WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump threatened, in point-blank remarks,on Monday to ‘obliterate’ Turkey’s economy amid looming Syria crisis.
In a series of tweets, the tycoon-turned-president said the U.S. has donefar ‘more than anyone could have ever expected, including the capture’ of100% of the ISIS Caliphate.
The US president also branded himself to be having ‘great and unmatchedwisdom’ in threatening the NATO ally that he would ‘totally destroy andobliterate’ Turkey for anything off-limit.
The threat came hours after White House stated that the U.S. wouldn’t standin the way of a Turkish incursion into Syria; Trump talked to Erdogan aswell after the statement.
In one of his tweets fired on Monday, Trump said that Turkey must ‘watchover’ some 12,000 captured Islamic State fighters and tens of thousands oftheir family members living in jails and camps in Kurdish-held territory.
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However, his latest threat-laden statement casts U.S. policy in Syria intoconfusion. Officials at the Pentagon and State Department told newsmen thatthe U.S. still hopes that Turkey won’t attack the Kurds even now that Trumphas made clear that American forces wouldn’t interfere with an invasion.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been a close U.S. ally in thewar to outsmart Islamic State but Ankara considers Syria’s Kurdishmilitants, terrorists.
