Syria live: Turkey launches offensive against Kurds

By artappraiser on Wed, 10/09/2019 - 1:03pm |

All the latest from the front lines as Turkish forces move in on north-eastern Syria

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https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/syria-live-turkey-launches-offensive-against-kurds-1.921458

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EXCLUSIVE:

The White House says that it “has made it clear to Turkey that this operation is a bad idea.”

But a senior adviser to Erdogan, @Gulnuray, tells me: “President Trump and President Erdogan have reached an understanding over precisely what this operation is.” pic.twitter.com/XLB8dZ80sq
— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) October 9, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/09/2019 - 1:37pm

Important political point because he's gonna be spinning this and selling it as keeping isolationist creed when he's not really doing that at all:

You didn’t leave Syria. You just moved a small number of troops so the Turks could slaughter our allies. https://t.co/2KAFF4kqbc
— David French (@DavidAFrench) October 9, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/09/2019 - 4:12pm

More on the b.s. isolationism, it's not real:

"Although the president is trying to tell his followers that he's getting all of the troops out of Syria, in fact he's not. And what he's done is greenlight Turkey, greenlight Russia and really given a present to Vladimir Putin." -Wendy Sherman, former US undersecretary of state pic.twitter.com/v1aH4x65mD
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) October 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 12:51am

Blindsided Sec. of Defense:

This was tweeted and deleted.

Resign, @EsperDoD. pic.twitter.com/6CFUUeWYvf
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 1:12am

Maggie Haberman:

Some new reporting from us on what happened on the Trump-Erdogan call https://t.co/3qZ9sFe0qP pic.twitter.com/51Qf3hA5fV
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/09/2019 - 10:43pm

Wow
cc: @cjchivers https://t.co/VhW99WZc9q
— Anne Barnard (@ABarnardNYT) October 10, 2019

Wow again https://t.co/hRTATYHzn2
— Anne Barnard (@ABarnardNYT) October 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/09/2019 - 10:51pm

Griffin's related story for Foxnews.com, published 5 hrs. ago, is "trending":

Turkey's Syria invasion: Member of US Special Forces says, 'I am ashamed for the first time in my career'

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 12:42am

No rhyme nor reason to foreign policy decisions:

Wow. Per @fmkaplan, Bolton pushed for exiting the Open Skies Treaty. After he departed, NSC staff continued to push and "sometime last week, Trump signed the document expressing his intent to withdraw...There had been no NSC meetings on the subject, no discussions of any sort." https://t.co/gNq2xzYgXm
— Kingston Reif (@KingstonAReif) October 9, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 12:47am

Dumbest president. Ever. https://t.co/O4I7XvKWQm
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 12:58am

former aide to GWB and Mitt Romney https://t.co/rFEST6AIoo
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 1:01am

Sen. Graham & Van Hollen, 9 hrs. ago:

I am pleased to have reached a bipartisan agreement with Senator @ChrisVanHollen on severe sanctions against Turkey for their invasion of Syria.

While the Administration refuses to act against Turkey, I expect strong bipartisan support. pic.twitter.com/Ph5fIVt7k3
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 9, 2019

Today @LindseyGrahamSC and I are announcing a framework for sanctions against Turkey to respond to their military operation in northeastern Syria, which is already underway. These sanctions will have immediate, far-reaching consequences for Erdogan and his military. pic.twitter.com/VhzaDB2OYU
— Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) October 9, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 1:22am

Not just important, more like amazing. Everything anyone might need to know as far as analysis is there:

Important thread https://t.co/pCsCk8UIRE
— Neri Zilber (@NeriZilber) October 10, 2019

Someone put the whole thing on ab easy-to-read thread-reader app here:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1181956876272955392.html

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 1:43am

He is highly prejudiced to trust and listen to those he has done business with, and considers equals rather than employees, it's just that simple?

Turkey has among the highest number of foreign business ventures in which Trump is at least a partial owner, with 119 listed.
Businesses linked to the Turkish government are also major patrons of the Trump Organization. via @NBCNews https://t.co/MbhkZmSusK
— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) October 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 2:00am

related news from three NATO members I see on Twitter:

NEW — Norway, a NATO ally, suspends all arms exports to Turkey over the Syria incursion.

Finland did the same yesterday
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) October 10, 2019

I most firmly condemn the unilateral military offensive that is underway in Syria. I call on Turkey to put an end to it as quickly as possible. Turkey’s action poses a humanitarian risk to millions of people.
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) October 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 3:52pm

at the UN Security Council, U.S. and Russia are allied:

#BREAKING: UN Security Council fails to agree statement opposing #Turkey’s #Syria offensive. US and Russia oppose “condemnation” – Rudaw’s reporter pic.twitter.com/YH6r3Grh5U
— Rudaw English (@RudawEnglish) October 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 3:53pm

and countering Trumpian history gleaned from oddball op-eds:

Turned out the Kurds were there for us in WW2 after all.

Did not know this.
(Will not change outcome in Syria.) https://t.co/UGqXasOyuu
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 3:56pm

from The Federalist magazine (conservative):

Hey Congress: Take Back Your War Powers https://t.co/4Uh2v2P9nc
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) October 9, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 4:00pm

Bibi:

Israel strongly condemns the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria and warns against the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds by Turkey and its proxies.
Israel is prepared to extend humanitarian assistance to the gallant Kurdish people.
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) October 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 5:23pm

Syria live: Turkey launches offensive against Kurds

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