President Trump said that Britain was “thrilled” at his decision to withdraw US troops KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERSSenior Tories have compared President Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria to Stalin’s betrayal of the Warsaw Uprising against Hitler. Mr Trump drew widespread condemnation for announcing that he was pulling out US forces from northern Syria, clearing the way for President Erdogan of Turkey to launch a cross-border assault on Kurdish troops. Sir Julian Lewis, chairman of the defence select committee, told the Commons that “if the green light is given to Turkey under its Islamist regime to attack our allies, it will be an act of treachery and betrayal not dissimilar to what happened in 1944 when Stalin basically gave the green light to Hitler to crush the Warsaw Uprising”. Tobias Ellwood, the former defence minister, warned that Mr Trump’s move…

Source: The Times October 08, 2019 16:07 UTC