No Nuke Left Behind!

[Baitball Blogger]

Betraying the Kurds is exactly the kind of shoot-America-in-the-foot decision that Trump's decision-making process was going to cause. People on the inside saw it coming. Trump has business interests in Turkey and he wanted to give them a quick quid for some private quo down the road.

Now Trump is working on weak excuses to justify his decision and they will only work on his supporters, which is the plan. I can't believe he's using his insular nutcases to be so dismissive of the Kurds. His daughter Laura said that most Americans wouldn't know who the Kurds were without googling them. Really? We're now going to base foreign policy based on a Republican voters' knowledge base of the world?

Well, if he didn't give a damn about a foreign minority group, what about the nukes? I hate to say it, but if you want to prove that Trump made a hasty, bad decision that will have ramifications for the future, it won't be by explaining how the Kurds fought next to us and sacrificed 10,000 lives to help control ISIS. It will be by showing how he forced us to bomb our own base AND THE FACT THAT WE LEFT 50 NUKES BEHIND.

That should sink into the thick skulls of even the most mentally challenged Trump supporter.

[lark]

1. It will be sickening to watch the rw liars contort themselves into making this a good thing.

It's treasonous and shows the lack of depth of planning under impulsive orange traitor tot. If he'd have consulted the Joint Chiefs of Staff, surely someone would have thought of that and we'd have retrieved them. This is pure incompetence and needs to be trumpeted to the moon and back.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. This decision should be a career ender.

He managed to get his supporters to worry about North Korea over nukes, and now he left behind 50 in a country that will have reason to hate us as we try to put this genie back in the bottle.

[sarisataka]

2. We did not leave nukes behind

We never had nukes on Syria

[Baitball Blogger]

3. They're in Turkey, who we now have a very bad, no bueno relationship.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/10/14/with-turkeys-invasion-of-syria-concerns-mount-over-nukes-at-incirlik/

[sarisataka]

5. They are in Turkey same as they have been

For several decades. The USAF 39th ABW is still there securing them, ditto.

Now Turkey could declare war on the US any try to capture the bunkers the weapons are stored in. There is an extremely remote chance they could succeed (there are multiple layers of protection on such weapons) but that does not mean the bombs would be able to be detonated.

Such an act however would trigger a massive response from the US and likely all of NATO.

Despite hyperbole from unnamed government officials, the weapons have not been left behind, nor are they in the hands of the Turks, Russians or ISIS

[Baitball Blogger]

6. We are living down a rabbit hole where no logical explanations have much

chance of alleviating worry.

[sarisataka]

7. Feel free to worry about

US-Turkey relations; it is a cause for concern.

However the base in Syria that we bombed never had nukes nor have any been abandoned in Turkey. Should we decide to leave the base the bombs will leave, either in a C-5 or simply attached to the F-15s that would be flying to another base.