• febra@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They train there, they don’t have their own military bases there. That’s the first point. The second point being that even if they had military bases on US soil, it would be because the US invited them to.

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      2 months ago

      They don’t build their own bases in the US because the US has the infrastructure. The US got permission from Syria for those bases.

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        2 months ago

        The government of Syria deems the U.S. military presence in al-Tanf illegal and “considers the presence of Turkish and U.S. troops on its territory as an aggression and demands immediate and unconditional withdrawal of foreign forces from its territory.”

        So which is it then. Can’t have your cake and eat it too

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Tanf