Day: October 22, 2019
Stevenson’s army, October 22
Apparently in one of his recent golf games with the president, Lindsey Graham persuaded Trump to keep some US forces in Syria in order to protect Kurdish oil fields. FP says it’s unclear what that means in practice.
Both WaPo and NYT have stories saying Putin and Orban persuaded Trump that Ukraine was a swamp of corruption and shouldn’t be helped.
Many lawmakers are still pushing to censure Trump for his betrayal of the Kurds.
Iraqi military says US forces moving from Syria don’t have permission to stay in Iraq.
WaPo tallies the many incomplete deals Trump claims he has made.
WH personnel office correctly told the president that he can’t name two other acting officials as acting head of DHS. This is all because of the Vacancy Act.
My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. If you want to get it directly, To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).
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