[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #674: Don't Be A Fool!

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rgoodlaw twitterde op donderdag 17-10-2019 om 22:11:35 Dear media:Follow @DefenseOne's lead. Put quotation marks around 'ceasefire'. @marcorubio says it well here: "From what I understand it’s not a ceasefire. You have 100-and-X number of hours to get out of here before we kill you.”Yet, Trump already announces lifting sanctions https://t.co/ooY5AmGL3K reageer retweet

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“From what I understand it’s not a ceasefire,” Sen Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told reporters on Capitol Hill. “You have one-hundred-and-X number of hours to get out of here before we kill you.”

The United States will remove its three-day-old sanctions on Turkish officials in exchange for a ceasefire that leaves Turkey’s forces in northeastern Syria, the U.S. vice president said Tuesday, essentially acquiescing to Ankara’s bid to sweep formerly U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters from a 20-mile zone along its Syrian border.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to “pause” his offensive against the Kurdish YPG fighters while the United States “facilitates” their withdrawal from the border zone over the next 120 hours, Vice President Mike Pence told reporters after meeting with Erdogan in Ankara. After the Kurds leave, Pence said, Erdogan will impose a “permanent” ceasefire and the United States will lift sanctions imposed Monday on Turkey’s energy, defense, and interior ministers.

Shortly after Pence’s announcement, the commander of the Kurdish fighters, Gen. Mazloum Kobani, said that the group has accepted the ceasefire deal, and characterized it as limited to the territory where fighting has been ongoing.

Meanwhile, it’s unclear whether the military is prepared to carry out the “facilitated” withdrawal. As of Thursday morning, the United States was in the midst of a risky and hastily-planned withdrawal of hundreds of its own troops across northeastern Syria, and the status of that operation in light of the U.S.-Turkey deal is unknown.

Pence said that the U.S.-facilitated withdrawal “has literally already begun” and that the Kurdish fighters “greatly welcome the opportunity for the ceasefire to make a safe and orderly withdrawal from those areas in the safe zone where they still have a presence.”

“We think the agreement today ends the violence, which is what President Trump sent us here to do and achieve an immediate ceasefire,” Pence said.

The United States and Turkey also agreed to “coordinate” on the detention of thousands of ISIS fighters currently held by the SDF across Syria, Pence said, and “mutually committed to the defeat-ISIS activities in Northeast Syria.”

Trump swiftly celebrated the deal on Twitter, boasting that it will save “millions of lives.”

“This deal could NEVER have been made 3 days ago. There needed to be some ‘tough’ love in order to get it done. Great for everybody,” he wrote. “Proud of all!”

The deal was quickly met by harsh criticism that it does little more than validate Turkey’s invasion of Syria that began last week.

“From what I understand it’s not a ceasefire,” Sen Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told reporters on Capitol Hill. “You have one-hundred-and-X number of hours to get out of here before we kill you.”

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said on the Senate floor that “what we have done to the Kurds will stand as a blood stain in the annals of American history.”

Turkey also denied that the deal amounted to a “ceasefire.”

“This is not a ceasefire. We will pause the operation for 120 hours in order for the terrorists to leave. We will only stop the operation if our conditions are met,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters.

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KenDilanianNBC twitterde op donderdag 17-10-2019 om 20:57:30 Fact check: Experts are already saying the US just granted Ergogan everything he wanted, all along, including exclusive rights to patrol the safe zone by air. They are calling this a total capitulation. reageer retweet