>The White House ordered the State Department to put the funds on hold, the report said. According to The Journal, Trump did so after reading a news report saying that the U.S. had recently committed an additional $200 million to early recovery efforts.
>Exiting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pledged the money in February in Kuwait at a meeting of the coalition trying to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS).
>The apparent shift comes as the fight against ISIS has reached an impasse, with the insurgent group controlling just 5 percent of the battered nation but holding fast to it and losing little ground in recent months.
>The Journal said that a sped-up pullback of America from Syria could kick up concerns about yielding control of the combat-scarred country to Iran and Russia.
>In the past month, U.S.-led airstrikes supporting local forces on the ground have diminished. In January, Tillerson laid out a strategy in which the U.S. would remain in Syria for the foreseeable future to prevent an ISIS resurgence and keep Iran's influence in check.
>Now, The Journal said, Trump looks to be questioning that tack. He has said he would like to see regional allies like Saudi Arabia take on more of the burden, and the White House has asked Gulf Arab states to come up with billions of dollars for Syria's recovery.
(((ISIS))) I liked Rex but reading about some of his choices are puzzling. I hope he’s enjoying his retirement, he had an alright run!
Dominic Campbell
I think the bigger person that got fired was Tillerson's secretary or some shit, a Jew
Bentley Cruz
Good. Syria was a shitshow the moment Obama decided no boots on the ground. American and Russian soldiers fucking around in opposite sides of the same desert is just needless WW3 gambling.
Let's all watch as this thread dies because it doesn't support the anti-trump narrative a certain group of people have been trying to push on Jow Forums.
The US can do whatever it wants but asking the Gulf countries to fund anything in Syria is nonsensical. They shouldn't be funding any rebuilding in Syria. Northern Syria, after a US pullout, will probably fall under Turkish control. Assad will keep the Western parts of Syria and many of the major cities (Homs, Damascus, etc...). There's no reason to fund anything there.
Turkey will probably built up Northern Syria. The rest of Syria is going to remain destroyed. It'll cost 100 to 300 billion $ to rebuild the country. Russia won't fund a dollar. Iran is incapable of funding or loaning that much money. China isn't cucked to do so. Europeans want to move the refugees back to Syria, they're cucked enough to pay money to rebuild Syria. But that much money moving to Syria is a signal that they support Iran which the US will not tolerate.
