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More journalists are murdered in Mexico every year than in any other country in the world. This 2022 film should appeal to anyone who enjoys epic historical war movies like "Gladiator" or "Braveheart." The fact that no one in charge seems to worry about where this could go should concern you quite a bit, but nuclear war is not the only risk. Russia hopes to use the instability "to compel senior SDF leadership to accept a new deal in Syria that constrains U.S. forces or ejects them," Kahan wrote. BioCAS 2015 will comprise an excellent combination of invited talks and tutorials from pioneers in the field as well as peer-reviewed special and regular sessions plus live demonstrations. Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime eventually retook most of Syria's major cities through years of brutal siege warfare. Tens of thousands, women have been raped by militiamen, many of them intentionally infected with AIDS. Indeed, it has been. Trump repeatedly claimed that their mission was to "take the oil" or guard the "oil region.". How many people have died in the war in Ethiopia? Could it be a pyrrhic victory? He shouldn't be giving our tax dollars to that country anyway. Privacy Policy | Kazianis is a foreign policy analyst in Washington. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan got Trump on the phone to complain about it in December 2018. In August 2020, an Iranian-backed militia fired rockets at a U.S.-controlled oil field in Syria. A U.S. diplomat tried to convince SDF leader Mazloum Abdi to hold off on asking Russia to step in. Instead, Twitter and Facebook are proudly censoring any information that might "undermine trust in Ukrainian government." Syrian Democratic Forces. The Biden administration may not change other aspects of the strategy, either. It remains unknown what exactly the two leaders said, but the White House announced immediately afterward that "Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria.". They would be pretty clear: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela. "We can do a lot of damage with cruise missiles."). No one who farms has ever seen anything like this. The series follows the fictional 186th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and because it was originally on The CW, viewers shouldn't be surprised that it emphasizes soapy interpersonal drama over action-filled missions. The United States opened a line of communication with the Syrian Kurds through intermediaries in Iraqi Kurdistan, and the YPG began helping direct U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State. It's not the only war in recent memory or even currently in progress right now. The Biden administration just inserted itself with force into the middle of a hot war between two foreign powers. It could be wise to believe him. Fortunately, this hero got his medal -- just 58 years late. "That's kind of where I'm at with Syria right now.". Via ABC News: President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Honor to a Black Army Special Forces hero from the Vietnam War who has waited close to 60 years to receive the nation's top award for valor after the Army said the paperwork couldn't be found. They want a replay of the end of the Cold War , she said Tuesday on New Here's the president of the August Council on Foreign Relations on the day of the invasion. U.S. diplomats could push for this new government to take over Syria's seat at the United Nations while U.S. forces stay to carry out a "stabilization" mission and "keep the Iranians and the regime and the Russians out." Permanent Washington understood that the second Vladimir Putin's forces rolled across the border into Ukraine we would inevitably be on a course toward war with Russia. The Russians don't want American missiles on their border. Religious fundamentalists became especially powerful in Eastern Syria, where U.S. military intelligence warned in August 2012 that Al Qaeda in Syria was going to "declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria," according to a declassified report. "It was the boomerang of the success of the CIA program. The Kurds have been left in a deadly limbo, unable to count on U.S. protection from Turkey but also blocked from looking to outside powers for help. "Rather than Bashar capitulating," Stein explains, "he said, 'I'm going to the Russians and the Iranians'" for help. For threatening to withhold military aid to President Zelenskyy of Ukraine. It spent $500 million on a program to train and equip a new army of pro-America, anti-Assad fighters. That turned out to be untrue as well. You want to live in a country where wisdom and restraint and rational behavior and decency determine the outcomes, not screaming. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! Netflix has a massive catalog of movies and shows, and sometimes it's hard to find exactly what you want to watch. It's a remarkable exchange. This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Ahed Al Hendi, a Syrian-American activist who works with the SDF, called Pompeo's announcement premature. But its location is important. I don't know what's going on to be honest, brother. So, the invasion was no surprise to the Biden administration. It's why the tech companies have censored so many news sites recently, including from Russia, but not exclusively from Russia. But direct U.S. involvement in Syrian internal politics began with the Arab Spring. This is a moral victory so feel good about it as you go bankrupt. And both likely understand that 2022 is the year they must act. Sympathize with one side over the other. In particular, they say, U.S.-made anti-tank rockets played a key role in helping the rebels push back the Syrian military. That seemed to be true. Russia and Iran did not tie the clashes directly to the oil deal, but the message was clear: A more entrenched U.S. presence in Syria would meet harder resistance. James Kennedy and Leviss first met at a New Years Eve party in 2016. It's a great idea, telling the individual stories of Medal of Honor recipients in a compact form. At some point soon, we'll explain exactly what's going on here, but it's enough to know Republicans are not representing their voters when they move to a position that's way more warlike than Joe Biden's, when they embrace the lunacy that could really hurt this country, that aren't representing people like Bryce Mitchell. He got his wish and more during an October 6, 2019, call with Trump, when the U.S. president gave him a green light to invade Syria outright. Chris Pine stars as the King Robert the Bruce in a movie about the 14th-century Scottish Wars of Independence. The show's tempo is relentless, and there's plenty for fans of tactical action to enjoy over the 48 episodes (so far) of "Fauda.". The series is both a war documentary and a history of the movies. The results were disastrous. 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The death of someone in Ukraine is exactly equivalent to the death of someone in Yemen in its importance, period. The rebels had been offered $1,500 per month each to fight for Azerbaijan against Armenia in the two countries' border war over that disputed territory, several different news outlets reported.. Ukraine's fight is our fight. On one hand, unemployment is at near historic lows, job growth is strong, and consumer spending robust. So did Secretary of Defense James Mattis. On behalf of the BioCAS 2015 Organizing Committee, This site is created, maintained, and managed by Conference Catalysts, LLC. The United States began backing Syrian rebels because many in the Obama administration believed that they could help quickly bring down an oppressive tyrant. Several local leaders have already died in mysterious shootings. American forces would stay in the short term to help implement the plan. The 31-year-old is a DJ, music producer, and reality personality. I thought you were gonna ask for my okay to name your daughter Karine. Like a lot of people in his business, he regularly participates in government-sponsored war games. So, for example, a ton of Urea fertilizer that cost American farmers $265 per ton last January now goes for $846 this year. Abed Hamed al-Mehbash, the Arab co-chairman of the SDF's civilian administration, told local media only that he planned to "study requests by many Russian and American companies. President of the Continental Congress in American Revolutionary War: John Hancock; Henry Laurens; John Jay; Samuel Huntington; Thomas McKean; John Hanson; This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Copyright 2023 Military.com. A couple of years ago, you may remember, we'd forgotten, they impeached a sitting president. Syrians have faced massive inflation, fuel shortages, and breadlines over the past few months, in addition to a spiralling coronavirus crisis. Don't ask. It had just happened. Good for us, but once we stop celebrating our win, the destruction of the Russian economy, they deserve it, you got to wonder, is there a downside to this? Gasoline is now higher than it's ever been in the history of gasoline. Saudi-led coalition: So you got [Joe] Biden and his son using our tax dollars. Ironically, U.S. diplomats had predicted confidently in November 2007 that the Syrian Kurds would "not rally around the extremist tendencies of the PKK," according to a cable later published by WikiLeaks. Putin has said that if he is pushed, he will use nuclear weapons. Kherson was the first large city and only regional capital Russian troops were able to occupy since the start of the invasion. That was the rule for centuries in this country. It no longer is because truth is no longer the point. March 11, 2021 Ryan Morgan Last fall, the U.S. Air Force played out a war scenario with China, in which China begins its attack by deploying a biological weapon throughout the Indo-Pacific region. You would think so, but that's not what anyone in Washington wanted. Who is benefiting? Via ABC News: President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Honor to a Black Army Special Forces hero from the Vietnam War who has waited close to 60 years to receive the nation's top award for valor after the Army said the paperwork couldn't be found. Margaritaville at Sea is a 1,680-passenger cruise ship that first started sailing early this year. Syrian dictator Bashar Assad cracked down with brute force. ISF efforts (closely supported by CJTF) arrested that resurgence in late 2020 and 2021, but incidents like the Jan. 20, 2022, ISIS prison break at Ghweran, Syria, and the Jan. 21, 2022, massacre of 11 Iraqi Army soldiers in Diyala, Iraq should serve as a warning against complacency. "He never set up a bureaucratic process to actually implement what he wants to do.". All kidding aside, this is one of the better entries in the Nazi documentary genre. Joelle Goldstein. Assad's forces lost control of much of the country in this time. Who cares? Why? "Medal of Honor" should've been a long-running series for Netflix, but the streaming service only made one season with eight episodes released in 2018. Now the Biden people seem to have no idea this is going on, or maybe they want it to happen. These policies have driven Russia, China, India, Turkey and other countries to accelerate their flight from the U.S. dollar. If you don't watch shows with subtitles, you've been missing "Fauda," an Israeli series that focuses on the leader of the Israel Defense Forces' counterterrorism unit. It's not an extreme position. Most of these men put themselves in harm's way in an attempt to give a true picture of the struggles that American military personnel faced both in the Pacific and the European theater of war. It went on to be nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and winning Best Cinematography for Vittorio Storaro. Your presence has turned everyone else in Syria against us," Abdi responded, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable leaked to CNN. And the companies love it, the woke companies, Apple, MasterCard, lots of other American companies, are taking victory laps for their role in punishing Russia. As in other Arab countries at the time, Syrian activists rose up in protest against corruption and political repression. Please feel free to, Talk Title:"Microengineered tissues for regenerative medicine and organs-on-a-chip applications", IEEE CAS Charles Desoer Life Science Systems Student Attendance Grant, Assistive, Rehabilitation, and Quality of Life Technologies, Bio-inspired and Neuromorphic Circuits and Systems, Biofeedback, Electrical Stimulation, and Closed-Loop Systems, Biomedical Imaging Technologies & Image Processing, Innovative Circuits for Medical Applications, Medical Information Systems and Bioinformatics, Wireless and Energy Harvesting/Scavenging Technology. The hawks began to work on an agreement called the "safe zone," a project to let everyone have a cake and eat it, too. By the way, over the weekend, because everything in America is unintentionally hilarious now, the New York Times attacked Vladimir Putin for censorship. In other words, we should let Ukraine join NATO. It was meant to make you want war with Russia. We do know that hundreds of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the war in Yemen. For a list of wars that have been fought on the United Kingdom Cookie Duration Description; cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics: 11 months: This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The series got a rough start back in 2016 when its premiere on the USA Network was delayed after the Dallas police shootings. We got veterans out here sleeping on the street and you're going to give our frickin tax dollars to these Ukrainians and brother, I don't know what's going on over there, but I'm not going over there and fighting. During a January 3rd briefing, Jean-Pierre made a playful suggestion that the baby should be named Karine, and Doocy responded by saying that he would consider it. At the same time, Syria's long-oppressed Kurdish minority was starting to take up arms. That means the United States is now an active participant in a war. Instead of allowing the Kurds to consolidate their gains and negotiate with Assad, the U.S. tried to use them as proxies against Assad and to make a quick buck from their oil. It's just Yemen. So the whole thing was not a news story, though you read it as such. Matthew Petti The era of America the superpower is being tested in new ways across the globe. Lets start with some good news. Photo: Trae Patton/NBC. Churchill got a lot of blowback from his cabinet and the opposition when he refused to make a peace deal with Adolf Hitler, and the movie effectively dramatizes that crisis. | I look forward to welcoming you to enjoy the conference in Atlanta. All rights reserved. The series includes profiles of World War II heroes Sylvester Antolak (played by Joseph Cross, "Devotion"), Edward A. Carter Jr. (Aldis Hodge, "Black Adam") and Vito R. Bertoldo (Ben Schwartz, "Space Force"). It's Russia. Turkish forces were only going to move 30 kilometers into Syria and the invasion would stop after that, he claimed. Yesterday morning, Joe Biden's secretary of state, a man called Tony Blinken, went on to the Sunday show over at CBS News to announce new policy toward Russia. Tucker Carlson: Russia-Ukraine war is causing moral panic. Think of it as a basic-cable version of shows like "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan," "Reacher" or "The Terminal List.". The United States is ratcheting up national security concerns about TikTok, mandating that all federal employees delete the Chinese-owned Stew Smith and Jeff Nichols discuss mental toughness. That means recession, depression, uncontrollable inflation and the resteconomic devastation to us and our allies. You've just seen a handful of woke corporations crash a country and impoverished its citizens indiscriminately. Miss Ukraine with a rifle defending her homeland. At the same time, the U.S. military was trying to work with other Syrian rebel groups. If we saw this tape at the time, we don't remember seeing it - back in 2016, Ukraine seemed like a faraway place. It's a war the Biden administration has continued to fund. "Dead Russian soldiers." Sound familiar? Henry Cavill ("Superman") is the big name in the cast, but he's joined by a group of younger actors who were about to become famous. The explosions that took place on September 26, 2022, stopped the flow of Russian gas, and left hundreds of millions of Europeans facing the prospects of a cold winter. The president himself said he wanted to end "endless wars" and claimed he was ready to pull U.S. forces out of Syria at the first opportunity. This list can help you cut through the war movie noise and get to the good stuff. But pressure was building on Obama to act, especially as the Islamic State executed journalists on tape and began a genocide against the Yazidi minority in neighboring Iraq. The long term picture of war with Russia is even scarier than that. We didn't get it at the time. Trump may have criticized America's interventions abroad during the 2016 election, but his administration picked up almost exactly where Obama had left off. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. United StatesUnited KingdomAustraliaPolandIraqi Kurdistan During a January 3rd briefing, Jean-Pierre made a playful suggestion that the baby should be named Karine, and Doocy responded by saying that he would consider it. Why is no one in Washington saying anything about this? That changed America completely. One billion. Many countries have sent military supplies and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, but have not yet sent troops to assist in But in fact, both the PKK's "libertarian socialist" ideology and actual PKK veterans held enormous influence over the Syrian Kurdish rebellion. That's the short term picture. Here's what he said: REPORTER: Well, I just wanted to get your thoughts on the whole Russia and Ukraine situation. 1, p. 95, List of armed conflicts involving the United States, Insular Government of the Philippine Islands, recognised as the sole leaders of the Mexican government by the United States, United States occupation of the Dominican Republic, First U.S. ", Delta Crescent Energy partner James Cain toldPoliticothat the company's goal was "to get the production back up to where it was before the civil war and sanctions." "Sand Castle" follows a group of Army Reserve civil affairs soldiers at the start of the Gulf War in 2003. It's n progress as we speak. We know that Putin has thousands of nuclear weapons. It is not called the Department of Nation Building or the Bureau of Trans Evangelism. Market data provided by Factset. The first one began in May of 2020 with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. I really don't. Maybe you do support it, but let's not lie about what's happening. You don't want to live in a country in which moral panics break out regularly, by the way. "The Woman King" is based on the true story of the Agojie, an all-female group of warriors who liberated women sold into slavery in the African country of Dahomey in 1823. On what grounds is it our fight? | It wasn't. The Trump administration was willing to allow Turkey to invade northern Syria. "We would hear, 'I have 5,000 men'and it turned out there would be like 20," said former Middle East envoy Brett McGurk during a October 2019 speech at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. All rights reserved. According to statistics from the New America Foundation, 2021 saw zero deaths in the United States from right-wing terrorist attacks. SDF fighters found themselves at the gates of Raqqa, the Islamic State's de facto capital, by October 2016. al-Qaeda On Thursday, we told you that Russian forces had bombed a nuclear reactor in Ukraine. As part of that effort, U.S. military leaders and Bolton pushed to count U.S. forces at Al-Tanf, a remote desert base far from the SDF-controlled zone, separately from the rest of the U.S. deployment to Syria. Photos of her on Instagram in fatigues, rifle in hand. Turkey and the United States finally agreed to a deal in August 2019, and the SDF coalition dismantled its fortifications along the border with Turkey. Now it's obvious. As Rayburn explained at a June 2020 event hosted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Trump officials think they can use sanctions to "deny the [Assad] regime access to international financial markets until a political solution can be reached." "I think we are trying to do something with tools that will not deliver the results we want," he says. CJTF-OIR Members:AustraliaNew ZealandCanadaBelgiumDenmarkFranceGermanyItalyNetherlandsRomaniaUnited KingdomLebanonMoroccoJordanSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesQatarBahrain Supported by: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Khorasan Province. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. They were led by a left-wing guerrilla group called the People's Defense Units (YPG). But Ford wants America to focus on the "only really useful things we can do" at this point: to help refugees fleeing the civil war and to "negotiate with the Russians some kind of deal" that would allow the Kurds to govern themselves in peace. Trump's pullout of Americans from Syria following his deal with Erdoan was short-lived. McGurk supported brokering a peace deal between the Syrian Kurds and the Russians, but he met opposition from the new faction of Iran hawks in the administration. Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Pea and Marine veteran Rob Riggle star in one of the best movies about our 21st-century military conflicts.