US Heritage Foundation researcher Coffey offers sending US troops leaving Syria to Georgia
US President Donald Trump demanded the American troops to leave Syria earlier this month. Photo: AFP/Getty Images.
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Luke Coffey, the researcher of the US Heritage Foundation, has proposed the sending of the US troops leaving Syria to Georgia.
He wrote on his official Twitter page that the US troops can be deployed at a former Russian military base in Akhalkalaki to respond quickly if the terrorist organisation Islamic State reconstitutes.
Coffey has tweeted and also presented a map:
Proposal: US troops leaving Syria could be sent to Georgia & become an “over the horizon” force to respond quickly if ISIS reconstitutes.
— Luke Coffey (@LukeDCoffey) October 24, 2019
USA could use old Russian base at Akhalkalaki which is only 460 miles (740km) from Raqqa.
Georgia more dependable than Iraq right now. ???????? pic.twitter.com/VdIjEONwcO
US President Donald Trump said earlier in October that 1,000 US soldiers would leave the north-eastern Syria, paving the way for the Turkish operation against Kurdish-led forces within Syria that previously were a key US ally against the Islamic State.
The US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper stated last week that the US troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and they will continue operations against the Islamic State group there.
The US currently has more than 5,000 soldiers in Iraq, per an agreement between the two countries.
The US withdrew its troops from Iraq back in 2011 when combat operations there ended, but they went back in after the Islamic State started to take over large territories of the country in 2014.