Anyone Remember When Trump "achieved a major breakthrough for peace in the Middle East?"

[Clipper]

Yes, the Abraham Accords were a major breakthrough.

In Trump's empty head.

 

[martybegan]

Trump made deals between two major nations?

Wow!

Must've missed that one.

As usual, not answering the question.

 

[whitehall]

Anybody expect a "major breakthrough" during the Biden administration? If you can call the abandonment of our allies and some Americans in Afghanistan a "breakthrough", everything is upside down under Biden.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Does Anyone Remember When Trump "achieved a major breakthrough for peace in the Middle East?" I do not, but I remember Trump having his WH page online claim that to be true.

I wonder what was meant, what was being implied? Maybe some Space Cadets out here in cyberspace can fill us all in?

pardon the bloviating, and the truthful hyperbole(Trump's own phrase for his own statements)

Donald J. Trump – The White House

trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov

In all seriousness, what was this proclaimed "achievement?"

I think you may look in vain for any benefit. Kush pocketed a few shekels tho,

 

[westwall]

Does Anyone Remember When Trump "achieved a major breakthrough for peace in the Middle East?" I do not, but I remember Trump having his WH page online claim that to be true.

I wonder what was meant, what was being implied? Maybe some Space Cadets out here in cyberspace can fill us all in?

pardon the bloviating, and the truthful hyperbole(Trump's own phrase for his own statements)

Donald J. Trump – The White House

trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov

In all seriousness, what was this proclaimed "achievement?"

Yeah, I do. Then you scum stole the election and tried to undo all of that work.

 

[Dante]

As usual, not answering the question.

Trump made deals between two major nations?

 

[Dante]

Anybody expect a "major breakthrough" during the Biden administration? If you can call the abandonment of our allies and some Americans in Afghanistan a "breakthrough", everything is upside down under Biden.

‘Trump betrayed us’: Fleeing Kurds condemn U.S. decision to leave Syria​

• Judy Woodruff:
  
  American troops began leaving Syria today, as a tense cease-fire held between Turkish and Syrian Kurdish forces.
  Where the Americans were once hailed as helping the Kurds defeat ISIS... UNDER TRUMP... many in Northeast Syria jeered and pelted American convoys with rotten vegetables and stones.
  And special correspondent Jane Ferguson, reporting tonight from Northwestern Iraq near the Syria border, encountered some of those evacuating U.S. forces.

This article appeared on The National Interest (Online) on October 8, 2019.​

President Trump has apparently decided to make a major shift in Washington’s policy regarding the Syrian Kurds. Instead of opposing Turkey’s use of force to clear out Kurdish- controlled territory in northern Syria, Washington now seems willing to step aside. That move would be a rather cynical betrayal of the Kurds, but not a surprising one.​

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Until now, Trump had largely continued the Obama administration’s policy of regarding Kurdish forces as useful military allies in Syria’s violent, multi-sided internecine conflict. In particular, Kurdish militias were quite effective in inflicting defeats on ISIS and other jihadi forces in northeastern Syria. The United States provided funding, training, and weaponry to Kurdish units, and seemed willing to look the other way as the Kurds pursued their political goal of establishing a de facto autonomous region in northern Syria similar to the entity their brethren in Iraq have maintained since the early 1990s.​

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There was one awkward, increasingly troublesome problem with Washington’s approach, however...Turkey’s resentment at U.S. policy toward the Syrian Kurds is not a minor concern to Washington, since the country is an important NATO ally.​

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President Trump already beat a modest retreat in November 2017 to placate Ankara when Erdogan reacted furiously to Washington’s continued support of Syrian Kurdish military actions. Washington relented, with Trump pledging to stop arming those forces. The administration also stood by when Turkish military incursions into northern Syria began in early 2018. Washington’s awkward diplomatic tightrope act of backing Kurdish forces against jihadi adversaries while accepting Turkey’s coercive actions against the Kurds now seems to be coming to an end, as the Trump administration tilts more sharply toward Ankara’s position.​

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p

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

then Biden lifted Iranian sanctions and gave them billions and Iran started to attack Israel..

Just started, eh?

 

[Rambunctious]

Just started, eh?

Sure Joe gave them the money to do so... he made Iran great again....

 

[martybegan]

Trump made deals between two major nations?

I was talking about declarations of war. When was the last actual war declaration?