US and Russian Military Outposts 600 Meters From One Another in Northern Syria
Americans have not withdrawn yet, the Russians (and Syrians) have already moved in
More symbiosis in (for the time-being) Kurdish-held Northern Syria now that Americans have definitely given up on the initial goal of toppling the Assad government with a jihadi battering ram and the consolation goal of partitioning Syria using the leftist Kurdish YPG militia both:
#Manbej #Syria. # Within a 600-meter area in western Manbij, a Russian military base and another American, they are neighbors!!! pic.twitter.com/tBIOADDKxS
— MOHAMMED HASSAN (@MHJournalist) January 13, 2019
Actually the outpost in which the Russians are located is shared between the SDF (the Manbij Military Council), the Syrian army, and the Russian forces:
#Manbej #Syria
A joint military base between the Russian military police, the Syrian army and the forces of the Manbej military council in the town of Al-Arima, 18 km west of Manbej pic.twitter.com/SZ7z0oczqk— MOHAMMED HASSAN (@MHJournalist) January 13, 2019
Yet the US establishment and the Pentagon would pretend Syria is an enemy and Russia a threat. Nonsense.
The presence of Russia is understandable. It’s a 24Hr drive by car from Damascus to the Russian border. So Russia is in the neighbourhood and culturally linked to Syria. What’s America’s excuse?