After U.S. Troops Leave Syria, What Happens Next?

We should sponsor all the Kurds and bring them to the US. Just like we did with the Montagnards when we left Vietnam. My next door neighbor is the son of one of the Mountain People the Special Forces brought to the US. They're an admirable people as are the Kurds..
 
We should sponsor all the Kurds and bring them to the US. Just like we did with the Montagnards when we left Vietnam. My next door neighbor is the son of one of the Mountain People the Special Forces brought to the US. They're an admirable people as are the Kurds..

Then do the MAGA Great Douche thang going on now. Deport them after say 3.5 decades here back.
 
CHECKMATE – Saudi Crown Prince MbS Sends Replacement Troops To Defend Kurds in Syria…

Yes, he might have had a OBL loverbmurdeted in Turkey, but it certainly seems he is NO FRIEND of Turkeys, and will use HIS TROOPS to replace WITHDRAWING American troops to help protect the Kurds, from Erdogan!....How much more of a WIN canTrump ask for!



Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the DC Decepticons are concerned about the Kurdish groups in Syria as the President Trump withdraws U.S. forces. The concern stems from a possibility of Turkey taking hostile action toward our Kurdish allies. However, a new report from the region highlights Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is sending his forces to replace the U.S. troops.

SAUDI ARABIA – Saudi Arabia and the UAE have sent military forces to areas controlled by the Kurdish YPG group in north-east Syria, Turkey’s Yenisafak newspaper reported.

The paper said the forces will be stationed with US-led coalition troops and will support its tasks with huge military enforcements as well as heavy and light weapons.


Quoting the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the newspaper reported that a convoy of troops belonging to an Arab Gulf state recently arrived in the contact area between the Kurdish PKK/YPG and Daesh in the Deir Ez-Zor countryside.

This comes at a time when Ankara is preparing to launch an expanded military operation with the Free Syrian Army against the Kurdish PKK group in the northeast of Syria. (read more)

Now let’s consider the brilliance of this move.

First, remember Turkish President Recep Erdogan was the antagonist in the Kashoggi matter and Erdogan orchestrated the blame toward Saudi Crown Prince MbS. There is no better motivated mid-east ally to protect the Kurds against any military action by Turkey other than MbS. No doubt MbS and UAE will send their best forces.

Secondly, what military equipment will MbS and the UAE be shipping along with their military troops? Those would be military purchases directly from the U.S.

Third, who stood up against international pressure and refused to condemn MbS over the Kashoggi matter? That would be a strategic U.S. President Trump. MbS owes a favor; see how that works?

Fourth, what leverage does U.S President Trump have toward Turkey in order to further facilitate no hostile action? That would be the economic leverage of current sanctions against Iran; and the option of controlling/punishing any economic engagement therein.

So to summarize: President Trump withdraws U.S. troops from Syria, and leverages his relationship with MbS to step up to replace them, thereby eliminating any concern that Turkey might take hostile action toward our Kurdish allies in Northern Syria.

Our troops come home; and a stable transition is ensured by a regional ally.

How do you like them apples !....Trump is indeed a STABLE GENIUS!

CHECKMATE – Saudi Crown Prince MbS Sends Replacement Troops To Defend Kurds in Syria…
 
We should sponsor all the Kurds and bring them to the US. Just like we did with the Montagnards when we left Vietnam. My next door neighbor is the son of one of the Mountain People the Special Forces brought to the US. They're an admirable people as are the Kurds..

The Kurds are fierce...we should arm them to the teeth
 
CHECKMATE – Saudi Crown Prince MbS Sends Replacement Troops To Defend Kurds in Syria…

Yes, he might have had a OBL loverbmurdeted in Turkey, but it certainly seems he is NO FRIEND of Turkeys, and will use HIS TROOPS to replace WITHDRAWING American troops to help protect the Kurds, from Erdogan!....How much more of a WIN canTrump ask for!



Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the DC Decepticons are concerned about the Kurdish groups in Syria as the President Trump withdraws U.S. forces. The concern stems from a possibility of Turkey taking hostile action toward our Kurdish allies. However, a new report from the region highlights Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is sending his forces to replace the U.S. troops.

SAUDI ARABIA – Saudi Arabia and the UAE have sent military forces to areas controlled by the Kurdish YPG group in north-east Syria, Turkey’s Yenisafak newspaper reported.

The paper said the forces will be stationed with US-led coalition troops and will support its tasks with huge military enforcements as well as heavy and light weapons.


Quoting the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the newspaper reported that a convoy of troops belonging to an Arab Gulf state recently arrived in the contact area between the Kurdish PKK/YPG and Daesh in the Deir Ez-Zor countryside.

This comes at a time when Ankara is preparing to launch an expanded military operation with the Free Syrian Army against the Kurdish PKK group in the northeast of Syria. (read more)

Now let’s consider the brilliance of this move.

First, remember Turkish President Recep Erdogan was the antagonist in the Kashoggi matter and Erdogan orchestrated the blame toward Saudi Crown Prince MbS. There is no better motivated mid-east ally to protect the Kurds against any military action by Turkey other than MbS. No doubt MbS and UAE will send their best forces.

Secondly, what military equipment will MbS and the UAE be shipping along with their military troops? Those would be military purchases directly from the U.S.

Third, who stood up against international pressure and refused to condemn MbS over the Kashoggi matter? That would be a strategic U.S. President Trump. MbS owes a favor; see how that works?

Fourth, what leverage does U.S President Trump have toward Turkey in order to further facilitate no hostile action? That would be the economic leverage of current sanctions against Iran; and the option of controlling/punishing any economic engagement therein.

So to summarize: President Trump withdraws U.S. troops from Syria, and leverages his relationship with MbS to step up to replace them, thereby eliminating any concern that Turkey might take hostile action toward our Kurdish allies in Northern Syria.

Our troops come home; and a stable transition is ensured by a regional ally.

How do you like them apples !....Trump is indeed a STABLE GENIUS!

CHECKMATE – Saudi Crown Prince MbS Sends Replacement Troops To Defend Kurds in Syria…
The Saudi's are no match for the Turks on the battlefield should it come to that..........And they have their hands full in Yemen.....................
 
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A limited U.S. military role in Syria has had an outsize impact over the past four years.


A “limited presence?” An estimated 2,000 troops is a limited presence? Gimme a break.


And how are we helping the Kurds fight the rebels when Turkey – our supposed ally – is trying to wipe out the Kurds?


Iran and Russia claim a victory: Iran has invested heavily with military and economic assistance to prop up Assad since the beginning of the war. Russian President Vladimir Putin sent military forces to support Syria in 2015, the year after the U.S. entered the war.

Both Iran and Russia would view it as a major success if the American military leaves and Assad continues to consolidate power. The same would be true for Hezbollah, the Lebanese group that has fought alongside Assad's forces.

Turkey launches offensive against the Kurds: While the U.S. has partnered with the YPG, the Syrian Kurdish militia, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan views them as terrorists who threaten his country. Turkey has signaled it wants to launch an offensive in northern Syria against the Kurdish group. Such a move could destabilize a mostly calm area, displacing civilians and touching off new refugee flows.

So what? Our president is doing what should have been done years ago – getting out of another place we have no business being in.

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Don't know,Don't care. Its NOT our problem and we should have NEVER had troops there.
 
"A day after Syria move, US officials reportedly say Trump also decided to pull thousands of troops out of Afghanistan."
After Syria, Trump planning 'troop withdrawal from Afghanistan' | Al Jazeera English

Is Trump ending the Long War?

If so, whichever POTUS follows him won't waste any time reversing the trend.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
Rich people don't pay for wars with their taxes or their blood; they have debt slaves to fill those jobs. At the very least, congress should reassert its Constitutional authority to declare war.
ckvZcTy.jpg

If not now, when?

Jesus Christ, you people are insane fucking warmongers, all because you hate President Trump, not because you give a shit about Kurds or Syrians.
 
"A day after Syria move, US officials reportedly say Trump also decided to pull thousands of troops out of Afghanistan."
After Syria, Trump planning 'troop withdrawal from Afghanistan' | Al Jazeera English

Is Trump ending the Long War?

If so, whichever POTUS follows him won't waste any time reversing the trend.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
Rich people don't pay for wars with their taxes or their blood; they have debt slaves to fill those jobs. At the very least, congress should reassert its Constitutional authority to declare war.
ckvZcTy.jpg

If not now, when?

Jesus Christ, you people are insane fucking warmongers, all because you hate President Trump, not because you give a shit about Kurds or Syrians.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
 
"A day after Syria move, US officials reportedly say Trump also decided to pull thousands of troops out of Afghanistan."
After Syria, Trump planning 'troop withdrawal from Afghanistan' | Al Jazeera English

Is Trump ending the Long War?

If so, whichever POTUS follows him won't waste any time reversing the trend.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
Rich people don't pay for wars with their taxes or their blood; they have debt slaves to fill those jobs. At the very least, congress should reassert its Constitutional authority to declare war.
ckvZcTy.jpg

If not now, when?

Jesus Christ, you people are insane fucking warmongers, all because you hate President Trump, not because you give a shit about Kurds or Syrians.
After U.S. Troops Leave Syria, What Happens Next?

"The U.S. military has, in effect, assisted Assad by greatly weakening one of his most dangerous enemies, ISIS.

"This has allowed Assad to focus his military forces on other threats, and he has defeated most of them.

"If the Americans depart, he could look to reclaim other parts of the country he's lost during the past seven years of war.

"Iran and Russia claim a victory: Iran has invested heavily with military and economic assistance to prop up Assad since the beginning of the war. Russian President Vladimir Putin sent military forces to support Syria in 2015, the year after the U.S. entered the war."

I've personally never supported any US war of aggression from Vietnam to the present, but I would be very surprised if Trump's successor doesn't undo any changes Trump makes.
 
"A day after Syria move, US officials reportedly say Trump also decided to pull thousands of troops out of Afghanistan."
After Syria, Trump planning 'troop withdrawal from Afghanistan' | Al Jazeera English

Is Trump ending the Long War?

If so, whichever POTUS follows him won't waste any time reversing the trend.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
Rich people don't pay for wars with their taxes or their blood; they have debt slaves to fill those jobs. At the very least, congress should reassert its Constitutional authority to declare war.
ckvZcTy.jpg

If not now, when?

Jesus Christ, you people are insane fucking warmongers, all because you hate President Trump, not because you give a shit about Kurds or Syrians.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf (P. 4)

"How the United States makes other countries pay for its wars

" Since Europe’s Middle Ages and Renaissance, going to war has left nations with heavy public debts, which in turn have needed to be financed by raising taxes.

"Two centuries ago Adam Smith gave a list of how each new war borrowing in Britain led to a new tax being imposed to pay its interest charges. Militarily ambitious nations thus became indebted, high-tax and high-cost economies...."

"America’s war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in the 1960s seemed to follow this time-honored scenario.

"U.S. overseas military spending ended up in the hands of foreign central banks, especially France, whose banks were the dominant financial institutions in Indo-China.

"Central banks cashed in these for gold nearly on a monthly basis from the 1965 troop buildup onward.


"Germany did on a quiet scale what General de Gaulle did with great fanfare in cashing in the dollars sent from France’s former colonies.

" By 1971 the U.S. dollar’s gold cover – legally 25 percent for Federal Reserve currency – was nearly depleted, and America withdrew from the London Gold Pool.

"The dollar no longer could be redeemed for gold at $35 an ounce.

"It seemed at the time that the Vietnam War had cost America its world financial position, just as World War I had stripped Britain and the rest of Europe of their financial leadership as a result of their Inter-Ally arms debts to the United States.

" But in going off gold the United States created a new kind of international financial system."

Among those things that never change: War is a Racket.
 
USA have been leaving Afghanistan for 17 years...
So will be in Syria.
USA authorities are lying always.

But this time if staying in Syria they risk to be destroyed.

Anyway if USA leaves country gets chance for peace.
Oh shit ...........here comes the Ruskies to kill us all...
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"A day after Syria move, US officials reportedly say Trump also decided to pull thousands of troops out of Afghanistan."
After Syria, Trump planning 'troop withdrawal from Afghanistan' | Al Jazeera English

Is Trump ending the Long War?

If so, whichever POTUS follows him won't waste any time reversing the trend.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
Rich people don't pay for wars with their taxes or their blood; they have debt slaves to fill those jobs. At the very least, congress should reassert its Constitutional authority to declare war.
ckvZcTy.jpg

If not now, when?

Jesus Christ, you people are insane fucking warmongers, all because you hate President Trump, not because you give a shit about Kurds or Syrians.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf (P. 4)

"How the United States makes other countries pay for its wars

" Since Europe’s Middle Ages and Renaissance, going to war has left nations with heavy public debts, which in turn have needed to be financed by raising taxes.

"Two centuries ago Adam Smith gave a list of how each new war borrowing in Britain led to a new tax being imposed to pay its interest charges. Militarily ambitious nations thus became indebted, high-tax and high-cost economies...."

"America’s war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in the 1960s seemed to follow this time-honored scenario.

"U.S. overseas military spending ended up in the hands of foreign central banks, especially France, whose banks were the dominant financial institutions in Indo-China.

"Central banks cashed in these for gold nearly on a monthly basis from the 1965 troop buildup onward.


"Germany did on a quiet scale what General de Gaulle did with great fanfare in cashing in the dollars sent from France’s former colonies.

" By 1971 the U.S. dollar’s gold cover – legally 25 percent for Federal Reserve currency – was nearly depleted, and America withdrew from the London Gold Pool.

"The dollar no longer could be redeemed for gold at $35 an ounce.

"It seemed at the time that the Vietnam War had cost America its world financial position, just as World War I had stripped Britain and the rest of Europe of their financial leadership as a result of their Inter-Ally arms debts to the United States.

" But in going off gold the United States created a new kind of international financial system."

Among those things that never change: War is a Racket.
Yet, the right wing insists on the socialism of our exorbitantly expensive superpower and tax cut economics that benefit the rich the most.
 
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
Rich people don't pay for wars with their taxes or their blood; they have debt slaves to fill those jobs. At the very least, congress should reassert its Constitutional authority to declare war.
ckvZcTy.jpg

If not now, when?

Jesus Christ, you people are insane fucking warmongers, all because you hate President Trump, not because you give a shit about Kurds or Syrians.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf (P. 4)

"How the United States makes other countries pay for its wars

" Since Europe’s Middle Ages and Renaissance, going to war has left nations with heavy public debts, which in turn have needed to be financed by raising taxes.

"Two centuries ago Adam Smith gave a list of how each new war borrowing in Britain led to a new tax being imposed to pay its interest charges. Militarily ambitious nations thus became indebted, high-tax and high-cost economies...."

"America’s war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in the 1960s seemed to follow this time-honored scenario.

"U.S. overseas military spending ended up in the hands of foreign central banks, especially France, whose banks were the dominant financial institutions in Indo-China.

"Central banks cashed in these for gold nearly on a monthly basis from the 1965 troop buildup onward.


"Germany did on a quiet scale what General de Gaulle did with great fanfare in cashing in the dollars sent from France’s former colonies.

" By 1971 the U.S. dollar’s gold cover – legally 25 percent for Federal Reserve currency – was nearly depleted, and America withdrew from the London Gold Pool.

"The dollar no longer could be redeemed for gold at $35 an ounce.

"It seemed at the time that the Vietnam War had cost America its world financial position, just as World War I had stripped Britain and the rest of Europe of their financial leadership as a result of their Inter-Ally arms debts to the United States.

" But in going off gold the United States created a new kind of international financial system."

Among those things that never change: War is a Racket.
Yet, the right wing insists on the socialism of our exorbitantly expensive superpower and tax cut economics that benefit the rich the most.
In regards to the poor in this country...........tell me how much they pay in Federal Income taxes..........while your at it.....tell me how much money they get back in Refunds via Tax Credits while paying no Federal Income taxes......

If you are old enough to even know how to do a tax return.
 
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
Rich people don't pay for wars with their taxes or their blood; they have debt slaves to fill those jobs. At the very least, congress should reassert its Constitutional authority to declare war.
ckvZcTy.jpg

If not now, when?

Jesus Christ, you people are insane fucking warmongers, all because you hate President Trump, not because you give a shit about Kurds or Syrians.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf (P. 4)

"How the United States makes other countries pay for its wars

" Since Europe’s Middle Ages and Renaissance, going to war has left nations with heavy public debts, which in turn have needed to be financed by raising taxes.

"Two centuries ago Adam Smith gave a list of how each new war borrowing in Britain led to a new tax being imposed to pay its interest charges. Militarily ambitious nations thus became indebted, high-tax and high-cost economies...."

"America’s war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in the 1960s seemed to follow this time-honored scenario.

"U.S. overseas military spending ended up in the hands of foreign central banks, especially France, whose banks were the dominant financial institutions in Indo-China.

"Central banks cashed in these for gold nearly on a monthly basis from the 1965 troop buildup onward.


"Germany did on a quiet scale what General de Gaulle did with great fanfare in cashing in the dollars sent from France’s former colonies.

" By 1971 the U.S. dollar’s gold cover – legally 25 percent for Federal Reserve currency – was nearly depleted, and America withdrew from the London Gold Pool.

"The dollar no longer could be redeemed for gold at $35 an ounce.

"It seemed at the time that the Vietnam War had cost America its world financial position, just as World War I had stripped Britain and the rest of Europe of their financial leadership as a result of their Inter-Ally arms debts to the United States.

" But in going off gold the United States created a new kind of international financial system."

Among those things that never change: War is a Racket.
Yet, the right wing insists on the socialism of our exorbitantly expensive superpower and tax cut economics that benefit the rich the most.


If tax cuts only benefit the rich, then that means only the rich are paying taxes. Is that fair?
 
Rich people don't pay for wars with their taxes or their blood; they have debt slaves to fill those jobs. At the very least, congress should reassert its Constitutional authority to declare war.
ckvZcTy.jpg

If not now, when?

Jesus Christ, you people are insane fucking warmongers, all because you hate President Trump, not because you give a shit about Kurds or Syrians.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf (P. 4)

"How the United States makes other countries pay for its wars

" Since Europe’s Middle Ages and Renaissance, going to war has left nations with heavy public debts, which in turn have needed to be financed by raising taxes.

"Two centuries ago Adam Smith gave a list of how each new war borrowing in Britain led to a new tax being imposed to pay its interest charges. Militarily ambitious nations thus became indebted, high-tax and high-cost economies...."

"America’s war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in the 1960s seemed to follow this time-honored scenario.

"U.S. overseas military spending ended up in the hands of foreign central banks, especially France, whose banks were the dominant financial institutions in Indo-China.

"Central banks cashed in these for gold nearly on a monthly basis from the 1965 troop buildup onward.


"Germany did on a quiet scale what General de Gaulle did with great fanfare in cashing in the dollars sent from France’s former colonies.

" By 1971 the U.S. dollar’s gold cover – legally 25 percent for Federal Reserve currency – was nearly depleted, and America withdrew from the London Gold Pool.

"The dollar no longer could be redeemed for gold at $35 an ounce.

"It seemed at the time that the Vietnam War had cost America its world financial position, just as World War I had stripped Britain and the rest of Europe of their financial leadership as a result of their Inter-Ally arms debts to the United States.

" But in going off gold the United States created a new kind of international financial system."

Among those things that never change: War is a Racket.
Yet, the right wing insists on the socialism of our exorbitantly expensive superpower and tax cut economics that benefit the rich the most.
In regards to the poor in this country...........tell me how much they pay in Federal Income taxes..........while your at it.....tell me how much money they get back in Refunds via Tax Credits while paying no Federal Income taxes......

If you are old enough to even know how to do a tax return.
income taxes are not the only taxes. all taxes impact the Poor the most simply Because they can afford them the least.
 
Rich people don't pay for wars with their taxes or their blood; they have debt slaves to fill those jobs. At the very least, congress should reassert its Constitutional authority to declare war.
ckvZcTy.jpg

If not now, when?

Jesus Christ, you people are insane fucking warmongers, all because you hate President Trump, not because you give a shit about Kurds or Syrians.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf (P. 4)

"How the United States makes other countries pay for its wars

" Since Europe’s Middle Ages and Renaissance, going to war has left nations with heavy public debts, which in turn have needed to be financed by raising taxes.

"Two centuries ago Adam Smith gave a list of how each new war borrowing in Britain led to a new tax being imposed to pay its interest charges. Militarily ambitious nations thus became indebted, high-tax and high-cost economies...."

"America’s war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in the 1960s seemed to follow this time-honored scenario.

"U.S. overseas military spending ended up in the hands of foreign central banks, especially France, whose banks were the dominant financial institutions in Indo-China.

"Central banks cashed in these for gold nearly on a monthly basis from the 1965 troop buildup onward.


"Germany did on a quiet scale what General de Gaulle did with great fanfare in cashing in the dollars sent from France’s former colonies.

" By 1971 the U.S. dollar’s gold cover – legally 25 percent for Federal Reserve currency – was nearly depleted, and America withdrew from the London Gold Pool.

"The dollar no longer could be redeemed for gold at $35 an ounce.

"It seemed at the time that the Vietnam War had cost America its world financial position, just as World War I had stripped Britain and the rest of Europe of their financial leadership as a result of their Inter-Ally arms debts to the United States.

" But in going off gold the United States created a new kind of international financial system."

Among those things that never change: War is a Racket.
Yet, the right wing insists on the socialism of our exorbitantly expensive superpower and tax cut economics that benefit the rich the most.


If tax cuts only benefit the rich, then that means only the rich are paying taxes. Is that fair?
taxing the Rich into Heaven is moral with "under God" in our pledge.
 
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
Rich people don't pay for wars with their taxes or their blood; they have debt slaves to fill those jobs. At the very least, congress should reassert its Constitutional authority to declare war.
ckvZcTy.jpg

If not now, when?

Jesus Christ, you people are insane fucking warmongers, all because you hate President Trump, not because you give a shit about Kurds or Syrians.
those alleged wars should be unlawful if they are not being paid for with wartime tax rates.
https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf (P. 4)

"How the United States makes other countries pay for its wars

" Since Europe’s Middle Ages and Renaissance, going to war has left nations with heavy public debts, which in turn have needed to be financed by raising taxes.

"Two centuries ago Adam Smith gave a list of how each new war borrowing in Britain led to a new tax being imposed to pay its interest charges. Militarily ambitious nations thus became indebted, high-tax and high-cost economies...."

"America’s war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in the 1960s seemed to follow this time-honored scenario.

"U.S. overseas military spending ended up in the hands of foreign central banks, especially France, whose banks were the dominant financial institutions in Indo-China.

"Central banks cashed in these for gold nearly on a monthly basis from the 1965 troop buildup onward.


"Germany did on a quiet scale what General de Gaulle did with great fanfare in cashing in the dollars sent from France’s former colonies.

" By 1971 the U.S. dollar’s gold cover – legally 25 percent for Federal Reserve currency – was nearly depleted, and America withdrew from the London Gold Pool.

"The dollar no longer could be redeemed for gold at $35 an ounce.

"It seemed at the time that the Vietnam War had cost America its world financial position, just as World War I had stripped Britain and the rest of Europe of their financial leadership as a result of their Inter-Ally arms debts to the United States.

" But in going off gold the United States created a new kind of international financial system."

Among those things that never change: War is a Racket.
Yet, the right wing insists on the socialism of our exorbitantly expensive superpower and tax cut economics that benefit the rich the most.
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Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor - Wikipedia

"Economist Dean Baker expressed similar views in his book The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer, in which he pointed out several different policy areas in which government intervention is essential to preserving and enhancing wealth in the hands of a few."

Another problem that can't be corrected by "choosing" between Republican or Democrat.
 

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