ALL-OUT WAR POSSIBLE AS RUSSIAN BACKED SYRIAN FORCES COMING TO THE RESCUE OF THE KURDS

'There is blood on Trump's hands': Retired four-star Marine general says 'the U.S. greenlighted' the unfolding crisis in Syria after ordering American troops to withdraw

Daily Mail
October 14, 2019

A retired four-star Marine general has slammed President Donald Trump saying there is blood on his hands over the unfolding crisis in Syria after he ordered all U.S. troops to withdraw from the northern border area.

General John Allen told CNN on Sunday that the U.S. 'greenlighted' the current situation in Syria and that it was 'completely foreseeable'.

Syria's Kurds said Syrian government forces agreed on Sunday to help them fend off Turkey's invasion - a major shift in alliances that came after Trump ordered all U.S. troops withdrawn from the northern border area amid the rapidly deepening chaos.

Trump has suggested Kurdish fighters are deliberately letting ISIS jihadists out of prison to lure the US back into Syria, despite generals saying the camps are being targeted by Turkey.
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Trump demands immediate CEASEFIRE by Turkey after threatening sanctions on Erdogan who is holding 50 U.S. tactical nuclear weapons hostage - and says Kurds are Assad's problem so anyone including 'Napoleon' is welcome to protect them

Daily Mail
October 14, 2019

Donald Trump said Monday that as U.S. troops withdraw from Syria, he has put the fate of America's former Kurdish allies in the hands of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose regime he called 'our enemy' in the same breath.

And he announced that his administration aims to punish Turkey's incursion into Syria by canceling a $100 billion trade agreement, hiking import tariffs on Turkish steel, and readying economic sanctions against anyone in Erdoğan's government who threatens 'peace, security, or stability' in Syria.

Turkey is a NATO ally. It's also the aggressor whose military incursion both the Syrian army and the Kurds are trying to push back.

And sitting inside the Incirlik air base 250 miles inside Turkey, whose operation the U.S. has shared since the mid-1950s, are about 50 American tactical nuclear weapons.

Trump phoned Recep Tayyip Erdogan and demanded an immediate end to Turkey's invasion of northern Syria, vice president Mike Pence said late Monday afternoon.

Pence said he was being dispatched 'as quickly as possible' to negotiate a ceasefire after Erdogan's forces stormed into northern Syria, bringing claims of executions by their allies and prompting the U.S.'s former Kurdish allies to turn to Bashar al-Assad for help.

Pence said the president is 'very concerned about instability in the region.' But hours earlier Trump washed his hands off the Kurds.

Incirlik is the strategically-vital air base where America has 50 tactical nuclear weapons which a senior official said were effectively Erdoğan's hostages.