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US to send 1,500 troops to Syria and Iraq
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It is also more proof that their past involvements and deployments in Iraq were failures. They replaced a secular Sunni dictator who hated Iran and Israel, with a Shia dominated government that is friendly to Iran and hates Israel. The problem is we keep delivering the US tactical, political and strategic defeats but not a resounding military defeat. Which is why they keep coming back. Losing 2 trillion dollars isn’t much if you print them out of thin air. But they can’t print an aircraft carrier, if only Iran could somehow get its hands on Chinese anti-carrier missiles.
The problem US has now though is that they sent much of what they had to Ukraine over the past two years. US manufacturing base is simply not able to keep up with the scale of the conflict, and so US has been steadily draining existing stocks. Last year it got to the point where US had to plunder shell stocks in Japan, Korea, and Israel. If a serious conflict flares up in the Middle East then US is going to be caught with pants down.