US Policy Collapses Into Catastrophe Following Trump’s Whims | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Rachel Maddow reports on the disastrous state of affairs after Trump's rash decision to abandon Kurdish allies to Turkish aggression, sending them into the Russian-backed arms of Syria.
Aired on 10/14/19.
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US Policy Collapses Into Catastrophe Following Trump's Whims | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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    1. @kinn grimm You might wanna double check history and a map. I did time at FOB Speicher in my time as a CET commander and before that as a gunner. Peshmerga fought beside us from Mosul to Kirkuk, to Tikrit.

    2. @Taloquin honestly As a kurd myself I told my dad before Trump and the Americans betrayed us I told him that before the year ends The American are going to abandon us again. This Mark’s the 8th time US has done this so I wasn’t so surprised myself. I’m not sure you know but until today not a single American solide has been killed on lands controlled by Kurds in all 4 part but go ahead and see how many Americans killed in Turkey. Unfortunately for Kurds it was either genocide/ ethnic cleansing or to give up our freedom and side with Assad.

  1. *Yet another* ‘beyond-shameful sidenote’ for #45 that the civilised world’s historians *are* duly notating with wry sorrow.
    #45 – *So* very embarrassing for America…and *beyond feckless* to our allies. 😒

    1. Ronnie Bradley IF he existed? Hmmm the Romans talked about him and is in writing, Islam talked about him in writing. You also know what Jesus and the Republicans have in common? BOTH BETRAYED, Jesus by the jewish leaders and Republicans by the Dems.

  2. The release of these prisoners will lead to them fleeing to other countries, and bringing their mess to your own soil. Well done Trump!!!!!

    1. And, now so many Americans don’t trust intelligence agencies or the media, the risk of something going seriously wrong has magnified.

    2. Erdogan is threatening to send three million Syrian refugees to Europe: so ISIS members will have plenty of fellow travellers to hide among.

    1. the trump is a traitor
      not only to this nation
      but to all the peoples of the earth
      we should have hung him after Helsinki

    1. Richard Darlington I got the same reaction. But if you recall, They got those nukes before The president dictator president was elected. And Turkey is a part of NATO. Trump played right into Putin’s hands. As always. This is insane.

    1. Turkey doesn’t like journalists either.
      There are over 150 journalists jailed in Turkey for just doing their job.

    2. In his little brain . . . deep inside it . . . probably so Ericlrl. I so wish he’d defect to Russia and take his immigrant wife with him.

    3. @ASeasonedWitch I have no beef against his wife. 90% of Americans are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. I think she’s victim (of sorts) in all this as well.

  3. Whether or not trump understands the concept of disaster dominoes, he has successfully initiated a sequence of them.

    1. bull moose What Political Opponent was jailed? Now is an investigation going on with Biden’s corruption/ YEP. Maybe watch the video in 08 where Bidens son was put on the Board of a Major Credit card company and Biden as a Senator was fighting on the FLOOR for tthat company.

    2. @bull moose no ISIS because what America and Israel doen with them soon they be returned to there for the punishment of government
      What they made be back to them
      Kurdish fight together after America betrayed them
      So ISIS same

    3. Mariyo G What? GOOGLE TRANSLATE if you have trouble writing English. BIDEN is a crook, Proof has been shown.

    1. I agree with Rex Tillerson. Trump is a moron. His inability to read foreign leaders on full display. Sanctions don’t help decapitated people.

  4. Putin told him to leave Syria in the meeting at Helsinki. If you research it you will find Trump said we would be leaving Syria right after this meeting and was met with bewilderment and anger at the time only to pull it off during weeks of bad publicity

    1. All those meetings to get his orders from Putin’s playbook. Putin looked at him with such patronizing contempt it took my breath away. Right there, out in the open, our country being sold out.

    1. RhondaH Then if Russia is so evil and has always wanted destruction of Western Civilization why did the Kenyan use a big plastic reset button? Why did he say ” I’ll be more flexible”?

    2. Cat Castaneda So Prison reform helps WHITES more than blacks? A$ap was what color? Jack Johnson was what color? I wonder why Obama didn’t do anything with a fellow black? or prison reform? Hmmmm I wonder why Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson gave a “racist” awards for helping the black community? I wonder why a “racist” dated a black model? I wonder why a “racist” pushed for a white supremist be given the death penalty? Trump is the worst “racist” in history then.

    3. People shouldn’t be under-estimating Trump’s stupidity anymore, they should have learned to approximate it as infinite for most intents and purposes by now.

    4. @Teardown Dan I think it just looks stupid when he doesn’t have good answers for what he does. You can see that things are more convoluted behind the scenes. He is having friends of Russians manufacture dirt on an ambassador so that other Russians can make money in exchange for kickbacks and other manufactured dirt on rivals… Trump simply tells the press, “I don’t know the woman…” He sounds dumb, but he’s just so dirty that he can’t say anything.

    1. Lisa Kennedy well, making Trump president was the intelligence coup of the century. Have to respect Putin for that. Now his biggest problem is to figure out how to prevent death by laughter

  5. Russia-Saudi ties are getting more stronger: President Vladimir Putin is in Riyadh, under the American’s troops protection

  6. So now, our own troops are targets. Turkey didn’t even wait for them to leave before invading and Chump in his “great and unmatched wisdom” has no plan in place to get troops out of harms way.
    Yet, there are still people still trying to assert that Chump is “the best president we’ve ever had”???

    1. @subtle username Trump keeps changing policies because he’s incompetent, and he’s incompetent because he has no prior political experience, but the tRump kissers believe everything the con man says.

    2. Guess what? Russia’s got soldiers in there now, filling the void left by America.
      Golly-who-could-have-ever-pre-dicted-that-russia-was-somehow-involved?
      Its-almost-as-if-what-trump-did-helped-putiiiiin???
      What a surprise, what a surprise.

    1. “I don’t know them, maybe there’s a picture, you’ll have to ask Rudy” is so wonderfully similar to the response chump gave about Cohen. Rudy is probably realizing he’ll get thrown under the bus in no time.

  7. what kind of leader just lets a “friendly” attack his own troops. Whats going to happen if US helicopters start getting shot down when entering what is clearly hostile airspace?

    1. Trump can want hotels in Turkey but can he protect them when you are not a friend to anyone and allies to no one you become highly expendable

    2. @Douglas Miles When you get older, and understand how the world works, come back and say hello. Until then, read a book or something.

    3. @D E Shouldn’t you be making your husband a sandwich right now? Get back to the kitchen where you belong, the political world is not for you honey.

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