{"id":390272,"date":"2018-12-23T15:25:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T14:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-pulls-fast-one-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-12-23T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T14:25:34","slug":"trump-pulls-fast-one-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-pulls-fast-one-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Pulls Fast One – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019ve been hard on President Trump recently. He\u2019s deserved it. But, his decision to announce without any prearranged warning a complete pullout of all U.S. forces in Syria is something I can unreservedly applaud.<\/p>\n

Whether he actually goes through with it or not is another story.<\/p>\n

But even just his tweaking the D.C. establishment on this issue is enough for at least a golf clap. Nothing unites D.C. like the start of a new war or the threat of ending an old one.<\/p>\n

And apparently Trump blind-sided nearly everyone on this. From the our\u00a0NATO allies like France and the U.K.<\/a>\u00a0to his outgoing\u00a0Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/a>, all of them found out when Trump took the bully pulpit and informed the world.<\/p>\n

This is the guy we elected. This is Loki-like behavior, not the weak-kneed appeaser that we\u2019ve seen since Helsinki, tweeting like a madman trapped in a cage of his own making.
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So, keep doing this Don and you might earn some trust.<\/p>\n

The reality is that Turkey and Russia now set the terms of what\u2019s happening in Syria going forward. Trump just acknowledged the U.S.\u2019s untenable policy there is over.<\/p>\n

In my latest piece for Strategic Culture<\/a>, written before Trump\u2019s Syria announcement, I talk about this weekend\u2019s events leading up to Trump\u2019s surprise announcement.<\/p>\n

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If these things weren\u2019t enough Turkish Prime Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said recently that Ankara was now willing to work with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if he survives \u201cdemocratic and credible\u201d elections. This is rich coming from Turkey, but whatever.
The importance of this statement, however, cannot be overstated. Turkey was one of the major…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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I\u2019ve been hard on President Trump recently. He\u2019s deserved it. But, his decision to announce without any prearranged warning a complete pullout of all U.S. forces in Syria is something I can unreservedly applaud. Whether he actually goes through with it or not is another story. But even just his tweaking the D.C. establishment on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}