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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"We are executing emergency "break glass" evac procedure reserved for an extreme worstcase scenario"
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Brett McGurk ✔ @brett_mcgurk
Trump has no idea whats happening. US personnel have been scrambling to evacuate positions surrounded by hostile Turkish-backed opposition forces. They are evacuating under duress and then bombing positions so nobody can seize them.Dave Brown ✔ @dave_brown24
"I view the situation on the Turkish border with Syria to be, for the United States, strategically brilliant. Our soldiers are out of there. Our soldiers are totally safe"
Brett McGurk ✔ @brett_mcgurk
Recall earlier last week, US officials were downplaying Trumps disastrous order as only involving <50 people on the border for a limited Turkish incursion. Ten days later we are executing emergency break glass evacuation procedure reserved for an extreme worst-case scenario.
1:43 PM - Oct 16, 2019
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"We are executing emergency "break glass" evac procedure reserved for an extreme worstcase scenario" (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Oct 2019
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Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)1. Kick - this is happening in real time.
Basically confirmed by Richard Engel earlier on live TV.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)2. BROKEN ARROW !!
Nevermypresident
(781 posts)3. K & R
mahina
(17,614 posts)4. Oh my God.
Please end this nightmare. We have a lunatic at the helm.
tblue37
(65,216 posts)5. Deja vu:
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)6. Exactly. That, too, was a "break glass" evacuation...