President Donald trump, on Tuesday, December 12, during a speech on the occasion of the ceremonial signing of the U.S. defence budget, announced that the United States triumphed over ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
«As you know, we have won in Syria, we won in Iraq, but they continue to be distributed in other areas. We pursued them as fast as they spread,» said the President. He added that us forces would continue to destroy militants continue, wherever they appeared.
«The law allocated money to continue the campaign to destroy ISIL… For the last 8 months in this struggle, we have achieved greater success than the previous administration of the President for the whole period of their work.»
According to the signed by the President of the defense budget, the Pentagon will receive 692 billion dollars of funding, 66 of which will be spent on military operations abroad, including in Syria and Iraq. Recall that the operation «Unwavering commitment» aimed at the extermination of the terrorists in these countries, which began in August 2014. Up to June 2017 for its implementation, the US spent over 14 billion dollars, equivalent to approximately 13 million dollars a day.
The Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on information policy Alexei Pushkov has responded to the statement by the US President tweet.
«We defeated ISIS in Syria.» These words trump not even convince the US media: they write that in Syria Russia has won. And yesterday it was Putin, not trump,» wrote Pushkov.
The white house has not yet responded to the criticism.
Trump: “We won in Syria, we won in Iraq!”
“We”? It’s Russia and mostly Syria won. Trump is dummy!