This Is Not What This Is…

Trump wants you to think letting Turkey invade Northern Syria is about U.S. taxpayers not having to foot the bill for captured ISIS fighters…

When what it’s really about abandoning the troops who fought hardest with the U.S. against ISIS. Kurdish forces were defending parts of Syria they believe they should govern if things were as they should be. Both Syria (backed by Russia) and ISIS didn’t agree. Neither does Turkey, which wants to cut its own swath into the country, partially to give it a place to relocate refugees. As we mentioned recently in our story about Trump slashing the number of refugees allowed into the U.S., Turkey right now likely has the highest percentage of refugees of any country based on percentage of overall population. Most of them refugees from ISIS in Syria. So now it wants someplace to send them back to. And because in that context, the Kurdish forces are a nuisance, Turkey’s President calls them terrorists and wants them wiped out. Now Trump apparently just gave him the green light to do just that. The Turkish government is already reporting U.S. troops are clearing out, leaving their allies the Kurds to prepare alone for Turkey’s upcoming military incursion.

Trump explains himself more in detail today, in Tweets, in which he insists: