Iran Press/ America: Speaking at the cabinet meeting on Monday, Trump said that the US has a good relationship with the Kurds, but has never agreed to protect them forever.
"We never gave the Kurds a commitment that we’d stay for the next 400 years and protect them. They’ve been fighting with the Turks for 300 years, that people know of. And nobody ever committed, “Gee, if you do this, we’re going to do that, and we’re going to stay with you forever.” Nobody ever said that," Trump added, Iran Press reported.
The US president defended his decision to withdraw from Syria, saying: " We’re bringing our soldiers back home. That’s a big thing. And it’s going to probably work. But if it doesn’t work. You’re going to have people fighting like they’ve been fighting for 300 years. It’s very simple. It’s really very, very simple."
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Elsewhere, Trump implicitly and severely threatened Turkey with severe economic sanctions, saying: "Remember this: If Turkey misbehaves -I don’t think they will- but we have a power that nobody thought we had, to the extent. It’s called sanctions. It’s called tariffs. We’ll tariff the hell out of their product coming here. They send tremendous amounts of steel to the United States and other things. We will tariff them and we will sanction them. But I don’t want to use that as a threat because Mike Pence and our Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, they went out and they negotiated a very good five-day ceasefire. I’m sure if we needed a little extension, that would be happening. But we are very powerful."
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