How? He's a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, Bahrain The 31-year-old is a DJ, music producer, and reality personality. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! One bad decision after another has led to the current situation. Saudi Arabia Underneath, patriotic hashtags. But its location is important. For threatening to withhold military aid to President Zelenskyy of Ukraine. Why would he say that? NATO members also recently agreed to a new cost-sharing formula that will result in Germany and the U.S. paying an equal shareapproximately 16%of NATOs The Kurdish general was not having it. Still, let's follow the money Public opinion, both parties and the Pentagon are together on this. It was meant to deceive you. Syria is a close ally of Russia and Iran and helped support the insurgents during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. An American submarine carries about 96 nuclear warheads and they're each about 10 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb that killed 100,000 people in 1945. There's a new winner of America's Got Talent: All-Stars in town! We're not against that, but you've got to wonder. Here's what he said: REPORTER: Well, I just wanted to get your thoughts on the whole Russia and Ukraine situation. It was an airsoft gun. Here are five places to watch in 2022: India-Pakistan Americas goal of maintaining relations with both South Asian nuclear powers has suffered during the war in But in fact, both the PKK's "libertarian socialist" ideology and actual PKK veterans held enormous influence over the Syrian Kurdish rebellion. Churchill got a lot of blowback from his cabinet and the opposition when he refused to make a peace deal with Adolf Hitler, and the movie effectively dramatizes that crisis. So, the invasion was no surprise to the Biden administration. "12 Strong" is the 2018 movie about the secret Army units that entered Afghanistan in October 2001 to lay the groundwork for the U.S. invasion of the country in the days after the 9/11 attacks. Pro-Assad and opposition negotiators have been meeting in Geneva to work on a new Syrian constitution, although the SDF and the Kurds have never been included in those talks. Don't think about it. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Lets start with some good news. Syrian dictator Bashar Assad cracked down with brute force. As far back as 2016, Lindsey Graham of South Carolinahysterical little Lindsey Grahamwas jumping around, acting out his war fantasies in front of foreign soldiers in Ukraine. [1] Currently, there are 105 wars on this list, 4 of which are ongoing. 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BioCAS 2015 will comprise an excellent combination of invited talks and tutorials from pioneers in the field as well as peer-reviewed special and regular sessions plus live demonstrations. It will hurt them in the midterms. Putin may be evil. I look forward to welcoming you to enjoy the conference in Atlanta. All human life is equal. "He never set up a bureaucratic process to actually implement what he wants to do.". Aidan Bryant. Please feel free to, Talk Title:"Microengineered tissues for regenerative medicine and organs-on-a-chip applications", IEEE CAS Charles Desoer Life Science Systems Student Attendance Grant, Assistive, Rehabilitation, and Quality of Life Technologies, Bio-inspired and Neuromorphic Circuits and Systems, Biofeedback, Electrical Stimulation, and Closed-Loop Systems, Biomedical Imaging Technologies & Image Processing, Innovative Circuits for Medical Applications, Medical Information Systems and Bioinformatics, Wireless and Energy Harvesting/Scavenging Technology. "In the course of what we call the NATO-Russia War of 2019, we estimated one billion people died." For a list of wars that have been fought on the United Kingdom Why would a policy so seemingly obscureNATO, Ukraine, What?Why would that be a priority for some forgettable congressman from the East Bay? Well, let's see. No reactors were hit. If this country is invaded and everybody's saying, "Well, we got to evacuate, we got to leave. Syrian nationalist rebels vetted and backed by the United States fought alongside sectarian Islamist groups. That means the United States is now an active participant in a war. Their efforts ended not with a Kurdish-led rebellion against Assad but with the Kurds looking to Assad and his allies to shield them from their archrival Turkey. "We effectively created auxiliaries to these hardline groups that were taking territory," Stein says. That's the version streaming on Netflix. But the U.S. is unlikely to lift the economic pressure: Congress passed even more sanctions aimed at deterring foreign reconstruction investment under the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019. Starting in 2022, Starbucks is expanding its Veterans Day freebie to include an additional product: iced coffee. There's a new winner of America's Got Talent: All-Stars in town! That was the rule for centuries in this country. They tell us that Vladimir Putin is unbalanced. Turkish forces were only going to move 30 kilometers into Syria and the invasion would stop after that, he claimed. They were led by a left-wing guerrilla group called the People's Defense Units (YPG). This 2022 movie is the first German-language movie version of the 1928 Erich Maria Remarque novel about the horrors of World War I. Assad's foreign ministry quickly denounced the agreement as a scheme to "steal Syria's oil" and "an assault against Syria's sovereignty.". What does that even mean? Putin certainly had other motives as well. The president himself said he wanted to end "endless wars" and claimed he was ready to pull U.S. forces out of Syria at the first opportunity. Most of these men put themselves in harm's way in an attempt to give a true picture of the struggles that American military personnel faced both in the Pacific and the European theater of war. He was previously a reporter for Responsible Statecraft and research assistant for the Quincy Institute. We didn't get it at the time. Trump then began to talk about withdrawing from Syriawhile at the same time escalating against Iran. Sound familiar? The great thing is that "Da 5 Bloods" works both as a straight-up action picture with betrayals and gunfights while also telling a story about Black veterans of the Vietnam War. Sudan Trump saw himself as reestablishing a "red line" that Obama had muddled. Instead of planning for an orderly U.S. withdrawal and encouraging the Syrian Kurds to negotiate a peace deal with other factions in the country, Trump's advisers tried to use the SDF to continue their anti-Assad campaign. All of us are equal in the eyes of God. Read this from Good Morning America the other day: ABC CORRESPONDENT: Ukraine's mothers, daughters, teachers, politicians, beauty queens, now on the front lines defending their country under siege and there is Anastasiia Lenna, a former Miss Grand Ukraine. Fewer perspectives? You don't want to live in a country in which moral panics break out regularly, by the way. It spent $500 million on a program to train and equip a new army of pro-America, anti-Assad fighters. Thanks to Biden's policies, Russia and China now form a bloc against the United States. "Vietnam was a problem that ultimately we could not fix," Ford says. I thought you were gonna ask for my okay to name your daughter Karine. Sacha Baron Cohen stars as real-life Mossad agent Eli Cohen, who worked undercover in Syria with the secret identity as Kamel Amin Thaabet and worked his way up to become the Arab country's deputy defense minister in the years leading to the 1967 Six-Day War. Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime eventually retook most of Syria's major cities through years of brutal siege warfare. In other words, we should let Ukraine join NATO. That war is happening right now as we watch. "Darkest Hour" ends with the prime minister's legendary "We shall fight on the beaches" speech to Parliament. The first batch of fighters was quickly defeated and robbed by Al Qaeda in July 2015. That wasn't a rifle. American weapons flowed to the Kurds, while about 400 U.S. Marines joined the front lines in Raqqa, the first-ever conventional U.S. boots on the ground in Syria. This is a list of wars and rebellions involving the United States of America. Graham and Pompeo finally went public with those discussions during a Senate hearing in July 2020. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The explosions that took place on September 26, 2022, stopped the flow of Russian gas, and left hundreds of millions of Europeans facing the prospects of a cold winter. That's treasonous, in my opinion. 2 tweet. U.S. diplomats were flying blind when it came to the region, according to Ford, now a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. If the war in Ukraine ended tomorrow, we would live with the consequences of that loss of the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency for the rest of our lives. Miss Ukraine with a rifle defending her homeland. Well, simple, because getting Ukraine to join NATO was the key to inciting war with Russia. Ukraine's war is our war. Every streaming platform needs its own documentary that tells the story of the rise of the Third Reich, and Netflix delivers on the Evil Hitler front. But hardest of all to ignore, though our media have pulled it off and ignored it, is the civil war that's underway 100 hundred yards from El Paso, Texas, right now: the Mexican drug war. The United States began backing Syrian rebels because many in the Obama administration believed that they could help quickly bring down an oppressive tyrant. There's mud and blood and great sword-fighting battle scenes, so many that some might find the movie a bit light on plot and character motivation. In 2019 alone, close to 10,000 Mexican citizens just disappeared, most of them young men. They're crazy. That changed America completely. American intelligence agencies had not even been able to provide him with "two pages" on the political dynamics of northeastern Syria. Syrian petroleum production was falling even before the civil war, and the Islamic State at its peak only made about $1.5 million per day from Deir al-Zor's wells. It is not called the Department of Nation Building or the Bureau of Trans Evangelism. The international coalition declared victory at Raqqa in October 2017 and moved on to hunt down the remnants of the Islamic State in the oil-rich, Arab-majority rural province of Deir al-Zor, Syria. Putin is dedicated to the defense and rise of Russia. Anyone who lies for a living. (Olivier Douliery, Pool Photo via AP), "Are you afraid that will escalate tension?," asks the scriptwriter, because even a CBS News anchor knows that sending fighter jets to a war usually does that. So you got [Joe] Biden and his son using our tax dollars. The series follows the fictional 186th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and because it was originally on The CW, viewers shouldn't be surprised that it emphasizes soapy interpersonal drama over action-filled missions. Joelle Goldstein. There's a new winner of America's Got Talent: All-Stars in town! Chris Pine stars as the King Robert the Bruce in a movie about the 14th-century Scottish Wars of Independence. (Note: Ongoing wars are indicated in It's not good news if you plan to eat and it won't get better. "We made a terrible, terrible analytical mistake," says Ford. The second moral panic was COVID. At the top of that list is Glen Powell ("Top Gun: Maverick," "Devotion"), but there's also Nicholas Hoult ("X-Men"), Logan Marshall-Green ("Upgrade"), Sam Spruell ("Outlaw King") and Beau Knapp ("The Good Lord Bird"). ", Delta Crescent Energy partner James Cain toldPoliticothat the company's goal was "to get the production back up to where it was before the civil war and sanctions." President-elect Joe Biden will have to find a way to extract the United States from Syria without reigniting the civil waror getting sucked back in. In 2013, Obama gave the CIA a green light to join in directly arming Syria's rebels. 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Still, Coppola wasn't happy with the final product, and two decades later, he re-edited the movie to make "Apocalypse Now Redux" and added back 49 minutes of footage he hadn't used in the original cut. If you enjoy the stateside drama on "SEAL Team" but find yourself bored during the missions, give "Valor" a try. "It's like, 'Oh, you want to take the oil? So did Turkey and Qatar, who saw the uprisings of the Arab Spring as a way to increase their own influence. The YPG was close to an insurgent group in Turkey called the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). This is a moral victory so feel good about it as you go bankrupt. The week after, a Russian armored truck rammed into a U.S. humvee, injuring at least four Americans. I'm staying at home and when the war comes to Arkansas, I will dig my boots in the ground and I will die for everything I love, and I will not retreat. McGurk supported brokering a peace deal between the Syrian Kurds and the Russians, but he met opposition from the new faction of Iran hawks in the administration. In Los Angeles, it is selling for $7.29 a gallon. "Any of usand I start with myselfwho had any responsibility for our Syria policy in the last administration has to acknowledge that we failed," he said. It wasn't. U.S. policy toward Syria was torn between two often-clashing goals during the Obama administration: The CIA and State Department were focused on ending the Assad family's decadeslong rule, while the U.S. military was trying to crush violent religious extremists such as the Islamic State. Consumers see this most at the gas pump. It went on to be nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and winning Best Cinematography for Vittorio Storaro. The era of America the superpower is being tested in new ways across the globe. That's the short term picture. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. These are designed to map out what would happen if various countries fell into conflict with one another. Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic was notoriously one of the most difficult location shoots of all time, and there were stories at the time that the director had no real fix on the exact story he was trying to tell. We've got to take the oil.' They wanted a war and now they have one. All of us will go back to Washington and we will push the case against Russia. They'd like to make it worse. Now, maybe you support a war against Russia anyway, but you should at least know that you're being lied to and manipulated, which you are. Fox News host reflects on the U.S. response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'. American forces would stay in the short term to help implement the plan. These "openly sectarian figuresjust scared the hell out of Syrian minorities, who as a result stuck with Assad," explains Hof, who resigned from the government in 2012 and now teaches at Bard College. Legal Statement. Trump repeatedly claimed that their mission was to "take the oil" or guard the "oil region.". Supported by: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The death of someone in Ukraine is exactly equivalent to the death of someone in Yemen in its importance, period. How many of the first stories were true? By late 2015, Russian jets and combat troops were also in the country.. War Room, a show hosted by Stephen K. Bannon, is distributed by a fledgling news network called Real America's Voice. This 2022 film should appeal to anyone who enjoys epic historical war movies like "Gladiator" or "Braveheart." No decent person could fail to be moved by the images, but it's not unique. Why? Bolton wrote in his memoir that he was "deliberately vague" to both Trump and the media when it came to the number of Americans that would be necessary to implement the safe zone. Most of the additional footage takes place on the de Marais family's rubber plantation during the trip upriver. How can we help to make sure that they get something to backfill the planes that they're handing over tothe Ukrainians? Emma Camp ", Ford had believed early in the conflict that Assad could not win a war of attritionand that the opposition could convince Assad's allies in Russia and Iran to stay out of the fight. So the Syrian Kurdish oil ministry has been forced to rely on smugglers, whose leaky storage tanks and backyard refineries have become a serious threat to public health. It was what we call disinformation and it was designed to get you to support a war against Russia. Iran soon began sending military advisers, volunteers, and mercenaries to back Assad. U.S. troops eventually moved back in, including to areas near the Turkish border now guarded by the Russians. Supported by: Israel (limited involvement; against Hezbollah and government forces only). It'll be obvious to you soon. U.S. policy has not only failed to stop the conflict; it has helped prolong it, leaving millions of Syrians at the mercy of White House palace intrigue. Jay Ulfelder is a political scientist who studies civil wars and former research director of the Political Instability Task Force, a U.S. government-funded program that helps policymakers understand and anticipate political crises around the globe. President Zelenskyy of Ukraine had said it repeatedly, but it was not true. The new discount program will be accessed through the exchange stores or websites, not Home Depot locations. A couple of years ago, you may remember, we'd forgotten, they impeached a sitting president. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. And the companies love it, the woke companies, Apple, MasterCard, lots of other American companies, are taking victory laps for their role in punishing Russia. One fun way to see the world and visit unique locations is on a cruise ship. So are we going to see a boycott of Chinese goods in the United States? But Fordthe former U.S. envoy who learned the hard way that Iran and Russia were unlikely to abandon their interests in Syriais skeptical that U.S. economic sanctions will be enough to pressure Assad into accepting anything. Other experts, including Stein, disagree. "They can sanction the hell out of the Assad government. Russian President Vladimir Putin raised eyebrows and possibly the stakes of his war in Ukraine on Sunday when he ordered his nuclear weapons to be put on heightened alert.. al-Qaeda "Top Gun" sent Tom Cruise's career into the stratosphere, inspired a generation of aspiring Navy aviators and convinced the Pentagon that cooperating with Hollywood could be an amazing recruiting tool. Trump also started backing the YPG, who were still the most effective fighters in the SDF, more directly. He served as a commander in a CIA-backed rebel group, appeared in proIslamic State propaganda, trained with the U.S. military, and fought other U.S.-backed rebel groups in Syria on behalf of the Turkish government. The first, a covert attempt to overthrow Assad, failed miserably. | Punish Russia. Matthew Petti Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis and Isiah Whitlock Jr. As they head out to search for the gold, the group is haunted by memories of their commanding officer (Chadwick Boseman), who was killed in a firefight back in the day. Alleged support: AustraliaChinaColombiaIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaNew ZealandOmanPakistanRussiaSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSingaporeSomaliaSouth KoreaUkraine, CJTF-OIR Members:AustraliaNew ZealandBelgiumCanadaDenmarkFranceGermanyItalyJordanMoroccoNetherlandsTurkeyUnited Kingdom, Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria President Donald Trump inherited this awkwardly stitched-together policy and added in an element of chaos. "The Woman King" is based on the true story of the Agojie, an all-female group of warriors who liberated women sold into slavery in the African country of Dahomey in 1823. "Top Gun" is still one of the most rewatchable Hollywood movies ever made, a film that has aged far better than almost all of its counterparts from the Reagan era. During a January 3rd briefing, Jean-Pierre made a playful suggestion that the baby should be named Karine, and Doocy responded by saying that he would consider it. His administration survived a disastrous loss on the battlefields of France in 1939 and won over the people with the evacuation of troops from the beaches at Dunkirk. Obama had launched two interventions in Syria. It's a remarkable exchange. In one tense September 2019 meeting, according to a report fromThe National Interest, Rayburn screamed and broke a writing utensil in frustration after Syrian Kurdish officials refused to join forces with the Islamic hardliners. It's unmistakable. Hot take: The original 1986 classic may be one of the most iconic military movies ever made, but now it plays like a prequel to the even better 2022 movie "Top Gun: Maverick." Fortunately, this hero got his medal -- just 58 years late. | The IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) serves as a premier international. There was a substantial amount of footage cut from the version released in 1979. (DEA) "Its time to designate Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, given that they were responsible for the fentanyl-poisoning deaths of 110,000 Americans in 2022 alone," said Sen. Lee in a Mar. the outcome for the U.S. was not a good one, a new report revealed this week. Most Americans would agree with you, but you will immediately be denounced as a tool of Putin. In this photo, Feb. 27, 2022, taken from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine. SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: Your fight is our fight. That's not good for anyone, except those benefiting from it. Say that out loud some time. A couple of years ago, not long ago at all, Kazianis participated in a war game predicated on a war with Russia. Now you may support everything that Tony Blinken just said. Enough of Russian aggression. Really? Moral panics diminish the people engaged in them and hurt the people who don't. The pandemic has killed more than 4.5 million people worldwide and infected an estimated 217 million. As part of an effort to resurrect the anti-Assad rebellion, Trump administration officials had pushed the SDF to work with Turkish-backed Islamists against Assad. Pompeo put two hawkish officials in charge of Syria policy: James Jeffrey, a veteran cold warrior who had served as U.S. ambassador to both Turkey and Iraq, and Joel Rayburn, a retired Army officer who had helped advise the U.S. military "surge" in Iraq. And at that point, in fact, we're already there, we'd be forced to make up the difference by getting more oil from other countries because we need the energy. Of course. At a public press event at the Munich Security Conference, Kamala Harris encouraged Ukraine to become a member of NATO. Are you supportive of that? So, a lot could go wrong. An attendee yawns, amongst a sea of empty chairs, following a speech by Donald Trump Jr., at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference.