Did the Kremlin influence Trump’s plan to withdraw from Syria?
NOVANEWS
Jared Szuba
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French President Emmanuel Macron has evidently persuaded Donald Trump to leave U.S. forces in Syria beyond the fight against Islamic State. After their meeting at the White House last Tuesday, President Trump said he would still “love to get out” of Syria, but neither he nor Macron “want to give Iran open season to the Mediterranean.” Aligning once again with his State and Defense Departments, Trump affirmed, “We want to leave a strong and lasting footprint.”
But as of yet there has been no explanation for the president’s abrupt decision to go rogue against his own administration in the first place. Trump’s first public remark that the U.S. would withdraw from Syria after routing ISIS was made alongside Austra...