I know others are posting about Mattis leaving. But I found this article to be very clear with the impact he had on the administration. Also, I liked this quote:
“Mattis is the last brake on a president that makes major life-and-death decisions by whim without reading, deliberation, or any thought as to consequences and risks,” said a senior U.S. national-security official on Thursday, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to talk freely. “The saving grace is that this president has not been tested by a major national-security crisis. But it will come, and when it does, we are fucked.”
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Interesting article and it made me look up a word...logorrheic. I fear for you all. From the UK, it looks like the President is clearing the way for Russia to take over huge areas of the ME. Russia's biggest problem is a falling population and is unattractive to potential immigrants. To me it looks like Trump was aided into the WH with a promise to turn a blind eye on Russia's annexxing of ME states. Oil and their populations is the prize.
Amisja
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Dec 21, 2018
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Theresa May is equally bribed and controlled by banksters as is TrumpOLINI ....LABOUR Tony Blair gave us Iraq Saddam and Russia is Syrian TANKS since 1948. ...I fear sheeple not learning citizenship NOT THE centuries of bellicose pounds dollars dinars euros francs marks yen or rands killers lie for.....capitalism = death. ...peace through GREEN JOBS we all can share ....beehives and mole rats do but humans resemble lemmings
JFKs killers said the same things....reckless Catholic womanizer mafioso bootlegger and fake news was grinding out lies about Nixon through Kissinger & General Haig. .....Jefferson spread lies against Adams through fake news and called his 1800 Electoral TIE with BURR "REVOLUTION." USA war criime profiteering defines our history 1774-2018
GreenAtheist
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Dec 21, 2018
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Being former military I can say that I’m a huge fan of Mattis and his ability to get shit done but the only thing that I dislike more than trump is our imperialistic foreign policy.
And us even going near Syria right after we failed to incite the same uprising in Syria that we achieved in Libya, Egypt and Yemen all of which were more of economic threat to us as well as being majority Shiite Muslim countries that posed a threat to Israel and Saudi Arabia our two masters in the Middle East.
But us being there was a cluster fuck especially when consider that we were caught funding and supporting both isis and al queda and calling them rebels.
And my personal favorite was when Assad supposedly gassed his people the second time and Tulsi Gabbard went to the neighborhood where it happened and the people were like
“ wait we have video of what happened and you could clearly see people walking around unprotected like what the hell!? And no one dropping and dying.”
So like I said I have respect for Mattis but I also believe that he’s more applied to maintaining enemies than he is just letting sovereign nations be themselves. And I’m willing to bet that those troops are going south for a while ?
48thRonin
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Dec 21, 2018
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@DaphneDarling Well the Syrian situation also had a lot to do with a natural gas pipeline that was supposed to run from Turkey to Qatar and Assad demanded that Syria be compensated more than what the investors were willing to give.
And we were one of those investors so shit happened and thankfully Russia investigated what had happened in Libya and Egypt with the regime changes which compelled them to support Syria from being overthrown.
But it’s always about the money.
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