This is the End...Or Not
By: Turkishny We have to get out. We need to focus on ourselves, put America first; now. These are words we repeatedly hear from our President with regards to many aspects of foreign policies. So what prompted the latest proclamation to put America first? Pulling our troops out of Syria. American troops have been involved in the Syrian Civil War since 2014 and have been taking military action to combat the extremist group, ISIS, since 2017. Up until this post, this blog has focuses solely upon political biases that emerge within our own political climate, but what about how the United States' actions affect other countries' political climates and how those inadvertently affect decisions in the United States? That's essentially what happened when the Trump Administration announced this week that US troops will not be pulled out of Syria yet. Earlier this week, Trump's top advisers convinced the president that pulling out of Syria would not be a wise decision becau...