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- Embed this notice@Moon @meso @lebronjames75 @whiteline But Obama did get us into Syria, that's the whole point. We are occupying parts of Syria even today. Domestic opposition to the military adventures was ignored by the Administration, and it amounted to next to nothing in Congress. We didn't go all-in to Syria because Putin was already there and he stared Obama down.
Remember the jokes that Putin had to be awarded either two Nobel Peace Prizes or a Super Nobel Peace Prize? Because he forced a winner of a regular Nobel Peace Prize to cancel war, giving him an equivalent prize would be unfair.
In the end Obama has set up all the war infrastructure and the outright occupation of the An-Tanf area in Syria, which Trump maintained. It was far enough from Russian bases to avoid a direct war with Russia. But we didn't topple the Assad government that was under Russian protection.