GOP Leaders Lose It in Public as World Rebukes Trump
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How did Trump’s proposed “peace board” with Putin and Lukashenko ignite international backlash?
Republican leaders are in freak-out mode right now over Donald Trump's disastrous foreign policy, I don't even want to call them blunders, massive catastrophes, as Donald Trump has announced that he's doing a board of peace, he's calling it, and the first people he invited were Belarus and Russia, Putin and Lukashenko. All these other nations right now are saying, we ain't joining a peace board with Putin and Lukashenko. And Trump's like, but you got to give me a billion dollars and I'll put it in a Qatari bank account. Republican leaders themselves are freaking out. And it's not even just about that or Donald Trump threatening to invade Greenland or Donald Trump destroying NATO. Just look at what's happening in Syria right now as the forces of the current government, which is run by a former ISIS leader, al-Jalani, who now goes by the name al-Sharaa,
That's the guy who Donald Trump sprayed the cologne on and started sniffing him in the Oval Office. They have basically destroyed the Kurdish forces in the north of Syria. And those Kurdish forces, specifically the kind of Kurdish democratic forces, Syrian democratic forces, they were the ones who helped defeat ISIS in that region. Remember all those powerful women fighters the female fighters that joined with the kurdish fighters a multi-ethnic coalition well now the syrian government right now that's led by the former isis guy who was fighting against uh them and they were fighting against isis back in 2015 2016 they've now basically taken over the syrian democratic forces and you've got people like lindsey graham posting the following let me show you what lindsey's posting that i'm going to talk about what maga mike is saying
And by the way, it's still Martin Luther King Day. Donald Trump has not made a single post about MLK. Instead, Donald Trump's talking about arresting Don Lemon. And he's saying we got to arrest Don Lemon now because Don Lemon was reporting inside of a church when there was a protest against the leader of the church there who was an ICE officer. Let's take a look at what Lindsey Graham posted moments ago. Lindsey Graham posts, If the Syrian government forces continue to advance in the north toward Raqqa, I will push for reimposing the Caesar Act sanctions on steroids. Apparently, no one in Syria is listening to me or other U.S. government officials. If this continues, not only will there be bone-crushing sanctions—
It will permanently damage the relationship between the US and the new Syrian government. If you think we're BSing, keep it up. I've tried to be fair to the new government, but apparently it's falling on deaf ears. If you want a conflict with the US Senate, to do permanent damage to the U.S.-Syrian relationship, keep going. If you want to salvage the relationship, stop and turn around. I hope you choose wisely.
Why are Republican leaders publicly panicking over Trump’s foreign policy moves?
As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski writes, I thought Trump said the Syrian government was our friend now. He invited their president to the Oval Office and praised him effusively, gave him a bottle of Trump cologne, even sprayed some on him to give him a sample. Right. And so apparently the senator from Tel Aviv apparently doesn't agree. Just to remind you what's going on right now. Syrian government troops are tearing down the women's protection units, the YPJ statue in northeast of Syria. This is basically the end of the autonomous Kurdish led region in Syria, as Joshua Landis writes, which has existed for a decade. because the U.S. basically withdrew its support from the SDF and the Kurds who fought alongside the U.S.
in order to stop ISIS. What a betrayal. As Pelley Dragstead writes, Donald Trump is disgracefully abandoning our Kurdish allies in Syria in favor of the new Islamist regime in Damascus. The Kurds fought alongside us against ISIS and lost thousands of lives for our shared cause. The Kurdish regions of Rojava,
What’s happening in Syria and how did Trump’s actions affect the Kurdish allies?
have stood as examples of democracy and equal rights in the Middle East. This is a shameful betrayal by Trump. Just put all of Trump's other conduct together, whether it's propping up Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela, authoritarian leader there, so that Trump can take oil money from Venezuela,
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How did Trump’s proposed “peace board” with Putin and Lukashenko ignite international backlash?
0:00–2:56
2
Why are Republican leaders publicly panicking over Trump’s foreign policy moves?
2:56–3:59
3
What’s happening in Syria and how did Trump’s actions affect the Kurdish allies?
3:59–9:26
4
How did Senator Lindsey Graham and other Republicans react to Syrian government advances?
9:26–13:52
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