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Thousands Of US Troops Amass On Syrian Border For Military ‘Drill’

Thousands of U.S. Marines arrived in Jordan at around the same time the United States, the United Kingdom, and France were organizing a direct military strike on Jordan’s neighbor, Syria. Shortly after the US-led bombing of Syria over alleged chemical weapons use, the Marine took part in military drills.

According to Antimedia, nearly 3,600 U.S. troops, including roughly 1,800 Marines with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, arrived in Jordan for the start of an almost two-week training exercise known as Eager Lion.

Thousands of Marines and U.S. troops kicked off a major military training exercise that is reportedly set to include civilian evacuation operations, as well as chemical and biological drills. The drills followed the U.S.-led Anglo-alliance’s assault on neighboring Syria, which was allegedly in retaliation for a chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma.

It will be a rare display of allied firepower, reported the Marine Corps Times. It also couldn’t come at a more tense time as U.S. Navy warships are steadily building a presence in the Mediterranean in preparation for what analysts presume will be a Tomahawk cruise missile strike on Syria.

Last year, satellite photos indicating a massive buildup of military armored vehicles sent alarm bells through Iran, Syria’s ally in its nearly eight-year civil war, prompting media speculation about a pending invasion. The build-up was nothing more than the start of Eager Lion. Eager Lion was then launched from the Zarqa Jordanian military base, located near the Syrian border and roughly 100 miles from the Syrian capital of Damascus. The exercise has routinely been viewed as a pretext for an invasion of Syria by analysts and countries aligned with the Syrian regime.

“Eager Lion is a major training event that provides U.S. forces and Jordan Armed Forces the opportunity to improve their collective ability to plan and operate in a coalition-type environment,” according to a press release from U.S. Central Command published April 2nd. “A wide variety of scenarios – from long-range bomber missions to maritime security operations to a ground force attack of a fictitious adversary – will occur throughout Jordan during the event.”

Departing Augusta Bay, Italy, just before the US-led attack was the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock New York which has onboard Marines and Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron VMM 162 (Reinforced), according to a post from the 26th MEU’s Facebook page.

The timing of this “event,” both this year and last, however, is incredibly unsettling. Both came at a time when the US had decided that the Syrian government had conducted a chemical weapons attack against their own citizens. Neither chemical attack had any evidence, and in fact, there’s more evidence to suggest the attacks didn’t even happen.

While the media delivered a stunning performance on its coverage of Trump’s strikes on the Syrian government, as the Marine Corps Times notes, “little has been made of the fact that thousands of U.S. and Jordanian troops will be training a short skip away from the Syrian border with armored vehicles and military aircraft.”

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68 Comments on "Thousands Of US Troops Amass On Syrian Border For Military ‘Drill’"

MASTERMIND on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 9:20 pm

Madkat

Off to the farm..not a care in the world because you deny what is coming ahead and are willfully ignorant! Weeeeee!!!!!!!!!! You are like a child. Which makes sense because most old people like you go back into diapers like one.

The last drop on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 9:27 pm

Cruise missiles cost @1.4 million$ each.
Just set off say 110 of them at targets.
Mission accomplished… Inventory reduction and time to place a reorder. There is money to be made in the military industrial complex. Lots..

Cloggie on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 9:39 pm

Success for Trump:

Kim announces end nuclear tests:

https://www.rt.com/news/424738-korea-kim-nuclear-ballistic-tests/

makati1 on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 9:40 pm

MM, I’m back from the farm and, yes, “not a care in the world” because I am prepared for the future. I’m totally free. You will never understand that comment. “Totally free.”

Reverting to your 3rd grade persona again. lol

Cloggie on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 9:41 pm

“Cruise missiles cost @1.4 million$ each.
Just set off say 110 of them at targets.
Mission accomplished”

They flattened three buildings for that money.
I now a Turk who would have done it for half the money.

makati1 on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 9:46 pm

Right on, The last drop.

“Crimes of a Monster: Your Tax Dollars at Work”

“We are living in an age of war profiteers.

We are living in an age of scoundrels, liars, brutes and thugs. Many of them work for the U.S. government.

We are living in an age of monsters. …

… this monster—this hundred-headed gorgon that is the U.S. government and its long line of political puppets (Donald Trump and before him Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc.), who dance to the tune of the military industrial complex—is being funded by you and me. …

Consider: we get taxed on how much we earn, taxed on what we eat, taxed on what we buy, taxed on where we go, taxed on what we drive, and taxed on how much is left of our assets when we die. …

If we don’t have the right to decide what happens to our hard-earned cash, then we don’t have very many rights at all.

If the government can just take from you what they want, when they want, and then use it however they want, you can’t claim to be anything more than a serf in a land they think of as theirs.”

https://rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/crimes_of_a_monster_your_tax_dollars_at_work_short

YOU are paying. I no longer pay any taxes other than VAT on what I buy here.

The last drop on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 9:48 pm

That’s the point…. The swamp don’t want the “Turk” to pocket the $$$$.
They just needed an excuse to deplete some excess cruise missile inventory.
Probably old stock that was about to expire anyway.

makati1 on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 9:56 pm

The Us trying to play “catch up” with Russia and China.

“Air Force awards nearly $1 billion contract for a hypersonic cruise missile”

“The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the “design, development, engineering, systems integration, test, logistics planning, and aircraft integration support of all the elements of a hypersonic, conventional, air-launched, stand-off weapon” was announced by the service April 18…. (note the word: “indefinite”)

“The most significant advance by our adversaries has been the Chinese development of what is now today a pretty mature system for conventional prompt strike at multi thousand kilometer ranges,” Griffin told the House Armed Services Committee during an April 17 hearing. “We will, with today’s defensive systems, not see these things coming.””

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2018/04/18/air-force-taps-lockheed-for-new-hypersonic-cruise-missile/

Maybe, in 5 or 10 years and billions of dollars spent, the Us will be where Russia and China are today. lol

The last drop on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 10:01 pm

Same old BS song and dance… Sounds a lot like the 1960’s missile gap between Tricky Dickie Nixon and JFK or was it Goldwater?
The military is always crying about being behind…. Kiss my A$$, about drumming up more needless funding…

MASTERMIND on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 10:33 pm

Madkat

Don’t ever tell another man he isn’t free..Or he will get to killing real quickly to prove to you that he is…

Here is something from your younger days..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc11mJGre10

MASTERMIND on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 10:59 pm

Madkat

That is true about war profiteers. Look who the biggest advertiser is on the most popular news program “Meet the press”..Its Boeing…

Are you buying any jets? because I am not buying any jumbo jets..

MASTERMIND on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 11:29 pm

Bill Maher: Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen famously said once “I willing to take a bullet for Donald Trump. Well now that he is facing prison time. We’ll see if he is “willing to take a dick”…

makati1 on Fri, 20th Apr 2018 11:43 pm

MM, you are NOT free. Never will be as long as you live in the Us. Never! Debt slavery, loss of ALL of your freedoms, under surveillance everywhere you go. All of your activities recorded for future use by anyone who wants to know. Your cell phone is a GPS locator for you anywhere it and you are. Freedom? LMAO

You are paying for those jets, whether or not you are “buying” them. You are paying for all of the government waste, subsidies (Boeing), etc. ALL of it. Your dollar buying power is shrinking constantly and is about at zero.

You are being shoved into the 3rd world (The Great Leveling) by your masters as they bleed you dry. Retirement for you is the grave, not sitting on the porch relaxing after 40+ years of working. You were born too late to have such luxuries.

Marry a Filipina and move to the Ps for some real freedom and a better life. If you truly have a chemist degree, you could surly get a job here. $100,000/year income before you have to pay Uncle Sam any taxes. $100K = P5M pesos. You can live a 1st world lifestyle here for about 1/5 of that. lol

Cloggie on Sat, 21st Apr 2018 2:39 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dag6L7tnCEo

“Hi comrade”

DerHundistLos on Sat, 21st Apr 2018 4:17 am