Time and again, powerful allies on whose support they thought they could rely abandoned them.
Source: Chaos in Washington Has Once Again Left the Kurds Stranded – The Atlantic
Time and again, powerful allies on whose support they thought they could rely abandoned them.
Source: Chaos in Washington Has Once Again Left the Kurds Stranded – The Atlantic
“I am proud to shut down the government…I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not gonna blame you for it.”
—Donald Trump, December 11″
Racing toward a partial government shutdown, US President Donald Trump appears stuck in a standoff with Democrats over his demand for billions of dollars in US-Mexico border wall money.
“As soon as the US folds its tent and leaves, Turkey will immediately begin an air bombardment followed by a ground attack by the [Ankara-backed] Free Syrian army. Thousands will die, thousands will be displaced and will be given no haven within Syria. They will be turned away at the Turkish border,” said David Phillips, a former senior state department official, and the author of the new book: The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East.
Source: Mattis resignation triggered by phone call between Trump and Erdoğan | US news | The Guardian
When Rep. David Cicilline, a Democrat from Rhode Island, asked Nielsen how many people have died under DHS’s custody, she said didn’t know. “Did I understand you correctly to say that, as you sit here today, you do not know how many human beings have died while in custody of the department that you lead, and in preparation for today’s hearing, you didn’t ascertain that number?” “I don’t have an exact figure for you,” she said. “I’m talking about people who have died in your custody. You don’t have the number?” “I will get back to you with the number,” she said.
Source: Kirstjen Nielsen Doesn’t Know How Many People Have Died in DHS Custody
Whistleblowers said the Americans were exchanging messages with unsecure Gmail accounts set up by their Russian counterparts as the US election heated up.
Source: Russian Agents Sought Secret US Treasury Records On Clinton Backers During 2016 Campaign
After the Senate passed a spending bill, conservative anger has President Trump openly mulling whether he would sign it.
The Russian president said he broadly agreed that the Islamic State had been defeated in Syria. “Donald’s right, and I agree with him,” he said of President Trump.
Ignoring the advice of his military and security advisers Although many in the Department of Defense (DoD), including Defense Secretary James Mattis, have tried for quite some time to convince the president not to make the move, he was unswayed by the advice of his military and security advisors. DoD officials say that the troop withdrawal will betray Kurdish allies fighting alongside US troops in Syria and Iraq. Moreover, they argued that by abandoning the Kurds the US would put any future alliances with local fighters at risk, as the US would be seen as an unreliable partner. In both Iraq and Syria, Kurdish groups have been among the most effective fighters against IS, bolstered by air support, intelligence, equipment and training from Western and Gulf powers. However, NATO member Turkey in particular objected to the cooperation with Kurdish groups it considers either terrorists or their accomplices.
Source: US announces it is pulling all troops out of Syria | News | DW | 19.12.2018
The impolite reality is that stories like this explain why frustrated residents in many communities see the police as an occupying force. This shows what a growing cross-section of Americans in both political parties mean when they speak of a two-tiered justice system. This is why the police, in neighborhoods and editorial pages across the country, often don’t get the respect they demand — or the trust they feel they deserve.
About four miles from where the McKinsey consultants discussed their work, which includes advising some of China’s most important state-owned companies, a sprawling internment camp had sprung up to hold thousands of ethnic Uighurs — part of a vast archipelago of indoctrination camps where the Chinese government has locked up as many as one million people. One week before the McKinsey event, a United Nations committee had denounced the mass detentions and urged China to stop.
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