RFK Jr. to Tucker Carlson: Trump Ordered ‘His Generals’ to Withdraw Troops from Middle East After Reviewing Troop Map

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Posted on 11/08/2024 6:29:57 AM PST by bitt

Listening to the leftist propaganda of the Biden era, one might think that President Trump has conveyed no substantive policy prescriptions. How about peace? Bringing home troops from foreign combat zones seems like a good policy.

It is important to note that Vice President Harris, in her debate with President Trump, made the following claim:

“And as of today, there is not one member of the United States Military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world for the first time this century.”

Subsequently, many posts on X debunked this statement in real time as troops serving in combat zones, watching the debate, posted their reactions in disbelief.

Watch here: American Troops in a combat zone watch Kamala Harris tell the world that there are no American troops in a combat zone pic.twitter.com/88G3WHlpz4

— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) September 13, 2024

Despite the Vice President’s assertion before a national audience, the claim is verifiably false. As reported by Axios in October 2023, the United States had over 40,000 troops in the Middle East, many in combat zones.

Given the heightened conflict between Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah, it’s possible that the number has increased.

President Trump has always spoken of disengaging from foreign entanglements. Trump set the wheels in motion for a future Afghanistan withdrawal and threatened to withhold funding from NATO if the allies did not meet their financial obligations.

A focus on rebuilding the country and its industrial core would mean cutting spending in foreign countries. To do so would require de-escalating a years-long territorial conflict between Russia and Ukraine. More concerning, however, is the potential for the igniting of a powder keg in the Middle East.

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