Germany Rejects US Request to Pull Its Chestnuts From Syria Fire as Soon as It Is Made

Berlin says US idea of German troops in Syria is a pie in the sky

Editor’s note: Foolish of Trump to ever think this could go through, and doubly foolish to make the request public. Now he just has egg on his face.

At most Berlin was thinking of offering some kind of air patrol — which is extremely troubling in the sense that Berlin is willing to thread on Syria’s sovereignty as part of horse-trading with Trump to lessen the chance of a trade war — but ground troops were always a non-starter.

Germany did not send ground troops when ISIS was actually still around, why would they send them now, when the only job left is to keep Damascus from its land and Erdogan from crushing the Kurds? Germany also has millions of Turks and hundreds of thousands of Kurds, and also needs Erdogan to keep the 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey. Germany risks far more from a fallout with Turkey than does the US.


Germany has rejected a US request for German ground troops to move into Syria.

German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert said on Monday that Germany would not increase its military presence in the country.

On Friday, the US had called for Germany to send ground troops into Syria.

“When I say that the government intends to continue with its ongoing measures in the framework of the anti-IS coalition, then that means no ground troops,” Seibert said.

‘Significant military contribution’

The German military currently provides reconnaissance jets, a refueling aircraft and other non-combat military assistance in the fight against IS.

Germany has “for years been making a significant and internationally acknowledged contribution” to fighting Islamic State, Seibert said.

The US has called for European countries, including the UK, France and Germany, to pledge more support to the fight against Islamic State.

Increased German presence

The US special representative for Syria and the anti-Islamic State coalition, James Jeffrey, had told the German news agency dpa and newspaper Die Welt that he wanted “Germany to provide ground troops, partly to replace US soldiers.”

He said on Sunday he hoped the Bundeswehr would support the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) by providing technical assistance and other expertise to them. The SDF are based in the north of the country and now face mounting pressure from Turkey.

During a visit to Iraq in June, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Germany would be ready to extend the mission beyond October, when it is due to expire. But it is the German parliament that will have to approve any extension of the mission beyond October 31.

While CDU party leader and possible Angela Merkel successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is prepared to negotiate Germany’s contribution in Syria, many MPs in the SPD, which is part of the government, are against extending the mission.

The Greens and the Left party also reject any extension to the mandate, including the deployment of ground troops to Syria.

Roderich Kiesewetter, a CDU lawmaker in the foreign affairs parliamentary committee, echoed Kramp-Karrenbauer’s view. He told DW that parliament would have a thorough debate and that there was “no reason to either reject or euphorically welcome” an extended Syria mission.

Source: Deutsche Welle

6 Comments
  1. CHUCKMAN says

    Merkel has so often been a disappointment, but every once in a while she does something that strikes a surprising blow for German independence from The Empire.

    1. DarkEyes says

      Reminder, Chuckman, Germany has no independence from The Empire.
      Not since 1945.

  2. JustPassingThrough says

    German Air Force Only Has Four Combat-Ready Jets In Case Of Emergency

    According to Spiegel, only four of the Luftwaffe’s state-of-the-art Eurofighter jets are currently in good enough shape to be called on in the event of an invasion of German airspace, leaving the German armed forces to once again have to fight off allegations that their forces are not fit for combat.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-03/german-air-force-only-has-four-combat-ready-jets-case-emergency

  3. DarkEyes says

    What is running around in stolen Syria-land are all US/UK/Israhell/NATO mercenaries.
    Deep State needs these mercenaries somewhere else to be deployed, like in Libya/Oil.
    And of course their hands free to plan and invade Iran, the Pompy-Boltoni warplan.

    Poor mercenaries.

  4. John C Carleton says

    Occupied by zionist Germans are getting uppity!

    Maybe they need a False Flag Mass Shooting by a “lone Arab Terrorist Gunmen”!

    1. DarkEyes says

      Posible. They have already a couple of thousand lone Arab terrorist gunmen in their country as a lasting present from their PM Mother Merkel.

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