Iraq will not be just a 'spectator' in Syria, prime minister says

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By Reuters
December 3, 202410:50 AM EST

ANKARA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Iraq will not act as a mere spectator in Syria where it believes groups and sects are victims of ethnic cleansing, Iraq's prime minister said on Tuesday, according to a readout from his office of a phone call to Turkey's president.

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, who discussed the situation in Syria with Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan, said Iraq would exert all efforts to preserve the security of Iraq and Syria, according to the official readout of the call.

“What is happening in Syria today is in the interest of the Zionist entity [Israel], which deliberately bombed Syrian army sites in a way that paved the way for terrorist groups to control additional areas in Syria," the Iraqi prime minister's office quoted Sudani as saying.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iraq-will-not-be-just-spectator-syria-prime-minister-says-2024-12-03/

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1. The same way the USSR declared war on Japan a few weeks before WWII was over.

[bronxiteforever]

3. We still have 2,400 troops in Iraq

and with the incoming group of incompetents to run them, I do worry about their safety.

[marble falls]

5. We have troops in Syria. Where we've drubbed Russian troops thoroughy.

[bronxiteforever]

6. Good points. We have 900 troops in Syria.

Here is a quote from most recent Pentagon briefing on Dec. 2, 2024:

MAJ. GEN. RYDER: Hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving holiday, and I've noticed that this podium is getting smaller. Excellent. So just a few things at the top and then we'll jump right to your questions. First, the Department of Defense is closely monitoring developments in Syria. To echo the statement put out by the NSC over the weekend, let me be clear that the US is in no way involved in the operations you see playing out in and around Aleppo in northwestern Syria, which as you know, are being led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the designated terrorist organization.

In light of the significant potential for harm to civilians and minority groups in the region, the United States, along with other allies and partners, is urging de-escalation. Separately, we remain fully prepared to defend and protect our personnel and assets deployed to the region to include our forces deployed to Syria that are singularly focused on the enduring defeat of ISIS and which remain essential to ensuring that ISIS can never again resurge in Syria.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3982254/pentagon-press-secretary-maj-gen-pat-ryder-holds-an-off-camera-on-the-record-pr/#:~:text=As%20you%20know%2C%20we've,ve%20been%20for%20a%20while.

I don’t believe TFG will allow US troops to engage with Russian troops.

[dutch777]

2. Iraq can barely control its own territory not sure it has much leverage in Syria. More destabilization is not good.

The Middle East is not the place you want to unravel things and see what comes of it. Bad is usually replaced by worse, at least for the people living there. I was talking with my niece yesterday who is enamored of Costa Rica but was sad to learn the narco terrorists are starting to work there too. And in Ecuador. Mexicanization is the new word termed. Increasingly we are looking at a world of failed nation states coopted by mafia like organizations where the governments are really not really in control and safety is illusory. My wife and I had looked at living in Malta as an alternate to the US only to find out the mafia there is the real power player. Have no hope that Trump will be a good influence on any of this.

[bronxiteforever]

4. Great insights dutch777.

The wife and I can’t go anywhere but the USA. We also live close to grandkids. I hope we can hold the Republic awhile longer.

Trump is going into a post WW2 international order that is falling apart (or has already fallen apart). That is a bad scenario for a narcissist entering his dotage.