US President Donald Trump has recently been in more trouble with Republican MPs. Now, Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, turns against Trump’s withdrawal plans for Syria and Afghanistan.
Donald Trump’s main US Senate man, Mitch McConnell’s majority leader, has opposed Trump’s plans to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and Syria. McConnell warned in Washington of a „premature retreat“ of the troops.
Shortly before this, US intelligence director Dan Coats had already warned against a decline in anti-terrorism. The jihadist militia „Islamic State“ (IS) continues to be present in Syria and Iraq with „thousands of fighters“.
Despite its huge loss of leadership and territory, the militia continues to have eight sub-organizations and „more than a dozen networks,“ according to a Washington Congressional report. Coats is the head of the 17 US intelligence agencies.
As the New York Times reports, the US President has been under increasing pressure from parliamentarians of his own party lately. In the House of Representatives, all but 22 of the other Republican MPs voted with the majority of US Democrats. The point was to underline the clear rejection of a NATO exit from the USA. According to these media reports, Trump had repeatedly considered familiar people.
An easing of sanctions against a Russian oligarch, which had Trump had vacated, dismissed the representatives in the House of Representatives again. Two-thirds of Republicans voted with the Democrats and thus against their president’s foreign policy ideas.
