US military said poised to slash troops in Syria;
Israel seeks to limit reduction
16 April 2025
Israel has been kept in the loop about plan that could see US troop presence shrunk from 2,000 to 1,000; Jerusalem fears it will increase Turkey’s ‘appetite’ to control Syria.
(It's kinda been then plan since Erdoğan carved out a place on the Turkish border for them.
"A senior Israeli official told the news site that Jerusalem is working to convince Washington to limit the withdrawal, fearing that the move will increase Turkey’s “appetite” to control Syria — something that Israel opposes."
(Like you are gonna stop Gods plan.)
4/16/25
"Israel is likely concerned that any power vacuum could be problematic, with alarm bells being raised over Turkey’s role in Syria rather than that of Iran."
(Who dat sound like?)
BACKGROUND:
"It’s important to understand the geography here. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces control eastern Syria. Essentially, they control the third of Syria east of the Euphrates River. They ended up on the river during the ISIS war because the last ISIS cells were in an area called Baghuz, where the Syrian Euphrates meets the Iraqi border. The US sent forces to Syria to help the SDF – primarily made up of Kurdish fighters, with some Arab and Christian contingents – fight ISIS."
"Turkey opposes the SDF and views it as part of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK. Ankara has sent forces to fight the SDF. When the US withdrew from a few areas around Sere Kaniye in 2019 near the Turkish border, Ankara bombed the SDF, invaded, and backed Syrian proxies called the Syrian National Army to attack the SDF."
"This put the US in an awkward position of backing the SDF and having the SDF bombed by a member of NATO. In essence, a US ally was bombing a US partner force."
(Overlapping and intertwined security agreements like WWI anybody?)
"US forces are also at al-Tanf in southern Syria near the Iraqi and Jordanian border. The US 10th Mountain Division has personnel at Tanf backing a small Arab force called the Syrian Free Army. Tanf is a strategic asset because it sits near the Iraq-Jordan border, and in the days before the fall of the Assad regime, this area could keep watch on Iranian-backed activity."
(Map is from Dec 2023,
A year before the fall of Damascus,
The Iranian positions are no longer in play
but the rest of it seems to be up to date still
and shows where
al-Tanf is located in the south.)
"From Israel’s point of view, the US role in Syria was helpful because it created an area free from Iran’s nefarious role. However, when the Assad regime fell, the Iranian-backed militias left Syria. Iran’s road to backing Hezbollah via Syria was broken."
"Jerusalem, however, views the new Syrian government with suspicion, and Israel has carried out large numbers of airstrikes in Syria, ostensibly to deny the new government access to former Assad regime military hardware. If the US leaves Syria today or withdraws in stages, the vacuum will be filled by the new Syrian government, which signed a deal with SDF commander Mazloum Abdi on March 10."
"The SDF is supposed to integrate into the new Syrian government’s security forces over the next year. This gives the Syrian government a potential new major US-trained force of some 50,000 men."
(Who else but the US could or would train our allies to be able to go and fight our other allies someday?)
"Most countries in the region oppose Israel’s bombing campaign in Syria, something which Turkey could exploit. The question now is whether the bombing campaign might backfire as the US signals withdrawal."
"The US forces were never the main issue for Israel in Syria. It was the US influence and how it helped to create a counterweight to the influence of anti-Israel actors. The question now is what comes next and how the US will manage its redeployment of forces."
They answered their own question at the beginning:
"Jerusalem fears it will increase Turkey’s ‘appetite’ to control Syria."
Its been the plan all along yo:
Monday, July 29, 2024
"We must be very strong so that Israel can't do these ridiculous things to Palestine. Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we might do similar to them,"
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