What LeBron said here was a talking point we got from state media and Chinese fans all week. โWe have free speech, but there are consequences to what you say.โ When consequences can be jail or losing your livelihood over a political outlook, itโs not really free speech anymore.
US support for the YPG was bound to cause serious problems with Turkey. But if Washington had had a clear, realistic Syria policy and Turkey had had any interest in a political solution for its Kurdish conflict things didn't necessarily have to end so disastrously.
YPG offered at multiple points to evict the regime from the Northeast as a sign of political alignment w/ US goals. Americans rejected in order to avoid confrontation with Damascus.
Same happened yesterday with "huge number of ISIS fighters brokeout al-Hol camp" which turned out to be an exaggeration, these news IMO are not mistakes but systematic propaganda
The other day, an overwhelming number of journalists & analysts promoted news ISIS waged a large-scale attack in Raqqa, describing it as a result of Trumpโs ill-advised decision.
News turned out false. There was 1 minor suicide bomb.
Yet nobody bothered to correct their record.
@TheAncientWorld True, but that call would have been made if the president had been named Obama, Pence, Pelosi, Biden or Warren. It has less to do with Trump and more to do with U.S. foreign policy the last 20 years. It is an ugly and cowardly action, but that's America for you.