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Donald Trump wants to withdraw the US troops from northern Syria, as per an ally, the media reports said.
US President-elect Donald Trump (AP File Image)
US President-elect Donald Trump intends to withdraw its troops from northern Syria instead of leaving them as “cannon fodder” if armed confrontation takes place between Turkey and Kurdish militants, his ally Robert F Kennedy Jr said, as per a report by Iranian news network PressTV.
Kennedy, in a live broadcast, detailed his conversation with Trump during a plane journey that the upcoming President had expressed his plans for northern Syria.
What did Trump tell Kennedy about Syria withdrawal?
“We were talking about the Middle East, and he took a piece of paper and drew on it a map of the Middle East with all the nations on it, which most Americans couldn’t do. He was particularly looking at the border between Syria and Turkey, and he said, ‘We have 500 men on the border of Syria and Turkey and a little encampment that was bombed,’” PressTV quoted Kennedy as saying in the broadcast.
Trump had cited the number of US troops (750,000) and militants (250,000) in Turkey and Syria respectively and said that if they go up against each other, “we’re in the middle”, the Republican leader had told him, according to Kennedy.
The “generals” had told Trump that the US troops would end up being a “cannon fodder” if fighting between Turkey and the Kurdish forces started. “And he said, ‘Get them out!'” Kennedy said, according to PressTV.
US troops in Syria
The US military for long has stationed its forces and equipment in northeastern Syria. The Pentagon has claimed that the deployment of troops is to prevent the oilfields in the region from being captured by Daesh terrorists.
Syria has time and again expressed that the US troops are there to plunder the natural resources of the country. Donald Trump too has admitted on various occasions that the US forces were stationed in the Arab country for its oil wealth.
Turkey, too, has deployed its forces in Syria, violating the Arab nation’s territorial integrity.
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