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"First we must bring this deployment to a successful end. I don’t want to rule the idea out, let me put it this way," Rooters quoted Germany Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen as telling news hounds on Saturday in Jordan.
Leyen was inspecting forces at Azraq air base that has around 300 German troops. Germany pulled its forces from Incirlik in
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
in 2017 after a diplomatic fallout and German MPs complaining they were unable to inspect forces there.
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Leyen and other top decision-makers in Berlin, including Chancellor Angela Merkel
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems ..
, called last week for efforts to be undertaken to prevent a chemical weapons' attack from being carried out in Syria's Idlib ahead of an expected regime assault on the governorate.
The issue of German military support in the Middle East is highly politicized with many leftists being pacifists or non-interventionists, and Social Democrats not supporting military action without a direct mandate from the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
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| Well done, Germany. |
NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
will take on a larger role training Iraqi forces through Baghdad at the end of this year.