{"id":41899,"date":"2018-12-22T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T13:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41899"},"modified":"2018-12-22T08:49:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T13:49:29","slug":"the-administration-isnt-ending-the-wars-in-the-middle-east-its-shifting-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41899","title":{"rendered":"The Administration isn\u2019t Ending the Wars in the Middle East \u2014 It\u2019s Shifting Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Administration isn\u2019t Ending the Wars in the Middle East \u2014 It\u2019s Shifting Strategy<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The loss-averse President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a platform to \u201cdefeat ISIS, sought to uphold his election-season slogan by declaring \u201chistoric victories against ISIS\u201d as a reason for his Wednesday decision to end US military presence in Syria.<\/p>\n

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We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Amidst the steady gains of the Syrian army, who has reclaimed land from ISIS and various rebel factions since 2016, Trump has sought to market the destabilization of Syria as a success in his presidency.<\/p>\n

Though US military withdrawal is always a cause to celebrate, a steady geopolitical undercurrent shows that the move only represents a shift in strategy in loss minimization for the Gulf-Israel-US axis in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The decision was decried by<\/u><\/a> right-wing war hawks, such as Lindsay Graham and Marco Rubio\u2013as well as many Hollywood liberals<\/u><\/a>pinning it as evidence of alleged Putin-Trump collusion.<\/p>\n

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As Trump pulls troops out of Syria, we must acknowledge the enormity of the world\u2019s failure to halt a humanitarian catastrophe . U.S exit benefits Russia,, ISIS – still active, Iran & Assad. Was this agreed to during Putin\/Trump\u2019s 2 hour Helsinki meeting- without witnesses?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Syria Democratic Forces urged<\/u><\/a> the U.S. to not withdraw, warning that the cessation of support and presence will have \u201cserious repercussions\u201d that will \u201ccreate a vacuum\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n

The withdrawal represents a loss in regime change objectives from the US and its allies, something the US envoy to Syria James Jeffery explicitly has said<\/u><\/a> the country is no longer interested in, coming soon after Syria regained over<\/u><\/a> 90 percent of its territory.<\/p>\n

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The Administration isn\u2019t Ending the Wars in the Middle East \u2014 It\u2019s Shifting Strategy The loss-averse President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a platform to \u201cdefeat ISIS, sought to uphold his election-season slogan by declaring \u201chistoric victories against ISIS\u201d as a reason for his Wednesday decision to end US military presence in Syria. \u2714 We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5493,7844,446,23574,522,776,827],"class_list":["post-41899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-isis","tag-julia-kassem","tag-middle-east","tag-syria","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41900,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899\/revisions\/41900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}