The move to take troops out of Syria and Afghanistan has nothing to do with peace, stopping war or reducing U.S. militarism. It's more about cutting costs of war in Syria than it is about ending war in Syria. Trump is just being a business-man with the U.S. presidency. American domination of the middle East will continue.
This is all revealed with the words he spoke in a surprise visit to U.S. forces in Iraq earlier this week. He told them he has no intention of withdrawing troops from the 15-year occupation of Iraq. The news comes probably to the dismay of some, but to the jubilation of others who are as brainwashed as ever into the fantasy of America "fighting for democracy and freedom" throughout the world.
How this ties into Syria, is that U.S. forces will launch future attacks from Iraq instead of being stationed in Syria itself. The same is likely to happen with Afghanistan.
Trump supporters thought he was "sticking it" to the deep state and military-industrial complex with the troop withdrawal, but it looks like they've been had again. And the opposition who thinks he's betraying American interests and the fight against terrorism and letting Russia and Iran "win", are also wrong.
The move to pull out of Syria is all a business cost-cutting analysis for Trump. Typical transactional business thinking. The price tag on fighting wars has gotten high, and he found a way to keep up the war machine and U.S. imperialism while cutting those costs back.
Trump also said Turkey could be hired to "finish off" terror groups. This is the new subcontracting model, which will likely be applied to Israel and Saudi Arabia as well. Trump just wants to do things on the cheap side, not cut back U.S. military power. He's just dealing his way through like he's done before he was president.
Trump tries to cover the move up in nobility though, as if America is the world's policeman. He just wants the world so start paying for the costs that America has been burdened with. How noble of him to just want to be paid for "protecting" the world:
"The United States cannot continue to be the policeman of the world. It’s not fair when the burden is all on us, the United States... We are spread out all over the world. We are in countries most people haven’t even heard about. Frankly, it’s ridiculous. We’re no longer the suckers, folks."
The mere fact that Trump admits the U.S. military is "Spread all over the world" shows how widespread and deranged the imperialism is. It's not seen as a vice, but a virtue by Trump. If nations want U.S. protection, they're going to have to pay for it it seems, as he outlined the new militarist-imperialist policy:
"America shouldn’t be doing the fighting for every nation on earth, not being reimbursed in many cases at all. If they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price."
Sounds like a protection racket. If you don't pay for protection, will you end up a target of "terrorism" (false flags) that demands your payment for protection? I wonder...
What's even more of a sad joke is if the countries the U.S. invades and occupies will be forced to pay for the bill of invasion.
But the U.S. isn't a guarantor of world peace. It's instigated many conflicts, either directly or indirectly through funding and arming. Like Israel for example, where the U.S. send over $3 billion in military aid each year, paid for by U.S. taxpayers. The American people have been funding the American empire's military dominance for decades. They've just paying to secure corporate capitalism and profits, not world peace or global security.
The new military model Trump is envisioning is a supply and demand one, where the supply of "protection" will be based on the demand of payments for it. Clients like Turkey, ISrael and Saudi Arabia will be buying weapons and propping up the military-industrial complex, as Washington uses occupied bases like those in Iraq to launch rapid reaction forces throughout the Middle East. This is the new future of the military there, as Trump says:
"A lot of people are going to come around to my way of thinking."
Cost cutting deployments for precision attacks and outsourcing/subcontracting operations to clients/allies. This is the new business-solutions warfare brought to you by the capitalist tycoon Donald Trump who will continue to sell the fantasy of "defending freedom and democracy" by perpetuating wars.
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