Comments by "Rick Vervoort" (@rickvervoort9536) on "The United Nations Security Council will meet today to discuss the U.S. strikes on Iraq and Syria" video.

  1. In 2019, Donald Trump, having defeated ISIS, said that they should redeploy troops in Syria and Jordan out of the region. You had multiple members of the Defense Department bureaucracy who fought him on that.
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  2.  @Gonefishing6572  Biden recounted a story he has told many times during his presidency, about a meeting he had with French President Emmanuel Macron during a G7 meeting in England, some months after Biden had taken over the White House. "I sat down and I said, ‘America’s back,’" Biden recalled. "And Mitterrand from Germany – I mean from France – looked at me and said…" Biden appeared to trail off before collecting his thoughts to finish the sentence: "Well, how long are you back for?" The president continued, saying the "Chancellor of Germany" asked him how he – and by extension, the U.S. – would respond if, hypothetically, thousands of people stormed Britain’s House of Commons and killed two "bobbies," or British police officers, to stop the election of a Prime Minister. François Mitterrand was France's president between 1981 and 1995. He died in 1996.
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