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Repeat after me "The US is not withdrawing troops from Syria"Say it again. Let it sink in. "The US is not withdrawing troops from Syria" Accept that reality.  Multiple bases. One more then 500 acres in size. Airstrips galore.Free passage between Syria and Iraq for years "The US is not withdrawing troops from Syria" Embrace the facts.

How many times has the concept of rebranding been discussed here? More times then I can even recall. If you are at all unfamiliar with the concept of rebranding..

 Late but still very relevant to Thursday's post and the remake the region agendaReuters UK:  Ayn Issa Nahiyah is in the Tel Abyad district, Raqqa.

The move is not a shocker. The location is not a shocker either.Turkey has been clear that they will clear the PKK/YPG away from their border...The location has long been problematic. For Syria and Turkey.A route for the PKK to pass through from Iraq into Syria. Created by the US under the guise of "fighting ISIS" More then three years have passed since it was explained here what was really occurring in Sinjar, to the best of my understanding. 

   After reading Gallier's comments from the previous post, I became intrigued with this latest "terror" incident. It's so well packaged. Marketable. Terror. Christmas. What's with the repeated occurrence of Christmas attacks? Who hates Christ-mas that much?Certainly not the retailers..

Continuing on with the Yellow Vests protests. Do read the first part- All this information needs to be taken in together for the simple reason it provides better understanding that way.

Readers here were made aware in the post from: Tuesday, December 4, 2018- Indicator 6: "Syria’s Assad Has Gassed His Own People, Again" Bloomberg that the US was going to make this accusation.

 I alluded to this fact in a post from a couple of days ago. This is something I’ve wanted to write about for nearly two weeks now, but, haven’t been able to get to.  Well today is the day.There have been recent indicators that the US is prepping an escalation in Syria which will spread into the wider region. As intended.

M. K. Bhadrakumar's piece feels like a necessary companion to the Fisk article & additional analysis. Please, read them together.

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