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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussian troops take command of U.S. airbase in northern Syria
Russian troops take command of U.S. airbase in northern Syria
Northern Syria Russian troops have taken command of a U.S. airbase in northern Syria and without firing a shot. Russian state media showed commandos staging what looked like a military invasion.
Choppers descending onto the dusty runway, troops taking up combat positions. The Russians are playing up the takeover of the Kobani airfield as a victory.
The former U.S. airbase that served as the main logistical hub for America's fight against ISIS, now with the Russian flag flying above it.
The Russians moved in just a day after U.S. forces moved out, leaving behind barracks, beds, abandoned medical supplies and the skeleton of a gym with weights removed, to render it useless.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/russian-troops-take-command-of-us-airbase-kobani-northern-syria-2019-11-17/
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Russian troops take command of U.S. airbase in northern Syria (Original Post)
orangecrush
Nov 2019
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lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)1. The troops who were stationed there must be livid.
They aren't very likely to have a high opinion of the Commander in Chief who told them to cut and run.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)2. Why didn't they blow that base the duck up before they left?
(My phone's autocorrect is too Puritanical for me. I didn't type duck, I typed duck.)
trof
(54,256 posts)3. Cadet Bonespurs strikes again.