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  1. Donald Trump’s ‘Very Special’ Victory in Syria It’s certainly special for Erdogan, Putin and al-Assad. President Trump announced a “permanent” cease-fire along the Turkish-Syrian border on Wednesday. In announcing a “permanent” cease-fire along the Turkish-Syrian border on Wednesday, President Trump smugly declared that “this was an outcome created by us, the United States, and nobody else.” The president, incapable of irony, was probably not referring to his own abrupt decision on Oct. 6 to stab Syrian Kurds in the back by giving Turkey a green light to attack them. Rather, he was giving credit to himself and to his vice president and secretary of state, who negotiated a partial cease-fire a week after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey sent troops across the Syrian border to drive out Kurdish forces he considers a threat. In Mr. Trump’s bizarre account, he claimed to have done Turkey and the Kurds a “great service” by creating a 20-mile-wide safe zone between them — “an interesting term, safe zone,” the president mused, as if he had just come up with a radically new concept. (The zone was in fact negotiated by Turkey and the Russians.) The president said he was lifting sanctions on Turkish products, and gushed that the commander of Kurdish forces “could not have been more thankful.” Less than 24 hours later, that same Kurdish commander, Mazloum Abdi, was complaining on Twitter that Turkish forces were violating the “permanent” cease-fire brokered by Mr. Trump. As is often the case with Trump pronouncements, it is hard to know where to begin. In effect, Mr. Trump was blithely taking full credit for ending a brutal battle he had a hand in starting and claiming a significant feat when in fact the betrayal of the Kurds and the brusque, thoughtless American withdrawal undermined American credibility and was a major victory for Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Bashar al-Assad, the butcher of Syria.
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