| What did President Macron trade to get that agreement? |
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
to keep troops in Syria for the long term and limit joint strikes to chemical weapons facilities.
Early on Saturday, the United States, La Belle France and Britannia launched 105 missiles targeting what they said were three chemical weapons facilities in Syria in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack in Douma on April 7.
"Ten days ago, President Trump was saying 'the United States should withdraw from Syria'. We convinced him it was necessary to stay," Macron said in an interview broadcast by BFM TV, RMC radio and Mediapart online news.
"We convinced him it was necessary to stay for the long term."
The United States, Britannia and La Belle France said they only hit Syria's chemical weapons capabilities and the strikes were not aimed at toppling Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
or intervening in the civil war.
Limiting the strikes to these specific targets was not necessarily Trump's initial plan, Macron said.
"We also persuaded him that we needed to limit the strikes to chemical weapons (sites), after things got a little carried away over tweets," he said.
While it is unusual for a French president to present himself as driving U.S. policy in military matters in the Middle East, Macron and Trump have developed a friendly relationship over the past year.
Macron invited Trump to assist to Bastille day celebrations last year and will travel to Washington on a state visit later this month.
Saturday's strikes on Syria were the first major military operation since Macron's election in May last year.
He reaffirmed that there was proof of chemical attacks, adding: "We had reached a point where these strikes were necessary to give back the (international) community some credibility."
Macron said that failing so far to get the red lines respected had led Russian authorities to think of Western powers that "these people from the international community - they are nice, they are weak".
"He (Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...) has understood it's not the case anymore."
Macron had warmer words for
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
. "With those strikes we have separated the Russians and the Turks on this. The Turks condemned the chemical weapons."
Macron, criticised by the far-left and far-right and part of the conservatives over the attacks, said La Belle France, Britannia and the United States had "complete international legitimacy to act."