Jack Keane: Iran and Russia Want to Drive the U.S. Out of Syria and the Mid East

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KEANE: "Yeah, well, it’s a great point, Martha. The harsh reality in Syria is that the Iranians who really run this war in Syria and dominate the civil war, something that’s been taking place there, they motivated the Russians in 2015 to join the fight and the Iranians and the Russians have successfully propped up the Assad regime indefinitely. They did that as of last year. What they’re doing now is trying to consolidate their gains in to Syria. And they have a major objective here. They want to drive the United States out of Syria. Actually, they want to drive the United States out of the Middle East, which pretty much President Obama was on his way to doing. So these attacks, while they have been smaller attacks up to now, not getting this kind of attention, these are attacks are done against our coalition forces that we have been leading that ousted ISIS. And it’s in southeastern Syria that they are taking place in. The fact that the Russians used hybrid forces about a battalion size, that’s like 500 or 600 troops in ground assault with supporting fires, that is very different. They clearly wanted to oust that U.S. Force that was there. They wanted to destroy it. And that did not take place because of very responsive air power that pushed back on it."