According to Jim Jeffrey a former never-trump diplomat, US officials misled President Trump about troop totals so that he couldn’t completely take them out of Syria.
US officials have been lying to Trump – and the American people – about the true number of US troops in Syria in order to deter him from withdrawing them, according to the outgoing Syria envoy. Trump thinks it’s 200 😂😂. By @KatieBoWill https://t.co/P6W9s3Qwvs
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But even as he praises the president’s support of what he describes as a successful “realpolitik†approach to the region, he acknowledges that his team routinely misled senior leaders about troop levels in Syria.Â
“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,†Jeffrey said in an interview. The actual number of troops in northeast Syria is “a lot more than†the roughly two hundred troops Trump initially agreed to leave there in 2019.Â
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Officially, Trump last year agreed to keep several hundred U.S. troops — somewhere between 200 and 400, according to varying reports at the time — stationed in northeast Syria to “secure†oil fields held by the United States’ Kurdish allies in the fight against ISIS. It is generally accepted that the actual number is now higher than that — anonymous officials put the number at about 900 today — but the precise figure is classified and remains unknown even, it appears, to members of Trump’s administration keen to end the so-called “forever wars.â€Â
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However, there is one part of this that no-one is talking about. That is the high praise Jim Jeffrey had for President Trump’s policies in the Middle East.
Four years after signing the now-infamous “Never Trump†letter condemning then-presidential candidate Donald Trump as a danger to America, retiring diplomat Jim Jeffrey is recommending that the incoming Biden administration stick with Trump’s foreign policy in the Middle East.
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