Friday, October 4, 2019

Read and summarize an article pertaining to war occurring in the world. Make sure to include the link.

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  1. A few weeks ago Human Rights First and others hosted a discussion at keeping the brutal murder of Washington post journalist and Virginia resident Jamal Khashoggi one year anniversary of his death. They all shared their thoughts. Conference for defense adds up to about $740 billon. Everyone is speaking out and trying to get justice for Jamal’s death. Jamal died by murder.

    https://lobelog.com/murder-and-murderers/

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  2. President Donald Trump said in a tweet that if he is removed from office a "civil war" might erupt in the United States. He said that he was quoting a Fox News contributor and host, Pastor Robert Jeffress. Robert Jeffress suggested that impeaching the president would lead to "civil war." Mr. Trump added his thoughts onto that tweet saying he will never be removed from office. His repetition of the quote received a lot of backlash even from his own party.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-civil-war-tweet-civil-war-2-is-trending-on-twitter-after-trump-suggested-what-might-occur-if-removed-from-office/

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  3. Raging wars in the Middle East have resulted in drastic decisions made by President Donald Trump. Recent attacks on Saudi Oil facilities have sparked outrage as Iran is being targeted for the attacks. The US, the UK, and other countries have made non-public statements saying Iran is responsible. In light of these attacks, President Trump claimed that he is willing to talk to Iran, but Iran is still silent. Donald Trump for once made a good decision when making these comments “As long as Iran continues this aggressive behavior, sanctions will not be raised. They will increase”. President Donald’s Trump also made the decision to avoid severe military actions of aggression towards Iran which could result in a Nuclear War.

    https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/03/middleeast/iran-war-games-kiley-intl/index.html

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  4. * The 2009–present phase of the Somali Civil War is concentrated in southern and central Somalia.

    * It began in early February 2009 with the conflict between the forces of the Federal Government of Somalia, assisted by African Union peacekeeping troops, and militant terrorist groups.

    *The conflict has also seen fighting between the Sufi Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a and Al-Shabaab.

    *On 16 October 2011, the Kenyan Army crossed the border into Somalia. .It aimed to seize Kismayo and set up a buffer zone against Al-Shabaab.

    * In 2012, Kismayo was captured.

    *In 2017, the 14 October and 28 October Mogadishu bombings were responsible for the deaths of over 500 individuals and injured more than 400.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Civil_War_(2009%E2%80%93present)

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  5. Trump's recent decisions to avoid military action against Iran have been smart. This makes him hard to be impeached. It is a lose-lose situation. If we went to war there would be many casualties in the middle east and we would win, however gas prices and oil barrel prices would go up. So would we really win? It would effect the economy greatly. Cruise missiles were made in Iran damaged Saudi Arabia's oil industry so badly that raised the price of oil by 20% for a short period.
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/03/middleeast/iran-war-games-kiley-intl/index.html

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  6. Pakistan and India are on the verge of a nuclear war. Researchers say the war could occur between the two countries in 2025. Both countries have over 400 warheads/nuclear weapons in their arsenal. For each warhead/nuclear weapon that is detonated, it could/will kill over 700,000 people. A study shows that over 125 million people could/will be killed throughout the whole war (if it occurs).

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/02/nuclear-war-between-india-and-pakistan-could-kill-up-125-million/3840582002/

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  7. Turkey is preparing to launch a military operation in northern Syria, and the United States will withdraw its troops in the area ahead of the long planned attack. In January,
    Turkey said it will go ahead with its military offensive against Kurdish militias in northwestern Syria regardless of whether the U.S withdraws its troops from the country Ankara has already gathered thousands of Turkish troops along its border with Syria. Turkey will now be responsible for all ISIS fighters in the area captured over the past two years in the wake of the defeat of territorial 'Caliphate' by the United States.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/turkey-to-move-ahead-with-planned-military-operation-in-north-syria-us-says.html

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  8. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/07/were-more-at-risk-of-nuclear-war-with-russia-than-we-think-229436

    People are saying that we are more at risk of a Nuclear War with Russia than ever before. While at the Summit earlier a few months ago, Trump and Putin had some disagreements, and eventually got Putin angered, making the chances of a Nuclear War even more possible. Knowing that many countries have Nuclears available in their countries, this war could possibly destroy countries and kill many people.

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  9. Tensions have been growing between Saudi Arabia and Iran for years. Currently many countries in the Middle East are having conflicts and war and Saudi Arabia and Iran are included. These countries are now trying to mend by speaking and discussing ways to improve both countries and disperse these conflicts. They believe that ending the conflicts peacefully will influence other countries to do the same. The tensions were built from distrust but hopefully with Iran's cooperation the conflicts can be resolved.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-iran-talks.html

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  10. On Monday, Donald Trump’s civil war tweet went viral, it trended on Twitter, there was also a #CivilWarSignup that trended. The tweet said that if he is removed from office a civil war might erupt in the United States. Trump was quoting Pastor Robert Jeffress, a Fox News contributor and host. He who suggested that if the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office it will cause a Civil War and that the country will never heal.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-civil-war-tweet-civil-war-2-is-trending-on-twitter-after-trump-suggested-what-might-occur-if-removed-from-office/

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  11. Donald Trump withdrew all US soldiers from Syria. This makes it easier for attacks and war crimes to happen to Syria. Some are calling it a betrayal due to him sending his troops back to the US. The generals of the soldiers in Syria told Trump not to pull back because of all the forces there to help them fight. He did and now a few people don't like him for pulling his troops back.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/07/us-withdrawal-syria-war-crimes-erdogan-refugees-kurdish-turkey

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  12. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/03/middleeast/iraq-economic-protests-intl/index.html

    The death toll has gone to 93 in Iraq because of protests. They are anger about government corruption, not having electricity or water and not being able to find jobs. The prime minister wants the people to live peacefully. The protests have not been peaceful. 93 people were killed this week and 3, 978 were injured.

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  13. Victor Davis Hanson World War ll rages on in the minds of world leaders that fought in World War ll. It proudly influences them today. World War ll ended 74 years ago. In the 21st century the lasting effects endure. After World War ll at the end of it took 60 million lives. Over trade and past war none can forger World War ll. Their lives will never be forgotten.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/victor-davis-hanson-ghosts-world-war-ii

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  14. Donald Trump made the decision to withdraw U.S. soldiers from Syria. He said that Turkey, Europe, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Russia and the Kurds will have to figure the situation out. Turkey will go forward with their plans to invade Northern Syria and the U.S. will not help. The statement also said that Turkey will be responsible for all ISIS fighters captured in the last two years in that area. A Syrian Kurdish official said that they could no longer fight against isis and have to defend themselves. This could allow isis to return to the area.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/trump-other-countries-must-deal-with-isis-as-us-withdraws-from-northern-syria.html

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  15. There has been an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China. This trade war fighting consists of the countries putting continuous tariffs, or an increase of price to import, on the goods of the other country. The idea is that the consumer will then not buy from that country because it is more expensive to bring in. The U.S. and China have been shooting tariffs at each other since trade deals fell apart in March, with a increase from 25 % to 30% happening today on 250 billion dollars worth of goods.

    There will be a meeting this weekend between Donald Trump and the Vice-Premier of China to talk trade deals. Things are very tense, with American tariffs covering almost all Chinese goods. China's Vice-Premier Lui He thinks that only a small deal may be accomplished, as the two countries are split on many issues, including the handling of Anti-Government protests in Hong Kong, but President Trump says he would prefer a big deal.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/08/china-tones-down-expectations-ahead-of-us-trade-war-talks-038713

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  16. On Sunday, President Trump announced that Turkish forces will move into Northern Syria where the Kurdish groups control most of that area. American troops will step aside and many people question Trump's decision to let Turkish forces take control since they view most of the Kurdish groups as terrorists. The Kurdish group have served to be allies to America against the ISIS terrorist group that are looking to "unseat" Syria's president Bashar al-Assad.
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/07/middleeast/six-questions-syria-us-intl/index.html

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  17. Donald Trump made the decision to pull troops out of Syria against the advice of his generals and diplomats and without prior consultation with allies such as the UK that have forces in the field. The US retreat potentially gives to Isis. The jihadists, down but not out despite Trump’s self-serving claims of victory. The White House says the Turks will take charge. Given their record of covert dealings with jihadists that’s a big, reckless gamble.

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    1. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/07/us-withdrawal-syria-war-crimes-erdogan-refugees-kurdish-turkey

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  18. Donald Trump has threatened to destroy Turkey's economy if they go off-limits. Donald Trump also decided to pull US troops out of North-Eastern Syria. Donald Trump sent angry tweets to defend his move, which could lead to a Turkey launching an attack on Kurdish fighters. Kurdish were the key allies to defeating Islamic State in Syria. US have 1,000 fighters spread across Syria and only about two dozen have been pulled from the boarder.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49966216

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  19. In syria there is a civil war going on. In 2011 it started out as protests to their president. It rapidly increased to things worse than that and adventuraly it became a civil war. With there being a war there that means that they are more worried about our 2000 troops there. It is still ongoing today.

    https://www.cfr.org/interactive/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/civil-war-syria

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  20. The Trump administration is facing a violent stream of criticism. They announce a full U.S. troop withdrawal from northern Syria to Turkey. They allowed a long-planned military operation. Officials have been calling Trump's decision of betrayal, security experts are calling this decision reckless. Syria’s bloody 8-year long conflict has interventions about the military by numerous world countries including Russia and Iran.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/trump-handing-syria-to-turkey-is-gift-to-russia-iran-isis-mcgu.html

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  21. Donald Trump decided to shift troops out of northeastern Syria and Rand Paul is declaring victory over the war cause. For the past 3 years the republication ( Kentucky) has been pushing Trump to take less interventionist foreign. Rand Paul decided to step in as the most vociferous defender for Tumps moves.


    https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/08/rand-paul-defends-trump-on-syria-039534

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  22. Trump made a tweet that said to bring back the troops that are helping the Kurds. The ISIS prisoner could escape if Turkey advances into Syria. With the speed of the tweet it could ruin the goal the the US has in the Middle east. He withdraws them from northern Syria.
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/07/middleeast/trump-kurdish-syria-turkey-intl/index.html

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  23. The US and China will be meeting again to talk about the current trade war. Donald Trump and Xi Jinpin both share reasons to want to call off the current trade war between them. The trade war is problematic because of increased price on goods also known as tariffs. Trump and China’s leader will be meeting to try to resolve the trade war on thursday. This will be the 13th round of trade negotiations between the two countries.
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/10/09/us-china-trade-war-hopes-before-trade-talks-begin-thursday/3917307002/

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  24. https://www.foxnews.com/tech/army-pursues-new-virtual-soldier-training-for-future-war

    Having the experience of exploding things, drone attacks, and close combat warfare are all called scenarios that are being used to create a high-tech virtual reality training, and its hope is to design it very realistic to real life war. The tech that is behind the virtual reality is said to hopefully move the army closer to the goal of training them for the risk of any war, and the training of a new kind of war. The kind of weapons used in the training have not been used in real life yet. Such things in the V.R. training are advanced robots, and combat vehicles.

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  25. Between last Friday and Sunday, President Donald Trump has tweeted himself and retweeted others posts about the Ukraine scandal and impeachment. If Trump was successfully impeached a Civil War would be in the making. When Trump shows support to the violence, like the new Civil War, he is sending encouragement to people that believe an apocalypse is in our near future.

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/opinions/trump-civil-war-tweets-make-america-less-safe-hemmer/index.html

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  26. The military has taken two high profile members of the British ISIS cell known as the “Beatles” into custody during concerns whether the ongoing Turkish offensive could be and outcome in ISIS prisoners escaping from the prisons in Syria which are lacking men to guard. There are plans to bring ISIS members, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh to the US for prosecution. They have been held in northern Syria for more than a year.

    https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/syria-turkey-military-offensive-dle-intl/index.html

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  27. Syrian Civil War is now on its sixth year. They are continuing to rage on and has created one of the most complex humanitarian crises on earth. There are recent reports that the death toll is 470,000, with more than one in ten Syrians that were wounded or killed. There is about eight million Syrians that are displaced. This also involves Russia and Iran on one side. Turkey and the U.S and its allies on the other side.

    https://www.borgenmagazine.com/ongoing-wars-happening-right-now/

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  28. On Wednesday Turkey launched a ground and air attack on Syrian militia. As Turkish warplanes bombed Syrian towns and troops crossed the border the chaos in Washington continued. On Wednesday, hours after the operation began Trump called moving troops out a bad idea.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/world/middleeast/turkey-attacks-syria.html

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  29. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/09/politics/syria-turkey-invasion-intl-hnk/index.html

    Turkey launches military offensive in Syria, days after Trump announced pullback of US troops

    Turkey began a military offensive on northeastern Syria on Wednesday launching airstrikes and artillery fire across the border. This happend days after the Trump administration announced it was pulling US troops from the area. The operation is aimed at pushing Kurdish forces back who were a key ally of the US in the fight against ISIS. They are doing this to push the people away from Turkey's border.

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  30. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/opinion/iran-israel-saudi-arabia.html

    Trump and Tehran Shake Up the Middle East

    My article is about Trump exploding stuff in the Middle East. The Syrians were really surprised about it. Trump didn't say much about it before he did it. They were surprised that the attack was on the Middle East's Pearl Harbor . This has caused the republican party to feel betrayed by Trump because they don't agree with the attack.

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  31. It now appears the impeachment theater will host the decisive battles. Fortunately, the impeachment fights of the past few weeks have revealed the basic campaign strategies that Mr. Trump and the Democrats will pursue the next 13 months. Trump’s interest in Ukraine was to take out Joe Biden, whose campaign has been based exclusively on offering relief from the never-ending Trump political wars.
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/world-war-trump-11570661608

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  32. Donald Trump has decided to avoid military action against Iran. Recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities were committed by Iran. Iran has been blamed by many countries including the U.S., Germany, France and the U.K. The allegation has not been made public by any politician although intelligence officials is almost 100% certain the the attacks came from Iran soil. There are also claims the the claims that the Houthi rebels in Yemen were responsible, however the were dismissed.

    https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/03/middleeast/iran-war-games-kiley-intl/index.html

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  33. https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/15/politics/saudi-arabia-oil-production-trump-response-iran/index.html

    White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that President Donald Iran's role in a crippling strike on Saudi Arabia's oil production this weekend.Secretary of State Mike pinned t blame on Iran for an attack at a Saudi oil field in a pair of tweets Saturday.Security Analyst Peter Bergen said there have been more than 200 drone. Saudi Arabian oil facilities have disrupted about half of the kingdom's oil capacity, or 5% of the daily global oil supply.

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  34. The United States will send more forces into Saudi Arabia even as Donald Trump says he wants to reduce American military involvement in the Middle East.Defense Secretary Mark Esper ordered the deployment of two more fighter squadrons.The U.S. will also deploy high altitude area missile defense systems.This involves about 3,000 United States forces the Pentagon chief said.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/trump-administration-will-send-more-troops-to-saudi-arabia.html

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