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struggle4progress

(118,224 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 12:37 PM Oct 2019

Russians appear to have moved in

U.S. troops abandoned their Syrian base. Video appears to show Russians have moved in.
By Adam Taylor and Joyce Lee
Oct. 15, 2019 at 11:14 a.m. EDT

As Moscow announced Tuesday that its units were patrolling in northern Syria, a journalist traveling with Russian-backed forces released a video that appeared to show the inside of a now-abandoned U.S. base near the town of Manbij.

“Good morning!” Oleg Blokhin said in a video posted to social media early in the morning. “We are at the U.S. base in Manbij. Only yesterday morning they were still here and today we are here. Let’s have a look at how they lived here, what they did and what it is all about.”

The video, which was independently verified by news organization Storyful, showed multiple tents under camouflage netting and a radio mast that matched previous photographs of the U.S. base. In a separate video filmed half an hour later, Blokhin showed a motorized vehicle gate that contained prominent English writing ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/10/15/video-appears-show-russian-soldiers-abandoned-us-base-syria/

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Russians appear to have moved in (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2019 OP
First, Russia moved into the White House, Eyeball_Kid Oct 2019 #1
And RepubliCONs are complicit. polichick Oct 2019 #2

Eyeball_Kid

(7,429 posts)
1. First, Russia moved into the White House,
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 12:43 PM
Oct 2019

and paid off GOP Senators and Representatives to do their bidding.

THEN, they moved into Syria and scattered the Kurds, making sure that there was plenty of bloodshed to make their point.

Trumpy is just a useful idiot to them. He's giving them the candy store, and they couldn't be happier.

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