President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday that the United States should avoid involvement in the conflict in Syria, where opposition forces are challenging President Bashar al-Assad’s rule as front lines have collapsed across the country amid battles for control of key cities.
Calling Syria a “mess” and “not our friend,” Trump said America should avoid any involvement in the conflict.
“The United States should have nothing to do with it,” he wrote in all-caps in a Dec. 7 post on Truth Social. “This is not our fight. Let it play out. Do not get involved!”
The president-elect said that opposition fighters have already reached the suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus and are getting ready to make “a very big move toward taking out Assad.”…