Saying there is no longer a threat and ISIS has been defeated Trump pulled troops out of Syria despite his own National Security Advisor and others on the team stating that is not the case......President Putin of course agreed that there was no longer a need for an American presents in the region
Bolton was not the only national security official with egg on his face after the president’s surprising tweets. James Jeffrey, the State Department’s top envoy to Syria, argued as recently as Mondaythat the Iranian troops and their proxies leaving Syria would be a bottom-line requirement for resolving the seven-year conflict in a way consistent with American objectives. “That would be a condition of moving forward on the political process,” Jeffrey said during an Atlantic Council event in Washington. “That’s the strategy.”