then you marshal your forces to attack one of the safe zones, because you don t have enough to go after them all at the same time, and you go after the safe zones one at a time. what is happening right now is that they are going after that safe zone in the southwest of syria. ass assad s forces backed by president putin s forces have been forcing refugees out of their homes and basically taking ....
Assad could stay, and now he is saying that assad must go, so it is not necessarily going to make him go. and he is putting stuff on the table, and then i think that if you are listening to what nikki haley was saying, also, and talking about the international coalition, and tillerson was talking about the international coalition and this is what obama said, assad must go, escalation, and that is the drum beat of war, and i thought that it was a message that was strong and decisive and we will not tolerate chemical warfare, and should we get involved to toppling assad, and what happens? a vacuum? does isis take over in and is george washington going to emerge and run that country? the good news is that h.r. mcmaster now has donald trump s ear and he served in iraq and afghanistan and basically knows counter insurgency strategy. he knows what will happen. ....
During the campaign, obviously didn t do it as president. george w. bush was against nation building and ends up in afghanistan, obviously nation building. and one thing that trump said during the campaign or in the middle east, we never could steal iraq s oil, that s not a thing you can do. the idea to partner with russia and assad to defeat isis is not going to happen. assad is not going after isis, because that is the last group he is going after, because he wants them remaining. and so, you know, trump thought that assad could stay in power on april 6th, april 7th if i have the dates right of the chemical attack happens, and he realizes, oh, wait a second, maybe i encouraged, encouraged him to sort of push the boundary with what weapons he could use, and immediately flips around to intervening militarily, and now he is in the position to where some of the more hawkish members of the party are pushing him to go further. that is the real test now, and it is not necessarily contradi ....
Attention to what is going on in syria when he was saying all that stuff, and now that he is president, and put the pictures in front of him and like anymore mall person, he is horrified, but this is already happen iing i just honestly don t believe he was following it that closely and if he was, maybe as president, he feels a sense of responsibility, but i do believe that he had a bumper sticker policy that he had not really thought through. and regime change is not, and if that is a goal which it was for the last administration and not clear if it is or not for this administration, but if it is, there are so many unknowns about what comes after assad, and even if you can get rid of assad, there are vacuums of power. and every administration has time to figure it out. every civil war flames out at ten years, and we are moving into seven years and the circumstances are now different than 2013, and assad is on the dekline, and putin is tired of ....