Donald Trump talked tough on ISIS during his campaign. Now that he’s set to be commander-in-chief, he’s putting his plan into action — and he’s throwing out the failed policies of Barack Obama in the process.
US President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed that he will most likely abandon the Obama administration policy on Syria to seek a possible rapprochement with Russia on the issue of Assad.
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“I’ve had an opposite view of many people regarding Syria,” the 70-year-old Republican told the Wall Street Journal in his first interview since the election.From the start of the Syrian war, Barack Obama’s foreign policy has been focused on the support and training of the so-called “moderate” rebel groups who were supposed to defeat Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists, and survive to eventually overthrow Assad. That approach became deadlocked this year when Washington failed to honor its obligations under an agreement with Moscow to separate their moderate rebel forces from internationally-recognized terrorists.
Trump, on the other hand, said on Friday that the US should be focused on fighting Islamic State, instead of pursuing regime change in Syria.
“My attitude was you’re fighting Syria, Syria is fighting ISIS, and you have to get rid of ISIS. Russia is now totally aligned with Syria, and now you have Iran, which is becoming powerful, because of us, is aligned with Syria… Now we’re backing rebels against Syria, and we have no idea who these people are.”
It has been widely documented and reported that American weapons supplied to the moderate rebels are often obtained by extremists in Syria. Those weapons, in turn, are being used by the jihadists to strike civilian positions and deploy them against Syrian forces.
The president-elect warned that if the US attacks Assad, “we end up fighting Russia, fighting Syria.”
The US coalition bombing of Syrian Army positions near the city of Deir el-Zour on September 17 led to the collapse of the US-Russian peace initiative.
Rapprochement in US-Russia ties could, however, be on the horizon after Trump admitted receiving a “beautiful” letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump said a phone call between them is scheduled shortly.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are “very much alike… in their basic approaches toward international affairs,” Dmitry Peskov told the Associated Press earlier.
“[Trump] has been a very firm supporter of the idea of a good relationship between our countries, because we do carry a joint responsibility for strategic stability in the world, strategic security,” the spokesman said.
Immediately after Trump’s victory, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Moscow looks forward to restoring bilateral relations with the United States.
The US military establishment, however, already seems to be working against Trump’s policies. In an interview with CBS This Morning, Defense Secretary Ash Carter leveled a barrage of accusations at Russia.
He said the Russian campaign in Syria “fuels the fires” of ongoing violence in the country, claiming “they’re not doing what we need to do and think needs to be done [in Syria].”
“What the Russians said, if you’ll remember, was that they were going to come in and fight terrorism and help remove Assad,”Carter said. “They haven’t done either of those things. They haven’t done any of that.”
While Moscow has been undertaking efforts to eliminate Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front terrorists in Syria, it never said it would take part in the forcible removal of President Bashar Assad.
Donald Trump has been accused of being too kind to the Kremlin for the last several months of his presidential campaign. It seems the country didn’t mind. They would rather work with a country to solve common threats than start a potential war between the two superpowers.
Source: RT
A Hillary Clinton presidency would be WW3. Is that what you protesters want? You’re crying now. What if a nuclear bomb hits, what would you do then..
I voted for Obama the first time because I was tired of the corruption of the Grand Old Party and wanted change. Just like all the other poor saps that where ignorant of the depth of all the Corruption , I woke up quick and started researching . Needless to say I am a raging conspiracy theorist that thanks to wiki leaks and other people like me, we the tin foil hat information junkies, have been vindicated. I would like to see the day we can all get to the point we do not need to put a leader in charge of our lives or a State to govern our every move However, it will not happen in my life time. My goal is to help pave the way for future generations to have that experience. We can all take a good look at ourselves and come up with what kind of legacy we want to leave our children. What will your legacy be? I want less and less government. I want more and more freedom. I want every body to succeed at improving their lives especially if it helps others to do the same. I want Peace not war especially if it is for no other reason other than make already rich tyrants richer. I want all children to learn how to live with confidence in this world that they will not be abused or tortured or starve to death. I want a society that is cooperative in teaching healthy sustainability for the Earth and the human race. That is not why I voted for Trump it is what I see the possibility of because … people are waking Up. We can not do any of this if we keep letting the Corrupt system rule over us. Term limits and pay caps are a start.
We’re not putting our nose into other countries business. This is all over a pipeline that we want control of. That’s the whole reason we have been arming and training mercenaries and rebels in Syria to over throw their gov. So we can have control of it. Worst part is those mercenaries when done go to highest bidder as in terrorist organizations. Our C.I.A does this globally all the time bases on what recorded they have and how their stance on trade affects the U.S.A. and it’s allies.
Recourses * not record smh
Lets see these new guys turn the mighty US, the only one country mightier than the defunct Soviet empire, into a hysterical fearer of Russia? Who’s going to lead and protect the NATO countries? The rest of the free world?
AMERICA IT’S TIME To Come Together As One Nation Under One God Saluting One American Flag. Give Our New President A Chance To Make America Safe, Sane, Properous And Great Again! Thank You! God Bless America! Amen!
MR TRUMP IS DOING THE RIGHT THING. WORKING WITH RUSSIA TO ELIMINATE ISIS. GLOBALIST DON’T WANT THAT BECAUSE THEY WANT THE SYRIAN RESOURCES. AND LAND. DUMB FUCKIN DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL GLOBALIST. IN THE MEAN TIME, OUR SONS AND BROTHERS LOSE THEIR LIVES FOR GLOBALIST GREED, MR TRUMP KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING. HE WILL BE OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT YET.
Tell that to Obozo !! as he could care less !